Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

For example, whether your case is dealing with a market entry project in a corporate strategy interview or optimizing price in a management consulting interview, you are going to have to interpret financial information and various charts and graphs as well as do things like make valuations and use discount rates.

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Case Interview Interviews Consulting Case Study 78

Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. This is especially true in developing markets where competitors can move very quickly with few of the obstacles that big companies face. A new definition of ‘center-led’. Market conditions drive role definition.

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Agile Analysis Apparel Resources 50

Kates Kesler

JANUARY 25, 2013

Organizational simplicity is great when the business is simple – when there are only a few products, serving a few markets (in one or two countries). But in a complex, multi-divisional company, managing brands across several products and geographies things get more complicated. Leaders who can make conflict productive.

Apparel 56

Apparel Talent Productivity Report 56

The Fearless Marketer

AUGUST 20, 2018

I offer management consulting and training to corporations.” I offer the high-tech plastics industry Management Acceleration Programs for emerging leaders in the industry.”. But it’s more common to hear things like, “I work with large companies who want to increase productivity.” Kind of vague, right?

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Marketing Industry Strategy Strategy 110

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution. Among other steps, it elevated the role of customer segment heads, giving them authority over products and channels for those segments. Yet change they must.

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Buzzsprout

JULY 13, 2023

Sponsorships and Brand Deals A sponsorship is a partnership between a podcaster and a brand that wants to promote their product or service to the podcaster's audience. Are there products or services you’d recommend to your audience? Agencies work to match podcasts with sponsors and manage the ad campaign.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& How To 52

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The weather affects consumers’ behavior in terms of what products they buy, where they buy them, and in what quantity. In the apparel sector, for instance, the unusually warm winter temperatures across Europe and the U.S. However, efficient risk management can only take place on the condition that the risks are defined.

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Cash Flow Apparel Financial Small Business 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. But when managers reduce prices, a fundamental question sometimes goes unasked: Will customers notice and respond as expected? Price wars have broken out in consumer industries around the world.

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Retail Survey Bain Comparison 44

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

It was Schultz who famously said “You can walk into [any type of retail store] and you can feel whether the proprietor or the merchant or the person behind the counter has a good feeling about his product. Cost isn’t an exogenous variable to be managed—it is the investment in doing the most important things well.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& How To 54

Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service. Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics.

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Company Engineering Apparel Energy 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. High-potential future leaders.

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Talent McKinsey Apparel Sales 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2016

Conventional wisdom would seem to suggest that companies have no incentive to lengthen the life cycle of their products and reduce the revenue they would get from selling new goods. For the most part, consumers control what happens to a product. Another apparel company, Patagonia , a high-end outdoor clothier, follows the same credo.

Company 28

Company Apparel Retail Metrics 28

Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

The responses , from 270 corporate leaders in strategy, innovation, and research and development roles, were illuminating. Are they looking for ideas to streamline operations and serve customers better, or developing new business models around existing products? ” Lack of the right strategy or vision (36% of respondents.).

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Company Survey Apparel Culture 52

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In contrast, 70% of respondents think their boards have effective processes for staying current on the company; 69% for compliance; 66% for financial planning; and 55% for risk management — although we should note that managing risks is a crucial consideration when pursuing innovation.

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Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 33

Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. ” Scholarly publications like the Journal of Management Studies put out calls for new research that could inspire enterprise-level change.

Apparel 30

Apparel Chemicals Journal Agile 30

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

In the search for profitable organic growth, more and more companies are making major investments in optimizing the end-to-end customer experience – every aspect of how customers interact with the company’s brand, products, promotions, and service offerings, on and offline.

Retail 46

Retail Apparel Financial ROI 46

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

We know that when IT projects fail, it is usually not because the technology didn’t work (although this can sometimes be the case), but because the changes required at an organizational and employee level weren’t managed effectively. If those linkages cannot be developed, then those investments should not be pursued.

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Tools Construction System Retail 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. “Advances in technology have helped us reimagine fan engagement and create new business models that we never thought possible. FOX Sports: real-time fan engagement around the world.

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Sports Industry Data Media 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. In short, too many firms used conventional planning to manage their new ventures. What Is Discovery Driven-Planning?

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Benchmarking Methodologies Apparel Company 30

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

Energy 28

Energy Airlines Culture Retail 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2016

Republicans generally favor developing a pipeline of diverse candidates through director advocacy and mentorship, while Democrats are more likely to favor requiring that every director slate include diverse candidates, or that boards implement targets for diverse membership. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Telecommunications 28

Telecommunications Biotechnology Survey Healthcare 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. The team had dropped the ball on inquiries from several retailers interested in its products by failing to coordinate getting them into the company’s system quickly. Nina laughed.

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Case Study Case Studies Study Sales 43

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it.

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Education Enterprise Productivity Examples 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a productive 12 months, to say the least. It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. One energy hog, the IT sector, has managed to level off energy use in data centers. Debates about climate change melted away.

Energy 28

Energy Chemicals Banking Financial 28