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Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. When weather conditions are on average adverse over days, weeks, or entire seasons, shortfalls in sales cause reduced cash flows and can lead to financial distress and business failure. These disruptions add up.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 5, 2018
But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.
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Kates Kesler
JANUARY 25, 2013
Take Nike, marketing a core brand across a number of consumer categories with hundreds of footwear and apparel products all over the world. It’s no longer enough for the separate businesses to act autonomously to make sales calls to the same corporate customers, or to set up their own infrastructure in China and India. The solution.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
The company offers a subscription clothing and styling service that delivers apparel to its customers’ doors. Some extremely successful companies have made great use of recommendation engines to boost sales or improve customer satisfaction. And it can’t rely solely on machines to do this.
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. But one person had given him the lowest ratings possible, and from the written remarks, Lance could tell that it was Ahmed Lund, Barker’s head of sales. “You’re surprised?”
Harvard Business
JUNE 3, 2016
It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. If those linkages cannot be developed, then those investments should not be pursued. Insight Center.
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. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.
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