Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs.

Health Care 17

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 17

Leading Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

If you work in finance, who uses that spreadsheet you create? Rather, it’s consumed by materials buyers, merchandisers, marketing and advertising teams, as well as the finance department — not to mention the fabricators of the shoes. How does the work I do make my colleagues more or less successful? They create policies.

Objective 369

Objective Merchandising Finance Policies 369

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. Similarly, Amazon doesn't succeed because its people apply broad marketing expertise. In their view, functional priorities are all too often in conflict with — or not fully supportive of — the strategic needs of the business.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 14

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

For example, by pulling together people from finance, human resources, sales, and other product-related departments, one retailer figured out how the company could operate with one-third fewer employees in its stores. When CEOs lead these meetings, teams can raise any issues, big or small, and get them resolved in minutes.

Retail 15

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. Most of our top tech CEOs created value by rolling out earlier breakthrough innovations in a newly high-growth market.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. Soon after, he’d landed the firm’s biggest partner, Howell. .” ” This Mess.

Case Study 15

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We have algorithms for recommender systems, merchandise buying, inventory management, relationship management, logistics, operations — we even have algorithms for designing clothes! ” a marketer might ask. Don’t bury it under another department like marketing, product, finance, etc.

Learning-by-Doing 14

Learning-by-Doing Engineering Metrics Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs.

Health Care 9

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. The company will also eliminate a key chipset in the difficult tablet and smartphone market. But the past is merely a prologue. How best to draw actionable inspiration from Grove?

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. At one American retailer, an autonomous ensemble of algorithms replaced the entire merchandising department. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Finally, reaching profitability quickly ensures that when outside financing dries up, the venture can succeed on its own. The financial results of Groupon's traditional business continue to deteriorate, especially in mature markets, and new ventures such as Groupon Now also have failed to drive profits. But it is now too late.

Christensen 22

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Business Model 22

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share.

Brand 15

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 15