Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. Product upgrades make up the majority of corporate research and development activity. For the first group, the entire series of printers was branded in a sequential fashion, from 2300W to 2900W.

Education 87

Education Productivity How To Research 87

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Until the latter part of the 20th century, firms were organized in a top-down hierarchical fashion using production techniques that broke down job tasks into their smallest components — what came to be known as a Taylorist or Fordist method of production. And, more specific, does it boost productivity?

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Productivity Research Groups Financial 70

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In the beginning companies sold products. In recent years, the fashionable suggestion has been that companies sell experiences and solutions, solving the needs and aspirations of customers. A focus on products means a focus on selling running shoes. More so than products, the possibilities with projects are endless.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers.

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Media Fashion Agile Sales 136

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Our recent work in women’s fashion suggests more complicated promotional structures aimed at basket-building — such as buy one item and get a second at a discount — work far better in-store. What products are most likely to garner more response when promoted?

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Retail Apparel Sales Fashion 128

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.”

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 9, 2024

His expertise spans a wide range of projects, from Fashion Model Barbie to avionics on the F-35. And we are going to get that value from the product or service that is delivered at the project’s completion. With that information, we may be justified in investing the time and money necessary to bring the product to market.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

For them, having a meeting at 9 AM and another at 1 PM could destroy the productivity of the entire day. In this email to his development team, Jeremiah Dillon, Google’s head of product marketing for Apps at Work, even suggested a specific strategy for each day based on how energy ebbs and flows over the course of a week.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Simpson quickly shifted her focus away from the hard candies line and launched new gummy products using existing excess capacity in a plant. She relaunched an existing product (Kazoozles) into SweeTart ropes (a tart, gummy licorice-like product). Small brands are important here for a few reasons.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

She works with retail, technology, and lifestyle client companies on setting up market and brand strategies, brand positioning, transitioning markets, and marketing new products lines. Emma’s first project as a consultant with her employer entailed launching a new product into market, which she worked on for five months.

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Retail Fashion Consulting Marketing 153

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Then we can compare the subsequent behavior of these two similar employees, to see how learning that your boss makes much more than you might affect your productivity. But we need further evidence to better understand how to best leverage transparency to promote productivity and employee satisfaction.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

But, for most companies, outsize returns are likely to come from three other sources: Investing in productivity-enhancing capital. In a world of tight labor markets, where recruiting and retention are at a premium, investing to make frontline employees more productive should be a priority.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 8, 2013

THE Ansoff Matrix (referred to by some commentators as the Product/Market Expansion Grid) was developed by a Russian-American mathematician named Igor Ansoff , and first explained in his 1957 Harvard Business Review article entitled Strategies for Diversification. What is a Product-Market Growth Strategy? Background.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

As pressure intensifies to reduce prices, either by cutting the list price or offering a discount, managers may act hastily, without the same rigor they apply to investments elsewhere, such as capital deployment or product enhancements. All too often they don’t.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Yesterday I had to look up how much I had paid my virtual assistant last year in order to get the information to my accountant, so he could issue her tax forms in a timely fashion. No matter how productive we become, we’re never going to permanently rid ourselves of low-value work.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2016

But it also has implications for areas outside of entertainment, such as marketing, fashion, tourism, and retail, where commercial AR apps have already been increasing in numbers and popularity. Phase 2: Trying on products at home. This technology let people virtually “try on” a product.

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Tourism Fashion Software Development 121

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

You can see the final product, but you can’t see all of the steps required to get there. Even if particular elements of the task appear to be going well, the success of the large-scale project requires integrating all of the specific tasks in a coordinated fashion. Every book you read was written by someone who completed a book.

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Fashion Examples Development Productivity 134

Consultant Ninja

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

What does it say that most fashion pictures of women have them posing with their mouth open? Productivity. (6). Side note: Did you know that people (like the above model) who appear to be breathing through their mouth (aka "mouth-breathers") are generally perceived as having lower intelligence ? Posted by Consultant Ninja. at 3:56 PM.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The most common ways of doing this are to send executives to build personal relationships with international business partners and to hire local distribution partners — or independent, third-party intermediaries — to represent their products or services overseas.

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B2B Education Media B2C 124

Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

By 1799, the fashion landscape was primed for redefinition and adjustments to previous styles. Enter Beau Brummell , a British “dandy” from the lower class who climbed the social ladder by providing fashion advice to wealthy elites. But at what cost? Lastly, be a role model.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

There’s a tendency to assume that the salesperson lost because their product was inferior in some way. However, in the majority of interviews buyers rank all the feature sets of the competing products as being roughly equal. For “price conscious” buyers, product price is a top decision-making factor.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 16, 2014

If you are thinking about producing a strategic plan, developing a new product, entering a new market, engaging in a new venture, or financing a project then it probably makes sense to understand the big picture issues that could affect your success. Fashions, fads, trends, role models, and influential personalities. Education levels.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

If biology flows downhill, shouldn’t society as well—especially when society will contain more older people than ever before, while becoming more dependent than ever on the productivity of a relatively smaller cohort of young people? And they’re hardly feel-good indulgences.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 4, 2020

” Or, someone gets pulled off to work on production support issues and is no longer available to the team for weeks. Software product development is about learning , first. Shipping working product to gain more revenue. When everything is good, they're able to finish work and deliver. Or, we don't ship and it's garbage.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Your career will be much more productive and successful if you can find a "game" (a profession) that plays to your strengths and competitive advantages, instead of one that constantly exposes your weaknesses. For example, I have two acquaintances who, in high school, both had an eye for fashion and design. One attended a top 200 U.S.

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Case Interview Consulting Fashion Interviews 89

Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2016

They were in a conference room in Lima watching a focus group in Surrey, England, via Skype as the group discussed the fashion ponchos designed and manufactured by Alejandra’s five-year-old company, Tela. She was thrilled to find someone with his experience, not to mention a shared love of the product and Peru. Ricardo chuckled.

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Case Study Case Studies Study Fashion 114

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

An interface communicates the algorithms’ results along with more-nuanced data, such as the personal notes, to the company’s fashion stylists, who then select five items from a variety of brands to send to the customer. The fashion industry is no stranger to fast cycles of learning.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In focus groups we’ve run, customers report that one of their biggest sources of frustration is the feeling that they’re being treated in a generic, robotic fashion and that the rep is trying to rush them off the phone rather than taking the time required to make sure their issue is resolved. And customers can tell.

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Metrics Video Fashion Report 126

Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2017

Indeed, Siri seems more persona than product. Humans are now training the Koko algorithm to respond more sympathetically to people who might, for example, be frustrated that their luggage has been lost, that the product they purchased is defective, or that their cable service keeps on going on the blink.

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Ethics System Development Talent 129

Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

Innovate a product or service from within your position. But it’s who Aumiller hires that is most disruptive: She consistently looks outside her domain, hiring employees from fashion, chemical manufacturing, franchising, and other disciplines.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

I’m terrible at attention to detail (it hurts my brain too much) and even worse at anything aesthetically oriented (anything from fashion to website design to creating visually impactful slides). When I buy a new product, the first thing I do is throw out the product manual. They are very fun to work with.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2016

There are four things I think publishers need to know to compete in the digital age: The product drives the business. In a sense, publishing is like any other business: Your success is driven by customer demand for your product. The quality of a publishing product comes down to user experience and reporting.

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Journal Talent Video Productivity 95

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 29, 2020

When the COVID-19 crisis became evident in South Africa in mid-March, the South African government put strict lockdown measures in place, including school closures and store lockdowns which were accompanied by reducing the output of production facilities. In this fashion, a solution to the lack of smartphones has been developed.

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Marketing Boston Consulting Group Government Transportation 103

Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Value stream maps (VSMs) show both the material and the information flow in any kind of end-to-end process such as order to cash, or new product introduction. In total, the back and forth shipping of samples could add weeks to the product development timeline. What is value stream mapping?

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Sales Meeting Operations Video 113

Tom Spencer

MARCH 31, 2018

This is especially important for marketers whose job is to connect consumers and products. Product recommendations have been commonplace in most online shops such as Amazon for many years. Producers of consumer goods have been especially successful in developing and marketing new products using this approach.

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Data Marketing Trends Fashion 74

Harvard Business

AUGUST 26, 2016

All of these things can dramatically influence your need for products and services. Consider a few examples: Trends in religious growth are one of the best predictors of fashion-related categories. Certain religions strongly influence the type of clothing you wear during religious services.

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Fashion Education Data Trends 70

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2018

You may want to discard some connections upfront — for instance, someone who came up to you, handed you their card, and immediately started pitching you to buy their product or service. It’s not worth subjecting yourself to that in the future. But most new relationships will fall into three categories.

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