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Disputing the economic turbulence over the last decade, the BrandZ ratings show that most brand categories increased in value. Leaders were fast food and technology. Seven categories doubled their values—fast food, technology, beer, apparel, telecom, soft drink and retail.
More The pricing software revolution is in full swing so who needs people anymore? Tim J. Smith, PhD takes on the thorny question of the information revolution impacting entry level and mid-tier pricing jobs and actually finds good news.
More For a company, a socket means a business. When they talk about winning a “socket” they mean winning a new business. For example let’s say a product uses a microcontroller – all microcontroller companies would be fighting to win the microcontroller socket inside that product and all other such products that use a microcontroller.
More According to Reinert, “I’m interested in how ideas reflect but also change economic realities – and how ideas can translate into policies.” He adds that he is intrigued by the lasting power of Franklin’s treatise on industry and frugality and its influence on capitalism, as we know it today.
More Alvarez says that if you have two or three mall anchors of tenants driving traffic, this affects the entire mall. This creates a domino effect that reached down into the community through the lowering of tax base. “One major trend that Retail Revolution (the book) points out is that retailers will reduce store count and also reduce the size of those locations as online commerce begins to satisfy more and more demand….”
More In terms of market segmentation alignment, different customers receive different benefits (perceived or real) from the same or similar product. This drives variation in willingness to pay. One goal in improving a price structure is to improve the match between the willingness to pay and the price extracted. It is a form of price segmentation.
More Given the current currency fluctuations and country specific economic situations, what problems do they create for firms and how are prices supposed to be managed across boarders today? These are the pertinent questions facing many of today’s executives.
More Innovation is clearly on many corporate agendas. And it is not surprising. Companies don’t grow by cost cutting alone. They grow through innovation. But how? And what are the implications of this innovation driven agenda?
More Teixeira describes “decoupling” as a second wave of Internet disruption. This new phenomenon “threatens not only electronics and telecom businesses, but also industries as diverse as banking services and cosmetics.”
More New research from Stanford Graduate School of Business Prof. Kathryn Shaw sheds new light on the age-old question of whether entrepreneurs are “born” or “made.” The answer: entrepreneurs are “made” NOT “born.”
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