Australia ducked the crisis

How Australia Ducked the Crisis

Global recession? Not Down Under, where home prices actually went up. How’d they pull that off?

Irene Rosenfeld’s Crafty Pursuit of Cadbury

The Kraft CEO seems to think it takes sweetness to capture a sweets maker. So far, she looks right.

The Price Is Right — If You Can Spend Again

How four companies have scored big deals by not letting a good crisis go to waste.

Strategy Articles

Five Myths About How to Create Jobs
With unemployment hovering just below 10 percent, job creation is now priority number one in Washington. But America's jobs challenge is a marathon, not ...
Tags: Job, Recruitment & Staffing, Workforce Management, Economy, Unemployment, Jobs, McKinsey, James Manyika and Byron Auguste
The Path to Successful New Products
Businesses with the best product-development track records stand apart from their less-successful peers in three crucial ways.
Tags: Product Development, Product Marketing, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Management, McKinsey & Co., Functions, Operations, Mike Gordon, Chris Musso, Eric Rebentisch, and Nisheeth Gupta, Mike Gordon, Chris Musso, Eric Rebentisch, and Nisheeth Gupta
Six of the Best: Essence of the Entrepreneur Winners
Photographer Rankin showcases UK start-up talent for his exhibition of BT's Essence of the Entrepreneur winners.
Tags: Entrepreneur, Winner, Entrepreneurship, Management, Entrepreneurial, U.K., Enterprise, UK, Start-ups, BT, technology, innovation, Joanna Higgins
How P&G; Brought the Diaper Revolution to China
A little more than a decade ago, Procter & Gamble faced the ultimate marketing challenge: It didnt just have to persuade Chinese parents that ...
Tags: Procter & Gamble Co., Marketing Research, Marketing, Procter & Gamble, P&G;, Pampers, Diapers, Emerging Markets, China, India, Mya Frazier
Cadillac's Identity Crisis: When Branding Won't Die
First it was the car for drivers between the age of 80 and deceased. Then Caddy became the ride of choice for the hip ...
Tags: Car, Brand, Women, General Motors Corp., Cadillac, Caddy Brand, Bryan Nesbitt, Gender And Diversity, Branding, Marketing Research, Human Resources, Marketing, General Motors, Modernista, Advertising, Luxury, David Murphy, Marti Barletta, Julie Roehm, Mark Stevens, Melanie Warner
Japan's Just-in-Time Clothes
With its high-tech fabrics, meticulous inventory control, and flexible manufacturing model, Japanese retailer Uniqlo looks more like Toyota than a fashion emporium. But unlike ...
Tags: Toray Industries Inc., Toyota Motor Corp., Uniqlo, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Manufacturing, Sales, Fast Retailing, Retail, Technology, Japan, Tadashi Yanai, Shin Odake, Jan Alexander
Eight Ways to Ruin Your Social-Media Strategy
Like it or not, loads of your customers are yakking away about your business on Twitter, Facebook and similar outlets. So dont blow it.
Tags: Facebook, Conversation, Customer Service, Dell Computer Corp., Twitter Inc., Context Optional, social media, Twitter, YouTube, viral advertising, social marketing., Catharine P. Taylor
Where Your Customers Are: How Facebook, Twitter and Others Break Down by Age
Do your homework before you approach your customers online. Here's how users on the top social media sites broke down by age in August ...
Tags: Facebook, Twitter Inc., social media, chart, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, YouTube, viral advertising, social marketing, Staci Baird
A (Mis)Match for Tough Times
Startup retailer LittleMissMatched mixes cute and savvy to grow sales 30 percent in the recession.
Tags: Web, Brand, Retail Company, Sock, LittleMissMatched Inc., Branding, Marketing Research, Strategy, Marketing, Management, LittleMissMatched, Jonah Staw, Daniel Bell, Mismatched Socks, Lostmysock.com, Abby Ellin
How Australia Ducked the Crisis
Global recession? Not Down Under, where home prices actually went up. How'd they pull that off?
Tags: Australia, U.S., Bank, Economy, China Syndrome, Financial Services, Financial Crisis, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Bank of Australia, Westpac Banking Corporation, Housing, Trade, Exports, Recovery, Phil Dobbie
New Key to Success in Online Retail: Geography
Whartons David Bell says old-fashioned neighborhood census data can bring new shoppers to your online door.
Tags: Online Retail, Web, Word Of Mouth, Customer, Wharton, Preference Minority, Internet, Channel Management, Marketing, University of Pennsylvania, David Bell, Diapers.com, Netgrocer.com, Internet commerce, Paul Sloan
Irene Rosenfeld’s Crafty Pursuit of Cadbury
The Kraft CEO seems to think it takes sweetness to capture a sweets maker. So far, she looks right.
Tags: Kraft Foods Inc., Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Irene Rosenfeld, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Kraft Foods, Cadbury PLC, Mergers and Acquisitions, M&As;, Kit R. Roane
How Big Lots Is Turning the Real Estate Bust into Its Own Boom
Bankrupt merchants have made ghost towns out of strip malls. Big Lots sees that as the best opportunity in years.
Tags: Retail Company, Store, Big Lots, Real Estate, Retail, Business Operations, Commercial Real Estate, Branding, Expansion, Rent, Expansion, Melanie Warner
Hyundai’s Advertising Strategy: Wait for the Fire Sales
With bigger automakers out of the way, Hyundai grabbed discounted advertising deals it never could have landed pre-recession.
Tags: Hyundai, Car, Advertisement, Sales, Hyundai Motor Company, Advertising, General Motors, L’Oreal, Marketing, Deals, Recession, Downturn, American Express, Melanie Warner
ITT Staffs Up While the Getting Is Good
The U.S. aerospace and defense industry will likely shed 30,000 jobs this year. For ITT Corp., thats a lot of resumes to review.
Tags: Job, ITT Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Aerospace & Defense, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Manufacturing, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Labor, Hiring, Layoffs, Melanie Warner
PepsiCo’s Big Steal: The Middle Man at a $1 Billion Discount
Indra Nooyi needed to make PepsiCo more nimble by buying back its bottlers. The stock market crash gave the CEO the perfect moment to ...
Tags: PepsiCo, Beverage, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Pepsi Bottling Group, PepsiAmericas, Mergers, Acquisitions, M&A;, Melanie Warner
The Price Is Right — If You Can Spend Again
How four companies have scored big deals by not letting a good crisis go to waste.
Tags: BNET Feature Package, Recession, Downturn, Deals, M&As;, Mergers and Acquisitions, Advertising, Real Estate
Five Strategies for Making a Smart App
Any smart marketer today has to think about mobile. Heres how to figure out if an app should be part of your strategy.
Tags: Strategy, App, Kraft, Branding, Marketing, iPhone App, Application, iPhone, Starwood Hotels, Target, Bank of America, Nike, Coca-Cola, Brand Affinity, Paul Sloan
How Mobile Apps Are Revolutionizing Advertising.
The Success of Apples iPhone app store has led to a stampede of brands creating games, services, and other applications as marketing tools. Its ...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Advertisement, Mobile, App, IBM Corp., Bader, Smart Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, U.S. Open, Apple, iPhone, Apple App Store. iTunes, iTunes store, Steve Jobs, Advertising, Coke, Audi, Gap, Gillette, IBM, Kraft Foods, Nestle, Target. Ogilvy, Android, Nokia, Microsoft Mobile, Any Roddick, Serena Willams, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, Kevin Gray
How SMES Can Win Public Sector Contracts
As the public sector looks to cut expenditure, smaller suppliers will have to work even harder to reach the top of the tendering shortlist.
Tags: Public Sector, Contract, Supplier, Procurement, Public Sector Contract, Devil, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations, SME, E-Consortium, Birmingham, Serco, Compliance, Tendering, Buying Solutions, Alison Coleman

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