Description: Shopping online is easier than shopping in a mall — as long as you know exactly what you want to buy. The problem comes when you don’t know what you want. Source: NYTimes.com Date: August 17, 2013 Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/technology/hanging-out-at-the-e-mall.html?ref=business Questions for Discussions: Describe how the sites help create a better online shopping experience. How… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Controls
Carlos Brito: (Brew)master of the universe
Description: Carlos Brito is walking the aisles of a vast São Paulo supermarket, continually stopping to pick up pieces of trash — a paper cup, a plastic fork — or to pull certain cartons of beer to the front of the shelves for better visibility. These are the kinds of menial tasks most executives wouldn’t… Read more »
How to Make a Tesla: A View From the Factory Floor
Description: Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg Businessweek’s Ashlee Vance tours Tesla’s factory floor. (Source: Bloomberg) Source: Bloomberg.com – video report Date: August 07, 2013 Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/a-tour-of-tesla-s-factory-floor-mODU5sP6RC~HNgoCzv6uYw.html Questions for Discussions: How does reducing inventories of parts help control costs of production? How else can management strategy reduce production costs?
Body Glove: Perfecting the wetsuit
Description: Twin brothers Bill and Bob Meistrell created the first practical wetsuit out of neoprene. But finding the perfect material meant a lot of trial and error – including with old Pontiac parts. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: August 06, 2013 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/smallbusiness/2013/08/06/sbiz-hwgs-body-glove.cnnmoney/index.html Questions for Discussions: What does this report say about management style… Read more »
Rhea Lana’s Unpaid Moms ‘Don’t Care About Making Minimum Wage’
Description: Rhea Lana Riner is on a mission to get government off her back. As chief executive and founder of Rhea Lana’s, a children’s consignment franchise business based in Conway, Ark., Riner has been investigated twice in the past two years for labor violations, first by the Arkansas Department of Labor and then by the… Read more »
How UrgentRx Crashed the Party at the Cash Register
Description: The checkout line in Duane Reade drugstores encompasses some of the most coveted real estate in New York. Within a five-foot radius of the cash register, dozens of the biggest brands in the world vie for attention from hooks, racks and shelves, every inch of which have been allocated according to the product’s place… Read more »
The 7 Deadly Sins Of Management
Description: A friend and colleague just sent me a blog post about David Ogilvy, the original Mad Man and legendary American advertising guru, and his ideas on management. Some of them are timeless and sharp; some seem dated (especially the conspicuous absence of any references to women). Some make me think he must have been… Read more »
Foodie’s Dream Job: Meet a Whole Foods forager
Description: Bloomberg’s Carol Massar takes us on the road with Whole Foods forager Elly Truesdell as she searches America, looking for the freshest food in the land. Source: Bloomberg.com – video report Date: June 07, 2013 Link: http://bloom.bg/15H03SS Questions for Discussions: How is Whole Foods forager Elly Truesdell’s job different than that of a buyer… Read more »
Why the Tumblr Deal Is a Disaster for Entrepreneurs
Description: I have never met a fast-growth entrepreneur that I did not like. Sure, some are weird and scary smart, but what I like about fast-growth entrepreneurs is that most have a riverboat gambling streak that makes them fun, free and a little different from most small-business and corporate types. Source: NYTimes.com Date: June 06,… Read more »
Another E-Commerce Experiment in Brick and Mortar
Description: BaubleBar, a New York startup that sells women’s accessories online, is opening a popup shop in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood tomorrow. The 4,000-square-foot location will serve Godiva chocolates and specialty cocktails and offer tablet computers that customers can use to demo personalized jewelry. Beyond the bells and whistles, the idea is to give customers the… Read more »
