Rinse, Repeat: P&G Brings Back Former CEO

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Description: Regrouping at P&G under former CEO may not solve long term problems. Source: WSJ.com – video report Date: May 24, 2013 Link: http://on.wsj.com/19afA0s Questions for Discussions: Why do you think the company brought back the former CEO at this time? What does this decision say about the company’s management and vision for the future?… Read more »

Why Dreamworks is buying YouTube channels

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Description: Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg says he bought AwesomenessTV, a YouTube channel, to target teens. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: May 16, 2013 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2013/05/16/n-cmr-dreaworks-awesomenesstv-katzenberg.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: Why are YouTube channels becoming more popular? Who do they appeal to and how can managers develop this environment? Why do you suppose management acquired… Read more »

Rolling Up Their Sleeves, as a Team

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Description: AS a 14-year-old Boy Scout who went on backpacking trips in western Massachusetts, Gihan Amarasiriwardena couldn’t find a fleece jacket that would protect him from the wind. His solution was to make his own wind-blocking coat from scratch, using plastic garbage bags, spray-on adhesive and fleece. Source: NYTimes.com Date: May 18, 2013 Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/business/at-ministry-of-supply-teamwork-in-making-high-tech-apparel.html?ref=business… Read more »

Women CEOs at Berkshire Say They Share `Bond’

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Description: Mary Rhinehart, Susan Jacques and Cathy Baron Tamraz, chief executive officers of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. subsidiaries Johns Manville, Borsheims and Business Wire, respectively, talk about working with Berkshire Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett and succession planning at the company. They speak with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television’s “In the Loop.” (Source: Bloomberg) Source: Bloomberg.com… Read more »

Some Retailers Say More About Their Clothing’s Origins

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Description: The revolution that has swept the food industry is expanding to retail: origins matter.With fair-trade coffee and organic fruit now standard on grocery shelves, consumers concerned with working conditions, environmental issues and outsourcing are increasingly demanding similar accountability for their T-shirts. The issue has been brought to the forefront by the garment factory collapse… Read more »

Bangladesh tragedy pressures retailers

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Description: After a building collapse in Bangladesh killed over 400 workers, retailers are under pressure to improve overseas manufacturing standards. Source:  CNNMoney.com – video report Date: May 03, 2013 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2013/05/03/n-retail-in-bangledesh.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: Who is responsible for assuring proper working conditions of foreign workers? Should the industries involveD set up standards for monitoring working… Read more »

Will J.C. Penney?s Mea Culpa Commercial Work?

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Description: J.C. Penney is apologizing. The department-store chain is airing a television commercial this week — in time for Mother?s Day — that says it made mistakes and asks former customers to come back. Sheila Dharmarajan reports on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart.” (Source: Bloomberg) Source: Bloomberg.com – video report Date: May 01, 2013 Link: http://bloom.bg/18r07pK#ooid=Q5dHNiYjoKPwaG_yDqZH9Gf9YJWLCd5x… Read more »

Whole Foods Local Forager Elly Truesdell Is a Grocery Tastemaker

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Description: The dairy cows smell. All farm animals do, of course, but these particularly pungent Holsteins have just come in from the rain. They?re huddled in open stalls inside a white wooden barn at Cella Brothers in Wallingford, Conn., swishing their tails, chewing on bales of hay, and remarking on the terrible weather with a… Read more »

Is it ever OK to compliment appearance on the job?

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Description: When Lisa Parker was new to corporate coaching, a senior-level colleague she respected brought her in as his No. 2 for a series of training seminars. Time and time again, he introduced her as smart, capable and beautiful. “I was so uncomfortable,” she said. “The first time it happened I remember standing there waiting… Read more »

Boutique Vintners Turn to Private Equity for Help

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Description:  When Ed Sbragia started Sbragia Family Vineyards, it was an accomplishment that was nearly a century in the making. His grandfather moved from Italy to California in 1904 to work in the wineries just north of San Francisco. In the 1940s, Mr. Sbragia’s father bought property in the Dry Creek Valley near Healdsburg and… Read more »