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Inflation Changed Consumers, Time to Rethink Pricing | BCG
15 Nov 2024
BCG's research shows spending habits vary by category and demographic. Learn why retailers’ success depends on precise, data-backed strategies.
As Auto Software Revs Up, Suppliers Must Switch Gears | BCG
14 Nov 2024
As the software-defined vehicle market grows, tier one suppliers must align with OEM needs or risk being crowded out of key opportunities. Learn more.
How GenAI Reimagines Supply Chain Operations | BCG
14 Nov 2024
GenAI overcomes the complexities of previous AI implementations through user-friendly interfaces, agent-based automation, and cross-functional orchestration.
Black Friday 2024: GenAI Helps Consumers Find Bargains | BCG
14 Nov 2024
This year, consumers will use GenAI to help them find the best deals. Explore how retailers can position themselves for success throughout the sales season.
What 1,000 Farmers Told Us About Tech Adoption | BCG
14 Nov 2024
Learn how agribusinesses can drive innovation by targeting buyer needs across seven segments, using traits like age and sustainability to tailor solutions.
Most Large-Scale Tech Programs Fail—Here’s How to Succeed | BCG
13 Nov 2024
Two-thirds of large-scale tech programs miss targets on time, budget, and scope, impacting business value. Read to learn how to drive better results.
Value Growth in Mining: Five Ways to Improve TSR | BCG
13 Nov 2024
Excitement is growing in mining, yet challenges loom. Explore five actions that mining companies can take to attain and improve value-accretive growth.
Framework for Financing the Just in Just Transition | BCG
13 Nov 2024
A clear framework outlines mechanisms and pathways that unlock more capital to ensure the climate transition is not only green but also equitable. Read on.
Once a BCGer, Always a BCGer
13 Nov 2024
Automakers at the Crossroads: Repositioning for Success | BCG
12 Nov 2024
Market dynamics are shifting and the auto industry will experience change. Explore how traditional automakers can reposition and develop successful strategies.
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Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.
Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.
Samuel Slater – textile tycoon or traitor?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Dec 2023
Samuel Slater is a name that holds significant importance in the annals of American industrial history. Often referred to as the ‘Father of the American Factory System’, Slater's contributions played a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s industrial landscape.
Underwood Typewriter Company – an icon of the past
By Kiron Kasbekar | 21 Dec 2023
You’ve probably never heard of Underwood typewriters. For the company folded up in 1963 – 60 years ago. You may not even have seen and handled a typewriter, unless someone in your family owned one.
The rise and fall of Chrysler
By Kiron Kasbekar | 16 Dec 2023
A century ago, the American automobile industry was more crowded than a vegetable market on a Sunday morning, with such a wide variety of stuff on sale that buyers were spoilt for choice. Buyers could pick and choose, bargain, pay up and drive out with the newly purchased vehicle.
TRW – the tide turned
By Kiron Kasbekar | 13 Dec 2023
There used to be an American company called Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. This company, which was a global supplier of automotive systems, modules, and components to car and truck manufacturers, started small, as most companies do. Then, as the automotive industry grew bigger, so did TRW.
The rise and fall of Nokia
By Aniket Gupta | 07 Dec 2023
My interest is stories about dominant companies that failed all of a sudden. These companies were once etched into people’s minds but have since become a symbol of nostalgia. One such company, which was the biggest in its industry before it failed catastrophically, is Nokia.
Yahoo!: The first king of the internet
By Aniket Gupta | 01 Dec 2023
The year is 1994. You go to the internet to search for a particular website, but there is no Google that could be used to search your desired website. What do you do? The answer is that you use Yahoo.
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