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With time-series decomposition, we were able to infer that the consumers were waiting for the highest sale of the year rather than buying up-front.

The hit in mid-March was sudden and dramatic, but there appear to be signs, including from media buyers, that the worst is over.

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Marketers seem to be favoring performance marketing even as brand may be gaining in consumer importance.

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Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris, authors of "Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning."

Ron Ashkenas, managing partner of Robert H. Schaffer & Associates and author of the HBR article "Simplicity-Minded Management."

Bill Taylor, cofounder of Fast Company magazine.

Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies and coauthor of "Green to Gold."

Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay, editor of Harvard Management Update.

A.G. Lafley, chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble.

John Kotter, Harvard Business School professor and author of "A Sense of Urgency."

Hal Sirkin, senior partner and managing director at The Boston Consulting Group and coauthor of "Globality."

Gary Pisano, Harvard Business School professor and coauthor of the HBR article "Restoring American Competitiveness."

Stewart Friedman, Wharton School professor and author of "Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life."

Josh Bernoff, senior vice president of idea development at Forrester Research and coauthor of "Empowered."

Dr. Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author of "The Mind's Eye."

David Bryce, professor of strategy at Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management and coauthor of the HBR article "Competing Against Free."

Muhtar Kent, CEO of Coca-Cola.

Douglas Conant, former CEO of Campbell's Soup Company.

Don Thompson, economist and author of "Oracles: How Prediction Markets Turn Employees into Visionaries."

Russ Feingold, former US senator from Wisconsin and founder of Progressives United.

Dorie Clark, strategy consultant and author of the HBR article "A Campaign Strategy for Your Career."

James Allworth, regular contributor to HBR and coauthor of the Nieman Reports article "Breaking News: Mastering the Art of Disruptive Innovation in Journalism."

Bryan Garner, editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary and author of the "HBR Guide to Better Business Writing."

Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones, authors of the HBR article "Creating the Best Workplace on Earth."

Michael Raynor, director at Deloitte Services LP and coauthor of the HBR article "Three Rules for Making a Company Truly Great."

Eric Clayberg, Google software-engineering manager, talks with Harvard Business School professor David Garvin about the feedback and training that he and others at the company receive through Project Oxygen.

John Kotter, author of "Accelerate," on how slow-footed organizations can get faster.

Sandy Pentland, MIT professor, on how big data is revealing the science behind how we work together, based on his book "Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread."

Michael Mankins, partner at Bain & Company, on how to get the most out of meetings.

David Upton and Sadie Creese, both of Oxford, explain why the scariest threats are from insiders.

Jennifer Magnolfi, Founder & Principal Investigator at Programmable Habitats LLC, on how digital work, and the Internet of Things will fundamentally change the how we use the buildings and neighborhoods we work in.

Norman Winarsky, coauthor of "If You Really Want to Change the World," on ventures that scale.

Gareth Jones, author of "Why Should Anyone Work Here?", explains the things managers know, but struggle to do.

Denise Lee Yohn, author of "Extraordinary Experiences" and "What Great Brands Do," explains what we can learn from retail and restaurant brands

Todd Rose, the Director of the Mind, Brain, & Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the author of "The End of Average: How to Succeed in a World That Values Sameness," explains why we should stop using averages to understand individuals.

Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, both of Harvard, discuss what they've learned from studying radically transparent organizations where people at all levels of the hierarchy get candid feedback, show vulnerability, and grow on the job. Their book is "An Everyone Culture."

Chris Zook of Bain explains the predictable crises of growth and how to overcome them. His new book is "The Founder's Mentality," coauthored with James Allen.

Mark Blyth of Brown University and Gianpiero Petriglieri of INSEAD discuss Britain's vote to leave the European Union.

Joan C. Williams, distinguished professor and director of the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Hastings, discusses the white working class voters who helped elect Republican Donald Trump as U.S. President, and why Democrat Hillary Clinton did not connect with them.

Larry Summers, former U.S. treasury secretary, is calling on American business leaders to stand up to President Donald Trump. Summers sharply criticizes the administration’s protectionist agenda, and he says it’s time for executives to call out how those policies undermine the economy and the country's best interests in the long term.

Robert Austin, a professor at Ivey Business School, and Gary Pisano, a professor at Harvard Business School, talk about the growing number of pioneering firms that are actively identifying and hiring more employees with autism spectrum disorder and other forms of neurodiversity. Global companies such as SAP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are customizing their hiring and onboarding processes to enable highly-talented individuals, who might have eccentricities that keep them from passing a job interview — to succeed and deliver uncommon value. Austin and Pisano talk about the challenges, the lessons for managers and organizations, and the difference made in the lives of an underemployed population. Austin and Pisano are the co-authors of the article, “Neurodiversity as a Competitive Advantage” in the May-June 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Raffaella Sadun, a professor at Harvard Business School, explains why seemingly common-sensical management practices are so hard to implement. After surveying thousands of organizations across the world, she found that only 6% of firms qualified as highly well-managed — and that managers mistakenly assumed they were all above average. She is a co-author of “Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management?” in the September–October 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s third CEO, opens up about his effort to refresh the culture of the company and renew its focus on the future. He reflects on important life lessons he learned growing up in India, immigrating to the U.S., and working for Microsoft for 25 years. Nadella thinks of the past, he says, for the sake of the future—of technology, public policy, and work. His new autobiography is "Hit Refresh."

Tsedal Neeley, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Paul Leonardi, a management professor at UC Santa Barbara, talk about the potential that applications such as Slack, Yammer, and Microsoft Teams have for strengthening employee collaboration, productivity, and organizational culture. They discuss their research showing how effective these tools can be and warn about common traps companies face when they implement them. Neeley and Leonardi are co-authors of the article "What Managers Need to Know About Social Tools" in the November-December 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Paul Daugherty and James Wilson, senior technology leaders at Accenture, argue that robots and smarter computers aren't coming for our jobs. They talk about companies that are already giving employees access to artificial intelligence to strengthen their skills. They also give examples of new roles for people in an AI workplace. Daugherty and Wilson are the authors of the new book “Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI.”