Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

For the past five years, we have examined how China swiftly moved from being a global bit player and net importer to the world''s largest manufacturer and exporter in capital-intensive industries where it had no labor-cost advantage. In 2000, labor-intensive products constituted 37% of all Chinese exports; by 2010, this fell to 14%.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2012

In a 2001 World Bank report, Voices of the Poor , those living in poverty identified better housing as a pressing priority. A strong structure: The 2010 earthquake in Haiti collapsed 280,000 homes and commercial buildings, killing nearly 300,000 people. And as for clean drinking water, we have an endless supply of it at our fingertips.

Globalization 14

Globalization Banking Construction Report 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In boom times, companies may face adjustment costs that deter them from adapting to technological change. recessions (1991, 2001, 2007–09) have been jobless, meaning that employment was slow to rebound despite recovery in total economic output. Recessions, in contrast, can produce large enough shocks to overcome these frictions.

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

The declines in manufacturing jobs during the downturns of 2001 and 2007, which totaled over 5.8 Many were due to increased imports and offshoring to low-cost locations. Consequently, information-intensive service jobs overtook physical service jobs in both numbers and wages after 2001. million, were the largest in U.S.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems. Its tool and engineering cycle time dropped 50% from 2004 to 2009, costs went down and it produces higher-quality products. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5 Collaborating globally to improve effectiveness.

Process 15

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

For example, on the Indonesian archipelago, supply chain and distribution logistics present serious challenges — with logistics costs at 24% of GDP, compared with the regional average range of 9-11%. Quantifying the impressive rise of the middle class, FSG calculates private consumption in Peru is set to grow 54% between 2010 and 2015.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

On March 18, 2010, an Apple engineer left what looked like an iPhone 3 in a German beer garden in Redwood, California. For instance, Apple filed applications for the original iPhone only four days before it was announced in 2007; for the original iPod in 2001, the filing was one day before release.

Magazine 8

Magazine Engineering Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

One way to tell the story of mothers2mothers' growth is as follows: since 2001, the organization has expanded its operations to nine countries with an approximately $20 million operating budget. In fact, where Mentor Mothers are present, transmission rates are on average 9%, compared to the UNAIDS 2010 estimate of 27%. Conclusion?

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The HBR article describes how B&N moved on multiple fronts at once: It aggressively reduced costs in its core retail business while refocusing its stores around consumer needs. By 2010, it would have been too late to act, as we saw with the Border's bankruptcy. Consider how narrow B&N's window was.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

I heard him say in real time many of the things he repeats in the book: "This philosophy of treating the customer as a hapless victim to be exploited was endemic in American corporations, and it cost us dearly" or "Is profit an integral part of the business equation and a God-given right, no matter how compromised the product or service?

Company 13

Company Franchising Fixed Costs Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

Using a sample of 1,069 Danish couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010, the study revealed that couples often establish a business together because one spouse (usually the female) has limited outside opportunities in the labor market.

Human Capital 12

Human Capital Entrepreneur Sample Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Wired reported late last year, "The top 10 Web sites accounted for 31% of US page views in 2001, 40% in 2006, and 75% in 2010." They have massive amounts of currency (cash and stock); huge storehouses of customer information; and cloud computing resources that make them low-cost providers in any digital endeavor.

CPA 15

CPA CPM Advertising Disintermediation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Greenspan asked me to check that, and the actual line from the article was pretty close: “Asked in 2010 about those who warned that housing prices would crash, he responded, ‘Right. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002. But that’s the true cost. It’s not there.

Long-term 12

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

million cost of the ad. It worked: venture capital poured in and the growth propelled the company to a $436 million sale to Yahoo in 2001. HotJobs was another that bought Super Bowl ad time, and the story behind its first commercial features prominently in internet lore.

Price 101

Price IPO Content Marketing 101

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Recent research suggests that Chinese imports, over the 12 years after the country’s WTO entry in 2001, took in excess of an estimated two million jobs out of U.S. Many CEOs would love to be cast in a pro-American light, even if it costs a few pennies of quarterly earnings. trade deficit, but today it is half. communities.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

There has been a dramatic shift in mentality, and it doesn''t take much to work out the date on which this happened: September 11, 2001. The Washington Post ran a special back in 2010 entitled " Top Secret America " that detailed the extent to which this was taking place. But the technology alone isn''t the problem.

Film 8

Film Information Technology Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

While roughly 20% of lawmakers owned stock in 2001, that number had more than doubled by 2013. The Senate recently voted on proposed legislation that would allow the importing of prescription medication from Canada, to trim costs. Our main findings are threefold and build on previous research in the field.

Conflict of Interest 8

Conflict of Interest Committee Collins Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

After that the Bush administration and a Republican-majority Congress decided in 2001 to effectively set paygo aside. In 2010, Congress voted to extend the 2001 cuts for two years. There's also a payroll tax holiday included in that 2010 deal, which was always supposed to be temporary. So, is any of this good policy?

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Bond Committee Commitment 8