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As Emerging Markets Slow, Firms Search for “New” BRICs

Harvard Business Review

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

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How Good Was Steve Jobs, Really?

Harvard Business Review

Steve Jobs landed the number one spot in our ranking of the best CEOs in the world, published in HBR in January 2010. Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. Market Capitalization increase during tenure: $341.5

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Big Bets vs. Little Bets and the future of HP

Harvard Business Review

They worked on numerous initiatives in large, growing markets that were adjacent to or somewhat related to HP's existing business. But they only looked at opportunities in what were already billion dollar markets. They then researched and analyzed the markets, segmented them, and developed products.

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How to Anticipate a Burning Platform

Harvard Business Review

Nokia is still struggling to find a future beyond going head to head with the Android and iPhone platforms in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. The book retail platform was not yet burning. By 2010, it would have been too late to act, as we saw with the Border's bankruptcy. Those kinds of payoffs require time.

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Don’t Let Them Steal Your Inventions

Harvard Business Review

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.

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The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

According to a new book by Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007.

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Who Rules the Web Now?

Harvard Business Review

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." Amazon is now a primary source of traffic for thousands of third-party retailers. In effect, they are turning online advertising into a lead generation play to deliver better ROI for marketers.

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