Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 20, 2011
After the 2001 recession, the rate of growth was lower than before the recession. From 2001 to 2010, some 20 million service jobs that could have been expected to materialize based on historical rates did not.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
For example, Peru’s rising middle class offers an increasingly attractive choice for consumer goods and retail MNCs looking to diversify their investments beyond established markets. Quantifying the impressive rise of the middle class, FSG calculates private consumption in Peru is set to grow 54% between 2010 and 2015.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 11, 2011
Steve Jobs landed the number one spot in our ranking of the best CEOs in the world, published in HBR in January 2010. In our CEO ranking, we used three metrics to score a CEO ( see the January 2010 article for the methodology ). Inflation-adjusted using 2010 as base year. million, a 35.4% compounded annual growth rate.
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.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 11, 2012
The book retail platform was not yet burning. 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.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 22, 2011
In 1972, HP's first calculator, the HP-35, would retail at $400 at a time when the market for scientific calculators did not yet exist. R&D spending fell from 6% of revenue in 2001 to 2.3% in 2010, and HP has been criticized for a decade-long R&D slide. The small bets approach helped HP pioneer handheld calculators.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 3, 2016
It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. A: Best Buy, the largest dedicated consumer electronics retailer in the United States, provides a good example of a company that developed an outside-in orientation by tackling its own internal silos.
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