Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For 2011, it all added up to $4.8 In 2001, Smucker's acquired Jif and Crisco from P&G, which no longer saw them as a strategic fit. After all, PB&J is both the ultimate lunch-on-a-budget food and the ultimate comfort food. Shareholder returns matched profits exactly, at a compound 14%. billion in sales. That's a lot of PB&J.

Brand 13

Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

When organizations talk to my colleagues and me at the Skoll Foundation about growth in staff size, budget size, or client / beneficiary numbers, we often ask "So what?" But when it comes to social ventures, where the primary focus is impact (not profits), bigger isn't necessarily better.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

MBO Partners, for example, predicted in 2011 that by 2020, “70 million people, more than 50 percent of the private workforce, will be independent.” They also sent me a spreadsheet with the numbers for every occupational category going back to 2001. Given that the actual research commissioned by MBO says that there are now about 17.7

MBO 9

MBO Survey Human Resources Long-term 9

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

a year between 2001 and 2007 and plunged by 26.2% Her scrupulous budgeting of household expenses hasn't alleviated the pinch. Source: The Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2011. in the following two years. A researcher for Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G),

Class 102

Class Health Care Long-term Budgeting 102

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Marketers like to repeat the quote, “I know I waste half of my ad budget, I just don’t know which half.” In 2001, Jonah Peretti had an e-mail exchange with Nike that went viral on the Web. Peretti went on to co-found Huffington Post, which was sold to AOL for $315 million in 2011. Yet all is not lost.

Influence 10

Influence Marketing Katz Media 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Over 70% of the firms’ software budgets goes to code developed in-house or under custom contracts. In fact, research suggests that big firms are dominating through their use of software. Why, then, did Apple prevail?

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Congress had a moderately successful run with budget pre-commitment mechanisms in the 1980s and 1990s, in the form of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the successor known as " paygo." In 2010, Congress voted to extend the 2001 cuts for two years.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Bond Committee Commitment 8