Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

He had inherited a thriving soft drink bottling business from his father, and by marketing it to South America he grew the company significantly. He introduced me to a company that was opening up a new market in Atlanta. The president of this company was his son. Besides, companies need to develop their own plans.

Real Estate 81

Real Estate Strategic Planning Video Blog 81

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Forbes recently published our list of the world's most innovative companies in which we ranked companies based upon their innovation premium. But why do some companies have a high innovation premium while others do not? CEOs of average companies, in comparison, scored at about the 68th percentile. Lafley became CEO.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

There is a straightforward relationship between input and output: Those who put in the hours are handsomely rewarded, and progress can be neatly tracked through the kind of upward-sloping curves that companies and executives can only dream of. When he was brought in as CEO in August 2014, the company wasn’t in great shape.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

When I stepped in to run the Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the environment at Campbell was hugely challenging. These were dark days for the company, yet I could see a world of possibility and potential very clearly. Over the years most of the companies that supported Camden's tax base have moved out, they've abandoned ship.

Company 15

Company Real Estate Commitment Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

To understand how traditional software vendors can move to the SaaS model while managing the transformation’s challenges, we studied how the stock market reacted to publicly listed firms announcing they wanted to introduce a new SaaS offering from 2001 until the end of 2015. compared to new product launches with the SaaS model.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

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. And Apple's share performance skyrocketed between the time we compiled the data and when he stepped down on August 24, 2011. companies is around six years. His tenure had not ended.

CEO 13

CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

What causes a company to go astray? Recently published reports on the slips and stumbles of two much-heralded companies provide a close look at some of the internal dynamics that can undermine optimal decision-making and effective execution — even within organizations that have a history of market-leading performance.

Long-term 15

Long-term Short-term Engineering Price 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. With Jobs unexpected exit in 2011, Cook's key task is to not only keep Apple humming but to deliver something surprising. Can he do it? Before A.G. Clearly, Cook's challenge is daunting.

Innovation 13

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

August 2011 HBR. Amid the financial crisis in Greece and threats of double-dip recessions, the last thing on the minds of Western companies right now might be recruitment. But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. Group merged its three banks (Körfez, Osmanl?,

Banking 12

Banking Crisis Restructuring Reputation 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For many companies, a shrinking middle class means a shrinking top line, as their traditional consumer base migrates to the lower end of the market. Smucker Company. That's right — the outfit best known for selling peanut butter and those iconic jars of jam that haven't changed much since the company was founded in 1897.

Brand 13

Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

The web of third party logistics companies is complex and performance is spotty. based companies have a couple of options for developing this hybrid: One is to do it themselves — they can bring their homegrown models, often with American employees, and figure out how to adapt to local needs. Once a copycat succeeds, U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.”. What they found surprised them.

Simon 10

Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

In 2012, China''s top six solar companies had debt ratios of over 80%. Our research showed that without subsidies, these companies would be bankrupt. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. In 2011, the U.S. Production mostly came from small companies that possessed no scale economies. exports increased by only 11%.

Price 8

Price Bond Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies? of the company.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.” What they found surprised them.

Simon 8

Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Since these companies already effectively own their existing categories, the only way to grow is to find the rising tide to grow or create a new category. One example of a company in this situation is Gillette, which has approximately a 70% share of the shaving market. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

Price 8

Price Franchising Marketing Brand 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers.

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I recently received a letter from the IRS alerting me that it had made changes to my 2011 tax calculation. Sure, I could probably contribute to economic growth more directly, by buying a better car (if they actually now make a better car than my 2001 Ford Windstar) and a bigger TV. Internal Revenue Service that made the mistake?

Christensen 9

Christensen Ethics Letter Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Take Citrus Lane CEO Mauria Finley, whose company was experiencing some growing pains, appropriately enough; the startup sends monthly packages of great baby products to moms. Back in 2011, in Citrus Lane’s first six months, its small founding team worked in a house and ate lunch together every day around a big table. After raising $5.1

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Seminar Learning-by-Doing Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Respondents are asked, “Last week were you employed by government, by a private company, a nonprofit organization, or were you self-employed?” MBO Partners, for example, predicted in 2011 that by 2020, “70 million people, more than 50 percent of the private workforce, will be independent.”

MBO 9

MBO Survey Human Resources Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

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. Thus a company could be forced to decide whether it should risk investing in a design that it may not own and anyone could use. All’s well that ends well.

Magazine 8

Magazine Engineering Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

While the first 787 was originally scheduled to be delivered back in 2008, a string of delays and cost overruns meant that deliveries didn't start until 2011. Boeing's experience bears comparing to another company, one which has mastered the art of managing design as an integrated process, while still utilizing outsourcing — Apple.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing P&L Airlines Price 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

a year between 2001 and 2007 and plunged by 26.2% Despite waitressing to supplement her 20-year career as a support specialist at a cable company, the woman said that her finances are strained as utility bills, gas prices and the expenses of her two daughters keep growing. Source: The Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2011.

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Class Health Care Long-term Finance 102

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

The assumption is that company growth is good. 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. The organization's ultimate aim is to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. The quickening pace extends to firms’ lifespan; we found that companies’ lifespans decreased substantially in each new decade of listing from the 1960s. Chief finance officers increasingly question the ability of a day trader to value a digital company.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2010

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good-to-great companies use technology as an accelerator of momentum, not a creator of it." publicly traded companies and their performance over 40 years.

Mentor 50

Mentor Collins Mission Statement Tips 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

When Bob came on board in 2001, he inherited a mainly crummy set of 2001-2004 car launches. During this period, the company that was killing GM — Toyota — was earning a staggeringly high percentage (estimated as high as 75%) of its U.S. And in the U.S. share throughout the 1990s and 2000s.

Company 12

Company Franchising Fixed Costs Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger. The people lucky enough to work at these companies are doing relatively well. But the rise of big companies — and the resulting concentration of industries, profits, and wages — goes well beyond tech firms and is about far more than antitrust policy.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

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. His second company, Buzzfeed , is now valued at $850 million. Yet all is not lost. The two struck up a friendship and then a collaboration.

Influence 10

Influence Marketing Katz Media 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The company cried ‘case study’ from the very beginning, when it segued from the former Houston Natural Gas moniker. Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). by Hank Moore.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

This is driven by the fact that what people want from a job and a company has changed. The largest generation of people in the workforce today (millennials) has come to value different things; you can’t convey how thoughtful a team is, how inspiring a workplace is, or what a company actually stands for in a job listing alone.

Price 101

Price IPO Content Marketing 101

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. Not China or Iran, concerned that its citizens might benefit from rules that would allow them to cover their footprints or that companies would have a much stronger incentive to protect users'' privacy.

Film 8

Film Information Technology Information Technology 8