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How Microsoft and Netflix Lost their Way

Harvard Business Review

At Microsoft, Eichenwald argues, leaders established "a corporate culture that by 2001 was heading down the path of self-immolating chaos." As a result, engineers and developers had a greater incentive to compete with each other than they did to collaborate with each other.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

But the move to SaaS comes with considerable challenges: Firms will need to change their structure , sales culture, and incentives , and convince existing as well as new customers of the new offering’s value. For example, consider Zynga’s decision, announced in 2011, to build its own datacenters.

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It's Not All About Growth for Social Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

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 Drawbacks: A Complex Incentive Structure and the Quality Question. my money built X number of schools).

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The 787's Problems Run Deeper Than Outsourcing

Harvard Business Review

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. Unfortunately, things haven't quite worked out as planned. And while outsourcing can certainly lead to problems, I'm not convinced it's the cause of these problems. At least not yet.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

The Bush cuts also gradually raised the estate exemption and lowered the estate tax from 2001 until 2010, when the estate tax disappeared for that year only. Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011. This provision was extended through 2011.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Incentive and ‘random acts of kindness’ programs were deleted. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Executives never stayed long. They’ll find some rude awakenings in the outside job world.

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Your Smartphone Works for the Surveillance State

Harvard Business Review

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.

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