Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

As we read year-end and best-of 2010 articles and watch the tribute shows, take a moment to try to add up the cumulative wealth of those being remembered. And given the ballooning size of the US deficit, how much in revenue did our government almost miss out on because Congress forgot to fix the estate tax? billion estate. billion estate.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Technology is but one tool of the trade. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Trait-centered Leadership vs. Servant Leadership.

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Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Following are a few of the ways Admiral Clark and his leadership team built bridges so that everyone felt connected and a part of the Navy. The Value Bridge Admiral Clark described his strategy as using the Navy’s “asymmetrical advantages” of the “best technology in the world” combined with the “genius of our people.”

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001. Gilbert's HBR article with Joseph Bauer that also discusses Kodak is available here. Kodak wasn't blind to this shift.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Microsoft entered the 20 th century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device.

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CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

It's been nearly a year since Nokia CEO Stephen Elop shot off his burning platform memo as a way of shaking up the phone company's leadership. To see why, please check out "Two Routes to Resilience," an article from Innosight-affiliated authors in the December issue of Harvard Business Review. Those kinds of payoffs require time.

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EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Intrigued by technology and innovation, Achan took the initiative to develop two iPhone apps. And, as with Achan’s boss, they’re likely to see it as a positive indicator for leadership potential. How did he make this unusual career leap?

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Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Yet many employers still struggle to fill certain types of vacancies, especially for so-called middle-skills jobs — in computer technology, nursing, high-skill manufacturing, and other fields — that require postsecondary technical education and training and, in some cases, college math courses or degrees.

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Skills Company Health Care Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. My husband was one of the earliest investors in alternative energy technologies in the U.S., How have you worked to bring them on board?

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991. But it was exploiting this technology’s growth potential some years later that put Irwin Jacobs in our top 10 tech CEOs between 1995 and 2014.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

I was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) in 2001. Take, for instance, my IM exchanges with a technology manager at a financial services firm. Marion Barraud for HBR. By 2003 I could no longer speak intelligibly or walk, and any muscle control became more difficult as the disease progressed.

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Argyris Document Construction Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In sum, digital strategies and rapid technological obsolescence increases the mortality rates among existing public firms, but does not correspondingly increase the demand for IPOs. Such acquisitions become more lucrative with rising first-mover advantages, pace of technological development, and network externality.

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IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 Every single customer can trust us to encrypt all of their files with bank-grade technology before we back them up to our cloud servers. technology firms.

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Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

A recurring theme in those interviews was bemoaning major changes in R&D strategy that occurred as a consequence of new, often outside, leadership. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology.

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Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. To learn more about how Harvard Business School can help you prepare for the challenges of global leadership, visit the program website. Executive education students at Harvard Business School.

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Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. This mindset focuses leadership on making near-term decisions with the longer-term destination in mind, but it doesn’t presume that there is only one path from here to there. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Leadership is changing — fast. The late 1940s were a tough time for the fledgling electronic equipment maker that would eventually become one of the America’s best-known technology companies. Then came the September 11, 2001, attacks, followed by fully-fledged economic crises in the U.S. The 21st-Century CEO.

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Management Uncertainty Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

His death was the culmination of a global manhunt that lasted more than a decade and assumed extreme urgency after the September 11, 2001, attacks. The Bin Laden operation was a seminal moment in the campaign to decimate Al Qaeda’s leadership. The CIA professionals thought the idea was bad.

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Management Operations Planning Politics 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. By 2001, many charities that were still counting on pledged donations and found themselves left in a lurch (though it was also their fault for not casting other nets for funding and being too dependent upon Enron).

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57