Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

But if the purpose of the company is its long-term survival, then one could make the argument that he was a failure as CEO, as he optimized short-term gains by squandering long-term opportunities. Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Recessions catch many companies by surprise, with predictable results. In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Digital tools can help make more accurate matches.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Stars typically feel connected to the organization because they have power or influence. Navy One example of a leader who intentionally developed a Connection Culture using all three bridges is Admiral Vern Clark, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 2000 until his retirement in 2005. Core employees typically don’t feel connected.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To make big improvements in productivity and customer service, people in an organization must collaborate across corporate hierarchies, functions, companies, and geographies. Leading companies such as IBM, Ford, and Avery Dennison are making major improvements in key processes by creating online communities to share deep knowledge.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

To reverse these ominous trends we need to dial back our achieve-aholic tendencies to pursue wealth, power, and fame, and spend more time and energy connecting with others in supportive relationships. As the researchers put it, “to truly grasp the power of connection for this generation, we can look at how they wish to be remembered.

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Stress Mentor Competitive Advantage Long-term 150

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

In December, 2001, just prior to filing for bankruptcy, Enron Corporation had approximately $2 billion in cash and no debt coming due. In a keynote speech , he said Enron went bankrupt because of "decisions" made in October 2001. A typical SPE requires a company to make cash payments to the SPE if its assets fall in value.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The company focuses on building environmentally friendly work sites and data centers and improving access to clean energy for all. And as a company with over 2 billion users, and with 80% of our community outside the U.S., Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. Future Economy.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. The company’s cost of new customer acquisition had ballooned from 5 cents to $50. Despite the fact that the company enjoyed massive brand awareness, escalating acquisition costs were destroying margins. Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The insightful companies examine their own backyards… applying the discussions, uncoverings and applicabilities to how they will better manage in the future. Any company or organization is like a tree. Companies had to overcome the poorly handled crises, as well as mount their own proactive strategies. by Hank Moore.

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Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 57

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. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. of the company.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. These companies can’t ignore sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

I Give This Blurb 3 Stars Operation Clean Turf and the War on Fake Yelp Reviews Businessweek Were the 19 companies accused of commissioning fake online reviews the only firms out there engaged in this nefarious practice? First, the company persuaded doctors and hospitals that Tylenol is safer and more trustworthy than aspirin.

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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.

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Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

At some point most executive teams will make a bet-the-company decision. In 2007 AOL and Time Warner finally pulled the plug on the $350 billion 2001 merger that Time Warner chiefs Jeff Bewkes and Gerald Levin later called “ the biggest mistake in corporate history.”. But sometimes the big decision will go horribly wrong.

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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.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Instead, the company called the new iPad just that: “the new iPad.” Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. Companies also must assess risk versus reward when branding a product upgrade. A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

. “Succession between generations is a very risky project,” says Fernández-Aráoz, which is why it’s critical to talk early and openly about rules for advancement and what handing off power might look like. Do: Get experience at an outside company first to improve your judgment and boost your confidence.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

It is rare to find an American company that is not developing a market strategy to benefit from the rapid growth of emerging markets such as Brazil, India, and China. During the heyday of American power after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the U.S. 50, February 2001).

Strategy 9

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 9

CO2

AUGUST 2, 2011

He is also the founder and CEO of Kralev International LLC , a travel consulting and training company. In 2001, I was the State Department Correspondent for the Washington Times. Most companies have travel departments; others use travel agents. He has flown almost 2 million miles and visited more than 80 countries.

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Travel Books Airlines Budgeting 98

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

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). Having done so put the city in the position of responding to the unthinkable on September 11, 2001. Reclaim Company’s Good Name, Chrysler bankruptcy.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 71

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. We’ve seen companies such as Unilever, AT&T, and Amazon succeed by sticking resolutely to a long-term view.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein have introduced a bipartisan bill that would require all tech companies to decrypt customer data at a court’s request. based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 At my company, we promise to keep valuable data private and secure.

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Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

In 2001, Bill Gates stood up at Comdex and introduced Microsoft's first attempt at a Tablet PC to the world. But they just couldn't get it right — the company has rarely been able to bring innovations to market without seeing someone else do it first, and this instance was no different.

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Cost Operations System Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2015

Using data from the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook from 2001, 2005, and 2009 for 54 countries, he also configured a model featuring power structures he expected to influence compensation, based on prior research of determinants of executive pay. ” A high power distance tends to lead to high CEO pay and low worker pay.

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CEO Marketing Analysis Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Someday, Apple's now 11-year-long run of nearly unbroken triumph (I'm dating it to the launch of the iPod in November 2001) is going to end. If Tim Cook and his colleagues can keep that strategic discipline, the company has a shot at maintaining its competitive edge. That is just the way of the business world.

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Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

million small cars with a defect in the ignition switches, saying the company took too long to tell owners to bring the cars in for repairs. The switches could, if bumped or weighed down by a heavy key ring, cut off engine power and disable air bags. It’s the great companies that detect the small ones that otherwise go unnoticed.

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Report Learning-by-Doing Crisis Management CEO 8

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

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.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

So, here goes: Only five years ago, the superpowers of the web looked and acted like Big Media companies. In a supposedly democratizing medium, the power of leading online companies has only become more concentrated. These are tech companies. Fifth, the dynamic among these companies is reminiscent of the Cold War.

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CPA CPM Advertising Disintermediation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy. The goal for 2035 is “enter the front ranks of second tier manufacturing powers,” and the target for 2045 is to “enter the first tier with world leading technology and industrial systems.”

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GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

losing power to Beijing. Recent research suggests that Chinese imports, over the 12 years after the country’s WTO entry in 2001, took in excess of an estimated two million jobs out of U.S. These companies can be persuaded that doing more business in America is a smart business move. trade deficit, but today it is half.

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Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. In one large Fortune 100 company, the head of digital products said to us, “we’re not allowed to question the Agile process.” Agile software development.

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Agility Engineering Software How To 8

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.

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