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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CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

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

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. Knowing that their input has been factored into a leader’s decision is motivating and it positively impacts their future participation.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs. labor market over the past 30 years.

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Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. Disruptive technologies were terrorizing slow-footed competitors. The Information Age was exploding.

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Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

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. Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. Some companies are beginning to solve this problem with online communities.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More large companies means the gains are distributed more broadly than would be the case with just a few—but that domestic competition can be ferocious. More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15.

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Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

As a recent WalMart staff proposal stated "We have cut costs too far, stores are understaffed, and associates cannot provide customers with the service that Sam Walton built the company on, and that we are proud to provide." Company leaders communicate and educate their people on the need for change.

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Agility Process Long-term Short-term 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. The situation was untenable. Insight Center. Not Albert.

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Retail Audience Budgeting Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Three of the company's directors quit near the end of last year, and word recently emerged that the company was on the brink of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The easy narrative is that Kodak is a classic case of a company blind to the disruptive changes in its marketplace. Kodak wasn't blind to this shift. .*

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

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., Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. Future Economy.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

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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Review CFO PR Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment. In 2012, China''s top six solar companies had debt ratios of over 80%. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5%

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Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Despite this very recent popularity, the novel business model of Zara has gone virtually unnoticed for over 30 years, allowing Zara's parent company, Inditex, to grow from zero to almost $20B in revenues. Zara was founded in 1975 and its parent company, the Inditex group went public in 2001. Why wasn't it copied immediately?

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Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 9

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.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 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. In the 1990s, the Clinton Administration pursued "open sectoral" multilateral agreements in information technology, telecommunications, and financial services.

Strategy 9

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. westend61/Getty Images. stock exchanges.

IPO 10

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. There are many reasons companies benefit from hiring an outsider, such as to effect change. Why do these shifts occur?

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Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

Given the number of unicorn firms in Silicon Valley, it might be tempting to think that tech companies are the ones running ahead in terms of productivity, while firms in more traditional sectors are left behind. The pay gap between the top- and bottom-paying firms in the same sector has increased by more than 12% from 2001 to 2012.

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Productivity Products Policies Bottom-up 12

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

MAY 13, 2014

His most brilliant insight was that companies compete on a bundle of connected, mutually reinforcing activities and resources. That bundle allows the company to create value in a way that can’t be imitated. Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector. Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. Based on my observation of companies for almost a decade, I map out four levels that exemplify distinct stages through which companies may evolve on this journey.”

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 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.

Strategy 9

Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 9

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

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. Advances in manufacturing technology. It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 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

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.”

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

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. Low-wage economies like Mexico’s and China’s absorb American technology and build industrial capability more easily today than ever. communities.

Supply Chain 8

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.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Technology, on the other hand, makes it much easier. And while you might scoff at these as something that only early adopters use, even late adopters of digital technologies leave behind an incredibly detailed trail of their lives. But the technology alone isn''t the problem.

Film 8

Film Information Technology Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

It’s achieved impressive results since being founded in 2001, and is run by a committee of about ten people. About 20% of the world’s websites are now on the WordPress platform – making it one of the most important internet companies. Well, Valve is a gaming company that makes Half Life, Portal and many other popular games.

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Case Study Committee Software Hamel 13