Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Finally, operating conditions differ significantly within the country groups.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Executive education students at Harvard Business School. HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. ” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac.

Brand 8

Brand Education Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

This practice, which is largely the evolution of database marketing, has become a critical driver of business strategy for global organizations in nearly every industry and vertical, because it supports decisions with data. In this way, CI's value extends well beyond the marketing organization. Why CI pros should aim for the CCO job.

Company 14

Company Business Intelligence CRM Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

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 also open new go-to-market approaches. Recessions catch many companies by surprise, with predictable results. billion vs. $1.2

Team 8

Team Price B2B Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

With a $25,000 personal investment and a small office in her home, she began aggregating sales leads and aggressively acquiring customers through very traditional marketing means — like yellow page advertisements. It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. Data-Driven Marketing. Insight Center.

Retail 8

Retail Audience Budgeting Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

What the naysayers are overlooking or ignoring is that one could have made a list for Steve Jobs that would look remarkably similar: Missed earnings: Apple posted a $247 million quarterly loss ( in 2001 , four years after Jobs took over — and the stock went UP in after-hours trading). Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate.

Marketing 9

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Rational managers for the past thirty years have tightly focused on efficiency, cost cutting, and day-to-day execution — perhaps to a fault. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. 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?

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

No matter how you look at it, there have been terrible, unintended outcomes from the introduction and marketing of next-generation prescription opioids. How did the making and marketing of drugs like OxyContin go so terribly wrong? has quadrupled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). .”

Incentives 8

Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

From various archival sources, including the Marquis Who’s Who and Bloomberg’s Executive Profile & Biography, we gathered information on their educational background, such as the school they attended for an MBA and their year of graduation. This changed after Peter Dolan (Dartmouth, 1980) took the helm in 2001.

Influence 9

Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

For many years, we will be measuring how loss of corporate credibility has tainted all facets of business, in terms of remediation, replacement, litigation, make-good, rework, damage control, recovery process, settlements to victims, decreased stock market value and sagging retail sales. Rebuilding the community image.

Crisis 60

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.

P&L 13

P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

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.

Hedge 8

Hedge Restructuring Execution Download 8

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. In 2001, Smucker's acquired Jif and Crisco from P&G, which no longer saw them as a strategic fit. Census Bureau, a record 46.2 But not for the J.M. Smucker Company.

Brand 13

Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. There seems to be variety in customers’ requirements, meaning that software vendors would not be able to tap into the whole market without a perpetual license offering.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Comstock is out.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. By the fourth quarter of 2001 — that is, within about 21 months — it was turning a profit. That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. In fact, Amazon retired the last of the $1.25

Training 8

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 8

CO2

AUGUST 2, 2011

Interview by John LeTourneau , Executive Coach, CO2 Partners. In 2001, I was the State Department Correspondent for the Washington Times. Travel agents and agencies are operating in an antiquated model that only focuses on price and are not in touch with what today’s business traveler really is looking for in business travel.

Travel 98

Travel Books Airlines Budgeting 98

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Executives say that they lose 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. James Balog/Getty Images.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Executive education students at Harvard Business School. HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Q: Your book focuses on how companies can profit, regardless of market conditions, by immersing themselves in the lives of their customers.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. Having done so put the city in the position of responding to the unthinkable on September 11, 2001. Food and Drug Administration ban on saccharine, thus restoring the product to the market. by Hank Moore. Maquiladoras.

Crisis 72

Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72

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. public market capitalization over this period. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. We calculate that U.S.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

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. 2) The development of equity markets. 7) Employment market forces.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Analysis Execution 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. The wheels are just starting to fall off.

Cost 15

Cost Operations System Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

companies to reverse years of enhancements and innovations in secure online transactions and data storage that power the world’s largest retail e-commerce market , valued at $238 billion. For example, Carbonite now operates several directly-owned or reseller-owned data centers deployed across Europe. That was in 2001.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Palma Cay is Alegre's newest flagship hotel, and I think I can make it work with lower prices to the key travel agencies, tour operators, and online portals. In fact, we barely have a marketing budget at the corporate level. Since 2001, when she'd arrived at the company, she'd turned around two hotels. How is it going?".

Case Study 10

Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. The result is that large firms are gaining market share.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Our audience was composed of C-level digital executives from nearly a hundred major media brands. Wired reported late last year, "The top 10 Web sites accounted for 31% of US page views in 2001, 40% in 2006, and 75% in 2010." Adding a profile on Facebook has little to no impact on Facebook's operating costs.

CPA 15

CPA CPM Advertising Disintermediation 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

I further made recommendations that future charitable requests would go through committee and that the client’s partners and key executives were better suited by serving on community boards, thus polishing their own luster. Executives never stayed long. Executives. No executive development program was held at Enron.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Years later, it took on bigger players by introducing new innovative packaging to the market, and subsequently carving out a double-digit share when few thought it could be done. competitors are entering the market. In 1977, the year the two executives joined, Nabob decided to sell and dissolve eight of its 12 product lines.

Brand 100

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

However, the country’s crisis is unlikely to become top of mind for Latin America regional executives and corporate centers, at least from a business standpoint. Part of the decline can be explained by the sharp depreciation of the bolivar, but for the most part it reflects proactive decisions by multinationals to exit the market.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Price Politics Supply Chain 8