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). The problem was that Ballmer organized the company around execution of its current strengths, the Windows and Office businesses. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. The result?

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CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

The answer lies in the rise of a new type of executive, the Chief Customer Officer. A decade ago, the only option for an ambitious CI professional was the CMO's office, even though in most enterprises, that seat will be filled by an executive with brand and media expertise. Get operational expertise, and fast.

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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. A B2B technology supplier used Microsoft Workplace Analytics and other digital tools to track the behaviors of its sales reps.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. In turn, top executives should provide direction on improvement priorities down to front-line workers. And top executives don't have good mechanisms to share their vision downward. But this is rare. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

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.

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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. I met the team at Albert (formerly known as Adgorithms) while I was doing research into artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven marketing technologies for my book, Marketing, Interrupted. Not Albert.

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Retail Audience Budgeting Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. My husband was one of the earliest investors in alternative energy technologies in the U.S., Andrew Liveris.

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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? Unanswered Questions Tragedy in Switzerland: What Drove Two Top Executives to Suicide? Not likely.

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Review CFO PR Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). GE’s gross margin was 21% last year, compared with 28% for United Technologies and 30% for Siemens. Comstock is out.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Executives say that they lose 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. It also helps bridge the chasms that exists at so many companies between great strategy, great execution, and great performance. Take Dell Technologies, for example. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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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. It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. How do they do it?

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Education Execution Content Cooper 8

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

MAY 2, 2016

May 2 marks the fifth anniversary of the operation that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. 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 trail had gone cold. He had deep knowledge and credibility.

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Management Operations Planning Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

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.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

When Agile software development was born in 2001, it articulated a set of four critical principles to elevate the craft of software development and improve engineering and product manager motivation. First the team, including executives, should articulate the team’s strategic “challenges.”

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Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The execution of these systems is, as you''d expect, very different. 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.

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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. But all of these examples have had flat structures from the day they were founded – you couldn’t do something like this in a firm that has been operating for a while with the normal hierarchical structure, could you?

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