Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

Ask a buy-side analyst why Amazon or Apple fetches the price-earnings multiple they do, and inevitably the conversation turns to things like their ability to innovate, their capacity to capture and grow the best talent, their skill at managing brand and vendor relationships or ecosystems. If you can't measure it, how can you manage it?

Intangible Assets 15

Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The concern I expressed in the post was that these actions have become the standard by which CEOs are expected to manage. I, along with the rest of my management team and the board, agreed with the recommendation, and the drug was withdrawn. We had done a restructuring in 2001 with a significant number of layoffs.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The staff reasoned that rewarding stellar individual performances would provide the right incentive to excel. But by 2001, the once-dominant Buckeyes had slipped into mediocrity. This social relationship between leaders and followers is at the heart of transformational leadership.

Cooper 13

Cooper Sports Groupthink Construction 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Boston-based SkillWorks , founded in 2001, has placed more than half of the 500 displaced workers it has trained in new jobs. That will take leadership and innovation from various constituencies — business (individual firms, but especially industry associations), education, and labor — and targeted federal funding and incentives.

Skills 8

Skills Company Health Care Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Outsourcing leads to business model risk — you open the door to outsourcing your profits (in fact, a 2001 Boeing paper that is incredibly prescient and worth the time to read identified exactly this problem). And while outsourcing can certainly lead to problems, I'm not convinced it's the cause of these problems. At least not yet.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing P&L Airlines Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

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Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives. A recurring theme in those interviews was bemoaning major changes in R&D strategy that occurred as a consequence of new, often outside, leadership. This is not a surprise.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

The Bush cuts also gradually raised the estate exemption and lowered the estate tax from 2001 until 2010, when the estate tax disappeared for that year only. Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011. What’s in the Tax Bill?

Press Release 178

Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ It charged too much money and got away with it (because mid-managers but brand names of firms).

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57