Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I recently received a letter from the IRS alerting me that it had made changes to my 2011 tax calculation. Sure, I could probably contribute to economic growth more directly, by buying a better car (if they actually now make a better car than my 2001 Ford Windstar) and a bigger TV. But what if it were the faceless and evil-ish U.S.

Christensen 9

Christensen Ethics Letter Finance 9

LDRLB

APRIL 18, 2011

Crabtree (2001), in his provocative article on global leadership, writes that “thinking globally used to require conscious attention to the differences that exist between different markets. McLuhan wrote that letter in 1962 and in the forty years since, the “tribal drums” themselves are becoming more homogenous in how they sound.

Globalization 102

Globalization Rogers Human Resources Letter 102

LDRLB

APRIL 18, 2011

Crabtree (2001), in his provocative article on global leadership, writes that “thinking globally used to require conscious attention to the differences that exist between different markets. McLuhan wrote that letter in 1962 and in the forty years since, the “tribal drums” themselves are becoming more homogenous in how they sound.

Globalization 74

Globalization Rogers Human Resources Letter 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

For instance, Apple filed applications for the original iPhone only four days before it was announced in 2007; for the original iPod in 2001, the filing was one day before release. That same day, Apple sent a letter to the website asking for its property back and filed a design patent application with the U.S.

Magazine 8

Magazine Engineering Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Macs keep their names with each successive upgrade, analysts noted, while iPhones sport sequential numbers and letters to indicate improvements. Ofek cites the example of Intel, which in 2001 introduced a 64-bit processor called Itanium, indicating that the product was markedly different than Xeon, its 32-bit predecessor.

Brand 8

Brand Education Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

In the 18-and-a-half years that I was there, I got a huge number of letters, or notes or whatever, [urging] us to lower interest rates. On the side of getting letters which say you’ve got to tighten [raise rates], it was a zero. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002.

Long-term 12

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

After that the Bush administration and a Republican-majority Congress decided in 2001 to effectively set paygo aside. In 2010, Congress voted to extend the 2001 cuts for two years. The then-sainted Alan Greenspan had given them ample cover, by expressing concerns that surpluses might eventually kill the bond market.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Bond Committee Commitment 8