Coaching Tip

MARCH 27, 2011

In 2001, Page and Brin hired their first CEO, Eric Schmidt, who had a Ph.D. in computer science and twenty years of management experience in tech companies; most recently, he had been the CEO of Novell. They settled on an unusual power-sharing arrangement.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. billion estate. The Bush law did allow a $1.3

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Building Personal Strength

JUNE 17, 2010

In 1980, I was researching Army training practices in order to write a manual for junior leaders on how to train solders. One of these was Special Forces training at the John F. The training gave them a victory of courage and self-confidence. I remember being afraid one night in 2001. Lives depended on it.

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Learning-by-Doing Training Travel Skills 88

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

But, perhaps more importantly, as Karolyi tells it, they also had management. By creating a system that puts them together as much as possible, that makes their training more uniform, that gives them better benchmarks, that shows them how each person will contribute to the group effort. Bela Karolyi knew the U.S. They had the drive.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

The declines in manufacturing jobs during the downturns of 2001 and 2007, which totaled over 5.8 That happened to manufacturing up to the 1930s; then, with maturing markets and slower demand growth, continuing productivity increases led to the long and continuing decline in manufacturing employment. million, were the largest in U.S.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

For enterprise risk management, key policies include a statement of risk appetite and explicit risk tolerance levels for critical risks. The company's performance measurement and incentive systems, and the degree to which risk management is considered, will also have a profound impact on employee behavior. Set clear policies.

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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. A shift to inside sales usually requires better digital marketing capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

labor market is like an aging athlete; it is taking longer and longer to recover from recessions. The next recession, which came in 2001, was short and mild (GDP barely fell), but it took four years for the job market to heal, prompting the Federal Reserve to administer the economy a long course of low interest rates.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

The overarching goal of most business schools is to train future leaders to lead. Through his academic research and teaching at HBS, Jensen promulgated a new financial orthodoxy that corporate managers should avoid diversification and instead focus on the firm’s core competencies. Andy Roberts/Getty Images.

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Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. In 2001, Turkey experienced a financial crisis in its banking sector. Our experience at Garanti Bank shows how even in seemingly the worst of circumstances, companies can become the most attractive of employers.

Banking 12

Banking Crisis Restructuring Reputation 12

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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

We had jobless recoveries coming out of the last recessions in 2001 and 1992, but this one put the budget squeeze on recruiting and has gone on for a very long time. But even when managers give permission to hire, they may drag their feet about actually bringing someone on. Does it mean there is something really different this time?

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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. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Unfortunately, the emphasis on cost-cutting has shifted managers’ attention away from the value they should be creating from these new latest hiring practices—and this is where the future of hiring lies. Then, as the labor market changed, automation was simply the most efficient way of dealing with a deluge of candidates.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Software Cost Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. In other words, you need the right organizational design so that all these well -trained, well-educated people will be able to do their work. Bush authorized U.S.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

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. He will always know how he performs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. The CEO as Lead Product Designer. Customers" Have Become "Users".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., In his tenure as McKinsey's worldwide managing director, Gupta displayed macher-like ambition not just for himself but even more so for his firm.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. According to a new book by Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets.

Education 8

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

public companies from the 1960s up to 2005 in HBR: “Since the mid-1990s, a new competitive dynamic has emerged — greater gaps between the leaders and laggards in an industry, more concentrated and winner-take-all markets, and more churn among rivals in a sector.” The competition story revolves around digital technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

She led him down a long corridor to a door marked "Hotel Manager." You're responsible for your own P&L, just like all the other hotel managers, and that includes promotional spending of any kind. In fact, we barely have a marketing budget at the corporate level. The ringtone of his BlackBerry interrupted his train of thought.

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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.

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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. Today, Nabob faces yet another challenge: finding its place in the quickly dilating coffee industry.

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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.’ There were no checks and balances for members of the supply train. Corporate Culture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

multinationals, while increasingly harassed by Beijing , have many leading market share positions in China, especially in high-tech and sophisticated capital goods such as U.S.-made producers of wind turbines do not have the same market access in China as Chinese producers have in the U.S., made microprocessors and gas turbines.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8