HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Managing Rewards and Mobility. Spanish flu). Money talks, honey.

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

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. Is that smart? Not really, suggests our analysis.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

My research revealed that their company had in fact founded LLB, which younger generations of management did not know. In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Discern the differences between trends and fads.

Case Study 50

Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

The declines in manufacturing jobs during the downturns of 2001 and 2007, which totaled over 5.8 The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. First of all, it turns out that the productivity explanation for sector trends is incomplete. Basic financial services and content management could follow soon.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 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

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.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Merchandising GDP Quality 8

Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

It is at heart a new philosophical approach to project management. Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. In this sense, agile is more a way to create a new culture than simply a way to write software or manage a project. Agile Concept. User stories.

Agility 71

Agility Project Software Short-term 71

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Companies that can successfully implement Continuous Development throughout their organization will find dramatic strategic benefits, including: Faster time-to-market. Continuous Development is a growing trend in the software industry.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter-to-quarter or even year-to year-revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. The result?

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

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. This changed after Peter Dolan (Dartmouth, 1980) took the helm in 2001.

Influence 12

Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 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.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

AT&T's recently announced acquisition of T-Mobile will invite hellfire from telecom regulators who fantasize over a different market structure, in which 17 mom-and-pop carriers serve the masses with tender love and care. Wireless telephone prices are falling, a sign of competitive markets. It's the Prices, Stupid.

Wireless 12

Wireless Price Marketing Survey 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

When it comes to e-commerce across the globe, I''ve noticed a very interesting trend. Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. Moving slowly meant losing markets and, later, having to buy our way back in.

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

As managers, embracing this fluidity within groups and moving within our teams is crucial. Some data-driven insights will understand customer preferences, identify market trends, and optimize internal processes. Use Data and Analytics : Ask for and use the power of data and analytics to be a piece of decision-making. Stacey, R.

Open-book 78

Open-book Shaw Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 78

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Nokia is still struggling to find a future beyond going head to head with the Android and iPhone platforms in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. At the same time, the New York company launched a Silicon Valley start-up with a separate mission, management team, and business model while leveraging vital assets of the parent.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

And as you can see in the chart below, the long-term trend in the percentage of workers who are self-employed actually appears to be downward: But isn’t this the age of Free Agent Nation , as Dan Pink declared back in 1997 ? They also sent me a spreadsheet with the numbers for every occupational category going back to 2001.

MBO 9

MBO Survey Human Resources Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

As with all major trends, this one has been underway for a while, but it has been given a push by five years of relentless cost-cutting. 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.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Software Cost Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

grew from 20 million in 2001 to 32 million in 2014. This trend is expanding explosively. The music and print media – in fact, all content producers – have had to transform as new platforms increasingly give the small the powers of marketing and distribution that were once reserved for the very large.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Diversity Hotels Drucker 8

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 29, 2014

The study explores net growth in private-sector business establishments from 2001 to 2012, ranking the best and worst states for new establishments post-recession and shedding light on national trends. produced between 115,000 to 210,000 net new private-sector establishments each year from 2001 to 2007.

Real Estate 97

Real Estate Health Care Insurance Construction 97

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. Many conjectures have been offered to explain this controversial trend. This trend, we claim, is the single largest cause for decline in listed firms.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. Below, I’ll expand further on these trends and explain how reversing them would reduce short-termism and revive growth. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs. MirageC/Getty Images.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

By ignoring the distribution, that statistic masks a more important trend: As the McKinsey Global Institute has documented , variance in corporate earnings has increased substantially as well. ” Evidence of this trend toward greater corporate inequality has been trickling in for a while now.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 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.

Press Release 178

Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

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.

Brand 100

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100

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. Research by one of us (James) links this trend to software.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. Our argument has been that a number of trends have leveled the playing field around the globe.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Our company, Frontier Strategy Group, recently polled 20 Latin America general managers about Venezuela’s contributions to their regional revenues. 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