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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. I'm hopeful that today's comments will help us all process things in a healthier fashion while not forgetting the sacrifices that have been made for us.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Prior to joining AMA in 2001, he was Presidetn and CEO of Big Flower Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of integrated marketing and advertising services. Prior to joining AMA in 2001, he was Presidetn and CEO of Big Flower Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of integrated marketing and advertising services.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The deep recession in commercial real estate had forced corporations to freeze all marketing budgets. Generating a profit from a publication was a slow process. In 2001, Ed earned Entrepreneur of the Year honors from Ernst & Young. Advertising revenues were slow to trickle in. We started to hit a wall. 500 company.

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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. Household income and savings are ultra-low in most global markets.

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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.

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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. Household income and savings are ultra-low in most global markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

In today's tumultuous environment, we believe that the work of sensing and responding to the market is too important to be left to random projects and a "volunteer army"; the processes of external sensing and driving enterprise-level integration needs to be designed, staffed, and owned just like all other processes.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Bernard Arnault, for instance, the executive chairman of luxury goods maker LVMH, was clearly in the same frame of mind when we caught up with him in a 2001 HBR interview. Let’s call this the “In my ideal world, great ideas are generated through a process anyone can follow” camp.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

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. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. My research revealed that their company had in fact founded LLB, which younger generations of management did not know.

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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.

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Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. We think clearly and adapt quickly to customer/market needs (aka reality). We adapt quickly and effectively to changes in the market. Agile Concept.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

With a $25,000 personal investment and a small office in her home, she began aggregating sales leads and aggressively acquiring customers through very traditional marketing means — like yellow page advertisements. It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. Data-Driven Marketing. Insight Center.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2012

In 2001, Peter Drucker wrote in The Economist that "businesspeople stand on the threshold of the knowledge society. But why do western business leaders in a knowledge economy, with shrinking average margins in many market categories and weak macroeconomic scenarios, care so little about it? It's a compelling argument.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Execution CEOs value stability, process, and repeatable execution. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

This practice, which is largely the evolution of database marketing, has become a critical driver of business strategy for global organizations in nearly every industry and vertical, because it supports decisions with data. In this way, CI's value extends well beyond the marketing organization. The ability to speak "IT."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. They keep customers happier.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

Some data-driven insights will understand customer preferences, identify market trends, and optimize internal processes. Develop a process that learns from these efforts and views them as a sense-making step to notice change. Culture and Cognitive Processes: From Arbitration to Accommodation. Jossey-Bass. Stacey, R.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

The pharmaceutical company Valeant raised the price of Cuprimine — invented in 1956 and used to treat Wilson’s disease, a rare condition in which the body cannot process copper — from about $500 to about $24,000 for a 30-day supply, causing outrage from consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

My consulting firm works with many successful market leaders with amazing market shares — 30%, 50%, 70% and even 90%. One example of a company in this situation is Gillette, which has approximately a 70% share of the shaving market. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

No matter how you look at it, there have been terrible, unintended outcomes from the introduction and marketing of next-generation prescription opioids. How did the making and marketing of drugs like OxyContin go so terribly wrong? has quadrupled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Commercial.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

One of the things that is different since the recession is the approach that most companies are taking to hiring—where virtually everything about the process is automated or outsourced. Then, as the labor market changed, automation was simply the most efficient way of dealing with a deluge of candidates.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

For a couple of days its market cap was number one in the world. Then in early 2001 came an industry-wide crash, and suddenly Cisco was near death. Within five years, the stock had rebounded to $28 a share with market capitalization of $170 billion. Cisco was in deep trouble. But Chambers was intent on turning things around.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive. Keep processes that encourage employees to question the status quo , to engage in observations in all types of environments, to network far and wide for ideas, and to experiment on a regular basis.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Zara was founded in 1975 and its parent company, the Inditex group went public in 2001. In contrast, consider the following: Pfizer's blockbuster drug Viagra was patented in 1996, and went on the market in 1998. Consider the fate of another innovator: Apple revolutionized the smartphone market with the iPhone launch in 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

Recently published reports on the slips and stumbles of two much-heralded companies provide a close look at some of the internal dynamics that can undermine optimal decision-making and effective execution — even within organizations that have a history of market-leading performance.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

For many years, we will be measuring how loss of corporate credibility has tainted all facets of business, in terms of remediation, replacement, litigation, make-good, rework, damage control, recovery process, settlements to victims, decreased stock market value and sagging retail sales. Rebuilding the community image.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

They worked on numerous initiatives in large, growing markets that were adjacent to or somewhat related to HP's existing business. But they only looked at opportunities in what were already billion dollar markets. They then researched and analyzed the markets, segmented them, and developed products. Sound familiar?

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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. Finally, part of the explanation may also be that this recession has gone on for so long that it changed what hiring managers think they can find in the labor market.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Between 2001 and the end of 2008, for example, no less than 15 U.S. In the past few years, profits have become positive across the industry, and market caps are soaring from prior lows. Retail banks found many ways to unbundle elements of their core offering that not everyone needed, like check-processing. So what happened?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. Make sure existing products, processes, and culture do not prohibit the SaaS model from blossoming. Collaborate and partner with cloud platform providers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

This position also meant that governments were continually intervening in markets with price-setting and regulations, as well as with government ownership. One can also see his continual intervention in markets, from banking to retail, as motivated by the same belief that government knows best, and that markets are not to be trusted.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

But occasionally, there is a glimpse into the process of how someone can emerge, quickly and powerfully, into the public consciousness. In March 2001, Groysberg writes in his case study, NBC's Today show had a rash of guest cancellations due to a snowstorm. But there's nonetheless a general order to the process.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

Investors grapple daily in an effort to figure out how to value companies whose accounting assets — things like land, capital, products, and licenses — don't adequately express their true market value.

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Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

It can’t be an ad-hoc process; civility needs to be ingrained in everything that you do. When Doug took over as CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the company had just lost half its market value, sales were declining, and the organization was reeling from a series of layoffs. Set Expectations.

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