Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

This means that the Trump administration will have to stop viewing the WTO as a threat to sovereignty and start seeing it as a place to forge alliances to compel China to respect the rules as it promised to do when it joined the WTO in 2001. firms will not.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

When the product was launched in 2001 , it aimed to revolutionize personal transportation , touted as a unique way for people to travel short distances. Specifically, though, few people found that they needed a vehicle to transport them a few blocks at a time. My favorite example here is the Segway.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

supply base: The United States suffered a net loss of nearly 19,000 manufacturing firms between 2001 and 2015, according to our analysis of U.S. It also saves money because transportation costs on those U.S.-made For companies looking to produce in the United States, one of the most significant is the decimation of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

It is based on the idea that a business model can readily be transported from one country to another. eBay, for example, rapidly built leading positions in its core marketplace business from acquisitions in Germany ( Alando in 1999 ), much of continental Europe ( iBazar in 2001 ), South Korea ( Internet Auction Co.,

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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. New York and Chicago have recently created "one-stop career centers" in the transportation, construction, services, and manufacturing sectors to meet specialized skills-training needs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Amid the rubble of the dot-com bust in 2001, Michael Porter weighed in on the question of how to gauge which businesses “active on the internet,” as he put it, were real and which were destined to go the way of Pets.com when their venture funding dried up. It’s still worth a look now.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Up until September 12, 2001, Australian domestic travel was a cozy duopoly. To be sure, there are bright lights such as Virgin and JetBlue, but the major airlines — United, American, and Delta — do not appear to feel the pressure. Prices were high but so was quality.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

For instance, we considered Harman International’s development of the MOST (media oriented system transport) system, under CEO Bernard Girod, as a breakthrough (it established its strong position in the infotainment market), but Girod’s career background was largely in planning and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

By now, the core functions of IT—data storage, data processing, and data transport—have become available and affordable to all. Lakhani then provided the dates at which Nokia had offered those features: an app store in 2001 , a touch screen in 2002 , a web browser in 2006. Why, then, did Apple prevail?

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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.

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