Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

During our discussion, Wendy Powell, author of Management Experience Acquired : Necessary Skills for Successfully Managing Any Employee , shares with us her insights and illustrative examples regarding: the differentiation promoting and hiring executives and managers are looking for in potential candidates. About the Author.

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Human Resources Open-book Competitive Advantage Resistance 58

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 13, 2012

in 2002 to $854.00 in 2012.). Wendy Powell is the author of Management Experience Acquired. With more than twenty-five years of human resource and management consulting experience, Wendy has spent most of her career at the University of Michigan. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. in 2002 to $854.00

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Budgeting Health Care Insurance Human Resources 56

Building Personal Strength

APRIL 17, 2012

Gardner (1912-2002). It's often called the "executive" part of the brain, because it coordinates functions such as evaluation, logic, intuition, creativity, problem solving, decision making, planning, organizing and managing. Copyright 2012. Important stuff! On SELF-AWARENESS - “Life is an endless process of self-discovery.”

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Leadership Self-aware Creativity Bottom-up 92

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

We only work with people who will be given a fair chance by their management. We do not work with leaders who have been “written off” by senior management. The people that we coach (in agreement with their managers, if they are not the CEO) work with us to determine desired leadership behavior. 3) Collect feedback. Goldsmith, V.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term CEO Follow-up 123

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 percentage points in 2003-2012. percentage points of the 10.5

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

Between 2002 and 2012, the shareholder return of the average airline company rose an uninspiring 5.6% It was just lousy timing if you happened to be in one of these industries, which were all in the bottom quartile of total shareholder returns (share price change plus dividends paid) in the 10 years through 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. In preparation for the 2012 Games, Atos ran more than 200,000 hours of tests and rehearsals, including full technical tests and simulations of hundreds of worst-case scenarios.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The Avon Products Foundation — the charitable arm of the Fortune 500 cosmetics company, illegally appropriated our Breast Cancer 3-Day concept, and on August 11th, 2002, announced their plans for a multi-day walk for breast cancer with full-page ads in major papers across the country. million in 2002 with us, to $11.1 Or calling.

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Teamwork Learning-by-Doing Maturity Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

In 2012, for instance, shareholders said no to almost $15 million in compensation for Vikram Pandit at Citigroup and to almost $6 million for Fernando Aguirre at Chiquita Brands. Shareholders in the UK have had advisory votes on pay since 2002 — but the British government has tightened the rules even more. So, expect more laws.

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CEO Proposal Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

The other paper says founder-named firms are 8% less valuable than their counterparts, and founder-named-and-managed firms are 21% less valuable. Return on assets indicates how efficient management is at using assets to generate earnings. million European firms (for over 6 million firm-years of data, from 2002 to 2012).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

Large public events like the Boston Marathon require tremendous resource investment to organize and manage the event as well as to ensure the safety of those involved. cities that held marathons from 2002 to 2012. In addition to widespread road closures required to hold the marathon (by definition, more than 26.2

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Transportation Travel Participative Sample 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Companies have long developed and managed their sales people differently from other employees, placing great emphasis on individual performance. From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

In the US alone, sales grew 40 percent in 2012. It does not just manage to get a brand into a customer’s consideration set; it powerfully influences which aspects of that brand the customer notices and experiences. Or consider the Mini Cooper, a car that reentered the US market in 2002 after an absence of 30 years.

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Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

This question was at the heart of a recent study we conducted that is forthcoming at the Academy of Management Journal. Why is there is a cottage industry of executive search firms focusing on “reverse board searches,” where they proactively work to place executives on outside corporate boards?

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Execution P&L CEO COO 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

This idea has led to regulation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), as well as requirements by the NYSE and NASDAQ that boards have a majority of independent directors and that members on the audit committee have financial expertise. But is this a realistic expectation for directors?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. For example, when Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012 and then WhatsApp for $19 billion two years later, many analysts and investors were astonished by the high price tags.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The number of internet users in China stood at roughly 5 million in 1999 but grew to 40 million in 2002, by which time it was clear that Yahoo was not getting the traction that local Chinese internet companies were seeing. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nationally, from 2002 to 2012, just 4 percent of U.S. Over the past three years, for example, the 10 fastest-growing companies in Ann Arbor, Michigan, created 26 percent of the job growth in southern Michigan. companies generated 10.7 million jobs – coming close to matching the 11.7

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the American Medical Association, my colleagues and I found that from 1990 to 2012, the number of workers in the U.S. Demand and supply are not growing in tandem: from 2002 to 2012, inpatient days per capita decreased by 12% while the workforce in hospitals grew by 11%.

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Health Care Supply Chain Compliance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Lazear went on to describe how economists, with the University of Chicago's Gary Becker leading the way , had been running roughshod over the other social sciences — using economic tools to study crime, the family, accounting, corporate management, and countless other not strictly economic topics.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Conceding defeat in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.4

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

HP is #10 on the 2012 list, and IBM is number 19. Back in 2002 , when Sam Palmisano took over, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services,such as back-office outsourcing, and personal computers. IBM and HP are two amazing companies with long and meaningful histories.

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Operations Innovation Industry CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

The preparations, produced by small teams or individual cooks, are progressively assembled, with sous-chefs (akin to middle managers) controlling the quality at every step. Before the final dishes are served, the head chef personally tastes a sample from each batch, maintaining control over every single aspect.

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Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. To a large extent, say-on-pay — which was introduced in the UK in 2002 and has spread to several other countries, most recently Switzerland — is a simple exercise in bandwagon-following. What shareholders have been saying, in overwhelming numbers, is yes! Since say-on-pay hit the U.S.

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Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The examples below seem to suggest that a company must stay true to its DNA, but has a lot of room to express that DNA in new ways whether in external strategy or internal management. In 2012 she announced to all the employees a re-expression as “ The HP Way Now.”

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How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2013

percent of the 2012 U.S. Wendy Powell is the author of Management Experience Acquired. With more than twenty-five years of human resource and management consulting experience, Wendy has spent most of her career at the University of Michigan. Bush’s prohibition on the requirement for project labor agreements on federal projects.

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