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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

In 2002, the year Alibaba.com first became profitable, founder Jack Ma gathered a handful of employees in his office and told them there was a secret project that they had the opportunity to join. Today, Alibaba looks more like a conglomerate than a typical tech company, with a diverse set of businesses operating largely independently.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

In the US alone, sales grew 40 percent in 2012. Or consider the Mini Cooper, a car that reentered the US market in 2002 after an absence of 30 years. Sales in the US have eclipsed those in the UK, and the company posted a 26 percent increase in 2011 and 15 percent increase in 2012. billion in eight years.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. In total the iTulip community led the round with $2 million in January 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

cities that held marathons from 2002 to 2012. In our sample of Medicare patients, the average age was 77 years and the majority had several chronic conditions. We studied Medicare hospitalization data and ambulance transportation data from 11 U.S. of them died).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. Going forward, our research indicates, the answers to those questions will matter a great deal — and the old adage that sales reps are coin-operated individuals should no longer apply.

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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. Second, companies are attempting to pick up talent they suspect they cannot recruit directly – often as a catalyst to a broader digital transformation, or as a challenge to their existing IT operations.

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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. Most boards have strong cultures that promote deference to the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment. In 2012, China''s top six solar companies had debt ratios of over 80%. A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

Unlike test kitchens of large chains or FMCG products, the team would work in R&D during the winter and then resume restaurant operations during the summer. Like at El Bulli, the chefs working in these labs divide their time between the restaurant operation and R&D projects aimed at improving the customer experience.

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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. Conceding defeat in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.4 As of 2012, Garmin had sold 100 million units after 23 years in the market.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

In some ways it’s only natural that we see an increase in discussions on potential challenges for organizations in operating under a multi-generational workforce. And that is the issue of how to effectively manage a multi-generational workforce. Available online at: [link] (2) Costanza D.P., Badger J.M., Severt J.B & Gade P.A.

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