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. Allow time and persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

In 2012, China''s top six solar companies had debt ratios of over 80%. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5% imported 560% more technologically-advanced products from China than it exported to that country. A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%. In 2011, the U.S.

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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. Existing investors and new investors contributed another $1 million.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

For the 2012 Olympics, Visa designed its “Cheer” campaign to be “social at its core,” but it was still anchored by television advertising. Information & technology Social platforms Technology' T]his is an issue we will have to deal with eventually.” ” I suppose that time is now.

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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%. The key difference is the degree to which reps have taken advantage of new technology (largely built into their CRM system) to share and learn from one another.

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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. Boards can and do play an important role in the success of companies.

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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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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 subsequently went private in early 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

” And its current focus is on Cognitive Business, led by the machine learning technology called Watson. When HP merged with Compaq in 2002, Bill Hewlett’s son Walter protested that “the fundamental mistake … was the perceived need to do something with scale instead of succeeding the way HP has in the past.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. This convergence hypothesis is reassuring on many fronts.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education. According to a PriceWaterhouse Coopers preliminary review , 2012 venture funding has actually declined. Individual empowerment. Preliminary data suggest not.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

of GDP in 2012 from 1.1% in 2002, and should touch 2.0% in 2012, and was second only to that of the US, whose share was 29% in 2012. In 2012, the share of China-based inventors in patents granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office was 1.8% by 2020, according to the World Bank.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

So the question is really whether the current, mostly hands-off regulatory regime for broadband has led to faster growth and more investment than if Powell, as chairman of the FCC, hadn’t decided in 2002 to classify cable broadband as a lightly regulated “information service” instead of a common-carrier “telecommunications service.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Conceding defeat in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.4 Yet, for all its technological prowess Sony focused too much on products and not enough on creating platforms. As of 2012, Garmin had sold 100 million units after 23 years in the market. As a result, PayPal rapidly surpassed Billpoint as the payment system of choice on eBay.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

One of the key faults found in all these discussions on the differences between Millennials and the other generational cohorts is that they often differentiate generational values with respect to technological differences – in particular, differences in usage – as opposed to sociological ones. Available online at: [link] (2) Costanza D.P.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nationally, from 2002 to 2012, just 4 percent of U.S. Technology They Can Grow Into. To thrive, gazelles require technology that scales quickly and adapts rapidly to innovations and disruptions. companies generated 10.7 million jobs – coming close to matching the 11.7 million jobs created by the rest of the economy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

In 2002 the Commission switched course again and ruled that broadband access provided by cable TV companies was an information service — the reasoning being, in part, that cable broadband had ended the DSL monopoly and created a competitive market once again. As of 2012, the U.S. Information & technology Innovation Internet'

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