Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Details of the competition and of customer segments determine whether the positives outweigh the negatives, and years can pass before customer-centricity bears fruit. He also emphasized in a 1999 book that “the wrong structure can doom all other market-driven initiatives in the organization to failure.”

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. It has now become the largest bank in the country. Importantly, profits kept pace. Resisting revenue temptations.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In 2002, Google AdWords (a program that puts ads on Google's search results page and content sites across the web) changed everything. AdWords is actually a cheap and highly reliable wind tunnel you can rent by the click to discover and validate your market, test your messages and positioning, and increase your conversion rates and profits.

Advertising 12

Advertising How To Media Outsourcing 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

I tried to focus on the positives. I could build on the success of my last book and write from home — a work schedule much more compatible with the needs of small children. It was a market thing. My books were not selling. Reluctantly, I quit my job. I did, after all, have options. Still, I felt regret.

Career 13

Career Policies Commitment Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. In the fall he came out with a book setting out his new and improved worldview, The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting. The book is not the world’s most coherent.

Long-term 11

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Industries with a higher share of IT workers saw more concentration between 2002 and 2007, even after controlling for M&A activity and several other variables. ” In their new book Capitalism Without Capital , Jonathan Haskel of Imperial College London and Stian Westlake of Nesta argue that these are two sides of the same coin.

Document 8

Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

I come out on the side believing that short-termism is a problem, but I can’t even view my own position as definitive. There are, not surprisingly, voices confidently positioned on both sides of the debate. years in 2002 to 7.2 The executives I work with speak openly about the market pressures for short-term performance.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. The result is that large firms are gaining market share.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

One key reason for shareholders'' positive tone is that the stock market has been doing well. 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. That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011.

Hedge 8

Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

In 2006, the last time a President had to nominate a Fed chairman, the job went to Ben Bernanke, who had spent his entire career as an economics professor before being called up to Washington for a stint as a Fed board member in 2002. Diversity brings all sorts of positive side-effects ; monocultures are fragile and unhealthy.

Banking 9

Banking Rogers Career Education 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. Change is 90% positive. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

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.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

This book states the case for more of a macro-focused approach to management. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. We have been subjected to the second longest bear market in history, the longest being that of the Great Depression. The stock market is down 25%.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59