Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Instead, his initial advantage came from his creation of a virtuous circle that underpinned his vision for the first durable mass-market automobile. And of course, customers in other types of businesses are wholly incapable of verbalizing, with any sort of fidelity whatsoever, what they need and why they need it. Used car trade-ins.

Innovation 15

Innovation Mass Marketing Price Market Segmentation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

At the time the merger negotiations began, AOL was enjoying intense investor interest, to the point where a company that was only 15 years old and had been public for only 8 years had a higher market capitalization than media powerhouse Time Warner. What successful companies are doing right. ” Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Business Model IPO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The key for every firm — regardless of size — is to figure out how to consistently create value in a demanding, ever-changing market. 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.

Operations 16

Operations Innovation Industry CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. HBS welcomes 6,360 foreign nationals (64% of the total) to its executive education courses each year, enriching the experiences for Americans as well.

Competitive Advantage 12

Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. The real story behind IBM's success is the course Palmisano set for 21st century global enterprises. They listen as well as they speak.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Or at least the market''s. Occasionally they get much more involved, as with Eddie Lampert''s seemingly permanent ( and not exactly successful ) takeover of Sears and Kmart. It is of course a bit disturbing to see that five years is now considered the "long term." The very rarity of such interventions helps make them successful.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

When sales once again started to slow in 2002 the campaign idea proved flexible enough to help revive the brand's fortunes once again. Will Miracle Whip be able to replicate Marmite's success? Of course not. The campaign was enlisted to introduce a new, "squeezy" container and extend usage to sandwiches.

Brand 14

Brand Media Brand Management Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

We've seen the challenges of serving as lead integrator, project manager and IT operations manager for the Olympics grow over the last decade (our relationship with the IOC has been in place since 2002), and Atos has grown with them. Our success depends on our strengths in partnering and building on prior work.

Committee 14

Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

” We then collected nine years of play-by-play data (2002 – 2010), totaling almost half a million unique plays. They drive corporate strategy, marketing, and research and development, as well as individual investment decisions. On the other hand, some jobs and industries demand high-reliability, mistake-free output (e.g.,

Participative 9

Participative Rogers Influence Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.” years in 2002 to 7.2

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

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. Even if I managed to become a successful writer, I would never again be seen as an up-and-comer. My off-track career was moderately successful. It was a market thing.

Career 13

Career Policies Commitment Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

Both offer important lessons in social marketing — but mouthwash may still have one key advantage. Of course, when others “like” my post, this helps with common knowledge because I can see, and I know they can see that I can see, who likes my post. Let me explain.

Advertising 8

Advertising Information Technology Pharmaceuticals Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets. What successful companies are doing right. Writing in 2002, the depths of the dot.com bust, she says that business models are “at heart, stories — stories that explain how enterprises work. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Business Model 8

Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. Despite decades of success fighting ill-health, illiteracy, and poverty, BRAC saw its programs still weren’t reaching women trapped in this chronic cycle of dire poverty. At BRAC , where I work, we call this subset the “ultra-poor.”

Microfinance 8

Microfinance BHAG NGO Participative 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. What are we to make of this economist dominance?

Banking 9

Banking Rogers Career Education 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. What should it mean to employers that someone has successfully completed a core course in Machine Learning or Hadoop? Will badges require successful course completion?

Innovation 17

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

The success of platform businesses like Alibaba, Airbnb, and Uber is so remarkable that discussion about them often misses just how hard they are to build. For every successful platform, there are many more that struggle or simply don’t make it. For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Related Post : The Leadership Vacuum Share and Enjoy: View Comments John Mike, I believe you are correct in that the key 'qualification' for being effective at helping others is experience and of course that is a word open to considerable interpretation. I believe also you have just kicked the elephant in the room.

Blog 329

Blog Mentor Advice Brand 329

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Nowadays, of course, only a small percentage of Americans have military experience, colleges leave graduates with unpayable debt burdens , the economy keeps trying and so far failing to bust out of a post-crisis funk, and 18.8% job market has taken since 2008, this is understandable. This doesn''t mean times are good for male workers.

Organization 8

Organization Trends Long-term Bottom-up 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 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. An open Internet does seem like a good thing.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8