Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Had he been born in Texas, he might be a young CEO running an energy company by now, because the funds would inevitably flow. By the late 19th century, the U.S.

GDP 10

GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 10

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

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%. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate reform legislation, in 2002.

Ethics 62

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

This means they're buying drugs that could be similar to others already on or coming soon to the market. No company should confuse the strategy of buying into a big market with buying innovation that will bring tomorrow's growth. HP acquired Compaq in 2002 to give it synergy and mass to compete with Dell in PCs.

Innovation 12

Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 12

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Yet, when the company shifted from being an energy supplier to the hucksterish energy trader, the charitable activities were dispensed with. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Executives never stayed long. The News Media. The Auditing Firm Employed by Enron.

Strategic Planning 58

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 58

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. But they focused their energy on the technical issues — methods of connectivity, standards of information sharing — without having asked a fundamental question: What new things could each of our connected devices do that people would actually want them to do?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Cable internet service goes out in snowstorms, too, and if the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index is to be believed, Americans are much happier with their energy providers (who score a respectable 76 on the index ) than their internet providers (a dismal 63 , absolute worst of the 43 industries tracked).

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Industry GDP Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

Characterizations of what happened in the early years of PARC (founded in 1970) range from strategic fumbles to "wild geysers of creative energy" perfectly appropriate to early-stage invention , but those early years didn't yield the stream of profitable innovations that Xerox had imagined. PARC fell off the innovation radar screen.

Innovation 13

Innovation Business Model Wilde Brainstorming 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions. In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space. Failure to launch the right side.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

North America's fracking fever has proviked experts (who once feared the world had passed Hubbert's Peak ) to predict the US will soon be a net energy exporter. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year.

Innovation 15

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 15

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 8

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

It was a market thing. I will always remember a meeting I had in September 2002 with my literary agent — a wonderful woman known for her business acumen and brutal honesty. Where did my self-reinvention energy come from? My books were not selling. In concrete ways I was highly motivated.

Career 13

Career Policies Commitment Committee 13