Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Below is a sample of the research about what happens when algorithms are given control of tasks traditionally carried out by humans (all emphasis mine): In 2002 a team of economists studied the impact of automated underwriting algorithms in the mortgage lending industry.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

And in 1927, when Ford belatedly responded (at tremendous financial cost and internal strife) to changes in the market's tastes and competitive innovation by shutting down production temporarily to re-tool his factories and bring the Model A to the market, that percentage fell to about 15%. It was better cars, with better financing options.

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Innovation Mass Marketing Price Market Segmentation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

So were the currency and debt crises of 1997 and 1998, and the stock market collapse of 2000-2002. and Europe, though (and Japan's long struggles were seen as the product of peculiarly Japanese economic traits). So they moved on (Brock's Santa Fe affiliation ended in 2002). The 1987 stock market crash was a scare.

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Decisionmaking Chaos Theory Hedge Marketing 15

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. Though there were empires and kingdoms, the gross world product (GWP) was largely flat. He did it through sheer ingenuity, without any formal training.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

In this process, called “expression,” the instructions in the DNA are turned into proteins and other cellular products. Jim Collins has written of Hewlett and Packard that “their greatest product was the Hewlett-Packard Company and their greatest idea was The HP Way.” Does biology inform business?

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How To Decentralization Environment Collins 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. Then McCabe went back to Scott Paper and Martin took over as chairman of a re-empowered Federal Reserve.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed. One third of our nation’s Gross National Product is spent in cleaning up mistakes. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate reform legislation, in 2002. Yet, only 5.1%

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The Avon Products Foundation — the charitable arm of the Fortune 500 cosmetics company, illegally appropriated our Breast Cancer 3-Day concept, and on August 11th, 2002, announced their plans for a multi-day walk for breast cancer with full-page ads in major papers across the country. million in 2002 with us, to $11.1

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Should we increase production?”. Then, in 2006, came The Theory of Corporate Finance — not a field Tirole had really been known for. Corporate finance? They think Jean Tirole is the IO guy or the corporate finance guy or the game theory guy.”. Should we lower our prices?” That appeared out of nowhere,” says Gans.

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Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Conceding defeat in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.4 Firms guilty of this oversight never get past the idea that they sell products when they could be building ecosystems. Sony, Hewlett Packard (HP), and Garmin all made the mistake of emphasizing products over platforms. billion and phased out Billpoint a year later.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection.

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