Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Entrepreneurs willing to invest the time and effort into satisfying the most valuable component of their business are setting themselves up for long-term success. But eConsultancy’s 2013 Cross-Channel Marketing Report found that 70 percent of business owners feel acquisitions are definitely more expensive than retention.

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Quality Succession White Paper Customer Loyalty 182

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2016

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Franchising 51

Franchising System Entrepreneur Strategic Planning 51

LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

SP is necessary, but only successful when linking the long-term strategic priorities to today’s actions. Confusing frenetic motion with constructive action, they are noted for their “unproductive busyness” (Bruch & Ghoshai, 2002, Beware the Busy Manager , Harvard Business Review). Ryan received his B.S.

Strategic Planning 104

Strategic Planning Planning Ryan Covey 104

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

A successful CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) is likely to have such MAPs as – strong motivation toward options (ie., Since 2002, Carl Harshman — Founder, Institute for Work Attitude and Motivation – has studied hundreds of business leaders’ MAPs. They want to pay more attention to a long term, rather than short term, view.

Motivation 100

Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

He consumes art and music at the rate he does books, but unlike most critics he doesn't sniff that markets have either ruined culture or brought it low. In 2002 he published Creative Destruction , which argues that globalization created much of the art and music we might consider "native."

Globalization 84

Globalization Crisis Creativity Short-term 84

LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

SP is necessary, but only successful when linking the long-term strategic priorities to today’s actions. Confusing frenetic motion with constructive action, they are noted for their “unproductive busyness” (Bruch & Ghoshai, 2002, Beware the Busy Manager , Harvard Business Review). Ryan received his B.S.

Strategic Planning 74

Strategic Planning Planning Ryan Covey 74

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

Media 318

Media Blog Tools Influence 318

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Short-term corporate behavior is a major problem in the 21 st century firm. Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. Tim Evans for HBR. So how can we ensure the latter?

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

But even so, they led their companies to great long-term financial performance. When Peter Lewis of Progressive, the car insurance company, had the idea of expanding into the safe-driver market, he did not move in one big swoop. Markets down? Market hype? Competition severe? He did not care.

Skills 15

Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

Value is defined in the other paper according to the Tobin’s q ratio, which indicates the market value of a company’s assets. The latter is a market-based measurement, which may be better for evaluating firm performance in the long run, but can be influenced by accounting methods. Next, consider the long term.

Company 10

Company Entrepreneur Reputation Brand 10

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. Daniel Goleman used the term in his book Ecological Intelligence.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. Others are investing for retirement or to pay for a child's college tuition, and care about long-term returns.

Short-term 14

Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

Between 2002 and 2012, the shareholder return of the average airline company rose an uninspiring 5.6% Of the worst-performing industries between 1992 and 2002, almost 60% percent wound up in the top half in the most recent 10-year period. If they don''t, they don''t remain consistent share gainers and profit leaders for long.

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TSR Industry Company Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

With Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals to encourage longer-term investing , the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. R&D spending falls into the long-term bucket. primary season.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Back in the early 1990s, when Intel was seeking to "pace" the market for PCs, it introduced a set of standards for desktop PCs that commoditized all of the hardware components beyond the microprocessor. Over the long haul, competition eventually took margins to unsustainably low levels for everyone except Intel and Microsoft.

Long-term 14

Long-term Software Retail Innovation 14

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 10, 2017

How as a leader do you rate yourself in terms of communication skills? In a 2002 survey of 1,104 employees in organizations around the United States, 86% said their bosses thought they were good communicators, but only 17% said their bosses actually communicated effectively. Magnetic leaders communicate frequently and clearly.

Tips 182

Tips How To Open-book Consultative 182

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

The all-day breakfast had deep appeal and by upgrading and reorganizing the kitchens, McDonald’s could satisfy this long-standing customer request without slowing overall service. The trick is, growth strategies have to fit the company’s current context, especially its brand promise and its target market.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). Such investments might not be sustainable in the long term.

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. Brant/DePodesta could run the numbers and explain them in straightforward terms to the decision-maker.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Or at least the market''s. It is of course a bit disturbing to see that five years is now considered the "long term." Which is more than be said of a lot of other financial-market endeavors. Hedge funds are often criticized as short-term speculators. But he''s doing God''s work. Some are, some aren''t.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. We came up with ' Global Enablement Teams ': we took the top people in mature markets and assigned them to help and mentor people in the growth markets. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

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. In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. Directness.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

Somewhat ironically, most of these scholars still use long-term return to shareholders as their main measure of corporate success. That's because shareholder returns over the course of a couple of decades can be a passable proxy for the economic and social value that a company creates — and they're certainly easy to measure.

Short-term 13

Short-term Collins Bottom-up Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

To be clear, this tendency to focus on exploitation and not exploration may even be welcomed by some investors who value predictable short-term returns from reduced costs and investments, increasing dividends and share buybacks. This has long term consequences: these “exploiters” significantly underperform their exploratory peers.

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. That's almost 14 years as CEO — a long time, considering that the average CEO tenure for large U.S. Market Capitalization increase during tenure: $341.5 million, a 35.4%

CEO 13

CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

In fact, Iger reportedly noticed that Pixar’s hugely popular Toy Story characters appeared in the 2005 opening parade at Hong Kong Disneyland while recent Disney animated characters—for example, Lilo & Stitch , released in 2002—were MIA (although Mickey and pals were present and accounted for, of course).

Creativity 8

Creativity Franchising Succession Film 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood. This approach allows innovators to engage the market sooner and learn faster — critical for successfully commercializing innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Execution Net Present Value Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

Coggan is the Buttonwood columnist for the Economist and used to write the Short View and Long View columns for the FT (he was also my neighbor when I lived in London just over a decade ago). Treasuries, the dollar has been on a downward trend in international currency markets since 2002.

GDP 11

GDP Globalization Finance Short-term 11

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. Ah, the magic of the marketplace. ” 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.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. A cautionary tale from the past: After acquiring EachNet.com, eBay controlled 80% of the Chinese e-commerce market in 2003.

Network Economy 8

Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Exploitation allows companies to monetize their exciting new ideas and thereby relieve some of the stakeholder pressure for short-term earnings. This may sound as though we’ve got our facts backward, but your company can significantly increase its knowledge output by cutting R&D spending.

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

While he was at Amazon from 1997-2002, Greg Linden prototyped a system for making personal recommendations for other products to customers as they checked out. Problem was, a marketing Senior Vice President thought these would distract customers from completing their purchase and didn't think Linden had proof it would work.

Execution 14

Execution Education Long-term Guidelines 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% This economic growth has not only led to the development of a burgeoning middle-class in these markets, it has fueled an increase in the number of citizens actively engaging in philanthropy. growth in GDP.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

the NFL’s yearly list of “top 10 NFL rivalries”), those made by 56 NFL fans we surveyed who demonstrated expertise, and the count of Google search results for terms such as “New England Patriots versus New York Jets rivalry.”

Participative 9

Participative Rogers Influence Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. The long-term drag of not intervening — namely that of malnutrition, resulting in stunted growth and intellectual development, untapped labor potential, and so on — is estimated to cost $3.5

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Microfinance BHAG NGO Participative 8