Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Intel's model of driving the production of undifferentiated commodities among its OEM system partners ensured that none of them would have sufficient margins over the long term to be able to afford to do anything innovative. Some resorted to industrial design. HP thought it could win with scale.

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Long-term Software Retail Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Over the years, the CEOs of these companies faced massive technology disruptions, deep industry recessions, sudden collapses in demand, price wars, oil shocks — you name it. But even so, they led their companies to great long-term financial performance.

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Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 15

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Perspective – ability to see or sense the big picture, long-term thinking. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002). Only a long-term commitment to maintaining a culture that fosters trust will pay off. Daniel Goleman used the term in his book Ecological Intelligence.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. Patience and a long-term view. Forward-thinking leaders are not just achieving measurable success in the short-term. Directness. He's personable, but blunt.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

So, during GE’s long and steep decline, where was the company’s board of directors? Before 2018, it had the three standard board committees — governance, compensation, and audit — plus a technology and risk committee to cover important areas such as product risk, cybersecurity, and technological innovation.

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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. Potential open innovation partners can't always immediately envision later-stage business opportunities from early-stage technology seeds.

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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.

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Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

But that won't get us back to the long-term level that prevailed until 2000. After 2002, the decline in U.S. Job growth has slowed significantly in the financial- and business-services sectors due to technology-driven service industrialization (automation, outsourcing, off-shoring, process re-engineering, and self-service).

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Retail Outsourcing Technology Education 14

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Prior to 2002, when Sam Palmisano became CEO, IBM had a series of feuding fiefdoms — 170 country units — each with its own policies, procedures, and processes. This is about using the technology of "business analytics" within the workforce, bringing vital statistics to the art of performance reviews.

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. Exploitation allows companies to monetize their exciting new ideas and thereby relieve some of the stakeholder pressure for short-term earnings.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

What if, instead of trying to fix people, we assumed that they were already full of potential and created an environment that promoted their long-term well-being? Mindfulness is one of the all-time most brilliant technologies for helping to alleviate human suffering and for bringing out our extraordinary potential as human beings.".

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Development Biotechnology CIO Short-term 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

So long as it is about the work itself, disagreements can be good for a team. Now that we have powerful electronic technologies for communication and coordination, teams can do their work much more efficiently at a distance. Actually: Quite the opposite, research shows. Small teams are more efficient--and far less frustrating.

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Teamwork Efficiency Team Long-term 17

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Similarly, the rivalry between Intel and AMD is thought to have helped advance computer chip technology. ” We then collected nine years of play-by-play data (2002 – 2010), totaling almost half a million unique plays. technology), rivalry could be an important lever for managers to pull to incentivize risk-taking.

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Participative Rogers Influence Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

In 2002 Norman Bodek , "the godfather of Lean ," came to Technicolor's Michigan facility to teach its leaders about how to implement a front-line suggestion process. Some of the managers underscored the importance of the ideas to surviving the video technology change from VHS to DVD and losing work to other plants. Their answer?

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Process How To Attrition Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

Proponents of this view cite companies such as LinkedIn (founded in 2002 and recently acquired by Microsoft), which ostensibly operates in 200 countries, Airbnb (2008) in 190, and Uber (2009) in 68. While technology has greatly expanded the potential for global connectivity, policies matter too and can override it.

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Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Since 2002, Dr. Spertus and colleagues have been correlating quality-of-life PRO data with treatment outcomes for heart failure and stroke. While the focus of measurement programs is frequently on their long-term benefits, the potential for clinicians and patients to use outcomes data today is equally profound.

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Report Mayo Health Care Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

While the growth of health care costs has slowed over the past few years, lowering costs over the long term will depend on improving health care labor productivity. Demand and supply are not growing in tandem: from 2002 to 2012, inpatient days per capita decreased by 12% while the workforce in hospitals grew by 11%.

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Health Care Supply Chain Compliance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% New philanthropists are using their capital in very specific ways to implement their plans; in a similar way they did in the world of technology or business. growth in GDP. In some ways, they resemble Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

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Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

For so long, it was a price he had never had to pay," writes Carlson. One: In the long term, soft skills such as mentoring, inspiring, and “selling” (of concepts and goals) would be much more effective than combat drills. Armstrong told his board he could make Patch profitable within a year, but it didn’t happen.

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Armstrong Bond Entrepreneur Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. But rules affect profits and long-term sustainability. This convergence hypothesis is reassuring on many fronts.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The number of internet users in China stood at roughly 5 million in 1999 but grew to 40 million in 2002, by which time it was clear that Yahoo was not getting the traction that local Chinese internet companies were seeing. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Nothing has served me better in my long life than continuous learning.”.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. K-Mart, long the dominant discount chain had gotten comfortable with its leads over competitors. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. At that point we were a single technology company. We’d developed a technology that allowed companies to dramatically expand the capacity of existing fiber optic cable, so you could put more data through a network without digging up miles of fiber.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Fraud prevention can keep platform costs down over the long term but puts friction on user transactions, which dissuades value-creating activity. Conceding defeat in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.4 Yet, for all its technological prowess Sony focused too much on products and not enough on creating platforms.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 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. ” Indeed, Capitec is more focused, in terms of what it does and does not do, than most companies and certainly most banks.

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Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I did a quick Google search for the term business coach and received 116 million returned results – if that doesn’t scare you it should. 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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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

One of the key faults found in all these discussions on the differences between Millennials and the other generational cohorts is that they often differentiate generational values with respect to technological differences – in particular, differences in usage – as opposed to sociological ones. 3) Finegold D., Mohrman S. & 4) Conger J.A.

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P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 243

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2018

“You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology — it’s not only a great tool for democratization, but it’s a great tool for eliminating prejudice.” pm images/Getty Images. of employment in those occupations in 2016.

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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. I’ve come a long way since then.”. Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. They are not.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. Instead of selling the concept of the “connected home,” Nest focused on specific problems their customers wanted to solve in addition to good technology. billion in 2014. Fix or kill?

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Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Executives never stayed long. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. These observations are intended to contextualize the Enron case studies in broader terms than were reported in the news media: Conditions Which Allowed It to Occur. Accounting.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

So while two of the three judges (the Clinton appointees) agreed that the FCC had the right to regulate broadband providers’ relationships with content providers (the FCC term is “edge providers”) even if it classified broadband as an information service, they didn’t think the agency had done it correctly up to now.

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