Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

About 7 percent of the population wore eyeglasses in 2002, while whopping 65 percent of those in need did not have them. But before rolling out more, Essilor — both for profit and social mission reasons — decided that the price was still too expensive for many. For more than half of India's citizens, seeing was a problem.

Constraint 15

Constraint Marketing Travel Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. In a typical big data project, a manager engages an internal or external team to collect and process data, hoping to extract insights related to a particular business problem.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain Tools Article 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

These studies also found a correlation, but a less conclusive one, with increased worker creativity and innovation, improved organizational-citizenship behaviors, and – most on-target for us – improved stock prices. The fact that the research existed was encouraging, but it struck us as qualitative.

Policies 8

Policies Price Due Diligence Human Resources 8

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. In effect it leaves the manager with no objective.". To many, the obvious candidate for measuring corporate performance is share price.

Short-term 13

Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

That year, according to our proprietary research, non-tech companies scooped up 707 computer and electronics firms, often at highly inflated prices. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. Defensive Moats. Users in Different Ecosystems.

Company 8

Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

Between 2002 and 2012, the shareholder return of the average airline company rose an uninspiring 5.6% It was just lousy timing if you happened to be in one of these industries, which were all in the bottom quartile of total shareholder returns (share price change plus dividends paid) in the 10 years through 2012.

TSR 8

TSR Industry Company Airlines 8

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. For Beane and the A's it came from the scouts, the media, and even the team's on-the-field manager.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

The other paper says founder-named firms are 8% less valuable than their counterparts, and founder-named-and-managed firms are 21% less valuable. Return on assets indicates how efficient management is at using assets to generate earnings. million European firms (for over 6 million firm-years of data, from 2002 to 2012).

Company 8

Company Entrepreneur Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

” But the only real wins are a victory for the hedge funds, and a Pyrrhic victory for GM in that it managed to keep Wilson off its board and reduced the size of the buyback from the $8 billion the investors had been demanding. billion from 2010 through 2013), it would probably still be bankrupt but for the booming Chinese market.

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

There is, however, a big barrier standing in the way of the movement's triumph, Nocera writes: Measuring chief executives on the basis of their companies' stock prices is easy to understand — that was always part of its appeal. Over shorter periods, though, stock price movements usually convey more noise than signal.

Short-term 12

Short-term Collins Bottom-up Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

A brand’s difference gives consumers an easy rationale for choosing it, and a ready justification for paying a price premium. Research by Millward Brown finds that brands with a meaningful difference command a price premium 13 percent higher than weaker category alternatives. But marketing plays a broader role in shaping a brand.

Apparel 8

Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2010

a year, on average, between 2002 and 2007, with foreign investments touching a record $10 billion in 2008. It's one of the fastest-growing countries in Latin America and boasts a red-hot stock market too. Local leaders managed this by enhancing value — not reducing it. in 2008 and actually contracted in 2009.

GDP 14

GDP Price Incentives Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 billion rand in 2017 (about $260 million), while the company’s share price appreciated by a whopping 61,800% (from 117 to 72,500 rand). It offers them a single account: Everybody gets a gold card with exactly the same conditions, prices, and services.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

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. 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.

Skills 14

Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ It charged too much money and got away with it (because mid-managers but brand names of firms).

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs approached AT&T about partnering on a new kind of mobile phone — a touchscreen computer that would fit in your pocket — Apple had no expertise in the mobile market. Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it.

Stephenson 8

Stephenson Kahneman CEO Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

One key reason for shareholders'' positive tone is that the stock market has been doing well. To a large extent, say-on-pay — which was introduced in the UK in 2002 and has spread to several other countries, most recently Switzerland — is a simple exercise in bandwagon-following. That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011.

Hedge 8

Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Let's take another example: AT&T's acquisition of cable companies TCI, MediaOne and Cablevision (Boston only) for approximately $130 billion in 1999-2000 and its subsequent sale of the resultant AT&T Broadband to Comcast for $44 billion in 2002. It is difficult to destroy that much value in only two years! The logical propositions: 1.

Strategy 14

Strategy Construction Motivation Incentives 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Take a company that is thinking about cutting investment to boost earnings, hoping to inflate its stock price. She would sell her shares, pushing the stock price down. Critically, short-term selling by shareholders need not entail short-term behavior by managers. These studies use the decimalization of the major U.S.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Yet when I perform in public, the feedback is, shall we say, more varied (especially when it's fueled by half-price bottles of Pabst Blue Ribbon). In 2002, Google AdWords (a program that puts ads on Google's search results page and content sites across the web) changed everything. Everything seems hilarious and insightful.

Advertising 12

Advertising How To Media Outsourcing 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

These investments included Nordstrom.com and a perpetual inventory system that allowed Nordstrom to offer a consistent multi-channel experience by 2002. The company is growing sales in both full-price and off-price businesses through both online and traditional channels. Insight Center. Making Money with Digital Business Models.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

In order to measure how the price of social skills has changed over time, comparable metrics were needed. But the author argues that the findings are still likely generalizable – and help to explain the changing demand in the labor market for different skills. Economy Managing yourself Research'

Sports 10

Sports Teamwork Participative Class 10

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. In its simplest from, an "option" is the right to buy or sell something at a certain price within a certain period of time. There's a solution.

Innovation 8

Innovation Execution Net Present Value Open-book 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. What’s Driving Industry Concentration.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2012

The argument for the legislation is that the number of companies going public has fallen dramatically over the past decade, and the cost of complying with disclosure rules, especially those imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, is part of the problem. Yet I doubt it does much of anything to protect the most gullible investors.

IPO 10

IPO Conflict of Interest Information Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“Everyone who has worked with American management can testify that the need to satisfy the pension fund manager’s quest for higher earnings next quarter, together with the panicky fear of the raider, constantly pushes top managements toward decisions they know to be costly, if not suicidal, mistakes,” he wrote. .”

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

” Only few firms manage to be ambidextrous—most struggle to maintain a healthy balance between exploration and exploitation. And managers focused on immediate total shareholder returns may be delighted with high performance. Some firms manage to maintain this dual discipline as they grow. Our research shows that U.S.

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Or at least the market''s. That''s what activist hedge fund managers like Ackman do. They identify companies that they think could be worth a lot more than their share price indicates, and push for changes. I''m not joining in. Some are, some aren''t.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When I first read Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game (the book that inspired the movie that opened this past weekend), I was struck by the similarities of the challenges that General Manager Billy Beane faced in 2002 to those that business employers face as they try to achieve the best returns on their talent investments.

Competitive Advantage 11

Competitive Advantage Budgeting Construction Open-book 11

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. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

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

AUGUST 17, 2015

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. It is probably the best, most well-trained workforce at the cheapest labor-market price that any international investor could find anywhere in the world.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The academic study of strategy took a big leap forward in the 1970s when Michael Porter of HBS looked at earlier economic research on industry structure and noticed that market power — which economists wanted to minimize — was the same thing as sustained profitability, which corporate executives wanted to maximize. Should we lower our prices?”

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8