Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it. By hanging on to these vested stock options, these CEOs are personally under-diversified and face the risk of great financial losses if their stock price were to fall.

Stephenson 10

Stephenson Kahneman CEO Commitment 10

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. But the A's didn't win the World Series in 2002, or any year since. Analytics alone can't carry the day.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. GE’s pension deficit exploded between 2010 and 2016, as the company spent $40 billion on stock buybacks in a futile effort to boost its stock price.

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%. In 2000, labor-intensive products constituted 37% of all Chinese exports; by 2010, this fell to 14%. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5% Production mostly came from small companies that possessed no scale economies.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Commoditization of everything else meant lower bill-of-material costs for PC assemblers, which translated into lower selling prices for consumers and higher sales volumes. And since the software experience was standardized and controlled by Microsoft, consumers could have consistent product expectations regardless of the brand of the PC.

Long-term 14

Long-term Software Retail Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

He adapted the moving assembly line process for the manufacture of automobiles, which allowed him to manufacture, market and sell the Model T at a significantly lower price than his competition, enabling the creation of a new and rapidly growing market. But in doing so, Henry Ford froze the design of the Model T.

Innovation 16

Innovation Mass Marketing Price Market Segmentation 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

And they will then decide whether they are peer production processes or whether they are price-incentivized systems. While it is possible that there will be a price-based player there, I predict that the major systems will be primarily peer-based. What most them aren''t , though, is charitable organizations.

Cooper 8

Cooper Media Price Survey 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. Productive Paranoia. So we should expect these leaders to be highly creative — to create new, wonderful products. Empirical Creativity.

Skills 15

Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 15

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

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. For example, look at Lululemon.

Apparel 8

Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 8

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 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. trillion spent on health care in the United States in 2010 was wages for health care workers, and labor productivity has historically worsened at a rate of 0.6%

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Compliance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

Are we going to have to work really hard to differentiate the product or products that result from the acquisition? Consider the pharma industry'sdeals standard practice of buying products or companies chasing known therapeutic targets. HP acquired Compaq in 2002 to give it synergy and mass to compete with Dell in PCs.

Innovation 13

Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

In 2013 GM produced 3 million cars in China , or 45% of its global car production; that was up from 1.1 Going forward, GM will need all the financial resources it can muster to produce automobiles that buyers in diverse global markets want at prices that they are willing to pay. .” million vehicles in 2008. GM did $20.4

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

As a Bloomberg story summarized : "Some 22 million manufacturing jobs were lost globally between 1995 and 2002 as industrial output soared 30 percent. It seems that devilish productivity is wreaking havoc with jobs both at home and abroad.". most of the savings [from automation] would flow back to consumers in the form of lower prices.

Document 8

Document Technology Hotels Trends 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. In its simplest from, an "option" is the right to buy or sell something at a certain price within a certain period of time.

Innovation 8

Innovation Execution Net Present Value Open-book 8

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. stock exchanges in 2002 to identify causation rather than mere correlation. This increase in value is not through piling on debt but improving labor productivity.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

One of the first products aimed at putting an iPhone into a baby's hands ( Fisher-Price's oversize case , providing coverage against drools and tantrums, while doubling as a rattle), rapidly sold out on Amazon; the three apps designed for the case have been downloaded more than 700,000 times. 50% of 11 year olds have own cell phone.

Technology 15

Technology Wireless Stage-Gate Content 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” On the other side, noted economist and hedge fund adviser Larry Summers cautions that reforming “quarterly capitalism” would risk driving us toward “Japan’s keiretsu system, which insulated corporate management from share price pressure by tying large companies together.” years in 2002 to 7.2

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This requires applying different approaches to strategy and execution in different parts of their business, as well as constantly re-balancing exploitation (generating cash to support growth) and exploration (finding winning products and models). 3M owes part of its innovative success to the “new product vitality index.”)

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 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 12

Competitive Advantage Budgeting Construction Open-book 12

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. 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.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Cuba’s growth domestic product per capita in 2015 is approximately what it was in 1985. 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. This is not a good scenario for productivity and economic growth.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 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. Diversity brings all sorts of positive side-effects ; monocultures are fragile and unhealthy.

Banking 9

Banking Rogers Career Education 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Unfortunately, Covisint’s ownership structure and auction format heavily favored auto companies (the consumers on the platform) while forcing suppliers into fierce price competition, leaving them with little or no residual value. Conceding defeat in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.4 billion and phased out Billpoint a year later.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion. It was almost as convenient as a neighborhood retail store but at a fraction of the price—and without the late fees that annoyed Blockbuster customers. They may show the only path to escape when your blockbuster products get wiped out by big bang disruptors.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 8

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 15, 2014

Should we lower our prices?” Should we increase production?”. A series of papers (sample title: “ The Fat-Cat Effect, the Puppy-Dog Ploy, and the Lean and Hungry Look ”) by Tirole and game theorist Drew Fudenberg, who is now at Harvard, seemed to promise firm answers to timeless business questions like, “Should we enter this industry?”

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right?

Blog 344

Blog Mentor Advice Brand 344

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2013

And, the competitive bidding process is in place to assure the best look at products, quality of services, at the best price. This is intended to ensure impartiality in buying decisions and assure the best price. She is currently on the business faculty at both Palm Beach State College and the University of Phoenix.

Project 50

Project Human Resources Cost Conflict of Interest 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. ” For example, productivity has grown dramatically in the retail sector since 1990; inflation-adjusted sales per employee have grown by roughly 50%. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 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. For instance, they don't produce steel for making doors but for sophisticated products such as spacecraft. People haven't noticed, but the Colombian economy expanded by 5.5% in 2008 and actually contracted in 2009.

GDP 15

GDP Price Incentives Globalization 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Many deals were put on the books in order to inflate the price of Enron stock, which the insiders sold at peak price levels. Egos and working mannerisms did not produce the most productive workforce. Inability to plan.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57