Remove 2003 Remove 2004 Remove 2011 Remove Management
article thumbnail

The Best Business Books Ever: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Best Business Books Ever: The Most Influential Management Books You’ll Never Have Time to Read Basic Books (2011) Note: This review is of a book published earlier this year. It is a sequel to one published in 2003.

Books 85
article thumbnail

The 50 Most Influential Management Gurus

First Friday Book Synopsis

Every two years, the Thinkers50 publishes their definitive list of management thinkers. Below are the results for 2011. For classic HBR content from this year’s winners, please click here. Christensen is the Kim B.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million.

article thumbnail

How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team. From 1993 to 2003, according to the company’s current CEO, Knudstorp, the Lego Group lost value at an average rate of 300,000 euros per day. billion in revenue.

article thumbnail

A History of the Job Listing and How It Just Died [Infographic]

Kevin Eikenberry

Careerbuilder was initially a service that helped companies launch job listings and then managed the inbound application volume. In 2003, in a monumental shakeup, Careerbuilder wrestled the exclusive distribution rights for both AOL and MSN away from Monster in the same week. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996.

Price 101