Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

I have worked for Visionary leaders (or were they just managers?) Covey “It’s not the will to win that matters…everyone has that. Communicating the reasons for the direction. Then leading down that road and following up to make sure everyone is present. The company pays dearly when this happens.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

The official answer is a series of labor market reforms initiated in 2003 under the " Agenda 2010 " framework. However, contrary to what is widely believed, this was not the key factor in bringing about the decline in unit labor costs. How did Germany get back on track? That is a framework Swedes should quite naturally excel in.

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Policies Marketing Learning-by-Doing Cooper 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percentage points in 2003-2012. In fact, China is already experiencing a labor shortage: Wages are rising and it is losing its labor-cost advantage to other developing countries. This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. Meanwhile, the contribution of labor to GDP growth is decreasing. It contributed 1.4

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Since it's beginning in 2003, Davide Oldani's Ristorante D'O has managed to stay profitable in a sustained fashion. According to the 2010 Michelin Guide, there are 229 one-star, 37 two-star, and as many as six three-star restaurants in Italy. Unlike Ferran Adria's El Bulli in Catalonia, D'O doesn't operate at a loss.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

When it comes to health care costs, America’s employers are at a crossroads. That means that to control costs going forward, employers may have to confront the true underlying causes of rising health care expenditures: high prices and health care inefficiencies. Creating better outcomes at reduced cost.

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Health Care Cost Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

In response, the management team made a counterintuitive move: It outsourced network installation, maintenance, and service to Ericsson, Nokia, and Siemens, and chose IBM to build and manage its IT systems. The vendors for telecom network management were paid only for the capacity utilized by Bharti Airtel, not for the equipment.

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Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

It has been a pioneer in applying lean methodology in health care in order to tackle quality and cost issues. It began its lean journey in 2003 and has made considerable progress. For the first three units, costs and length of stay declined, and quality and patient and nursing satisfaction improved. Follow a methodology.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Decentralization Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

At the peak of the North Texas housing market in 2003, my company Grand Homes sold more than a thousand homes. Finally, most painfully, we had to find ways to cut our costs. Material, labor, utility cost, downtime, and our supplies all came under hard scrutiny. Everyone in the industry felt the impact. Now we have 215.

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Airlines Chief Executive Officer Attrition Incentives 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture. Redesign the organization.

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Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

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. By 2010 the company had become the best-performing stock in the S&P 500, worth $30 per share and earning investors a return of 29 times. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Careerbuilder was initially a service that helped companies launch job listings and then managed the inbound application volume. million cost of the ad. In 2003, in a monumental shakeup, Careerbuilder wrestled the exclusive distribution rights for both AOL and MSN away from Monster in the same week. They had revenue, after all.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Class migrants (white-collar professionals born to blue-collar families) report that “professional people were generally suspect” and that managers are college kids “who don’t know s**t about how to do anything but are full of ideas about how I have to do my job,” said Alfred Lubrano in Limbo. Example: 28.3%

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