Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

In 2003 van Stolk had the idea to create a “Turkey & Gravy”-flavored soda to be released around Thanksgiving. Look at what others are doing in other industries and see how you can apply their ideas to your own business. Here’s how to get your creative juices flowing so that you can out-think and out-earn your competition.

Creativity 50

Creativity Bottom-up Newsletter Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

We also examined the idea that women act less assertively in negotiations for fear of upsetting the relationship with their boss or colleagues (some evidence for this has been found in previous research, notably by Emily Amanatullah and Michael Morris in a 2010 paper ). We found no support for this in our data.

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Peer Review Sample Survey Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

There is another seemingly mundane but profoundly important application of this technology: to better managers ourselves and our time. In 2003, DARPA contracted SRI International to lead a reported $200 million, five-year project to build a virtual assistant. The company was registered as SIRI Inc.

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Productivity Products Technology Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

The official answer is a series of labor market reforms initiated in 2003 under the " Agenda 2010 " framework. As a result, existing work processes, schedules, and procedures could be adjusted and reorganized not only, as before, at the industry or sector-wide level, but crucially also at the firm and the plant level.

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Policies Marketing Learning-by-Doing Cooper 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

By contrast, consider the 2010 Chilean mining disaster, which resulted in the triumphant rescue of 33 miners trapped underground. At the mine site, project leader André Sougarret sought assistance while managing the boundaries of the rescue effort to screen out contributors who lacked expertise or workable proposals.

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CEO Supply Chain Automotive Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

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.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Industries or Fields not fit for Servant-Leadership? Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. Is there an industry or a functional area like that for servant-leadership, where it’s particularly difficult to practice servant-leadership or where servant-leadership just won’t work? Religious 1:52 12:06.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Industries or Fields not fit for Servant-Leadership? Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. Is there an industry or a functional area like that for servant-leadership, where it’s particularly difficult to practice servant-leadership or where servant-leadership just won’t work? Religious 1:52 12:06.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

The telecom industry has changed, and the industry dynamics will continue to shift under the pressure from social media and the power of the consumer. In a rapidly changing industry ecosystem, heavy investments in hard infrastructure can burden balance sheets and limit flexibility. In the U.S., The trend is spreading.

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Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

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. Everyone in the industry felt the impact. This industry is extremely competitive. 2008 was tough, but we had a better year in 2009 and better still in 2010. Next on the list was investing in design.

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Airlines Chief Executive Officer Attrition Incentives 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

As a percent of workers’ compensation, employers’ health care spending has held steady at between 8% and 9% since 2010. workers who are underinsured — face out-of-pocket health care expenses greater than 10% of their income excluding premiums — increased from 10% in 2003 to 24% percent in 2016.

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Health Care Cost Insurance Price 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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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

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

MAY 3, 2018

But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win? The contest is now shifting toward more-traditional industries, like transportation (Lyft and Uber, for example) and hospitality (Airbnb).

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

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.

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Price IPO Content Marketing 101

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. Buy German.)

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Class Open-book Policies Politics 15