Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2014

CEO Jason Levesque, a US Army veteran and entrepreneur, founded Argo Marketing in 2003, and has become a widely respected Maine business owner. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Book value is not guaranteed.

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Development Team Loyalty Due Diligence 79

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. Analysts criticized the country’s labor market institutions as particularly inflexible. Did the 2003 Hartz reforms contribute to the recent decline in Germany long-term unemployment? With just 2.6

Marketing 9

Marketing Decentralization Policies GDP 9

Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2017

We had acquired the properties in 2003 from a large company that had largely ignored and neglected them for a number of years. The marketing department created a little “gift” for each employee that represented each of the values – things like coffee mugs, mouse pads, and wristbands. It slipped very nicely onto my wrist.

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Succession Leadership Commitment Travel 253

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest. billion euro.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Deborah joined MyCorporation in 2003 after serving as outside general counsel for 5 years. With experience in the field of corporate and intellectual property law, Deborah provides insightful commentary on the benefits, barriers and who should consider incorporation and trademark registration.

Uncertainty 63

Uncertainty Insurance Newsletter Incentives 63

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

labor market of the 2000s coincided with a sharp deceleration in computer investment — a fact that appears first-order inconsistent with the onset of a new era of capital-labor substitution. job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had. job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had.

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GDP Information Technology Company Christensen 12

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This emerging social era is about engaging everyone around you to redefine what you do and how you do it – including sales, marketing, R&D, customer support, and product development. Building your Social Nation means changing what you think it means to build a company. Still skeptical? Then take a look at the hard numbers.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 73

Strategy Driven

MAY 27, 2011

And an employee in marketing is furious about being passed over for a promotion in favor of her coworker and is trying to discredit her. In 2003, he moved to San Diego to lead NCRC. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter.

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Tips Learning-by-Doing Construction Project 62

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. ” Similarly, without sufficient monitoring by owners of the firms or the stock market, managers might be tempted to enjoy the quiet life instead of making hard decisions or taking on difficult tasks. .” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

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Restructuring Management Marketing Incentives 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

This Book Will Make You Money : How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue by Jim Kukral This book provides an educational and motivational guide to using social media to market your brand or business online. In three parts, it teaches readers how to get off the ground and thrive in the social mediasphere.

Creativity 50

Creativity Bottom-up Newsletter Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward. increased by over $300,000.

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Execution P&L CEO COO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

The chart above shows where cities fall according to Guzman and Stern’s measure of average startup quality between 2001 and 2003 — more on that in a moment — and compares that to their GDP growth from 2003–2014. “A doubling of entrepreneurial quality predicts an increase of 6.8%

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GDP IPO Venture Capitalist Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Shareholder returns and executive pay diverged after the market bust of 2000. As early as an HBR article in 1927, observers argued that the newly emerging stock markets gave managers special authority over investors' "property." Shareholders were fine with paying executives more if that boosted their returns. But not for long.

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Rogers Pharmaceuticals Execution Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Instead, his initial advantage came from his creation of a virtuous circle that underpinned his vision for the first durable mass-market automobile. 2003 in "Added Value: The Alchemy of Brand-led Growth" by Mark Sherrinton. But in doing so, Henry Ford froze the design of the Model T. Used car trade-ins. Closed car models.

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Innovation Mass Marketing Price Market Segmentation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

The seminal work by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever (with results published in 2003 and 2009 , and by Babcock and others in 2006 ) examined the behavior of MBA students, and found that among that cohort women were less likely to “ask.” We wondered if we might find a difference by education level.

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Peer Review Sample Survey Education 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. While the deal triggered a flurry of articles, they mostly have repeated the few facts that are known so far, with a few variations.

Network Economy 8

Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

The article is less clear about what brought this on. Or is the problem simply that speculators have taken over the market for a crucial commodity? Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. cent per aluminum can.

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Cost Fraser Hedge Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Industry players have realized the marketing and cost-saving potential, too: automaker BMW powers the plant where it manufactures the i3 and i8 electric vehicles with a 10 MW wind park, and discount retailer Aldi Süd has installed photovoltaic panels on 1,000 supermarkets. Thus markets entering “Energiewende 3.0”

Energy 8

Energy Decentralization Industry Power 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Between 2003 and 2012, these companies made up 37% of all ad sales, with Anheuser Busch in the lead: A beer company may come out on top of total cash spent, but the more interesting numbers lie in what car companies have been doing over the years. What matters is that we're talking about, and sharing, all this information.

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Advertising Budgeting Storytelling Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

It's been obvious since 2003, when LinkedIn was launched, that social networking could help job candidates and employers interact. Then she published links to interesting articles or campus updates. Some of the people that she followed started to reciprocate, following her tweets. But he didn't need to make the first move.

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Media Meyer Software Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. But in 2003, the company didn’t realize the mega hit it was about to have with the Noah’s Ark play set. Playmobil toys have become a staple for young children.

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Productivity Products Price Arkes 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

A further overrepresentation of the actual market size is determined by methodological inconsistencies. Between 2003 and 2007, the Cuban government enacted a series of methodological changes that produced a jump in GDP of approximately 15%. This effectively means that these wages are overvalued by as much as 2400%.

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GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The pitch goes something like this: “Synergies will reduce overhead by eliminating duplicative management positions and spreading IT and marketing costs across more members.” In short, premiums actually go up, not down, when insurance markets become more concentrated. Aim 2: Raise Quality.

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Insurance Company Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

The New York Times recently published a 2000-word article trying to divine the likely policies of Summers versus Yellen. Googling Yellen vs. Summers nets some 12.5 million results. The Economist observed : The low tone of the debate is disappointing. Not enough attention is being paid to the candidates'' economic views.

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How To GDP Finance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

Quite simply, Prime has saturated the Whale Buyer market and is now hunting for smaller volume customers to fuel growth. Consider Red Lobster’s 2003 Endless Crab promotion. So why add such seemingly unrelated perks such as streaming video and music and photo storage to the Prime program?

Retail 8

Retail Price Forrester Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

market capitalization ) and 500 additional public companies. We studied those pay packages in relation to the firm’s performance, rival firms’ performance, measures of market concentration, and common ownership of the industry. We also examined interactions of profit, concentration, and common ownership variables.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business. Changing Your Company from the Inside Out. Add to Cart.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. There seems to be variety in customers’ requirements, meaning that software vendors would not be able to tap into the whole market without a perpetual license offering.

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Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2017

We examined the boards of all S&P 1500 firms from 2003 to 2014, and measured negative attention using equity analyst recommendations and an equity trading database that tracks media coverage. The second area is understanding how reputation influences the market for director talent.

Reputation 8

Reputation Media Consensus Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. A recent article in The Economist counseled Warren Buffet to break Berkshire Hathaway into smaller pieces.

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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

Back in 2006, for instance, in an article in our magazine entitled “ Before You Split that CEO/Chair …,” Robert Pozen, chairman (but not CEO) of a Boston-based investment management firm, cited three studies from three different countries (the U.S., These findings echoed dozens of previous ones going as far back as 1996.

CEO 8

CEO Cost Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. In 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Boards should require that CEO candidates demonstrate not just knowledge of finance and marketing but also a technology aptitude. The senior leadership needs to become literate in technology. IT isn''t somebody else''s job, it''s ultimately theirs. Accountability. Boards should make CEOs accountable for technology failures and data breaches.

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CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Studying 837 mass-market movies released between 1996 and 2003, they collected data on the movies’ producers and their prior experience. (Think of it this way: Cash, which can be spent in whichever way you choose, is highly fungible; people, whose specialized skills limit your options for deploying them, are less fungible.)

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RBV Mass Marketing Budgeting Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Marketing professionals have learned the hard way that no matter what they do or do not plan to do with consumer information, privacy matters. In part, that''s because marketing has always been something of a black art. One way or the other, marketing executives should keep a close eye on how the Google Glass story plays out.

Morale 8

Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Some find evidence of a clear improvement of total factor productivity since market-oriented reforms began in 1979, estimating that the increase in TFP contributed about 40% to GDP growth, roughly the same as that contributed by fixed asset investment. per annum during 1978-2003, but slowed to 2.8% by the end of that period.

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Small companies have to swing for the fences to attract market share from large companies, and home runs attract attention. In a 2003 survey of Inc 500 companies , only 21% were based on ideas the founders researched on their own. Higher R&D productivity yields higher profits, growth, and market value per dollar of R&D.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 8