Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Since companies can’t seem to solve the divisive problem of exorbitant CEO pay on their own, legislation may well turn out to be the best fix. Even though both CEOs received their packages, against investors’ better judgment, they’ve since been forced out for their disappointing performance. So, expect more laws.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

CEOs get paid handsomely. By endorsing performance-insensitive compensation packages, broadly diversified investors are indeed incentivizing CEOs for good performance. To understand this new explanation for seemingly exorbitant CEO pay, it’s important to understand a recent, fundamental shift in the ownership of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

This argument was derided by IT supply-side executives such as Steve Ballmer, Carly Fiorina, and Scott McNealy, but CEOs quietly applauded it. In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague. Because they distance themselves from IT, CEOs don''t grasp its subtleties. They had suspected all along that IT really doesn''t matter.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

Will Netflix’s shareholders be sorry that they voted to let Reed Hastings carry on as both CEO and chairman ? Netflix’s shareholders notwithstanding, most people assume the right answer is to keep the two roles separate, in the interests of diversity of thinking and proper CEO oversight.

CEO 8

CEO Cost Long-term Short-term 8

Rajesh Setty

JUNE 26, 2011

During a 16-year span, Mr. Feuer, as CEO, grew the Company to almost 1,000 stores world-wide with annual sales of approximately $5 billion before selling this retail giant for almost $1.5 billion in December 2003. billion sale as a CEO? RS: What were the big lessons learned as you turned a $3 million investment into a $1.5

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Mission Statement Retail Entrepreneur Books 34

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As the chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , a company that provides social software to businesses, quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy. 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.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

About the Author As CEO of MyCorporation Business Services, Inc. Deborah joined MyCorporation in 2003 after serving as outside general counsel for 5 years. However, both private sector jobs and consumer spending have risen creating an optimistic attitude among economic analysts for our country’s economic future.

Uncertainty 57

Uncertainty Insurance Newsletter Incentives 57

Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 23, 2017

A while ago, I read an interview with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, where he made a fascinating observation. He said: “Today, mankind produces more information, data and ideas than from the stone age until the year 2003 together.“ They will copy your products, your prices, maybe even your marketing. The Rules Have Changed.

How To 293

How To Open-book Learning-by-Doing Marketing 293

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

In an effort to explore executives’ motivations for serving on boards, we looked at how board service is evaluated in the executive labor market. Specifically we studied whether or not board service increased an executive’s likelihood of receiving a promotion, becoming a CEO, and/or receiving a pay increase.

Execution 9

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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

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The realities of globalization, with increasing emphasis on emerging markets, present corporate leaders with enormous challenges in developing the leaders required to run global organizations. They hire technical specialists, local experts, and country managers from emerging markets but rarely promote them to corporate positions.

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Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. In 1997, when I first took over as the new CEO of Pharmacia & Upjohn, the company had just undergone a merger that had gone very bad.

Company 9

Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Constraints need not be limiting.

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Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

In the vein of famed pitchman Ron Popeil , over the years Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has “stuffed the bundle” by including extras such as movie/television streaming and Kindle book borrowing. The downside of offering any unlimited plan is the over-consumers, a situation Red Lobster encountered in 2003 with its “Endless Crab” promotion.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In 2003, after two years in Texas, Moe Ghashim moved back to his hometown of Aleppo, Syria. I accepted an invitation to become CEO of Wamda, and built with my team a platform to help activate and invest in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. In emerging markets like the Middle East, often only the most resilient can stay afloat.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Power Politics Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

Fast forward four years and LinkedIn is a public company with a market cap of more than $9 billion and revenues of about $400 million. LinkedIn didn't create the very quiet tech market it was born into, but it definitely benefited from it. In 2003 there were no tech IPOs at all. It stuck with its target market.

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IPO Advertising Business Model Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

But it's this set of beliefs that explains why Western companies fail to succeed in emerging markets where middle class consumers demand good quality at low prices, and why these companies struggle to develop value-for-money products for their home markets during slow growth times like these. Why can't more companies do the same?

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Quality Working Capital Price Open-book 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Convinced that consumers were sick of playing the fake discount game, CEO Ron Johnson pledged to stop the madness. In 2003, then New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer investigated Jos. While I am not in favor of this option, this average selling price would provide a gauge of true market value. Marketing'

Price 8

Price Discount Retail Banking 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. And that the two companies’ CEOs, Travis Kalanick and Cheng Wei, would take seats on each other’s boards.

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Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

At Nike, a large and well-resourced design function reports directly to CEO, Mark Parker, who early in his tenure was a designer himself. Next to Apple, Nike had the highest shareholder returns in our index — from 2003- 2013 Nike’s market cap increased from under $6 billion to $70 billion, or 1,095% over the last ten years.

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 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 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In consumer packaged goods, SC Johnson has sourced raw materials from farmers in Rwanda, partnered with local providers to improve hygiene and sanitation in low-income urban communities in Kenya, and chosen to eliminate harmful chemicals from its production processes in spite of the negative consequences for its market share. Add to Cart.

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Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 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. In our view, the question facing CEO Tim Cook isn’t how Apple will remain “insanely great” without Jobs at the helm.

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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. vincent tsui for hbr. For one thing, small-company innovation is often more visible.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

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.

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Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

from 1994 to 2003. Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets. Starting managerial salaries were a lot lower than consultants' — they still are — and even client CEOs didn't make all that much. These are not criminal charges.

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McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] bosxs Thanks for this [link] CEO Success…It’s not Random | N2 Growth Blog [.] Business Acumen: Great CEOs have a deep understanding of the business and a strong orientation toward profit. I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Teixeira is an assistant professor of marketing at Harvard Business School whose latest research involves Web-based facial tracking in order to measure why, when, and how much you should entertain your customers in ads. Sachs is the author of the book Winning the Story Wars and the cofounder and CEO of Free Range Studios.

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Brand Advertising Storytelling Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

Think of this as the same, but instead of talking about sports in the context of the weather, HBR is talking about failure in the context of the CEO, employees, etc. In 2000-2003, the emphasis switches to employees and the struggle to get employees to buy into a new corporate culture. The physique of the players?

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Analysis Sample Globalization Sports 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

The company’s CEO, Sergio Marchionne, said at the time that “of all the cars I can get wrong, it ain’t this one.” But by the turn of the millennium, the German automaker needed a new product for the mass market to jumpstart sales, and decided to make a vehicle for the burgeoning SUV segment. In the U.S.,

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Productivity Products Development Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Competing for scarce labor in a tight market, they will have trouble continuing to shift medical bills onto employees as they have for several decades. To address these challenges, they will have to band together in purchasing coalitions that give them the local market power to force health systems to reform. Tim Robberts/Getty Images.

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Health Care Cost Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

When Robert Greifeld was asked to take the helm of Nasdaq in 2003 to execute a turnaround, he came with a new story. As he relates in Market Mover , the story had five parts: 1. He left the CEO position to someone he promoted when he first arrived, Adena Friedman. T URNING AROUND an organization requires a new story.

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Organization Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Technology 255

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

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Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The merger was mostly about one thing: becoming big by gaining entire control of Lipitor, a Warner product that had been shared in a marketing alliance with Pfizer. market, including a powerful competitor Zocor going generic in 2006 and shifts in policy by payers like Medicaid. Lipitor also faced a rapidly evolving U.S.

Price 15

Price Innovation Industry Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. When the proposal to outsource technology was originally put on the table," said Sunil Mittal, CEO of Bharti Airtel , "most of our board members' jaws dropped, and they thought we had gone crazy.". The net result: The company can offer mobile telecom service at $0.01

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