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.

Globalization 15

Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 15

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.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

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

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Not surprisingly, Prime has been a wildly successful marketing vehicle that attracts new customers, increases sales (new members increase their purchases by an estimated 150% after joining), and serves the needs of high volume customers. One price does not fit all – provide pricing options to serve the diverse needs of customers.

Library 9

Library Price Forrester Wilde 9

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%. Under such a scenario, multinationals would see expanded opportunity across diverse sectors.

GDP 8

GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Over the last fifteen years Apple has made a series of successful market-creating—or blue ocean—moves (think the iMac, iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, the App Store, and the iPad). From the 2001 launch of the iPod to the fiscal year end of 2014, Apple’s market cap surged more than 75-fold as its sales and profits exploded.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Blue Ocean Strategy Price 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

JUNE 25, 2014

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. The 2012 study looked at 180 North American corporations with a market capitalization of $20 billion or more.

CEO 8

CEO Cost Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

Beyond that, the households were diverse: rural, urban, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, recent immigrants, and families that have been in the U.S. This income volatility is the result of broad shifts in the labor market. The cost of a bachelor’s degree from a public college has risen by one-third from 2003 to 2014.

Health Care 13

Health Care Insurance Video Transportation 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Founded in 2003 with $40 million in venture capital funding, Splunk was among the first companies to target the “big data” space. forecast accuracy, messages to relevant market segments, and other categories. Markets are different, strategies vary, and so specific practices will and should vary.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Founded in 2003 with $40 million in venture capital funding, Splunk was among the first companies to target the “big data” space. forecast accuracy, messages to relevant market segments, and other categories. Markets are different, strategies vary, and so specific practices will and should vary.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. Many of these investors view Singapore as a launching pad to regional emerging markets like Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Entrepreneurship Disruptive innovation Emerging markets East & Southeast Asia'

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

Since the birth of e-commerce, marketing experts have disagreed about the future role of brands. To find out which school of thought is more accurate, we looked at the value of brands and customer relationships as revealed by M&A data covering over 6,000 mergers and acquisitions worldwide between 2003 and 2013.

Brand 8

Brand Brand Valuation Power Brand Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Since Henry Chesbrough coined the term open innovation in 2003, the most widely used form of open innovation has been innovation contests. In theory, user assessment should predict market demand, but that’s not what happened in practice. Quirky produced a lot of good new products, but few home runs. Target, Walmart).

Case Study 8

Case Study Innovation Core Competence Business Model 8