Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 29, 2013

Being a successful business owner means more than knowing one’s industry and understanding the basic concepts of leadership, management, or motivation, according to McBean. It means being able to master many areas of business, and knowing how each of these areas relates to and build on each other.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. Plus, if you missed last month’s instalment with Sunday Times economics editor David Smith , it was a cracker! Catch up here.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! And it’s a good thing, too. Building your Social Nation means changing what you think it means to build a company. Still skeptical?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 23, 2017

He said: “Today, mankind produces more information, data and ideas than from the stone age until the year 2003 together.“ Back then, not only did I have to deal with tough competition, changing markets and the upcoming phenomena of online shopping but also with a huge crisis within the company itself. Everything changes. Permanently.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. But economists have long argued that when companies are insulated from competition, their managers may not be motivated to maximize the profit of the firm and instead may choose to enjoy the “quiet life.” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

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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. Combined, those two monoliths spend a billion dollars a year on advertising.

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Rajesh Setty

JUNE 26, 2011

billion in December 2003. Mr. Feuer serves on a number of corporate and philanthropic Boards and is a frequent speaker on business, marketing and building entrepreneurial enterprises. In 2010, Mr. Feuer launched another retail concept, Max-Wellness, a first of its kind chain featuring over 7,000 products for head-to-toe care.

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Mission Statement Retail Entrepreneur Books 34

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. in 2004, and in 2005, her total compensation from her home firm, Whole Foods Market Inc., Yabuki, who was the COO of H&R Block Services Inc in 2003.

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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. While these factors are important, in my experience they are best leveraged when employees are engaged, aligned, and motivated to win.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Most of the statistical sources used by management researchers and labor economists do not record “asking” behavior, and do not record people’s motivations for refraining from asking. First, the individuals in our data were questioned in detail about their motives, behavior, and histories.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2017

We conducted a study to understand how reputation motivates directors to leave their board appointments. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

To better understand how design leads to returns, my company, Motiv Strategies, and the Design Management Institute worked together to produce a new tool that tracks the results of design-centric companies against those that are not. Design is expected and trusted to lead Nike. This is not to say that design “runs” the company, however.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

As a direct marketer we have been good at customer intimacy. Patient safety is one motivation. But in 2003 ThedaCare leaders decided to focus on designing processes that consistently work better, reduce waste, and enable staff to better meet the needs of patients. We know a lot about our customers.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.&# - Eugene B. I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

In 2000-2003, the emphasis switches to employees and the struggle to get employees to buy into a new corporate culture. Also around this time, the dot-com era had attracted talent out of the traditional enterprise and exacerbated productivity problems by leaving less motivated staff behind.

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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. Motivation to change is easier when you are threatened, but when times are good, when you have things where you want them, change is much harder.

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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. A decade later, that motive seems to have been based more on hubris than on setting the company on a sustainable future path. Lipitor also faced a rapidly evolving U.S.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

A subset of these people became more motivated to go to the polls and, in part because the news coverage they were exposed to was relatively centrist, their votes contributed to less-partisan elections during this time period. Fox News was introduced in 1996 and by 2000 was broadcast in geographic markets that housed 50% of U.S.

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