The Practical Leader

JUNE 19, 2019

In 2004, Bill Gates told a group at the World Economic Forum “two years from now, spam will be solved.” In 2007, just before Apple launched the iPhone, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, laughed it off, “there’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. ” Right.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 19, 2018

When he left the company in 2004, however, it fell on hard times. Fast-forward three years, and in 2007 Dell returned to refocus the company on its core purpose, going so far as to take the company private in an effort to make it the “largest start-up in history.”

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

My first book came out in 2007. Finally, I had a very unusual situation happen where my wife, Katie, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003, and ovarian cancer in 2004. And I wondered, is there a best culture? MS: There were several. Then, also the deals over the course of my career. I saw cultures that were different.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 29, 2013

By 2004, the popularity of the CSI television shows had prompted a huge increase in applications to university forensic science programs. As a result of the 2007 movie Sicko, 43% of people were more likely to report that they think health-care reform is needed.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. EVEN MORE: Yet another example: a good friend of mine from the 2004 Dean campaign, who was active in the 2008 Obama campaign as well, put in a request for web developers through his Facebook e-mail.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2016

As early as 2004, research by Catalyst, Inc. “The Bottom Line: Connecting Corporate Performance and Gender Diversity” January 15, 2004 Catalyst, Inc. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. It is also not news that diversifying leadership teams can pay financial dividends for corporations.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Toronto: Key Porter, 2009) Sheryl Feinstein, Parenting the Teenage Brain: Understanding a Work in Progress (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007) Sheryl G. Ron Clavier, Teen Brain, Teen Mind: What Parents Need to Know to Sur vive the Adolescent Years , 2nd Ed. New York: Anchor, 2003) David Walsh, Ph.D.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Don Maruska founded and was CEO of three Silicon Valley companies and venture investor in startups that became public companies. He earned his BA magna cum laude from Harvard and his MBA and JD from Stanford and previously led projects for McKinsey & Company. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Mood-Factory introduced its first incandescent Mood-lites in 2004 and expanded the line to include flood, porch, and compact florescent bulbs in 2012. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Mood-lite colors were developed by applying expert color research concepts to lighting. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

He received a Master of Business Administration degree from Kennesaw State University in 2004. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Nathan can be contacted by phone at (678) 313-0150 or email at NathanIves@StrategyDriven.com. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

Company executives hope to grow that 13 million user base all the way to 100 million by the end of the decade – perhaps accurate considering the company was only conceived of in 2004, following founder Sam Goldman’s encounter with a child who had been badly burned in a kerosene fire. The Brownie Strategy. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

The first to offer businesses the ability to customize a Visa Incentive Card with a company logo, the Dallas based company was founded in 2004. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. David Jones currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of CardLab, a pioneer in the prepaid industry. The Bancorp Bank; Member FDIC.

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Coaching Ourselves

JULY 29, 2019

GADDIS, William (2004). ROTH, Philip (2007). The transitional motion from fact to fable, from personal to worldwide, when successful, is a immanent rise to the esthetic. References. Gaping and Over-the-counter Writings. London: Atlantic Books. ROTH, Philip (1993). My Sprightliness as a Man. Vintage: New York. The Facts.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

In 2004, the Calvert Women’s Principles ® became the first global code of corporate conduct focused exclusively on empowering, advancing and investing in women. For a full copy of the 2010 study, click here. Source U.S.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

which resulted in an increase in brand awareness of 72 percent between 2004 and 2010. While so much expansion can be tough on a brand, Santander is moving quickly to rebrand all of its acquisitions under the Santander name and launched substantial marketing campaigns in the U.K.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

chain restaurants in 2007, more than half of all restaurant spending in the country. Yelp has expanded rapidly since it was founded in 2004 in San Francisco. On a large scale, that kind of shift would be significant. Consumers spent some $125 billion on U.S. It gets some 60 million unique visitors per month.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

That''s the question Michael Dell has been asking himself since 2007, when he retook the top job at the computer company he founded in 1984. By 2007, most had merged (HP and Compaq) or sold some or all of their PC businesses to foreign competitors (IBM to Lenovo; Gateway to Acer). Dell returned as CEO in 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

By 2007, they had a staff of 205 and revenue of $26 million. In 2006 and 2007, the partners earned big bonuses. To use a different company example, one growing financial services firm’s new CFO learned this in 2004. 2012 revenue was 84% of 2007 revenue.) Profits were actually higher than in 2007. firm in 1989.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

That’s nearly double the rate from 2004 to 2007. That’s because the CEO Success study found that female chief executives are hired from outside the company more often than male CEOs are — 32% of outgoing and incoming CEOs from 2004 to 2015 were women, versus 23% were men. one of the authors of the study.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

To investigate, we studied 51,854 reviews contributed to Amazon, covering 858 books from 2000 to early 2004. A 2007 Nielsen survey of 26,486 internet users showed that 78% consider recommendations from consumers to be the most credible form of advertising. For publishers, the stakes are high.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

To begin answering that question, a trio of British researchers reporting in the European Business Review , compared the performance of 48 British employee-owned firms to 178 comparable traditionally structured businesses in good times (2004-2007) and (very) bad (2008-2009).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Incomes are rising quickly in the world's most populous country: The percentage of the Chinese population earning between 10,000 and 24,000 renminbi a year (between US $1,200 and $3,500, in terms of 2010 exchange rates) rose from 11% in 2004 to 58% in 2010. According to a 2007 McKinsey & Co.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Leaders who succeed at the job usually do so by combing through the company in search of noncore assets to shed, businesses to sell, activities to stop, functions to eliminate, and product lines to simplify, as Steve Jobs did when he took back the reins at Apple in 1997, and as Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego, did in 2004.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

He looked at “The Leader as a Storyteller” (1996) and at the formative moments that made leaders capable, in “Crucibles of Leadership” with Bob Thomas (2002) and in “The Seven Ages of the Leader” (2004).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

In the 2004-2006 period the major failure-related characteristic of the data is the CEO , namely CEO succession , CEO and board relationships, and mechanisms to support CEOs taking up their posts. The surprising element of the 2007-2010 discussion of risk is it is not dominated by financial risk.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Slywotzky is a consultant and author of several books on economic theory and management. He graduated from Harvard College and holds a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has worked as a consultant since 1979 and is currently a partner at Oliver Wyman.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. By 2007, it had become the world''s largest producer, consumer, and exporter of steel. Tellingly, energy subsidies to Chinese steel totaled $27 billion from 2000 to 2007. We witnessed industrialized countries become exporters of commodities and scrap to China. exports increased by only 11%.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

When Bob came on board in 2001, he inherited a mainly crummy set of 2001-2004 car launches. It was a triumph of the car guy over the bean counters; though as he points out, the bean counters cut advertising so much that some great cars, including 2007 Car of the Year Aura, remained a mystery to car buyers. And in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

The first camera comes out in 2004. He then develops a video camera that debuts in 2007. He bankrolls his efforts by selling shell necklaces and getting a small loan from his mother. He sells it door-to-door to surf shops. It’s a hit. It’s also a hit.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004. For example, Alibaba was listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange in November of 2007, raising $1.5

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

In 2004, the European beer company Interbrew, itself a product of several mergers, acquired a majority stake in AmBev, creating InBev. Then Interbrew bought the company, and the effect was like yeast in bread dough: The EBITDA of the new company, Inbev, rose from 21% in 2003 to 37% in 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Facebook’s focus on spreading the right mindset became clear to us when, in late 2007 and early 2008, researcher and consultant Beth Benjamin and I had a series of conversations with Chris Cox, then Facebook’s 25 year-old head of Human Resources.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. In 2004, three years before the iPhone, it rejected a proposal to develop a Nokia online applications store.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Shipment volumes through North American ports, which fell 20% in 2009 from a record peak in 2007, are now higher than they were in 2007, and port-expansion plans from Vancouver to Los Angeles/Long Beach are bogged down by political wrangling. Railway systems are near capacity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

It’s hard to remember this considering today’s widespread adoption, but the first iPhone only launched in 2007, a few months prior to the start of the campaign; and Facebook had only about 100 million users then, many of them university students.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. In 2007, the SEC filed charges alleging that she let Apple backdate large option grants and altered corporate records to hide the actions. Executive exodus: In 2008, Tony Fadell, senior vice president of the iPod division, stepped down. His wife, the VP of HR at Apple, also left.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

In the summer of 2004, Peter Thiel's initial investment in the just-started company valued it at $4.9 Given his compensation was approaching the seven-figure mark in 2007, how much growth should he really have expected? In May 2006, Facebook raised money at a $500-million valuation.

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