Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. By 2007, it had become the world''s largest producer, consumer, and exporter of steel. In 2011, the U.S.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The timeline showed five improvement initiatives matching the eras of five presidents: Quality Action Teams (1992-1995), Total Cycle Time (1995-2000), Perfect Order (2000-2003), Grainger Performance System (Balanced Scorecard and Six Sigma) (2004-2007), and Lean (2008). By all means, choose a name and stick with it.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

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.

Marketing 11

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Working with Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) Bank , the largest women’s bank in India, we created a unique two-day business counseling program for women ages 18 to 50 who had actively saved or borrowed from the bank between December 2004 and January 2006. vegetable vendors, tailors, etc.) embroidery, rolling bidis, etc.).

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Banking Training Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

5827 (2007): 1036–1039. Burt asked the managers to write down their best ideas about how to improve business operations, and then he asked two ex­ecutives at the company to rate the quality of these ideas. 2 (2004): 349–399. Stefan Wuchty, Benjamin F. 2 (2005): 447–504. 3 (2000): 425–455. .

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

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.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. In 2004, the residual assets were sold off for a mere $7 million, a tiny fraction of the $500 million auto manufacturers had invested.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Air Products, for example, tripled corporate productivity (hard profit-and-loss benefits) from 2003 to 2006, and boosted operating return on net assets from 9.5% from 2004 to 2007. And they succeeded wildly.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

I interviewed more than 50 executives and mid-level managers who had worked for HP in the 2004-2007 timeframe, many of whom reported to Fiorina and subsequently worked with her successor, Mark Hurd. As one senior manager noted, “he knew the operations and its numbers better than many business unit heads.”

CEO 8

CEO Charisma COO Execution 8

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. Mobile operations: it saves campaign staff time and money.

Bond 8

Bond Early Adopters Technology Politics 8