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Category Creation Is the Ultimate Growth Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Another telltale sign of category creation is that it comes with a distinctive business model and profit model. Our analysis showed the top 20 firms in Fortune 's 2010 list of fastest-growing companies received $3.40 coffee sector revenue grew from $28 billion in the late 1990s to $47 billion in 2010.

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Is Your Next Great CEO a Management Consultant?

Harvard Business Review

While former management consultants are not frequently chosen as CEOs — our research noted 28 former management consultants with five-plus years of consulting experience out of a total of 541 CEO transitions between 2004 and 2010 — the evidence we’ve uncovered here would suggest that, as a class, they are fully worthy of consideration.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Fostering innovation.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

With the ad market under $70 million, many of our local competitors were rapidly experimenting with new types of revenue and business models and were far ahead of us. 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.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

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. Since then its stock has more than doubled. billion in revenue.

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The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business Review

It’s not that the media sets out to be sensationalist; its business model leads it in that direction. Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Apple learned this the hard way.

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