Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

If you’re one of the many managers out there who must negotiate with companies in China — the world’s largest emerging economy — you probably need to change your approach. That brought advantages of scale, such as lower costs and better integration across its businesses. Technology.

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Company Maturity Globalization Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

And yet, in announcing those numbers, management confessed: "We know we can do better. Observers tend to overlook the "dream" talk and chalk up AB InBev's extraordinary success to its relentless cost cutting culture. By 2010, the EBITDA of the combined company AB InBev had risen to 38%. Only one of them talks about cost cutting.

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EBITDA Globalization Depreciation Open-book 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

Then in December of 2010, I received an email that changed my perspective, and my life. I knew the three problems that made great leaders avoid government: confidence (that their skill-set will be useful and relevant in the public sector), cost (to them financially or in their career), and confidentiality (including privacy concerns).

Leadership 12

Leadership CIO Politics Career 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

billion in 2010, predicting it would grow at 20% a year for a decade. Choose the right India country manager: The role of country manager for India can mean many things depending on the scope of operations and the structure of an organization. Low-cost Indian repair and maintenance crews can tune up the equipment at night.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2018

The following is a preview of Untangling the USA: The Cost of Complexity and What Can Be Done About It by Etienne Deffarges. Entire new systems need to be constructed just to manage this complexity, with questionable or negative value to society at large. Tom Brady and the “tuck rule.”. Wholesale changes must be contemplated.

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Cost Health Care IPO Finance 172

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team. By 2010 the company had become the best-performing stock in the S&P 500, worth $30 per share and earning investors a return of 29 times. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Careerbuilder was initially a service that helped companies launch job listings and then managed the inbound application volume. million cost of the ad. (Interestingly, Dice’s founders had moved the company far from Silicon Valley – to Des Moines, Iowa – before the late 1990’s crash.). Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996.

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Price IPO Content Marketing 101

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. ” During the volcanic ash crisis of 2010, what it offered wasn’t prize-winning stories about the roots of the eruption or its health implications, but an app (Hitchhiker’s Central) that allowed readers to share travel plans and offer rides to each other.

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Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Ever since the 1996 President election, the amount spent in Presidential campaigns has roughly doubled in each subsequent election — $239M in 1996, $343M in 2000, $717M in 2004, and last Presidential Election in 2008, it topped $1.3 Many are barely managing to put food on the table, let alone make donations to politician candidates.

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Politics Trends Bottom-up Crisis 14