Terry Starbucker

MAY 29, 2014

It wasn’t hard to like Sarah Young as soon as we walked into her downtown store back in 2010, when we first moved to Portland. On June 2 nd , 2004, we opened. Focus on Customer Service from Day 1. We had to rework our business plan, and had to learn how to be more fluid with what we’re offering.

Succession 396

Succession Merchandising Finance Learning-by-Doing 396

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Buying Smithfield allowed Shineway to sell pork in the Chinese market at a premium price. Geely launched new models at around double the price of its other cars. Lenovo bought IBM’s PC business in 2004 (and its x86 server business in 2014) for access to brands and customer relationships in mature markets in developed countries.

Company 8

Company Maturity Globalization Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

All economists recognize that competitive analysis is all about customers; if firms exercise market power, customers suffer through higher prices and foreclosed entry of new competitors. To answer the question of how prices would be affected, it needed only to look at existing markets where one player operated but not the other.

Wireless 13

Wireless Report Price Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Economic growth has been stuck in low gear for almost a decade now, averaging around 2% a year since 2010 while productivity growth, the key to increasing living standards, has been languishing near historic lows since the financial crisis. in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5% percentage points.

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

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. Founded in the 1930s, Lego developed a repeatable model that allowed it to grow for decades. Since then its stock has more than doubled. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8