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. By 2010, the EBITDA of the combined company AB InBev had risen to 38%. And it shows how a repeatable model built a small Sao Paolo-based brewer into a global leader.

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EBITDA Globalization Depreciation Open-book 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Newsletters and town hall meetings are slow and ineffective in global organizations. In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. Collaborating globally to improve effectiveness. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

In 2010 no one was interested in the Swedish car maker Volvo—except Geely, a low-end Chinese car maker that realized it could enter the middle and higher-end markets and increase its margins by acquiring Volvo’s technology and brand (renowned for safety). Access to mature global markets. Technology.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. billion in 2010. Take steel.

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Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty. Jeri Eckhart-Queenan is a partner at The Bridgespan Group and head of the firm's global development practice. Early results are encouraging.

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Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

"A general who fears to unsheathe his sword is not a good general," says Mr. Li Jiaxiang , Chairman of Air China from 2004 to 2008 and the #1 performing corporate leader in China according to our new ranking (just published in the Harvard Business Review China and the centerpiece for the magazine's launch events in Beijing and Shanghai).

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Long-term Short-term Globalization Reputation 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Keep On Engaging Incentive Magazine, December 2010. Turbocharging Employee Engagement (the Power of Recognition) Towers Watson, June 2010. Focus on Workers The Huffington Post, March 2010. Capitalizing on Complexity IBM, 2010. The Things They Do For Love Harvard Business Review, 2004. Want Economic Recovery?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

Then in December of 2010, I received an email that changed my perspective, and my life. Governor Mitch Daniels (elected to Indiana's top office in 2004 and 2008, and former CEO of Eli Lilly in North America) told me, "This job has been a positive surprise for me. You might be thinking. I would never work in government. Regrets? "

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Leadership CIO Politics Career 12

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. A 2010 Harvard Business School case by Julie M.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

However, new unreleased research from Spencer Stuart , a global executive search firm, suggests that we’re giving this sector short shift: There may be specific cases when a consulting background can actually boost company performance, even more so than a more traditional candidate.

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Consultative CEO Management Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

billion in 2010, predicting it would grow at 20% a year for a decade. Ambassador to India from 2004 to 2009, was more successful in part because his long tenure enabled him to gain trust, respect and apply his learning effectively. Earlier, GE found that it could not make a go in the appliance business in India. David Mulford, U.S.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2011

In 2004, for instance, a Harvard Crimson poll found that as many as 4 in 5 Harvard students suffer from depression at least once during the school year, and nearly half of all students suffer from depression so debilitating they can’t function. This unhappiness epidemic is not unique to Harvard. In 2007, Shawn founded Good Think Inc.

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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.

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Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

To set about answering that question, we ran a semantic clustering analysis on a sample of articles from HBR's archives over the course of several periods between 1990 and 2010 (the time period when the HBR online archive is the most complete). 2007-2010 is not surprisingly dominated by negatives.

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Analysis Sample Globalization Sports 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. But these forms of external turbulence tend to be the trigger of free fall, not the cause. billion in revenue.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. corporations are global leaders. Jobs Creation Act of 2004. Further, U.S. There is no doubt that U.S. European Union officials have recently argued that U.S.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2018

The combination of globalization forces and outsized CEO pay packages. As a senior partner with Booz Allen Hamilton and global managing partner with Accenture, he advised businesses and governments all over the world, and orchestrated billion-dollar deals. The increased role of finance in our economy. citizen in 1993. billion.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

In that same study, there is also striking evidence of the rise of global competition. In the 2004 sample, roughly 20% of the firms came from emerging markets. By 2010, the typical S&P company was 16 or 17 years old. In 1960, a typical S&P company had been around for 60+ years. Further, the index is extremely dynamic.

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Company Sample Competitive Advantage Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

The author of these words is University of California, Davis economic historian Peter Lindert, who hid them among the data appendices in volume two of his epic 2004 empirical study, Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century. in 2010, government spending's share of GDP in the U.S.

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