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Lessons from the Best Global Brands 2010: Building trust and.

Strategy Driven

While the rules may be shifting, the long-term sustainable advantage gained by building a strong brand – a brand that builds stability, trust, loyalty, and drives a premium price – remains consistent. which resulted in an increase in brand awareness of 72 percent between 2004 and 2010.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation. For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. Fostering innovation.

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The Market Wants Apple to Unveil a Time Machine

Harvard Business Review

Volatile stock: In 2008, under Jobs, the stock price dropped by more than 50%. No advertising innovation: The "I'm a Mac/"I'm a PC" campaign ran for three and a half years without a refresh. Also, Consumer Reports issued a "does not recommend" on the iPhone 4 (in 2010). In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company.

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The U.S. Economy Is Suffering from Low Demand. Higher Wages Would Help

Harvard Business Review

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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Research Shows That Smaller M&A Deals Work Out Better

Harvard Business Review

This is one of the findings from a recently completed study based on publicly available information on the world’s 2,393 largest corporations for the time period 2010–2014. In 2004 PCC was in a poor position. But these transactions need to reach particular thresholds of frequency and cumulative value to make a real impact.

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Category Creation Is the Ultimate Growth Strategy

Harvard Business Review

The innovation came about because Laird aspired to surf a deepwater reef break on the north shore of Maui called Peahi, or Jaws, where waves can reach 120 feet high. Our analysis showed the top 20 firms in Fortune 's 2010 list of fastest-growing companies received $3.40 But coffee has seen other innovations, too. Yet total U.S.

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A History of the Job Listing and How It Just Died [Infographic]

Kevin Eikenberry

At the same time, a second wave of innovation for job sites was cropping up, marked by two major developments: the appearance of listings aggregators (Indeed and SimplyHired, both founded in 2004), and the founding of LinkedIn (in 2003). No one watching the industry could have predicted the impact of LinkedIn.

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