Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Women may make up more than half the workforce 1 but continue to be significantly underrepresented on corporate boards and in C-level executive positions, according to a major new study released today by Calvert Investments, a long-time leader in advocating for corporate diversity. For a full copy of the 2010 study, click here.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

But the conventional position is nonsense; building new companies is far more sensible than the practical will admit. By contrast, of 5,000 businesses started in 2004, almost 56% were still in business in 2010, despite suffering through a brutal economic downturn.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Banking Comparison 15

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). Technology. The acquisition was a huge success.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Embedded sustainability efforts clearly result in a positive impact on business performance. Through regular dialogue with stakeholders and continual iteration , a company with a sustainability agenda is better positioned to anticipate and react to economic, social, environmental, and regulatory changes as they arise.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

In 2010, we conducted the first evaluation of how the program is working for the state's employers and workers, six years after it began operation. Our research has yielded three major findings. California's paid family leave (PFL) program is structured as an insurance scheme, similar to unemployment insurance.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

We create leadership teams not only for our top jobs, but for every management position in the company. We became involved with the company, which produces inventory software, in 2004 when one of us (David) was sent by the prior majority investor to shut the fledgling company down.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. 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. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

The issues arise in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. But underneath the contentious issues of corporate free speech lie equally fundamental questions for each company about its positions on first order public policy issues which affect the strength of American society and the American economy.

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Company Politics Policies Proposal 12

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.

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Leadership CIO Politics Career 12

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

Women on Business

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Following that she was offered a collective bargaining position for the California Nurses Association. When in 2004 a law was passed in California that required hospitals to have 1 nurse for every 5 patients, the governor delayed the implementation of the law. In 2010, Mary Kay was elected as the president and vows to “heal” her union.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Find people in positions you aspire to and study what makes them successful. In late 2010, after ten years at Citi, Heather Espinosa was promoted to managing director. She reached this executive position by continuously challenging herself — and by making the most of each of her previous roles. "I''ve

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2011

The Happiness Advantage : The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Anchor. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this formula is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around. This isn’t just an empty mantra.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

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. After that, however, WPP practiced programmatic M&A, turning it into a strong muscle.

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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. When Knudstorp took over as CEO in 2004, he quickly settled on a course of action: return the company to its core. Since then its stock has more than doubled. By 1993 the company had $1.3

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

The term was coined by the late Harvard Business School marketing professor, Theodore Levitt, in a 1960 article by the same name (republished in 2004). In 2010, Craig Smith at INSEAD, Minette Drumwright at UT Austin, and Mary Gentile at Babson, published a paper called “ The New Marketing Myopia.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

One of the most significant came in early 2004 when we decided to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas. We view it as something that can grow if we create positive emotional associations with our brand. In the years since Zappos was founded, we’ve had to make some big decisions. Culture That Drives Performance.

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CEO Call Center Real Estate Merchandising 8

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 9

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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GDP Politics Bottom-up Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

But he was suddenly in a position where he had to choose which of them was more important. It's been fortunate that it has always been in a position where the two have gone hand in hand. He didn't have to give up his religion or his love of athletics. There is a case to be made that the U.S. may be facing a similar choice.

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