Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. which resulted in an increase in brand awareness of 72 percent between 2004 and 2010. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Kristi Daeda ​"I help individuals and companies make the most of talent. Jacoway "I leverage my avid love of learning and mastery of online technology to facilitate career management for trend-setting professionals who strive to be dynamic and high achieving in their business." Czar "I rescue troubled companies.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In 2004, there was a severe earthquake and subsequent tsunami that resulted in profound effects to several Asian countries, including India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand and Indonesia. as well as the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011. In addition, machine learning can be used to manage warehouses more efficiently.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. And despite all of Facebook's user support, investors should be skeptical of the company's pricey IPO. According to ComScore, at the end of 2011 Facebook accounted for a shocking 28% of U.S. display advertisements online.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Incomes are rising quickly in the world's most populous country: The percentage of the Chinese population earning between 10,000 and 24,000 renminbi a year (between US $1,200 and $3,500, in terms of 2010 exchange rates) rose from 11% in 2004 to 58% in 2010. Some companies, like Zara, are present only in the 30 biggest cities.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Slowing Chinese economic growth coupled with confidence-sapping tumult on the stock market have set alarm bells ringing at companies about their future growth prospects in China. But while the power to initiate a transition to a consumption-led economy lies in government hands, what the government unleashes, companies can nurture.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. That''s the question Michael Dell has been asking himself since 2007, when he retook the top job at the computer company he founded in 1984. How do you get back on top? For more background on the potential deal, click here.)

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” But Mark Zuckerberg had asked him to take on the HR role (after trying a traditional HR head or two), because Cox embodied the priorities, skills, and beliefs he wanted to see take hold as the company grew.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

But the day before the curtain was lifted on the show, 75 top classical musicians in the United Kingdom wrote an open a letter urging the Royal Opera to cut its ties with BP, the company that they described as “buy[ing] social legitimacy that it does not deserve.”

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Gallup’s Workplace Jedi on How to Fix Our Employee Engagement Problem Fast Company, June, 2013. Focusing on Employee Engagement: How to Measure it and Improve It UNC: Kenan-Flaglar Business School, 2011. Your Company Needs a Purpose ERE.net, November 2012. The Innovation Catalysts Harvard Business Review, June 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

His game plan instead looks something like this: Buy stock in a company. Write a letter to the company’s board demanding that it do something different from what it’s doing (buy back shares, break up, sell out to another company, throw out the CEO). Sell stock in the company. Wait a while. In 2012 it was $1.9

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The managers who express this idea in our simulated competitive games aren’t thinking of some simple shelving-units-on-wheels format – the kind of oversized salesman’s bag that’s been hauled out to prospects for decades. Probably not for your company. It has made me think I should consider it more closely, and share it more broadly.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. ” Improving risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

HBR Press, April 2011), very few firms are truly global in the sense that their business isn't concentrated in any one spot. He notes that as recently as 2004, less than one percent of all U.S. companies had foreign operations, and of these, the largest fraction operated in just one foreign country (most often Canada.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Take Citrus Lane CEO Mauria Finley, whose company was experiencing some growing pains, appropriately enough; the startup sends monthly packages of great baby products to moms. Back in 2011, in Citrus Lane’s first six months, its small founding team worked in a house and ate lunch together every day around a big table. After raising $5.1

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

The web of third party logistics companies is complex and performance is spotty. based companies have a couple of options for developing this hybrid: One is to do it themselves — they can bring their homegrown models, often with American employees, and figure out how to adapt to local needs. Once a copycat succeeds, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

I won''t give away the end of the piece, which involves a potential legal nightmare for any company that asks users to hit an "Agree" button after reading terms and conditions. Andy O''Connell 38 Slides’ Worth What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs Reid Hoffman The year is 2004. Just asking.) No surprise there.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Cheers, Sheldon, community manager for Sysomos Mike Myatt September 15, 2010 at 5:52 pm Hi Terry: This is a wonderful look at how social media truly benefits leaders. I’ve been business blogging since 2004 and really took the deep dive experiment into social media over two years ago and I’ve never looked back. Great post!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At any given moment, about 5%–7% of companies either are in free fall or are about to be. And here’s a sobering fact: Only about 10%–15% of those companies will ever pull out of it. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2011

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Greece has only managed to wrest the four-month extension of a stability program. While the Troika has refused to budge on the austerity agenda, Greece’s GDP has shrunk every year since 2008, with the biggest contraction being 9% in 2011. A managed exit from the common currency could alter that.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

As early as 2004, research from Elizabeth Wolf Morrison and Frances J. Milliken for the Academy of Management Review and Stern Business pegged fear — and the resulting silence when employees operate within a culture of fear — as the biggest roadblock to innovation. Fear of conflict with a manager.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Apple and Google, two of the world’s most valuable companies, have had their share of platform failures as we’ll show. Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

For example, at The Fat Duck in the UK (which has had three Michelin stars since 2004, except in 2016 when it closed for refurbishment, and where I worked on the innovation side), cooking temperatures are systematically controlled to 0.1°C, The company grew through consulting for other companies, opening new business lines (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

So I'm highlighting a few companies outside of the Google/Amazon/Facebook pantheon that have built large, sustainable, profitable business models at scale. It may be one of the most fascinating companies I know. This is a company that took $4 million of invested capital to build a company now worth over $4 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Companies still run by their founders have a certain magic. That’s not just a hunch — among public companies since 1990, returns to shareholders were three times greater at firms where the founder is still part of the management team. Set your company up for success. The result is a slide into mediocrity.

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Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

This is driven by the fact that what people want from a job and a company has changed. The largest generation of people in the workforce today (millennials) has come to value different things; you can’t convey how thoughtful a team is, how inspiring a workplace is, or what a company actually stands for in a job listing alone.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. More than 3,000 apps are now available to help manage diabetes alone. Indeed, the profusion of new treatments may present a serious challenge to the current payer strategy of negotiating favorable pricing with drug and device companies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

I interviewed more than 50 executives and mid-level managers who had worked for HP in the 2004-2007 timeframe, many of whom reported to Fiorina and subsequently worked with her successor, Mark Hurd. ” Fiorina attacked many different aspects of the company, including reorganization, cost cutting, and vision setting.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

And the FASB did give it up, until the corporate scandals of the early 2000s changed the mood in Congress , giving the accounting standards-setters cover to get stock-options expensing through in 2004. And so far its proposal to force companies to rotate auditors can best be described as a trial balloon.

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