Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The global tilt is an irreversible shift of economic power from North to South: from the U.S., Fluid capital, mobile communications, and an expanding global middle class all contribute to the global tilt, but the human factor is also a powerful driver. Improvising and working on very tight margins is second nature.

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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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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. The Power of Empowerment TED Magazine, December, 2012. Your Company Needs a Purpose ERE.net, November 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The global tilt is an irreversible shift of economic power from North to South: from the U.S., Fluid capital, mobile communications, and an expanding global middle class all contribute to the global tilt, but the human factor is also a powerful driver. Improvising and working on very tight margins is second nature.

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

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

APRIL 29, 2013

The web of third party logistics companies is complex and performance is spotty. And the fact that these markets are "emerging" presents more limitations, including the harsh reality of low spending power: GDP per capita in India is $3,900 and in Indonesia is $5,000 (compared to the US at $49,800). Once a copycat succeeds, U.S.

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Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The company already had a demo center outside London and a slick tradeshow setup to showcase how these work together in an effective system. A food company, for example, outfits vehicles with entire kitchens to demonstrate the most effective and creative ways to use its specialty food ingredients in food service operations.

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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. Apologies are a "powerful and easy-to-use tool" for social influence, the researchers say. Just asking.)

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

When Bob came on board in 2001, he inherited a mainly crummy set of 2001-2004 car launches. During this period, the company that was killing GM — Toyota — was earning a staggeringly high percentage (estimated as high as 75%) of its U.S. And in the U.S. share throughout the 1990s and 2000s. market: small and mid-car.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

As early as 2004, research from Elizabeth Wolf Morrison and Frances J. The data shows employees left an average of 11 vacation days untaken in 2011. We must trust their inherent powers and strengths. What's the biggest impediment to innovation within an organization? Fear of dealing with difficult customers or clients.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Like it or not, the reality (in supply chains, as elsewhere) is that power is asymmetrical – large customers typically have more clout than you do, and they know it. Collins’ new capability, matured and developed by a dominant major customer, is now a competitive and profitable business area for the company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Cook, In a recent article posted on this website, I criticized Carl Icahn’s call for your company to intensify its stock buybacks. In 1993, Apple distributed $273 million in buybacks and $56 million in dividends, even as profits plunged from $530 million to $87 million, compelling the company to do a $297 million long-term bond issue in 1994.

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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. In comparison, TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Magical, really.

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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. Robbie Brozin and the insurgent mission.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Duncan Watts , a researcher at Microsoft who co-created one of the most important models of how social networks function, says, “The influentials hypothesis is a theory that can be made to fit the facts once they are known, but it has little predictive power. Small, loosely connected groups overthrew powerful regimes.

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