Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

in September 2011, down slightly from the three-year peak of 6.5% in July 2011 — appears likely to remain a priority. in September 2011, the same as in August, though down from a July 2011 peak increase of 14.8% — staying so stubbornly high? For Beijing, tackling China's high inflation rate — 6.1%

Price 8

Price Sharpe Banking Class 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

While competitors like Compaq and IBM sold PCs through retailers, distributors, and resellers, Dell sold directly to its customers, offering highly customized PCs at a time when the cost of computers was high enough to still require significant tradeoffs. Yet the improved financial position came at a cost.

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

For the past five years, we have examined how China swiftly moved from being a global bit player and net importer to the world''s largest manufacturer and exporter in capital-intensive industries where it had no labor-cost advantage. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

A decade ago, there was no market at all for low-cost electric bikes. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4% Audi now sells more luxury cars than any other manufacturer in China. Meanwhile, agile Chinese manufacturers such as Geoby have taken the market for cheap transport by storm.

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

It's easy for leaders in the North to underestimate their counterparts in the South, attributing their success to government support or low-cost labor, but such a viewpoint is narrow and risky. He went on a tear of expansion in Latin America, then in 2004 undertook a merger with Belgium-based Interbrew. Rockefeller.

Globalization 15

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

At the same time, as the BP example makes clear, for some of these cultural organizations, corporate benefaction comes with a cost. It is generally believed that donors in turn benefit from improved social reputations and stronger stakeholder relationships.

Reputation 8

Reputation Project Comparison Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

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. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

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. We studied how Wyeth, the large Pharmaceutical firm (now part of Pfizer) made dramatic improvements in cost and quality across its manufacturing operation. After raising $5.1

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Seminar Learning-by-Doing Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

It's easy for leaders in the North to underestimate their counterparts in the South, attributing their success to government support or low-cost labor, but such a viewpoint is narrow and risky. He went on a tear of expansion in Latin America, then in 2004 undertook a merger with Belgium-based Interbrew. Rockefeller.

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Soon, the newly elected Alexis Tsipras administration will have to start implementing the cost-cutting measures that it had promised voters it would avoid. 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.

GDP 8

GDP Real Estate Tourism Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Leaders who succeed at the job usually do so by combing through the company in search of noncore assets to shed, businesses to sell, activities to stop, functions to eliminate, and product lines to simplify, as Steve Jobs did when he took back the reins at Apple in 1997, and as Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego, did in 2004.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

and Sandra Bullock the same night that Johnson Controls offers crackers in Cleveland and asks attendees to cover their own costs, which party will developers attend? In 2004, the residual assets were sold off for a mere $7 million, a tiny fraction of the $500 million auto manufacturers had invested. Failure to share the surplus.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

I heard him say in real time many of the things he repeats in the book: "This philosophy of treating the customer as a hapless victim to be exploited was endemic in American corporations, and it cost us dearly" or "Is profit an integral part of the business equation and a God-given right, no matter how compromised the product or service?

Company 12

Company Franchising Fixed Costs Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. I know that Apple already provides $5,000 per year to cover tuition costs for “eligible” employees.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

In 2011, Havens’ collaboration with IBM procurement paid off, winning Havens four significant projects. In 2004, when ZeroChaos , a provider of contingent workforce solutions, began courting IBM as a customer, IBM was concerned with losing the war for engineering talent to new startups such as Yahoo and Google.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

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, This means achieving precise standardization and strong quality control.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

After a few weeks of watching no click throughs, Kaufer executed his second pivot: a cost per click model (now known as CPC). When the company saw that user reviews were getting all the traffic, they adjusted to focus on user reviews, such that fresh, authentic content was always available and didn't cost the company any money to produce.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Per capita annual health care costs are roughly $4,500 for people age 19 to 44; they double for people age 45 to 64; and they double once again for those 65 and older. In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. The first trend is demographic: The U.S. population is continuing to age.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

To make everybody happy, to serve every need, to hedge every bet, many CEOs spread resources around democratically as their companies grow — and they lose the spikiness on the cost sheet that is the telltale sign not of profligacy but of focus. In 2011, TPG sold it to Diageo, for about $2.1 The result is a slide into mediocrity.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

million cost of the ad. 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).

Price 101

Price IPO Content Marketing 101

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.

CEO 8

CEO Charisma COO Execution 8

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.

Committee 8

Committee Proposal Short-term Politics 8