Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Establishing a personal brand carries even more weight when you’re responsible for developing and leading others. A strong personal brand is so much more than a memorable name or product. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership. Czar "I rescue troubled companies.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

I have used the social network for eight years and continue to be impressed with Mark Zuckerberg's focus on product and his vision for the internet. When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. But equity investing and product use are very different things.

IPO 12

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Our research on China’s prospects, in comparison to the development trends of 167 countries over 60 years, highlights the magnitude of the opportunity. Today, an estimated 200 million Chinese people use them and the number is rising – and Geoby is heading to other markets with its products. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4%

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

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

JULY 2, 2012

CEOs of these firms can emulate four best practices initiated by Carlos Ghosn at Renault-Nissan: 1) Create " good enough " products that deliver high value for money: Over-engineering products is no longer sustainable — both for economical and environmental reasons. And they did it. lakhs ($6,600). lakhs ($6,600).

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

After all, he has asserted since 2004 that global oil production was nothing to worry about, and that there would be few effects on the economy. Conventional crude ended its 150-year-long growth trajectory in 2004 and flattened out around 74 million barrels per day. Yergin's dismissal of these risks premature and repetitive.

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The idea is as simple as this: why not have a mobile demonstration van for products, to take a fully-equipped, immersive selling experience to customers’ own sites? Take the demonstration vans now being used in the UK by Tyco Security which makes products like security cameras, monitors, and access control systems.

B2B 8

B2B B2C Education Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. A hybrid approach has to be developed — one that takes good elements from the U.S. It has moved into other product categories such as travel with Ozon.travel.

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” As Cox explained to Huggy and me in 2011, the company had figured out it needed to add an engineer for every 500,000 new users, so the pressure to make hires was relentless. Today is Facebook’s 10 th anniversary.

Engineering 11

Engineering Class Software Mentor 11

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I can say this with confidence, because my decision to jump into Social Media headfirst back in 2005 has played an important role in my personal development as a leader -nearly as important as the direct leadership experience itself. Here are 9 ways Social Media has helped me, and can help you too: 1. All the best to you all, Terry Kevin W.

Media 306

Media Blog Learning-by-Doing Influence 306

Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

So I see it as a mission when I talk to clients to find their CTM, what is your special, spicy, delicious sauce that you can add to your commodity chicken product or service? Chris: I first “met&# Darren in 2004 I think it was. How did this collaboration come about, and will you two be working again on anything else?

Succession 236

Succession Media Mentor Blog 236

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

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. Apple has since figured out this balance, of course, by opening the iOS platforms to app developers. Failure to engage developers. The Platform Economy. Sponsored by Accenture.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

I didn't create any kind of ranking algorithm while making my choices, but did consider three basic criteria: Do the individual's ideas bring clarity to the quest of improving the predictability and productivity of innovation? I first met Dediu when we did an engagement with Nokia back in 2004. Horace Dediu. Stefan Lindegaard.

Innovation 14

Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 14

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, books and cooking gadgets), developing brand partnerships, and opening more restaurants.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

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. Without a healthy feedback loop, the organization loses the focus required for problem solving efforts and innovative new developments and productivity gains.

Innovation 9

Innovation Survey Policies Loyalty 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Recently, I wrote about Akamai, a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet's fabric. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat. Unicorns are: Small in size.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Every day they make a conscious choice to be world-class at the few extraordinary capabilities that make it possible to deliver a better product or service to customers. Few business leaders have developed this attention to the front line as effectively as M.S. In 2011, TPG sold it to Diageo, for about $2.1

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. In 2011 81 digital health startups received venture funding; with consistent year-over-year increases, 296 startups were venture backed in 2016. Today nearly nine in 10 physicians regularly employ EHRs.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9