Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

We are very concerned about the fact that women and minorities continue to be under-represented at the highest levels of management,” said Barbara J. In 2004, the Calvert Women’s Principles ® became the first global code of corporate conduct focused exclusively on empowering, advancing and investing in women. Source U.S.

Diversity 50

Diversity Newsletter Long-term Execution 50

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. According to ComScore, at the end of 2011 Facebook accounted for a shocking 28% of U.S. When Google IPO'd in 2004, the company's advertising business had tailwinds; internet penetration was only at around 68% in the U.S.

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IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 12

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. The Chinese are also becoming more aware of fashion.

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Apparel Franchising Retail Fashion 13

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Slywotzky is a consultant and author of several books on economic theory and management. He graduated from Harvard College and holds a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has worked as a consultant since 1979 and is currently a partner at Oliver Wyman.

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Slywotzky Consultative Books How To 80

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

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. And we must correct some of Mr. Yergin's assertions.

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Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

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. Meanwhile, agile Chinese manufacturers such as Geoby have taken the market for cheap transport by storm. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4%

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Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management. For more background on the potential deal, click here.)

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

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. He notes that as recently as 2004, less than one percent of all U.S. The UK hardly seemed like an alternative high-growth market.

Banking 11

Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 11

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. The social media channel was another source of feedback to help Cisco hone its marketing messages.

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B2B B2C Education Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. He’s not a Steve Cohen , pushing at the edges of legality to get an information edge.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 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. In India there''s Flipkart , in Russia there''s Ozon , and in Thailand, Indonesia, and other South East Asia markets there''s Lazada. In some cases this is true.

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Some 650 people had already joined, and thus began the company’s wild ride toward becoming a social networking site with over a billion users, thousands of employees, and a market capitalization well north of $100 billion.

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Engineering Class Software Mentor 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

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. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. 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.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash , a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital. billion market capitalization as of this writing. TripAdvisor And Expedia: From $4 million invested to $4 billion in value.

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EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

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. The pipeline for new drugs is bursting, and new devices and tools in the rapidly emerging digital health space will come to market more quickly.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

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. Once a government monopoly, the company was privatized, in 2004, and bought by a set of construction entrepreneurs, for $292 million.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Monster is the most iconic of those that brought the service to market, and the first to do it at scale. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996. Careerbuilder was initially a service that helped companies launch job listings and then managed the inbound application volume. They had revenue, after all.

Price 101

Price IPO Content Marketing 101