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. This simple strategy proved wildly successful. In 2004, Michael Dell left the company, replaced by Kevin Rollins, a former Bain consultant who joined the company in 1996. Dell returned as CEO in 2007.

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

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.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The center of gravity for jobs, wealth, and market opportunities is moving, disrupting the world economic order as we have known it. In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8

Globalization 15

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

As someone who helps businesses conduct “war games” to inform their strategy-making, I suppose I see these moments more than most people; the whole point of these exercises is to devise new marketplace forays and anticipate competitive responses. I see it as a quietly effective strategy that has been rolling along, largely under the radar.

B2B 8

B2B B2C Education Travel 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. 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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 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. In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The center of gravity for jobs, wealth, and market opportunities is moving, disrupting the world economic order as we have known it. In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 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

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.

Engineering 12

Engineering Class Software Mentor 12

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. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions. But by early 2015 they stopped accepting new submissions to their open market and discontinued their API support for external developers. Failure to launch the right side.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

There is a third element that was missing entirely at GM: strategy. market, the single biggest problem by a wide margin was Toyota, which gobbled U.S. When Bob came on board in 2001, he inherited a mainly crummy set of 2001-2004 car launches. A strategy guy would look at the situation a bit differently: no, a lot differently.

Company 12

Company Franchising Fixed Costs Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. In 2011, Havens’ collaboration with IBM procurement paid off, winning Havens four significant projects.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Marketers like to repeat the quote, “I know I waste half of my ad budget, I just don’t know which half.” So it shouldn’t be surprising that marketers like the idea of “influentials,” seemingly ordinary people who determine what others think, do and buy. Science finds little evidence to support influencer marketing.

Influence 10

Influence Marketing Katz Media 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. 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. Today nearly nine in 10 physicians regularly employ EHRs.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Seize control of your strategy and budget processes, which too often are designed to ensure every bureaucrat holds on to last year’s resources, and demand a real discussion of where you must redeploy resources. In 2011, TPG sold it to Diageo, for about $2.1 And I want my marketing guys fighting for new variants, new products.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8