Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

” Su had a client who was strong, passionate, and innovative. In 2004, Mike Colwell was promoted to manage a team of five directors, all of whom he’d worked with previously. In 2006, Cameron Herold was proud of where his company, 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, Their VP of Finance kept warning them not to spend in a few key ways.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies. Financed by VC firms.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Some major companies have announced plans to boost employee pay. in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5% We have found from our global surveys of businesses that almost half of companies that are increasing their investment budgets are doing so because of an increase in demand. in 2014 to 2020.

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Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The corporate community is also concerned that our current system inhibits competitiveness, holding American companies back. companies are not being held back by the corporate tax code. companies are taxed at higher rates on more of their income. multinational firms. corporate tax code. At a glance, it looks like U.S.

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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.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

When Google introduced a controversial dual-class share structure at the time of its IPO in 2004, I had reservations (as you would expect of someone whose specialty is corporate governance). But the founders' passionate advocacy of the need to follow a "long-term, innovative approach" resonated with me. Take Brazil.

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Planning IPO Proposal Long-term 12

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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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

For those not familiar with it, the triple bottom line is a sustainability framework that examines a company’s social, environment, and economic impact. Only a company that produces a TBL is taking account of the full cost involved in doing business.” So why recall it now?

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TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Apple and Google, two of the world’s most valuable companies, have had their share of platform failures as we’ll show. Successful platforms engage in platform evangelism, providing developers with resources to innovate, feedback on design and performance, and rewards for participation.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Paul Volcker famously said the only financial innovation to improve society in recent memory was the ATM. A 2004 study of day traders in Taiwan concluded that, while a small group of traders made money consistently, “more than eight out of ten day traders lose money.” Entrepreneurship Finance Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. Making sure the company's key processes are delivering competitive advantage , or if not, that the right fixes are on the way.

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