Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. 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

MAY 20, 2016

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward. ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L.

Execution 9

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

In our own company, Fishbowl , we took the approach to a new level 2 ½ years ago. We create leadership teams not only for our top jobs, but for every management position in the company. After several years of solid operations, in January of 2010 we decided to put together pairs of people for all management jobs.

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Team Leadership COO Software 15

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. And despite all of Facebook's user support, investors should be skeptical of the company's pricey IPO. As of yet, the company has not built out a compelling mobile advertising platform. display advertisements online.

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IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. He had to sell the idea to both his family and the other managers at work. “We all wanted to do work and life differently,” DeGroot told me. “We kept trying.

Banking 15

Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

His game plan instead looks something like this: Buy stock in a company. Write a letter to the company’s board demanding that it do something different from what it’s doing (buy back shares, break up, sell out to another company, throw out the CEO). Sell stock in the company. Wait a while. In 2012 it was $1.9

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Successful companies shape their high-level strategies by relying not on complicated frameworks but on simple rules of thumb. It illustrates how simple rules can help companies shape strategy in an uncertain environment. ALL was spun off from the Brazilian railway authority in 1997 to manage one of the country's eight freight lines.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Closing a major deal with a Fortune 2000 company is seldom straightforward. These were all true of Charlie, a champion I met in 2004 just as the tech world was beginning to show signs of life after the dot com implosion. He also had company intelligence. Dealmakers who try to “go it alone” can expect to suffer a similar fate.

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Motivation CIO Competitive Advantage Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

But there are gender-based distinctions in how men and women were able to regulate and manage their emotional response to these stimuli. Learning and paying attention to the emotions that motivate and/or hobble us and in what measure — anger, anxiety, fear, joy — can help us learn to manage and use those emotions more effectively.

Bottom-up 13

Bottom-up Metrics Construction Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

With growing congestion a global megatrend, companies have a choice. For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. What companies can do. Railway systems are near capacity. Insight Center.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

These are important traits, but it’s equally important for managers to stand down and listen up. In 2004, Mike Colwell was promoted to manage a team of five directors, all of whom he’d worked with previously. When his managers came in, the various electronics on his desk created distractions and interruptions.

How To 8

How To Case Study Charan Information 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

He notes that as recently as 2004, less than one percent of all U.S. companies had foreign operations, and of these, the largest fraction operated in just one foreign country (most often Canada. But as Pankaj Ghemawat points out in his forthcoming World 3.0 (HBR

Banking 11

Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Since 2004, the global tax, auditing, and advisory firm Grant Thornton has surveyed people around the globe — this year it interviewed more than 5,000 people from 36 countries — to track the progress women are (or are not) making into senior leadership roles in their companies. That hasn’t happened.

Execution 10

Execution Company Chief Executive Officer Survey 10

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. From 1970 to 2004, the percentage of CEOs hired from outside the firm increased from 12% to 39%.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 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.

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

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

MARCH 10, 2015

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy. A managed exit from the common currency could alter that.

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GDP Real Estate Tourism Long-term 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

JUNE 25, 2018

How often are management concepts subjected to recalls by the people who invented them? Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. Yet poor management systems can jeopardize lives in the air, at sea, on roads or in hospitals.

TBL 11

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2018

Entire new systems need to be constructed just to manage this complexity, with questionable or negative value to society at large. today, where complexity is piled upon complexity in a number of critical sectors, such as health care, energy, finance, and government. The increased role of finance in our economy. Government.

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Cost Health Care IPO Finance 172

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

There was a time when taking a job at a startup was viewed as risky, even foolish, because you didn’t know how long the company was going to be around. But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over.

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 10

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. 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.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Rising short-termism among investors — which threatens to destabilize both companies and the wider economy — is prompting a reconsideration of the principle that all shareholders should have equal say. Prominent commentators such as former U.S.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Class Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

So I'm highlighting a few companies outside of the Google/Amazon/Facebook pantheon that have built large, sustainable, profitable business models at scale. It may be one of the most fascinating companies I know. This is a company that took $4 million of invested capital to build a company now worth over $4 billion.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

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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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15