Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

To test the tiny rover, Manning personally bought a huge load of playground sand from a company a few miles from JPL and built the largest indoor sandpit in town, right next to the control center at JPL. Two more rovers followed in 2004. Spirit and Opportunity both landed successfully using the same airbag technology as Pathfinder.

Innovation 226

Innovation Engineering Learning-by-Doing Creativity 226

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. Kristi Daeda ​"I help individuals and companies make the most of talent.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. Recently, his company needed a web designer. We attended activist training together, went for lunch in Chinatown, and kept in loose contact through our organizing efforts.

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Press Release Discount PR Media 174

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At any given moment, about 5%–7% of companies either are in free fall or are about to be. And here’s a sobering fact: Only about 10%–15% of those companies will ever pull out of it. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

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%. Why do these shifts occur?

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Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. RIM is just the latest company to learn this lesson. Yet, the trend is not free from potential downsides as the case of a large multinational telecommunications company illustrates. In 1998, RIM launched the BlackBerry.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

I recently met a top executive at a major enterprise technology firm who runs an $8 billion dollar product line and describes himself as the "Chief Product Designer" for his division (even though his title is SVP and General Manager, and he has never before considered himself a "designer"). He was right there in the middle of it. All of it.".

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Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Yet many employers still struggle to fill certain types of vacancies, especially for so-called middle-skills jobs — in computer technology, nursing, high-skill manufacturing, and other fields — that require postsecondary technical education and training and, in some cases, college math courses or degrees.

Skills 8

Skills Company Health Care Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To make big improvements in productivity and customer service, people in an organization must collaborate across corporate hierarchies, functions, companies, and geographies. Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. And top executives don't have good mechanisms to share their vision downward.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

The dot-com bust not only hurt Internet start ups—it pummeled telecom companies, many of which went bankrupt or were forced into mergers. Ciena CEO Gary Smith, the company’s CEO since 2001, describes how his company survived, regrouped, and resumed its growth. The company was doing very well. Do you sell the company?

Industry 8

Industry CEO Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

According to her story, a survey by executive-search firm Spencer Stuart found that about four out of five S&P 500 companies that chose a new CEO last year promoted insiders. That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012.

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CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

This may sound as though we’ve got our facts backward, but your company can significantly increase its knowledge output by cutting R&D spending. The company’s R&D expenditures dropped by about $1.5 billion from 2002 through 2004. It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why.

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

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

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Some companies need to be rescued from the brink of extinction (BlackBerry), but that’s not the only kind of turnaround. Find a meaningful unifying purpose.

How To 9

How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

However, new unreleased research from Spencer Stuart , a global executive search firm, suggests that we’re giving this sector short shift: There may be specific cases when a consulting background can actually boost company performance, even more so than a more traditional candidate. No, we did not see that relationship.

Consultative 9

Consultative CEO Management Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

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.

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Media Blog Learning-by-Doing Influence 306

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

One of the things that surprised me when I was working in Ukraine during 2004’s Orange Revolution was how many of my colleagues I saw at the Maidan. Governments, religions, militaries — and yes, companies — are having to learn to live with diminished advantages to scale. Global business Leadership Strategy'

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Crisis Strategy Politics Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Look at the companies that successfully used this approach.". Companies that practice process improvement have been victims of this hype cycle for decades. By reviewing the history of its process initiatives, the company made its journey visible and discussable. Here's this new approach.

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

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.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

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

JANUARY 5, 2017

Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. The outcome is a “ratings bubble” within which companies operate. Apple learned this the hard way. Spillovers.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Just as the notion of a 50-year linear career with a single company or in one industry is outdated, so is the idea that career advice must come from a wise old sage. In their book, The 2020 Workplace , Meister and Willyerd talk about reverse mentoring in which a more junior person advises a senior person on things like new technology.

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Mentor Career Long-term Advice 16

Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2011

Perhaps you saw the July 4th issue Fortune magazine article about how digital companies are so big and growing so fast, that they are obliterating old brick-and-mortar businesses. iTunes debuted in 2003 and Tower Records closed in 2004 and Musicland folded in 2006. Fortune reported that: The U.S FYE is shriveling. Or expand, or morph?

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Business Model Bottom-up Industry Focus Group 61