LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

Like most bloggers, I write about what I know; that’s strategy, leadership and branding. As a side benefit of this crash course in catch-up, I have learned more than I ever imagined. But look at the opportunities – online marketing, social media, niche products and services, specialization, the list goes on. Mine was marketing.

Entrepreneur 154

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Brand Creativity 154

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

Like most bloggers, I write about what I know; that’s strategy, leadership and branding. As a side benefit of this crash course in catch-up, I have learned more than I ever imagined. But look at the opportunities – online marketing, social media, niche products and services, specialization, the list goes on.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Brand Creativity 92

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

While of course guests are crucial to the success of the company, this leader feels that to create the proper mindset, you have to love your employees first and your guests second. For instance, in 2004 a group of employees travelled to Mexico, where they rebuilt an orphanage and a community center. Of your second concept”.

Taylorism 84

Taylorism Taylor Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 84

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. There are other markets waiting to be disrupted, for sure. Tim Cook is taking exactly the right approach, staying the course, despite distracting expectations swirling around him. Also, Consumer Reports issued a "does not recommend" on the iPhone 4 (in 2010). Apple's is 13.

Marketing 11

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We agreed that whatever course of action we decided to take would be based on what we believed the science said about what was in the best interests of patients. In 2004, the circumstances were different. We had important new drugs and vaccines that we expected to bring to market over the next few years. Why did they do this?

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

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

OCTOBER 7, 2014

All eyes were on Goodell, the Commissioner of the NFL, to step up, assert the League’s values, and provide the leadership needed. There can be organizational paralysis, or a release of incredible and productive energy, and which of the two happens depends mainly on leadership. What followed wasn’t pretty. Why do we do the work we do?

Company 14

Company Crisis Crisis Management Video 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. Pharmacia & Upjohn made a startling turnaround and then merged with Monsanto in 2000 to triple its size to a $52 billion market cap.

Company 9

Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Perhaps no term has so captured the global analyst community since the coinage of "emerging markets" itself. Clever turns of phrase can fool many except those who actually spent time in emerging markets and ask tough questions.

Banking 15

Banking Politics Globalization GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

The first camera comes out in 2004. Of course, to get better at living interesting and meaningful questions, we have to get better at identifying them. Over the course of one day I jotted down all the potentially interesting questions that occurred to me. What’s the connection between poetry and great leadership?

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Video Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Loyalty 12

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. Others need a course correction while still profitable (Microsoft), or a momentum shift because of disruptive new technologies (newspaper companies).

How To 9

How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

It is, of course, Russia’s connections to a large segment of the Crimean population that Putin used as a pretext for his invasion. 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. Global business Leadership Strategy'

Crisis 8

Crisis Strategy Politics Media 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The stock market is short-term-oriented. The market favorably receives projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development. And I witnessed its truth firsthand as the CEO of Merck in 2004, when our earnings were going to fall short of analysts' expectations.

CEO 15

CEO Short-term Long-term Restructuring 15

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 11

Engineering Class Software Mentor 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

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. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

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. You also need to get to know the leadership, adds Gulati. “I was quite happy running a marketing organization within a larger software company,” Steve recalls.

Due Diligence 10

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

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

To set about answering that question, we ran a semantic clustering analysis on a sample of articles from HBR's archives over the course of several periods between 1990 and 2010 (the time period when the HBR online archive is the most complete). But how has HBR covered failure in the past? 2007-2010 is not surprisingly dominated by negatives.

Analysis 14

Analysis Sample Globalization Sports 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. You clearly have a different point of view on distributions to shareholders.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Of course, the advice and guidance may be richer and more relevant if it comes from someone who knows you well and understands your goals. Without the advice and help of her mentors, Soki thinks she would've taken one of the many job offers she had in 2004 and would still be in the telecom field, rather than pursuing her dream.

Mentor 16

Mentor Career Long-term Advice 16

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

LinkedIn, of course, made headlines for its $26 billion sale to Microsoft. The concept was big for companies, too, of course; the prospect of finding people beyond the offline constraints, and even in the next city, state, or country, was a tantalizing one. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996. They had revenue, after all.

Price 101

Price IPO Content Marketing 101

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

” Of course, everyone can recite the mantra customers first. And you also can’t put customers first until senior leadership meetings are filled with the voices of the customers and front line. And I want my marketing guys fighting for new variants, new products. In 2011, TPG sold it to Diageo, for about $2.1

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

In 2004, the Kerry campaign complained that while they had controlled the facts, Bush controlled the story. If marketers have learned anything these past 50 years, it's that the best campaigns make the audience the heroes. We hear it after every election cycle. Romney's story is not without its liabilities.

Policies 8

Policies Audience Follow-up Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Critics across the political spectrum have said that fake news and cyberattacks played a big role in determining the course of events. Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11