Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Known as a maverick, he often “got in trouble” with chain management for his innovative ideas and promotions. If we think about a new idea I run it through 20 people—area managers, kitchen managers, service managers, meat cutters. The Managing Partner at each Texas Roadhouse has an ownership interest in their restaurant.

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Taylorism Taylor Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 83

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 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Slowing Chinese economic growth coupled with confidence-sapping tumult on the stock market have set alarm bells ringing at companies about their future growth prospects in China. Government policy will, of course, be an important factor in releasing this latent demand. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4%

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The concern I expressed in the post was that these actions have become the standard by which CEOs are expected to manage. 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.

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Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

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. We also shrank the corporate management team by half. Change management Leadership Managing people'

Company 8

Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 8

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. Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management. For more background on the potential deal, click here.)

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

This was of course the case when the Rice video was leaked to the press, or, in another example, when reports broke that at least 35 veterans died while waiting for care at a VA hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. Public interest grows, of course, when members of the public are affected by a company’s decisions. Why do we do the work we do?

Company 13

Company Crisis Crisis Management Video 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India. Choose the right India country manager: The role of country manager for India can mean many things depending on the scope of operations and the structure of an organization. David Mulford, U.S.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11

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. In doing so, they often fail to ask the right questions beyond which acronym rolls of the tongue most easily.

Banking 14

Banking Politics Globalization GDP 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

He notes that as recently as 2004, less than one percent of all U.S. It would hardly make sense, therefore, for a US firm to go and locate its headquarters in China or Brazil, even though these are large, fast-growing markets. There were, of course, special considerations.

Banking 11

Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The stock market is short-term-oriented. Stock-based incentive compensation aligns the self-interest of management with shareholders, and a performance-based pay system increases employee motivation. In my experience, these beliefs have led managers and boards to take actions that have had unintended, destructive consequences.

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CEO Short-term Long-term Restructuring 15

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

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. There is tons of evidence, much of it compiled by the formulator of the efficient market hypothesis, Eugene Fama , that value investing works.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

Of course, the other women in the room were also sincerely invested in the little baby’s success and potential. When women start companies they quite naturally create more permeable and diverse management teams, having worked on gender diverse teams, or, conversely, having seen the pitfalls of being the token woman in a homogenous grouping.

Attrition 8

Attrition Diversity Sports CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Tom Szaky knows well the meaning of the saying “ Beware your dreams, for they may come true. ” With the 2004 Christmas retail season rapidly approaching, he was trying everything he could to scale up TerraCycle , a two year old venture selling liquid worm poop as fertilizer in used PET bottles. Be opportunistic about raising money.

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Finance Company How To Kleiner 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The number of workers allowed via the scheme was capped in 2004, and the researchers wanted to focus on what they perceived to be an overlooked aspect of the immigration debate. Of course, that’s not the only choice multinational firms have, as they can also take the work that needs doing elsewhere. Work to be done.

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Offshoring Policies Innovation Organizational Behavior 54

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

I spent a few invigorating hours with Chris, who is a judge for our Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , in Boston last week to unpack a short course of some of the most important lessons from the book. There's this complaint: 'I'd love to think and manage for the long term, but Wall Street won't let me.'

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GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

Every year since 1995, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released a report on the state of competition in the wireless market. Or, if not, what negative effect its dubious conclusions might have on regulatory policy in wireless markets. If firms are not exercising market power, competition reigns.

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Wireless Report Price Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Managers in these organizations translate corporate objectives into a few straightforward guidelines that help employees make on-the-spot decisions and adapt to constantly shifting environments, while keeping the big picture in mind. Its new management team took over an organization that was bureaucratic, overstaffed, and bleeding cash.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 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.

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Engineering Class Software Mentor 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. PDF) But that would leave you out of the game for many new technologies and markets, where alliances are essential.

Management 11

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

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. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Are these recent wage increases merely necessary in light of a tightening labor market, or could they start a broader trend that may change our economic growth trajectory? in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5% This is reflected in slowing growth expectations in many markets. The Economy in 2018.

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

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. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 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. “I was quite happy running a marketing organization within a larger software company,” Steve recalls.

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Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

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 19, 2012

Once the book had been written, I had to market it. And, since innovation was on everyone 's mind, I was soon also working with chief innovation officers and heads of strategy, business development, and emerging markets — anything that required innovation. I knew better, of course. A side-door strategy , I thought.

Succession 16

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Kram, the Shipley Professor in Management at the Boston University School of Management and author of Mentoring at Work. 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. There is a lot of chaos in the world of work," says Kathy E.

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Mentor Career Long-term Advice 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. More than 3,000 apps are now available to help manage diabetes alone. 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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 8

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

That’s not just a hunch — among public companies since 1990, returns to shareholders were three times greater at firms where the founder is still part of the management team. ” Of course, everyone can recite the mantra customers first. Companies still run by their founders have a certain magic.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 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.

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Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 10