Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Stew Friedman: Mike, you have a background in marketing and degrees in both business and law. Then, also the deals over the course of my career. Finally, I had a very unusual situation happen where my wife, Katie, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003, and ovarian cancer in 2004. Below is a transcript of our conversation. .

Influence 150

Influence Career Power Education 150

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 23, 2011

by John • May 23, 2011 • Branding , Marketing • 3 Comments. Ironically, a great slogan’s constraint to longevity can be the boredom of the marketer. Marketers like change, but often they make change for change’s sake. The inherent payoff, of course, was in the cup. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home.

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Brand CEO Marketing Proposal 196

Building Personal Strength

MARCH 22, 2011

In 2004 I reconnected with a friend from high school - after 41 years! After that, the Officer's Basic Course at Fort Bliss, then Army Ranger School. I returned for my Officer's Advanced Course and moved on to Duke University to start working on my Ph.D. After the 2004 hurricanes, my wife and I moved to the Texas Hill Country.

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Management Follow-up Course Project 92

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

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. Greed is good” is becoming “greed for good”. Saving the planet is good business.

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Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Brand Creativity 154

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Unlike leaders who view purpose mainly as a marketing exercise, deep purpose leaders understand that creating an authentic master narrative is vital to inspiring employees, instilling customer loyalty and building long-term ties with all stakeholders. In the course of my research, I discovered four potential derailers of purpose.

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Short-term How To Long-term Operations 122

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

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. Greed is good” is becoming “greed for good”. Saving the planet is good business.

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Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Brand Creativity 92

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. We’ve also learned that learners don’t commit time and energy to any program, course, or event.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 325

Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Here is the research he cited : A 2004 Yale study found that a highly likeable sales rep will earn 40% more than an equally educated or experienced counterpart. A: No, of course not. Here’s some data to “prove&# it though. It comes from Tim Sanders and his great blog – in a post a few weeks back.

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Leadership Blog Workshop Covey 205

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.

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Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

I remember my first taste of social networking — a 2004 invitation to join Friendster. Fast forward to the spring of 2006, when I was teaching a course at Emerson College. The previous year, Facebook had spread from Harvard to campuses across the country, and my students pestered me to join.

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Word of Mouth Marketing Media Brand Resistance 15

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%

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Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

Rajesh Setty

JANUARY 17, 2012

I have been a Dell customer since 2004. Of course you have! This is a very effective way to create marketing gravity. So, here we go: Rajesh Setty: I understand that you are a member of Dell’s Customer Advisory Panel. How did this come to be? Dave Gardner: This is a very interesting story, Rajesh. A great story.

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Media PR Company Learning-by-Doing 36

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.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Rajesh Setty

JANUARY 17, 2012

I have been a Dell customer since 2004. Of course you have! This is a very effective way to create marketing gravity. So, here we go: Rajesh Setty: I understand that you are a member of Dell’s Customer Advisory Panel. How did this come to be? Dave Gardner: This is a very interesting story, Rajesh. A great story.

Media 44

Media PR Company Blog 44

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”.

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Taylorism Taylor Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 91

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

They get stuck making incremental improvements that are rooted in existing competencies, markets, and business models. When combined with a smart marketing campaign, the car became a symbol of the whole environmental movement. A core insight provides forward-looking understanding of customer needs, behaviors, and market trends.

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Prahalad and Stuart Hart’s seminal book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid gained a wide audience when it was published in 2004 and has continued to be widely read ever since. Five years further along, there is scant evidence that multinational corporations have expanded any further into the bottom-billions market.

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Entrepreneur Prahalad Bottom-up Price 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

In 2004, a golden marketing opportunity came along with the launch of the documentary Supersize Me , which followed director Morgan Spurlock as he ate only McDonald's food for 30 days. Of course a family run company always has more leeway to act on values (see Patagonia, the prime example).

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Strategy Brand Marketing Company 14

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?

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Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

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.

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Banking Politics Globalization GDP 14

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. In 2004, Michael Dell left the company, replaced by Kevin Rollins, a former Bain consultant who joined the company in 1996. For more background on the potential deal, click here.) Dell returned as CEO in 2007.

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The electronics giant had seemingly lost its dominant position in the gaming console market, with the Nintendo Wii’s surprise success overshadowing the more powerful but pricier PS3. Sony talked up its gaming platform, of course, but also that it “want[ed] to be the center of your home.”

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Strategy Price Case Study Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

The idea of customer discrimination influencing the labor market stems from the economic theory of taste-based discrimination, or when some individuals prefer not to interact with people from certain demographics. Consumer discrimination in the labor market has not been extensively studied, but other research has borne this out.

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Sample Survey Retail Education 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. 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

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. Of course it would be ideal to hire a manager who is equally adept in Peoria and Pune, but there is a paucity of such talent in a growing emerging market. David Mulford, U.S.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11

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

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. It takes him two years to find and prototype the right camera.

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Video Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Loyalty 12

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?

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Company Crisis Crisis Management Video 13

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

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The term "social media" was popularized by Chris Shipley in 2004 , as she described the impact of influencers and bloggers in shaping product adoption, more so than traditional media outlets. Because it includes the word media , and the genesis is marketing, most people think of this as the stuff the CMO and their team worry about.

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Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 9

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 52

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. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers. For many of the very largest market opportunities, technology is merely an enabler. Many hold deeply satisfying careers themselves. of Fortune 500 CEOs are women.

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Attrition Diversity Sports CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

There was a heartening rally between 1996 and 2004, when growth returned to its 1950s/1960s levels of 3% — a performance almost universally attributed to the efficiency gains from information technology. markets was to systematically reduce prevailing price levels. in the 1980-1995 period. Many US firms in many U.S.

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Productivity Products Price Globalization 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.

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CEO Short-term Long-term Restructuring 15

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. It’s these connections that really matter.

Crisis 8

Crisis Strategy Politics Media 8

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. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth. But applied to U.S.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 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