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

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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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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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).

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How To Airlines Open-book CEO 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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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.

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Crisis Strategy Politics Media 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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Employees frequently attribute breakdowns to incompetence or bad faith on the part of colleagues in other departments: "Those bozos in headquarters [or finance or marketing] screw everything up." Strategies often falter in execution because of insufficient coordination across the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

And the services they provide do keep improving (along with the prices, of course, but that''s mainly sports fans'' fault ). Their market penetration has probably peaked , as younger consumers (among them many of my colleagues at HBR) increasingly opt for cheaper workarounds via their Internet connections.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Regardless of which number is right, there is no doubt that a lot of time and energy go into marketing products that will no longer exist in a year. The term was coined by the late Harvard Business School marketing professor, Theodore Levitt, in a 1960 article by the same name (republished in 2004). What is marketing myopia?

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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. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Apple has since figured out this balance, of course, by opening the iOS platforms to app developers. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions. Failure to launch the right side.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

in incremental market capitalization for every $1.00 in incremental market capitalization for $1.00 Part of the credit goes to Starbucks, of course, which during the 1990s reinvented the coffeehouse concept by creating the category of infinitely customizable espresso-based beverages. of revenue growth. in revenue growth.

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B2C Strategy B2B Waterman 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Long term commitment in a world where the technology is advancing almost on a daily basis is difficult to maintain. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings. That was the case with Toys 'R Us and Amazon.com a few years ago.

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Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. “By serving as GE’s and other equipment makers’ supply partner, the whole world is now my scope.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

” “Price competition can’t be all there is to it,” he explained to me, when during the course of updating that seminal piece in 2008, I asked him about the origins of the five forces model. Focusing on a few key success factors, critical resources, and core competencies (maybe a reference to C.

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Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 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. To help bring cool new technology to the world? “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

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. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase.

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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. 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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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2019

of Horizon2020 research funding going to the 13 countries that joined the EU in 2004, despite these nations representing 17% of the EU population. The Index, which is built from the 39 million or so learners that are enrolled on several thousand courses, provides a talent benchmark for countries. ” Spreading the net.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications. In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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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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