Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

I have used the social network for eight years and continue to be impressed with Mark Zuckerberg's focus on product and his vision for the internet. When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. But equity investing and product use are very different things.

IPO 12

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. exports increased by only 11%.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

We became involved with the company, which produces inventory software, in 2004 when one of us (David) was sent by the prior majority investor to shut the fledgling company down. Instead, seeing the potential in the product and commitment of employees, we came up with financing to buy out the investor and keep the company operating.

Team 15

Team Leadership COO Software 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

These intense work styles are often celebrated as the only way to get to the top and be a super-productive leader. In 2004, Hickox was a certified public accountant in Texas and at a crossroads in her career. “The culture in the bank’s accounting and finance team has changed totally since I got here,” she said.

Banking 15

Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. Longer supply chains also increase inventory levels and carrying costs related to financing and warehousing. Railway systems are near capacity.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

These were all true of Charlie, a champion I met in 2004 just as the tech world was beginning to show signs of life after the dot com implosion. It had a free consumer product that was downloaded by millions of users as well as a modestly successful premium product that sold online for $49.

Motivation 8

Motivation CIO Competitive Advantage Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2013

Three years after I wrote an article on the Athens 2004 wiretapping case, which involved Greek government officials, I found somebody snooping on my own email as I served the next Greek administration. It''s more productive for an organization to actually offer secure attractive alternatives to the offerings it wants its employees to avoid.

Document 8

Document Open-book Bottom-up System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Economic growth has been stuck in low gear for almost a decade now, averaging around 2% a year since 2010 while productivity growth, the key to increasing living standards, has been languishing near historic lows since the financial crisis. The impact of demand on productivity growth is often underappreciated. percentage points.

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy. The battles may be over, but the war is just beginning.

GDP 8

GDP Real Estate Tourism Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

I didn't create any kind of ranking algorithm while making my choices, but did consider three basic criteria: Do the individual's ideas bring clarity to the quest of improving the predictability and productivity of innovation? I first met Dediu when we did an engagement with Nokia back in 2004. Some readers have asked why I put A.G.

Innovation 14

Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

If an industrial product like a car fails the manufacturer pulls it back, tests it and, if necessary, re-equips it. Still, market research suggests that future markets for its products and services could be huge — with the U.N. Fundamentally, we have a hard-wired cultural problem in business, finance and markets.

TBL 11

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

In 2004, the residual assets were sold off for a mere $7 million, a tiny fraction of the $500 million auto manufacturers had invested. Firms guilty of this oversight never get past the idea that they sell products when they could be building ecosystems. It had the world’s first and best compact disc players.

Participative 8

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. “You might move from product to engineering to ops.” He thought about his previous experience with products, projects, and companies.

Due Diligence 10

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

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

From 1970 to 2004, the percentage of CEOs hired from outside the firm increased from 12% to 39%. CEOs from rival firms); conversely not all inside CEOs have it (CEOs promoted from finance). Instead of hiring outside CEOs, hire insiders—or at least CEOs with domain expertise. Instead of decentralizing R&D, recentralize it.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. Public shareholders, including Carl Icahn, do not invest in Apple’s productive capabilities. I disagree with this priority.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Palantir, a B2B company founded in 2004 and offering a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, and analysing data, has around 1,500 employees worldwide and is valued around $20 billion today. Financed by VC firms. Unicorns are: Small in size. Airbnb has raised approximately $2.3

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Recently, I wrote about Akamai, a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet's fabric. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

I heard him say in real time many of the things he repeats in the book: "This philosophy of treating the customer as a hapless victim to be exploited was endemic in American corporations, and it cost us dearly" or "Is profit an integral part of the business equation and a God-given right, no matter how compromised the product or service?

Company 12

Company Franchising Fixed Costs Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

They include years of 15% to 20% annual increases in labor costs without compensating productivity growth in manufacturing titans such as China, cheap energy in North America unlocked by hydraulic fracturing, and the increasing complexity and cost of managing global supply chains. made products. Advances in manufacturing technology.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Air Products, Nokia, and Shell, among others, followed this advice and created top-level process owners. They also built a process governance structure that was an organizational overlay on their functional and product structures. from 2004 to 2007. from 2004 to 2007. And they succeeded wildly.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15