Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations. At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India. But it won’t be “India’s fault,” in our view. David Mulford, U.S.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. Given that companies are putting more than $14 billion a year into charitable causes, measuring results and ensuring real social impact should be important goals.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Its goal for the vans is to replicate the same kind of experience for the customers who can’t come to them. The beauty of these vans, and the reason I believe they’ve been dreamt up by managers in very different businesses, is that they perform a wide variety of marketing functions. Customer service Marketing Sales'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Other risk-mitigation strategies .

Career 9

Career Company IPO Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. Because of massive Chinese subsidies to several industries, no free trade exists and markets have failed.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. Their goal is to make accounting, simple.

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Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. Still, market research suggests that future markets for its products and services could be huge — with the U.N. It is time to either step up — or to get out of the way.

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TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

On a scale of one to five, how important is having a good network to your ability to accomplish your goals? Burt asked the managers to write down their best ideas about how to improve business operations, and then he asked two ex­ecutives at the company to rate the quality of these ideas. 2 (2004): 349–399.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. Adapting to change.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

based corporations make up a disproportionately high share of the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world’s most important corporations (in terms of profits, assets, market capitalization, or sales). capital markets, and it increases the credit-worthiness of U.S. Jobs Creation Act of 2004. Further, U.S. trillion now.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

One of the most significant came in early 2004 when we decided to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas. When we started to look at new locations for our call center operations, we initially considered outsourcing to India or the Philippines and met with a few potential providers. We’ve also expanded far beyond shoes.

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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. The negotiators achieved their goal and closed a clever and profitable deal. The long-standing exclusive arrangement between Xerox and Fuji Photo Film in Japan is one example; pharmaceutical licensing across markets is another.

Management 12

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 12

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. Martin was much more of a direct, operational, and continuous mentor," she said. She had already held several positions in both consulting and sales and marketing, so she wasn't a junior upstart.

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Mentor Career Long-term Advice 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

But while field organizing is essential in this closely contested race, the groundwork has been laid over many months by the campaigns' digital operations. But it's clear that online operations have become so central to political success, everyone has to play: Romney simply cannot afford to cede the advantage and focus elsewhere.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The goal is to figure out which persuadable voters to spend energy — and dollars — on, in the hope of moving the dial just slightly in their favor. In 2004, microtargeting was a fairly new concept. What were some of Obama's key features that you would use to market him, to tell a story based on the data you had?

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