Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Here’s the main lesson we took away from its success: Effective scaling isn’t just about establishing the biggest footprint you can, and as fast as possible. Today is Facebook’s 10 th anniversary. The opening sentence was “When Mark E.

Engineering 12

Engineering Class Software Mentor 12

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In 2004, the Harvard Business Review published an article titled, The Risky Business of Hiring Rock Stars. For all the hype that surrounds stars, human resources experts have rarely studied their performance over time. They were blazing successes for a while but quickly faded out when they left one company for another.”.

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Short-term Long-term Wiseman System 57

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are four examples: The Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative , founded in 2004, unites local governments, community colleges, and businesses in the San Francisco area. Chances of success are greatest in a sector where firms believe their biggest competitors for talent are elsewhere in the world rather than local.

Skills 8

Skills Company Health Care Cooper 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. Intuit is successful because they bring their ‘do less better’ cultural ethic to their customers. Thanks to Coke’s global reach, brand power, bottling network, and single-minded focus, I’m betting on Coca-Cola sustaining this competitive advantage. Something had to be done.

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Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Even the most naive of them agree that, like it or not, relationships hold the key to both their current capac­ity and future success. But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong. 2 (2004): 349–399.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Although big, global supply chains certainly have their own dynamism, they mostly evolve incrementally through minnovation rather than disruption – and thus get short shrift in the business media and amongst aspiring entrepreneurs, hungry to create successful ventures. Partner with procurement.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

In many ways, the current state of court decisions begins in a familiar place: human resources departments. Later, Brent Nakamura and I coded and analyzed a follow-up representative sample of 164 court decisions at five-year intervals after 1999: 2004, 2009, and 2014. The Birth of Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Policies.

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Policies Human Resources Compliance Guidelines 8