Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Icahn later reduced his buyback request to $50 billion, and in April 2014 Apple’s board approved a $30 billion program to be carried out by repurchasing its shares on the open market — either by just buying shares outright or doing it indirectly via accelerated share repurchases. trillion on buybacks (51% of net income) and another $2.3

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. By 2000, Motorola's global market share had collapsed from 45% to 15%, while Nokia's had grown to a market-leading 31%.

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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. The easiest way to understand Sony’s position with the PS4 is to review the mistakes it made last time around, beginning with its price.

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Strategy Price Case Study Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Then, between 2004 and 2014, Nordstrom made an extraordinary series of investments, each aimed squarely at that same purpose of providing a fabulous customer experience. The company is growing sales in both full-price and off-price businesses through both online and traditional channels. Innovation Strategy Technology'

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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

MARCH 22, 2013

The center of gravity for jobs, wealth, and market opportunities is moving, disrupting the world economic order as we have known it. His customers always overpowered him and controlled the pricing, and his meager budget relegated him to riding in the backs of trucks and crowded trains. The discipline of tight margins never left him.

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Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. Most CIOs will benefit from this trend through increased competition, better prices, and quicker provisioning.

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Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The center of gravity for jobs, wealth, and market opportunities is moving, disrupting the world economic order as we have known it. His customers always overpowered him and controlled the pricing, and his meager budget relegated him to riding in the backs of trucks and crowded trains. The discipline of tight margins never left him.

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

We already know the answer: the kind of innovation that comes from collaboration, not competition. At the company level, stock price is the measure." Meanwhile, from 2004 to 2009, emerging economies accounted for almost all of the world's GDP growth." So what replaces competition, what drives growth today?

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GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. The gap is growing between traditional sales-and-marketing-driven behemoths with their "customer-centric" approach and the new breed of organizations like Square and Zipcar, who have a "UX-centric" culture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

But just as the cell phone, originally designed as a mobile communication device, has been adapted to an unimagined array of additional functions, the EMR is serving as a platform for innovation and creativity. In 2004, large Seattle employers came to our medical center seeking more affordable health care.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures make up one of those variables, provided they average at least one deal per year in a program that cumulatively amounts to more than 30% of a company’s market capitalization over 10 years, with no single deal being more than 30% of market cap. Take marketing giant WPP.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Are these recent wage increases merely necessary in light of a tightening labor market, or could they start a broader trend that may change our economic growth trajectory? in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5% This is reflected in slowing growth expectations in many markets. The Economy in 2018.

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Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

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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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

If you read what Peter Drucker had to say about competition back in the late ’50s and early ‘60s, he really only talked about one thing: competition on price. Competing by doing what everyone else is doing means, he says, competing on price (that is, learning to be more efficient than your rivals).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The innovation came about because Laird aspired to surf a deepwater reef break on the north shore of Maui called Peahi, or Jaws, where waves can reach 120 feet high. in incremental market capitalization for every $1.00 in incremental market capitalization for $1.00 But coffee has seen other innovations, too.

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B2C Strategy B2B Waterman 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

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. Innovate and invest, even when it hurts. I am no longer limited by geography.”

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions. But by early 2015 they stopped accepting new submissions to their open market and discontinued their API support for external developers. It’s not enough to open the door and set the table.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. All Airbnb does is offer a connection between home and flat owners with rooms to rent to people looking for a lower-priced alternative to hotels. Financed by VC firms.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. How the most innovative providers are creating value. The pipeline for new drugs is bursting, and new devices and tools in the rapidly emerging digital health space will come to market more quickly. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Monster is the most iconic of those that brought the service to market, and the first to do it at scale. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996. The early 2000s saw Careerbuilder and Monster going head-to-head for market leadership – largely in a race for distribution. Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999.

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