Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Prahalad and Stuart Hart’s seminal book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid gained a wide audience when it was published in 2004 and has continued to be widely read ever since. Its iconic phrase, “bottom of the pyramid,” entered the English lexicon. But this approach seldom works.

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Entrepreneur Prahalad Bottom-up Price 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Here’s an update of some key numbers in that article: In 2004-2013, 454 companies in the S&P 500 Index that were publicly listed over the decade expended $3.4 Unlike Singleton and Buffet, Icahn makes it abundantly clear that he is only interested in Apple making a tender offer for it shares in order to double their already-high price.

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Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

Last week, as the eyes of the world were focused on the trials and tribulations of an old-line entertainment mogul, a presentation by a new-wave entertainment innovator were making waves as well. This is the face of business at its best, even if customers debate the latest wrinkles in the company's pricing policies. It's now at $16.

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Report Advertising Learning-by-Doing Media 12

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. Although Nokia introduced few radical new products, in the 1990s it was a bold, innovative company in broader business terms — more than most people realise.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

Volatile stock: In 2008, under Jobs, the stock price dropped by more than 50%. No advertising innovation: The "I'm a Mac/"I'm a PC" campaign ran for three and a half years without a refresh. In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. Amazon's price-to-earnings ratio is now 2,767. No iPad mini at all.

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Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

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. The Xbox 360 had the advantage of beating the other two consoles to market by a year, while the Wii introduced a novel motion-sensing wireless controller that allowed for significant innovation in gameplay.

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Strategy Price Case Study Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

In 2004, Michael Dell left the company, replaced by Kevin Rollins, a former Bain consultant who joined the company in 1996. Their aim was to determine if the companies in question became more or less innovative following the buyout. By the mid 2000s, much of Dell''s competition had faded.

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

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. He went on a tear of expansion in Latin America, then in 2004 undertook a merger with Belgium-based Interbrew. The discipline of tight margins never left him. They think large-scale.

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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

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 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

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. He went on a tear of expansion in Latin America, then in 2004 undertook a merger with Belgium-based Interbrew. The discipline of tight margins never left him. They think large-scale.

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For example, the now ubiquitous and much beloved Fiat 500 was first unveiled by Sergio Marchionne, no stranger to showmanship, at the Geneva Motorshow in 2004 following the buzz generated by the 2001 re-launch of the Mini-Cooper by BMW. This is a good first step, but it won''t make corporate culture more sensitive to UX. Some CEOs do get UX.

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Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

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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Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5% Investment, in turn, is critical for productivity growth, as it equips workers with more – and with more recent and innovative – equipment, software, and structures. In fact, about half of the slowdown in productivity growth — from an average of 2.4%

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Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Our data shows that from 2004 to 2014, WPP made a staggering 271 acquisitions — which averages to more than one every two weeks — 60% more than the next busiest acquirer during that decade, Google (now Alphabet). In 2004 PCC was in a poor position. Strength of productivity program. Improvements in differentiation.

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CAGR Due Diligence Industry Bottom-up 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. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase. Social innovation. Employee education. Employee incentives.

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

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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Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

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. But coffee has seen other innovations, too. Category creation requires innovation teams to re-think their role beyond just creating new products and services.

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B2C Strategy B2B Waterman 12

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

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 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. Moreover, the innovations lying at the heart of the unicorns’ success stories are digital innovations.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Successful platforms engage in platform evangelism, providing developers with resources to innovate, feedback on design and performance, and rewards for participation. In 2004, the residual assets were sold off for a mere $7 million, a tiny fraction of the $500 million auto manufacturers had invested.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 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. Indeed, the profusion of new treatments may present a serious challenge to the current payer strategy of negotiating favorable pricing with drug and device companies. Insight Center.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

At the same time, a second wave of innovation for job sites was cropping up, marked by two major developments: the appearance of listings aggregators (Indeed and SimplyHired, both founded in 2004), and the founding of LinkedIn (in 2003). No one watching the industry could have predicted the impact of LinkedIn.

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