Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

If you're among the many multinational CEOs planning to appoint a local executive as your next country head in an emerging market such as Brazil, China, or India, you may want to think again. Knowing the market and possessing networks are important, but that's not all your company needs for success today.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

Yesterday HP announced that it would exit the PC and tablet computer business , focusing on higher-margin "strategic priorities of cloud, solutions and software with an emphasis on enterprise, commercial and government markets." Consider how HP and Apple faced the changes in the PC market almost exactly a decade ago. •On

Software 9

Software Maturity Resistance Business Model 9

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. Complexity had brought LEGO to its knees.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. However, the new handset, its software, and the available applications all failed to excite critics and customers. A second accelerant of IT delivery is the iterative software development philosophy known as "agile development."

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Forget bureaucrats, fancy lobbies, and marketing expense! Change management Leadership' Their game is baseball, my game is change.

How To 9

How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. It issued numerous upgrades that increased the speed and throughput of its routers and improved the accompanying software platform. Research & development Financial management' It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why. Take Cisco, for example. Drawing on data from the U.S.

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Some 650 people had already joined, and thus began the company’s wild ride toward becoming a social networking site with over a billion users, thousands of employees, and a market capitalization well north of $100 billion. Now bend it.”

Engineering 12

Engineering Class Software Mentor 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. First came a new point-of-sale system that included personal book software so that salespeople could track individual customer requests and needs online.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 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. Zone Labs was an upstart internet security software developer aspiring to disrupt established giants such as Symantec, McAfee, Check Point Software, and Cisco. Advancement.

Motivation 8

Motivation CIO Competitive Advantage Software 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The number of workers allowed via the scheme was capped in 2004, and the researchers wanted to focus on what they perceived to be an overlooked aspect of the immigration debate. The researchers tested this hypothesis using the 2004 policy change that saw H-1B visas heavily restricted as the focal point.

Offshoring 56

Offshoring Policies Innovation Organizational Behavior 56

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. For the convenience of using an online service that we don''t have to manage, we trade our privacy and risk the confidentiality of our data.

Document 8

Document Open-book Bottom-up System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. PDF) But that would leave you out of the game for many new technologies and markets, where alliances are essential.

Management 11

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

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.

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In 2004, large Seattle employers came to our medical center seeking more affordable health care. The first is establishing explicit, best-practice standards to reduce needless variation in the management of medical conditions. A uniquely disruptive application of the EMR is its use to block costly and unnecessary care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 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. “I was quite happy running a marketing organization within a larger software company,” Steve recalls.

Due Diligence 10

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

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. This laser-like focus implies a commitment from the top management team and prevents the risk of scattering managerial attention among different strategic challenges.

Company 8

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. Beyond EHRs, digital health tools — apps, wearable devices, and other hardware and software that measures and monitors health — are becoming common in consumers’ lives. Today nearly nine in 10 physicians regularly employ EHRs.

Health Care 9

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. Dice was actually launched in 1990, initially as a bulletin board service for recruiters – and by the late 1990’s had ascended to prominence as the go-to site for finding software developers in Silicon Valley.

Price 101

Price IPO Content Marketing 101

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Because more people used PCs, and wrote software for them, they became the default choice for nearly everyone. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off. Apple learned this the hard way.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11