Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

After all, he has asserted since 2004 that global oil production was nothing to worry about, and that there would be few effects on the economy. Conventional crude ended its 150-year-long growth trajectory in 2004 and flattened out around 74 million barrels per day. On the plateau of oil supply, prices are trapped on a narrow ledge.

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Eric Jacobson

MAY 7, 2018

For instance, while buyers most want to talk about : What my company is trying to achieve with the purchase The reasons my company needs to make the purchase My company’s overall goals … sellers most want to talk about : Pricing How the product/service works (a product demo) So, if you sell, you need to read this book.

Ramaswamy 50

Ramaswamy Open-book Prahalad Bottom-up 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Why are food prices — which rose by 13.4% The price of pork, a staple meat in China, was 43.5% Any little thing — too much rain or too little, a crop failure in one region, anything at all — leads to a spike in prices today. However, prices rarely, if ever, return to their old levels.

Price 8

Price Sharpe Banking Class 8

Building Personal Strength

MAY 30, 2010

Until 2004, that is, when we suffered a direct hit from Category 2 Hurricane Frances. We found a better home than we thought we’d find in our target price range. Before my wife and I moved to the Texas Hill Country, we lived in Vero Beach, Florida, a small, quiet Atlantic-side barrier island community far from the big city.

Real Estate 92

Real Estate Hotels Analysis Price 92

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

In a study of inflation peaks that preceded monetary-policy adjustments in 21 nations between 1974 and 2004, Tony Caporale of the University of Dayton found that higher peaks were linked with higher levels of unionization. High levels of unionization can lead to wage inflexibility, which can contribute to consumer price increases.

Price 8

Price Policies 8

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 18, 2022

Indeed, the final contract price can often be much higher than the initially agreed price. The authors believe these factors are important to assess in unison because they directly affect the initial terms and the final contract price. billion.

Price 91

Price Cost Analysis Project 91

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

However, at lower levels in the organization (that are more price sensitive), traditional 360? Goldsmith in strategy+business, Fall 2004. The people who I am coaching are all CEOs or potential CEOs, and the company is making a real investment in their development. This more involved level of feedback is justified. References.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term CEO Follow-up 123

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I N 2004, Barbara Kellerman wrote that “the idea that some leaders and some followers are bad, and that they might have something in common with good leaders and followers, has not fully penetrated the conversation or the curriculum” on leadership. And it should because it is true—the good and the bad in an inherent part of us all.

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Self-aware Definition Objective Rogers 298

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

While the companies comprising the S&P 500 reduced their average cost of goods sold by 500 basis points between 2004 and 2014, they made no progress at all in trimming SG&A expenses, which include executive salaries and corporate overhead. It would seem that managerial enthusiasm for all things “lean” has its limits.

Bureaucracy 10

Bureaucracy Organization Health Care Drucker 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

Jarrow, Kchia, and Potter then plugged in LinkedIn's minute-by-minute stock price movements during its first week of trading. It's not just an asset-price bubble; it's an asset bubble supported by borrowing that uses those very assets as collateral. mortgage borrowers got into this situation from about 2004 through early 2007.

Company 14

Company Finance Price IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

There was a heartening rally between 1996 and 2004, when growth returned to its 1950s/1960s levels of 3% — a performance almost universally attributed to the efficiency gains from information technology. markets was to systematically reduce prevailing price levels. in the 1980-1995 period. Many US firms in many U.S.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Price Globalization 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

While the rules may be shifting, the long-term sustainable advantage gained by building a strong brand – a brand that builds stability, trust, loyalty, and drives a premium price – remains consistent. which resulted in an increase in brand awareness of 72 percent between 2004 and 2010.

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Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 64

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

When Charles "Chuck" Schwab returned to the helm to turn around his troubled financial firm in 2004, for example, he installed such a system. Customer-churn rates declined by more than one-third, the company continued its double-digit growth, and its stock price has increased tenfold over the past few years. The result?

Customer Loyalty 14

Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Buying Smithfield allowed Shineway to sell pork in the Chinese market at a premium price. Geely launched new models at around double the price of its other cars. Technology. Companies in China are also on the lookout for technology that will help them expand. The acquisition was a huge success. Access to mature global markets.

Company 8

Company Maturity Globalization Reputation 8

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.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Prahalad Bottom-up Price 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Kocieniewski describes forklift drivers moving aluminum from warehouse to warehouse in Detroit to profit from rules set by an overseas metals exchange, while delivery times to actual users of aluminum have stretched to 16 months and aluminum prices have been pushed up by the equivalent of a tenth of a U.S. cent per aluminum can.

Cost 8

Cost Fraser Hedge Price 8

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.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

For example, in 2004, Renault launched Logan, a small, no-frills family car. At a starting price of $10,000, the car is built with drastically simplified product architecture and minimal components. The result is DOST, an entry-level pick-up truck with a starting price of Rs 3.7 And they did it. lakhs ($6,600).

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004. That conventional wisdom has now reversed.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

This is the face of business at its best, even if customers debate the latest wrinkles in the company's pricing policies. Back in November 2004, the company's stock was trading at $18 per share. Back in November 2004, Netflix was trading at $10 per share. The contrasts with News Corp. could not be more dramatic. It's now at $16.

Report 13

Report Advertising Learning-by-Doing Media 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

For example, the initial investments of $25 million, made by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital in Google in 1999, increased by more than hundred folds by the time Google went public in 2004. By the time, those opportunities reach public markets, if at all, they are fully priced.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Company Kleiner 8

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. And a weak lineup of games at launch, combined with the high price translated into a weak holiday season for Sony in 2006. There are already strategy lessons to be drawn from the contest.

Strategy 12

Strategy Price Case Study Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. The state has willingly paid the price of economic inefficiency to accomplish political, social, economic, and diplomatic goals. Some have argued that Chinese subsidies help consumers by keeping prices low.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

Volatile stock: In 2008, under Jobs, the stock price dropped by more than 50%. In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. Amazon's price-to-earnings ratio is now 2,767. Some people are saying that Tim Cook just ain't up to it, that he's no Steve Jobs. Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate. No iPad mini at all.

Marketing 11

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 11

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. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

All economists recognize that competitive analysis is all about customers; if firms exercise market power, customers suffer through higher prices and foreclosed entry of new competitors. To answer the question of how prices would be affected, it needed only to look at existing markets where one player operated but not the other.

Wireless 13

Wireless Report Price Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Ambassador to India from 2004 to 2009, was more successful in part because his long tenure enabled him to gain trust, respect and apply his learning effectively. Value, not price: The common wisdom is that India’s buyers seek the lowest possible price and are prepared to compromise on quality. David Mulford, U.S.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12

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 15

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

In 2004, the circumstances were different. To my surprise, the stock price went up 2.9% A February 7, 2008, article in Fortune magazine reported that all the drugs highlighted at a December 2004 analyst meeting had come to market. We viewed restructuring as a last resort. The board supported our recommendation.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004. billion — the world’s biggest internet offering since Google’s IPO in 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

To our surprise, it sold in 20 minutes for 25% more than the asking price. For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. to 2% of the shelf price of most products. Insight Center.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

In doing so, they often fail to ask the right questions beyond which acronym rolls of the tongue most easily. Clever turns of phrase can fool many except those who actually spent time in emerging markets and ask tough questions.

Banking 15

Banking Politics Globalization GDP 15

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. In 2004, three years before the iPhone, it rejected a proposal to develop a Nokia online applications store.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

W]e seek to find undervalued companies in the Graham & Dodd tradition, a methodology for valuing stocks that primarily looks for deeply depressed prices.” After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Consider the soul-searching that must have gone on at Merck in 2004 when its management finally made the decision to remove Vioxx from the market. An unignorable moment calls into question the identity of the entire organization and raises upsetting questions: Who are we? Why do we do the work we do? Will I have to change my behavior?

Company 14

Company Crisis Crisis Management Video 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Just 6% are using AI in pricing. When Joseph Sirosh joined Amazon.com in 2004, he began seeing the value of AI to reduce fraud, bad debt, and the number of customers who didn’t get their goods and suppliers who didn’t get their money. Similarly, only 8% are using AI to allocate budgets across the company.

Company 13

Company Survey Finance Engineering 13

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. Lerner has another paper relevant to the Dell case, which looks at the performance of buyout companies'' stock prices after they IPO, including public firms taken private in the deal.

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15