LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

The data from the study come from 111 CEOs in the computer hardware and software industries from 1992-2004. Hambrick published in one of our top research journals, Administrative Science Quarterly. Here is what they found: In our sample, narcissistic CEOs did not generate better or worse performance than less narcissistic CEOs.

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CEO P&L Organization Organizational Behavior 90

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 10, 2020

At a firm level, this is usually translated into higher wages for employees at the most innovative firms, with new research from the London School of Economics showing that over 12 years, from 2004-2016, the typical worker in a non-innovative firm in the U.K. was paid around 20% less than their peers at one of the most innovative firms.

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Skills Emotional Intelligence Stress Storytelling 80

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

At times, multiple languages and multiple software systems, assisted by translators, might provide a more systemic solution. Or, should advancements in the implementation of lean, coming from a chartered Lean Institute , include a context for advocating standardization? Edward Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge.

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Six Sigma Deming System Quality 37

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

The methodology is Continuous Development, which, like agile, began as a software development methodology. Rather than improving software in one large batch, updates are made continuously, piece-by-piece, enabling software code to be delivered to customers as soon as it is completed and tested. Fix errors faster.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

In another, I managed significant software changeover/upgrade for more accurate and timely processing of accounting functions, inventory reports, and financial statements." A pioneer in the field, Rand’s personal brand got strapped to a rocket when he started his company, Moz, in 2004.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

Here's a case in point: In 2004, my HBS colleague Gary Pisano and I conducted a project at a leading manufacturer of highly sophisticated production equipment for the electronics industry, which I'll call "Exotech." So the company assumed the software team would, too. But the results were much different on the software side.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

What I’m referring to is the migration of functionality from hardware to software. But I’ve found that they’re less cognizant of how software has transformed other fields that we traditionally think of as hardware-based. That would be really hard to do with analog controls, but with software? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

As shown in our value analysis below, the brand increased in value from $12 billion in 2004 to $24 billion in 2014. From this, we estimate that the value of the brand grew from $12 billion in 2004 to $16 billion in 2008 to $24 billion in 2014. Then, a 3% growth rate was applied. One thing is especially worth calling out.

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Brand Sports Merchandising Reference 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

We became involved with the company, which produces inventory software, in 2004 when one of us (David) was sent by the prior majority investor to shut the fledgling company down. By the end of 2006 we had created the #1 most requested inventory software for use with QuickBooks and were solidly profitable.

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Team Leadership COO Software 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. A year later, IBM used a jam to bring its new values to life.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 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. 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."

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Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

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. So that year, AP began working with an AI firm to train software to automatically write short earnings news stories.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. The result was that Apple struggled to create a robust platform connecting Apple customers and software producers. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 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." By the time their success was worth noticing, in 2004, HP and Dell decided to dabble in devices.

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Software Maturity Resistance Business Model 9

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. Unicorns are: Small in size. Until 2014, Uber had fewer than 500 employees; today their headcount is around 3,000 people.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The China head of the packaging business, Li Xin, spent 13 years working in Sealed Air's American and Canadian operations before taking up the China assignment in 2004. LG equips its washing machines with software that recognizes simple commands, so that illiterate servants, who perform much of the household work in India, can operate them.

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Globalization CEO Long-term Operations 8

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

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. It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why. Take Cisco, for example. The company’s R&D expenditures dropped by about $1.5

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Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 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. With renewed solidarity and determination, the beard-wearing Sox went on to win the division, the playoffs, and the big prize. Their game is baseball, my game is change.

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How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Cox explained that the newbies start by working on actual Facebook software code knowing that their changes will be pushed live right away: “We tell them, put your hand on it. Today is Facebook’s 10 th anniversary. Now bend it.”

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Engineering Class Software Mentor 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

For example, building open source software, like we do at Red Hat, involves collaborating with people outside of the company who volunteer their efforts. Máirín started working at Red Hat as an intern and later joined us full time in 2004, after she graduated from college.

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Management Performance Review Review Mission Statement 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Working with an Israeli software development company, AppFront, we invested six months and more capital than we ever thought possible on it. You just have to look for and seize every opportunity to make your people feel valued and purposeful in their work. Last month, I visited all of our U.S. The app was a big technology project for us.

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Franchising Loyalty Download Operations 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.

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Motivation CIO Competitive Advantage Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software). Nor have they understood the need to continually improve processes.

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Microsoft and Intel, as is well known, have long sought alternatives to their being fused at the hip — Microsoft seeking alternative chip platforms for its software, and Intel supporting additional operating systems.

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Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They haven't learned the lesson of Comair , whose legacy crew-scheduling software failed on Christmas Eve 2004, costing the company $20 million and stranding 200,000 passengers when 3,900 flights were delayed or canceled.

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System CEO CIO Chief Information Officer 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

contributes the software and servers. I stored my first bookmark on October 14, 2004, on the day I wrote my very first blog post. We've placed those relationships in trust, along with the information about which websites we find useful enough to store, and which keywords we use to describe them. The essence of a web 2.0

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Media Competitive Advantage Software Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

One of the most significant came in early 2004 when we decided to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas. We also lost some good people: Our star software developer loved San Francisco and decided not to leave. In the years since Zappos was founded, we’ve had to make some big decisions.

CEO 8

CEO Call Center Real Estate Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse. Collins worked primarily on IT related work, such as systems integration and software development.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

For starters, he will be running a $75 billion+ enterprise with some 100,000 employees, an army of software engineers and many moving parts. Consider the CEO succession process at pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline beginning in 2004 when chief executive Jean-Pierre Garnier said he would be exiting in three years.

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CEO Bottom-up Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The term "social media" was popularized by Chris Shipley in 2004 , as she described the impact of influencers and bloggers in shaping product adoption, more so than traditional media outlets. about six years ago, and the emphasis was on the on software tools and platforms that increase information flow.

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Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

When these forces are weak, as in software and soft drinks, many companies are profitable. When they are strong, as in the airline and hotel industries, almost no company earns an attractive return on investment. ” So too would transformation strategies based on reconsidering your company or your industry’s value chain.

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Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Mike Subelsky, the co-founder and CTO at Staq, a tech start-up that makes software for digital advertising companies, spent most of his early career in roles with lots of responsibility, but not much authority. "I In 2004, he started a nonprofit in Baltimore. "It Case study #2: Take any leadership opportunity you can get.

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CTO Case Study Career Project 10

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 instance, an IT department can deploy a private cloud using open-source software, such as ownCloud.

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Document Open-book Bottom-up System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

I’ve been writing about this problem since 2004 , and doing my best to help advertisers avoid it. When users’ computers are infected with advertising software like adware and malware, advertisers are at still greater risk of being separated from their money with little to show for it.

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Marketing Affiliate Marketing Advertising Dunning 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

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In 2004, large Seattle employers came to our medical center seeking more affordable health care. As both customers and consultants to EMR developers, providers benefit by bringing their practical perspective to bear as these tools are designed and embedded in software platforms.

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Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8