Great Results Team Building
MAY 9, 2013
In 2004, though, something interesting occurred. The winter 2004 rainfall in Death Valley was nearly 300% greater than average, dropping almost 7 inches of rain over a few short months annual rainfall. The result of that rain was an awesome display of wild flowers.
Building Personal Strength
MARCH 29, 2010
The Red Sox were known, until 2004, as the team that couldn’t get it done in the World Series. The Yankees had the best record in the American League that year, and Boston made it into the playoffs as a Wild Card. The Yankees and the Red Sox are one of the great rivalries in sports. And that’s what was happening in this series.
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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. Thus, the most lucrative investment opportunities, with the highest payoff potential, never see the light of public market.
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. This simple strategy proved wildly successful. Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management.
First Friday Book Synopsis
DECEMBER 17, 2012
Toby Lester is a journalist, an editor, and an independent scholar. In addition to writing books, he is a longtime contributor to The Atlantic, for whom he has written extensively, on such topics as the reconstruction of ancient Greek music, the revisionist study of the Qur’an, and the attempt to change alphabets in Azerbaijan. Between [.].
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2013
—Andy O''Connell 38 Slides’ Worth What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs Reid Hoffman The year is 2004. Reid Hoffman is armed with a relatively new website and a PowerPoint presentation for a Series B investment pitch at Greylock.
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.
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