Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

When the housing crisis began, Gen X owned the most expensive homes in the country. You have been harder hit by the decline in housing prices and ensuing mortgage crisis of 2008 than any other generation. Unfortunately, during the same period, the amount of your generation's home-secured debt rose even faster, by nearly 30 percent.

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Education Price Crisis Short-term 16

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 28, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full 3 For Your Leadership Reading List: The Half-Full Book Review by Starbucker on January 28, 2010 As the big stack on my desk attests, I love to read books that expand my knowledge and offer new insights on topics that interest me.

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Books Review Leadership Crisis 176

Terry Starbucker

JULY 15, 2010

by Starbucker on July 15, 2010 (This post originally appeared way back in 2006, when I was still on my blogging training wheels. characterized by, showing, or requiring great accuracy, precision, skill, tact, care, or delicacy: nice workmanship; a nice shot; a nice handling of a crisis. pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing Media Download 279

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?) Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Did you struggle to regain your post-recession footing?

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

Economywide ROIC has trended downward since the 1980s, falling from above 6% in the mid-1960s to 5% in 1980, then to 3% in 1990, and to only a bit more than 1% by 2010. It then leapt suddenly to 14% by the 2005–2007 period. The comparison is imprecise, of course, but nevertheless suggestive.

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ROIC McKinsey GDP Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Temporary employment has jumped 50% since the depths of the financial crisis. The profound difference between today [2010] and 2005 is that good hires looked like better investments than great tweaks back then. In 2010, good tweaks look like better bets than even great hires.". Something profoundly structural is going on.

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Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

As we can see with an additional year of hindsight, the lesson of the burning platform is that it is far better to anticipate the crisis and change your behavior well before the explosion. By 2010, it would have been too late to act, as we saw with the Border's bankruptcy. The book retail platform was not yet burning.

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EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

And Bain & Company’s analysis of the performance of nearly 100 Western firms with listed subsidiaries in emerging markets found that these companies increased their profits there by an average of 15 percent a year between 2005 and 2010—compared to 23 percent a year for comparable local companies.

Globalization 9

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

When the devastating earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010 , killing more than 250,000 and injuring countless more, donors and governments sent billions in aid and in-kind support. Yet rape has only been outlawed in Haiti since 2005 and hundreds of thousands are still housed post-quake in insecure tent cities.

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Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 13

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Three well-known speakers, Bill George, Bill Conaty, and Patrick Lencioni, talked about Leadership in the context of crisis, performance, and effective team building. Sign-up for More You can subscribe to this blog and Ill come straight to you! It could be your best decision in a while!

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Leadership Follow-up Blog Download 176

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

And Bain & Company’s analysis of the performance of nearly 100 Western firms with listed subsidiaries in emerging markets found that these companies increased their profits there by an average of 15 percent a year between 2005 and 2010—compared to 23 percent a year for comparable local companies.

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 2, 2020

billion m³ between 2005 and 2018 to cover 22% of land area. Prices for battery packs have dropped 87% since 2010. The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis , Ruth DeFries. ” Forest areas have increased by 7% in France, from 26% to 45% in Nepal, doubled in Costa Rica, and China by 4.56

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Globalization Report Energy Sample 94

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

From 1998 to 2005, J&J ranked at the top of Harris Interactive's National Corporate Reputation Survey , and in 2008 Barron's named it the world's most respected company. The Right Fight , by Saj-nicole Joni and Damon Beyer, (HarperCollins, 2010) is available in book, e-book and audio formats.

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Beyer CEO Follow-up Reputation 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

For the decade 2005-2014, McDonald’s expended $29.4 As you can see, the company ramped up its buyback activity during the internet boom of the late 1990s and then again in the years preceding the financial crisis of late 2008 and 2009. billion on buybacks, representing 67% of net income, and $22.1

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us. But haven't we heard this before?

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

In 2005, my colleague at Gonzaga University, Shann Ferch and I launched the International Journal of Servant-Leadership, which is now in its 10th year. We’ve had 10 issues since 2005. Sometimes it takes a major crisis in one’s life to sort of see the light, if you will. I just finished teaching my 50th class.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

In 2005, my colleague at Gonzaga University, Shann Ferch and I launched the International Journal of Servant-Leadership, which is now in its 10th year. We’ve had 10 issues since 2005. Sometimes it takes a major crisis in one’s life to sort of see the light, if you will. I just finished teaching my 50th class.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Since then its stock has more than doubled.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

In 2010, Gap announced a brand new logo, then retreated after a week. Within a week " United Breaks Guitars " had three million views (it's more than 12 million now), and United had a PR crisis on its hands. In 2005, a single post by blogger Jeff Jarvis led to a customer uprising now known as "Dell Hell."

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Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

The financial crisis, recession, and weak recovery have made matters worse, helping to intensify and galvanize the backlash against trade and globalization. The data is striking: Between 2005 and 2014, wages and other income stagnated or declined for more than 80% of U.S. households.

Globalization 8

Globalization Participative Insurance Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

Instead, the Commission's focus in the report is on the immediate causes of the explosion and on the individual and collective failures of BP (owner), Transocean (rig operator) and Haliburton (construction services) to assess and mitigate immediate risks — and to have effective crisis response plans. (It

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Analysis Report Operations Document 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began his tenure, in 2010, by lowering targets by over one-third, in a single bold move. Bertolini observed that many of his peers had been promising 15% earnings per share (EPS), even during the financial crisis of 2009. Bertolini knew that such unrealistic targets would create problems.

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CEO Short-term Long-term EPS 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The lessons from BP's gulf explosion in 2010 took a dramatic turn for many regulated industries. Because it failed to remedy safety process and safety management failures detailed in reports following BP's 2005 plant explosion at Texas City, senior BP management off the rig — from the board of directors down — acted improperly.

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Industry Operations Report Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It missed the crisis. The IMF missed the crisis. I finally did pay a visit to his office in D.C.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

You may have heard that Europe is in a state of crisis. The crisis we speak of has even more severe consequences for Europe’s global competitiveness. based corporations – prominent examples being Skype, founded in Estonia, acquired by eBay in 2005 for $2.6 billion in 2014. Oxford and Cambridge.

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8