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Leadership in the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association

Coaching Tip

Presented to an individual within the RV industry who has made extraordinary contributions to the industry''s overall success. The RV Financing Community. Thor Industries. Coachmen Industries. Norm Jacobson. Lance Camper Manufacturing Corp. Sid Johnson. Jayco, Inc. Pete Liegl. Forest River, Inc. Wade Thompson.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. The diverging fortunes of two recent spin-offs in the energy industry illustrate how financial markets value autonomy from the parent. and the competitive intensity of its industry.

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No. inch vs. 3.5-inch Today, it is occurring at the level of ecosystems. 3 globally).

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How Chinese Companies Can Develop Global Brands

Harvard Business Review

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture. Rebrand from the inside out.

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Cool Alone Won't Save Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Hence lots of the analytical, linear thinking at GM drove him to distraction; Product Planning analysts in particular: "a department composed of recycled finance types" as he calls them in the book. Bob tells it like it is and has a more holistic sense of cause-and-effect relationships than most. And in the U.S. market: small and mid-car.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. based corporations – prominent examples being Skype, founded in Estonia, acquired by eBay in 2005 for $2.6

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