Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

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. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

firm, Qualcomm, developed the world’s most advanced technology for second-generation mobile telephony, but European firms had an advantage: a coherent pan-Continental IP strategy that included mandating technology sharing among European competitors and setting the pricing and licensing arrangements to ensure rapid adoption. for MPEG-2.

Licensing 8

Licensing Technology Participative Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

For businesses, paper money has to be managed: it must be stored, guarded, and accounted for. Such government safety net programs kept some 25 million people out of poverty in 2010. However, this proportion is not growing; it has remained relatively static over the period 2005-2011, even as Mexico’s economy has grown.

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

million university graduates entered the job market in 2010 , up from one million in 1999. China's news services reported that in 2009 a record 1 million people took the national civil service exam , up from 775,000 in 2008 and 500,000 in 2005. The rewards were there, but they came at a high price. More than 6.4

Travel 9

Travel Survey Marketing Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Investors also did well: A $100 investment in Ruger in late 2010 was worth $443 in late 2015, while the equivalent investment in the S&P 500 yielded only $163 over that time frame. It’s worth remembering Peter Drucker’s famous distinction: “management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”

Licensing 8

Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Organizations have always depended on data — to manage operations, to communicate with customers, to pay employees and suppliers, to plan their futures, and so forth. Similarly, Fitbit counts steps and provides some simple summaries that help people better manage their fitness. But how, and at what price?

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team. By 2010 the company had become the best-performing stock in the S&P 500, worth $30 per share and earning investors a return of 29 times. Build a Re-Founding Team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

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.

Industry 15

Industry Operations Report Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Others cite the nine organizations leaving the program and the humbling results of a prior ACO experiment in Medicare — the Physician Group Practice Demonstration (PGPD) that ran from 2005 to 2010 — as reasons to be pessimistic. Thus, the only way for ACOs in Medicare to lower spending is to lower utilization.

Organization 8

Organization Health Care Insurance Quality 8