Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

She joined eBay in 1998 and now, 10 years later, she’s following her own advice and leaving the company she helped drive to online success. Meg Whitman, 51, has been quoted saying a CEO should never stay with the same company for more than 10 years, because by that time the company needs a fresh outlook.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Winston, a former executive responsible for leadership development at the Countrywide Financial Corporation, spent three years in a legal battle against Countrywide, the once-mighty mortgage giant, and its current owner, Bank of America, contending that he was punished and pushed out for not toeing the company line. million in damages.

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CO2

MARCH 30, 2016

Anand’s first book, India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking (2011), about returning to the India his parents left is a worthwhile read, too. The Star Tribune reviewer called it “[a] beautifully written, intelligent look at the cultural history and changes of India.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Goes With What It Knows: Making Stuff,” centers on how Immelt is leading the company away from financial services and “soft services” like broadcasting and back to its historical roots of technology driven manufacturing.   Seeing that clean energy was going to be a growth market, Immelt launched ecomagination in 2005. 

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2012

According to one estimate, mankind created 150 exabytes (billion gigabytes) of data in 2005. It has great potential for good-as long as consumers, companies and governments make the right choices about when to restrict the flow of data, and when to encourage it. Complimentary Resource – The Truth About Big Data.

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Building Personal Strength

APRIL 4, 2011

2005 photo by Derek Jensen But in a way, paying for gas is less painful than it used to be. This cultural phenomenon was a big problem for the gas companies. Towards the end of the course, we asked participants to come up with new solutions for a real problem that was challenging their company. Copyright 2011.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. No longer a company creature; my job was surely destroying my soul. I packed my box, said “so long&# to the big bucks, turned in my company SUV, let go of a cushy expense account, and found the courage to walk away from a career that no longer suited me.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 3, 2010

It’s 2010, sneaking up on 2011 – I’m looking for a HECK of a lot more than eye contact and posture from my leader. Mary Shaun Emerson October 8, 2010 at 9:22 am I am familiar with a Fortune 100 company that doesn’t have offices at all. I am going to gladly share this with those around me. Thanks again.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. A case in point is TheraMatrix, a small Michigan company. In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Forbes recently published our list of the world's most innovative companies in which we ranked companies based upon their innovation premium. But why do some companies have a high innovation premium while others do not? CEOs of average companies, in comparison, scored at about the 68th percentile. Lafley became CEO.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2011

Therefore, if you are to transform a company you must inspire others to follow you. By energizing others, you transform them, and in turn they will help you transform the company. I perceive companies as participants in a race, running lap after lap in an effort to position themselves at the head of the pack. A Perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Big-company corporate development departments dream of acquisitions that substantially boost revenue or bring assets that turbo-charge growth. CEOs of midsized companies I’ve come to know over the last 30 years share the same dream. After a first deal fell through in late 2010, EORM acquired a Southern California firm in 2011.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Practical and well-tested, Front Runners : Lap Your Competition With 10 Game-Changing Strategies For Total Business Transformation shares author Mahesh Rao’s 10 strategic steps successfully implemented by numerous executives of Fortune 100 companies during the last decade. In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

You might think that emerging country companies are more ready to address the needs of and win customers in other emerging markets. A Unilever R&D team in India first developed and introduced the countertop product, which includes innovative four-stage germ kill technology, in Chennai, India in early 2005.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

On October 23, 1996, the day AT&T announced that John Walter, an industry outsider, would be named CEO, the company’s market valuation dropped by $4 billion. Companies were much more likely to make important announcements (both positive and negative) in the days surrounding a CEO succession than in the previous few months.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It was hard to be more of an insider at The Walt Disney Company than COO Thomas Staggs. The 26-year company veteran had been widely seen as the heir apparent to CEO Bob Iger — that is, until Staggs abruptly stepped down this month. “We’ve spent a lot of time with companies that are worried,” Nielson says.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Many leaders of midsize companies – especially if they’re the founders – are constitutionally inclined to see new opportunities around every corner. So they begin tinkering with their core strategy, burning up resources while their companies wander off their tried-and-true growth path. Tinkering can kill midsize companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

With more and more farmers using genetically modified corn from Monsanto Company that resists plant-killing rootworm, the share of U.S. acreage treated with insecticide fell from 25% in 2005 to just 9% in 2010. Insects resistant to the Monsanto corn appeared in 2011 and are now scattered across the Midwest.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

including CNOOC's attempt to purchase Unocal in 2005 and Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf Systems in 2011. billion in 2011 , but then had to retract because the companies could not agree on terms and struggled to get Chinese regulatory approval. If companies are incurring these costs unnecessarily they are destroying value.

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Women's Leadership Exchange

SEPTEMBER 25, 2005

Deborah Steinmetz owns a successful architectural design and space planning company firm based in New Orleans. Vienna owns a special events staffing company and considering permanently relocating to Atlanta. We were very happy to give them scholarships to attend the Atlanta conference on Wednesday, September 21st.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Americans — and American companies — have also connected the dots between clean energy and economic growth, with 87% last year saying that developing clean energy should be a priority for the President and Congress. After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Some are shutting down because the companies that own them are going bankrupt, while other corporations are moving inland. While Guangdong's exports accounted for as much as 37% of China's exports by 2000, its share dropped to 28% in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

billion Tumblr deal pay off when she said that the 14,000-employee company would work very hard to ensure it didn''t "screw it up" by imposing Yahoo!''s Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. That''s a problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

. “I wanted to highlight some of the progress we have made in mobile, which is another big strategic area for us,” he told listeners , noting that Google Maps was becoming popular for Blackberry users and later adding that it was critical that the company make sure all its content worked on phones.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Conventional wisdom and substantial evidence based on hard data assign to multinational companies (MNCs) a crucial role in the globalization of economic activities. trillion US$ in 2012 with respect to 2011 and still remains below 2005-2007 precrisis figures. Are they truly changing their global footprints?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2005 the world’s largest insurance broker, Marsh Inc., paid $850 million in fines in the aftermath of accusations that it had received kickbacks from insurance companies for steering business their way — a scheme at odds with Marsh’s commitment to finding the best deal for customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. In pharmaceuticals, the largest company, Pfizer, is the result of decades of mergers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

In 2005, Dimon hired Ina Drew to head the company's Chief Investment Office, the unit responsible for the bank's risk exposure. In 2011, the company dropped its requirement to exit investment positions when losses exceeded $20 million. And How Does It Affect Your Company?). MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. We exclude companies with a traditional CSR program that supports employee volunteering in the community – this does not by itself qualify as sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Reliance Group, India's largest private company, was split into two in 2005 following a power struggle between the Ambani brothers after their late father, Dhirubhai Ambani, died without leaving a will. At GE, succession planning and clear selection processes are institutionalized throughout the company. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

By contrast, since 2005, the importance of meaningfulness in driving job selection has grown steadily. “Meaning is the new money, an HBR article argued in 2011. Translating that into bottom line results, we estimate that enterprise companies save an average of $6.43 That’s good news for companies and employees.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

What they really talked about, though, was mainly just what they're planning to do with the $34 billion in cash the company has here in the U.S. companies that might otherwise repatriate the substantial amount of foreign cash that they have. Under territorial taxation, companies could do whatever they wanted with them.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. It took a few years to get things back on track, but from 2005-2010 Apple's innovation premium jumped to 52%. Can he do it? History suggests Cook's task will be difficult, but not impossible.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The company spends virtually nothing on advertising. The company now has over 200 stores, and sales soared from US $40 million to US $1.37 The company came along in 2005, after years of focus on low-fat products had left the US yogurt market vulnerable. In five years, the company held over half of the U.S.

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