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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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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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. I’ve been in management roles since I was 25 and have learned a lot in that time–sometimes the hard way, sometimes from mentors, and often from observation and ideas from people like you.

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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. My former employer decided to downsize our management group within two months of my planned exodus. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock! After fourteen years, I left my prior life on my terms.

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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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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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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 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.

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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. But they are far more cautious, as they should be. And plenty do. The second reason is more important.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently (1999). By Daniel H.

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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 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

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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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

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

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 The Dollars (and Sense) of Meaningful Work.

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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

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. Can Guangdong manage such a transition before its current manufacturing base is eroded?

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GDP Pharmaceuticals Long-term Globalization 12

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. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS. Five House Rules for Managing Risky Behaviors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

August 2011 HBR. Amid the financial crisis in Greece and threats of double-dip recessions, the last thing on the minds of Western companies right now might be recruitment. But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. Group merged its three banks (Körfez, Osmanl?,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. 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. ” Improving risk management.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

If your company''s management team isn''t as global as its target markets, you aren''t alone. companies admit that they have failed to fully exploit their international business opportunities because of insufficient internationally competent personnel. A 2005 survey by the Boston Consulting Group found that only 7.5%

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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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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. That''s the question Michael Dell has been asking himself since 2007, when he retook the top job at the computer company he founded in 1984. How do you get back on top? A Short History of Dell. So will it work?

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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

JUNE 12, 2014

High-powered incentives do produce a flood of ideas, but that’s not necessarily a good thing—a flood can be overwhelming, leaving companies unable to act on many of the ideas. You’re better off implementing low-powered rewards, which are much cheaper and yield a more manageable stream of ideas.

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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 It does not just manage to get a brand into a customer’s consideration set; it powerfully influences which aspects of that brand the customer notices and experiences. billion in eight years.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Using these representative data, we then charted the entrepreneurs’ attempt to create a viable new venture over a six-year period (2005-2011). For a plan to be effective, it needs to detail out what the opportunity is, who the customers are, why competitors should be fearful, and how the company operates and makes money.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. I think the work that Duane Trammell and Ann McGee-Cooper and their associates have been doing with companies like Southwest Airlines and TDIndustries are stellar examples of what can be done within organizations once they make a commitment to servant-leadership. Ben : I love it.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

There’s Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford commencement speaker and technology icon. Third, organizations — whether they are companies or soccer teams – exist in ecosystems and if you want to change individual behavior, you need to change the systems in which that behavior occurs. Ethics Leadership Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team?

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Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. I think the work that Duane Trammell and Ann McGee-Cooper and their associates have been doing with companies like Southwest Airlines and TDIndustries are stellar examples of what can be done within organizations once they make a commitment to servant-leadership. Ben : I love it.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. Unlike at commercial companies, there was no senior leader who could mandate changes.

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