Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. As has been the case elsewhere in Asia, companies in China traditionally focused on asset-intensive industries and low-cost manufacturing and paid little attention to intangibles such as brands and human capital.

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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 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 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

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

JUNE 2, 2016

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. In 2011 we were playing a bit of catch-up compared to the market.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

That's a concern for many companies, as a recent McKinsey survey highlights. In 2010, 20% of China's urban consumers spent more money than they did the previous year because they were first-time buyers; that figure dropped to just 5% in 2011, according to our survey. billion business. Geographic expansion holds promise too.

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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

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

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. The current setup for taxing the foreign operations of U.S. corporations. or whatever.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

When Fiorina came to HP, the culture that she walked into was very much “aim, aim, aim and fire” — a slow culture, during a time when companies were moving very fast. ” Fiorina attacked many different aspects of the company, including reorganization, cost cutting, and vision setting.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

” By detailing out how to orchestrate complex interdependencies such as customers, competitors, operations, logistics, marketing, and sales, writing a plan first appears to schedule out actions and strengthen the link between actions and performance for the new venture. ”, “Where do we want to get to?”, entrepreneurs.

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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

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 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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The other has guided numerous companies through digital transformations, most recently as SVP of Communities and Networks at Sears Holdings. In 2011, Netflix announced it would split into two businesses, then retreated after only three weeks. One of the best examples of a company evolving to counter customer insurgency is Dell.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Do we see similar patterns when we look at company level—and particularly at multinationals that operate in multiple countries? Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift? There are indeed some indications that point in this direction.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

These are important numbers to wrap your head around, but what do they really mean for countries and companies? For perspective, in 2011 carbon intensity improved just 0.8%. 260 billion : Global clean energy investment in 2011. Walmart has improved the fuel efficiency of its distribution fleet by 69% since 2005.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Do we see similar patterns when we look at company level—and particularly at multinationals that operate in multiple countries? Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift? There are indeed some indications that point in this direction.

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2014

What Auerbach did write in 2005 was that “the cardinal rule of incidence analysis” is “that only individuals can bear the burden of taxation and that all tax burdens should be traced back to individuals.”. Consumers, meanwhile, can buy from foreign suppliers. By comparison, workers are pretty immobile.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 16, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Path To Business Greatness: 5 Steps To Bridging The Divide Between Owners & Employees by Starbucker on May 16, 2010 It’s the biggest divide any company has – the one between its owners and employees.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Because it’s obviously important to do this, it often can overwhelm our brains and put us in a position where we operate as if our “job&# is: Get Stuff Done But is that really a leader’s job? I don’t believe so. Rather, it’s a byproduct of the real job of a leader.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. TMETC, which was established in 2005, got a big talent boost when Tata Motors acquired Jaguar and Land Rover in 2008. You can't run your global R&D operations from headquarters in Mumbai.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. What did 2010 look like for you and your company? But there’s only one that really matters: Did your company effectively execute its plans and initiatives? Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

A brilliant (but oh so eccentric) entrepreneur who had already amassed a large fortune was looking for more, and tapped me to oversee the operations of his latest acquisition. Which by the way – that is the reason of the existence of our company. How can I come accross a person that really wants to support our customers?

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 6, 2010

Analyze and Absorb Your Current Position – Just like we “studied&# up in January to know our business plan inside and out, we need to analyze and absorb the year-to-date operating results, so we can make meaningful comparisons (and more importantly, any mid-course corrections). I’ll be working to get back on track ASAP.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

For one thing, thanks to a long history of exclusive municipal franchising regulations that didn’t end until 1992, the two companies don’t overlap in any market—TWC customers will become Comcast customers (and get arguably better technology and service in the process), but no local market will see a decline in the number of competitors.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

For years, I operated with the belief that all I had to do was come up with the most brilliantly creative and strategically sound solution. An edgy marketing campaign might be what’s needed to jump start the brand but it might be too big of a leap for a conservative company.

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Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Get out in the field – engage with your teammates, roll up your sleeves, talk to customers – especially if there’s distance between you and your actual operations. I see this quite a bit and it is challenging when operating in a system where you only see parts of the larger picture. SURESHKUMAR.S SURESHKUMAR.S

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Leadership How To Blog Learning-by-Doing 337

Terry Starbucker

MARCH 15, 2010

Plus, taking these critical cogs in the wheel out of circulation for even a few days can certainly be a burden on the operation. Consequently, a lot of companies take a pass on any organized programs and let on the job training do most of the work for them. They take training very, very seriously, especially for their supervisors.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

He had just spent several days reviewing our business operations, and after absorbing our successes and industry-leading metrics, he couldn’t figure it out on his own. So he was compelled to ask me that question, perhaps hoping I would reply with some magic formula that he could take back home with him. “ Fc&# is Focus.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Out of the blue, I got a call from an executive recruiter who was looking for a particular kind of accountant to “run” a service company with over 425,000 customers. Apparently he didn’t care and the next thing you know I was indeed running the operations of that company.

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