Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. Many insurers simply exit a market once a rival negotiates an MFN. In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. Johns Hopkins is not alone.

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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. Stock market reactions are often used to judge whether a firm’s actions are successful. We tested our ideas using a sample of roughly 800 acquisitions in the U.S.,

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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. is expanding rapidly via acquisitions of Issue Group and Cosmetica Nacional in Latin America, while China's Huawei has a large direct presence in India's telecom market.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.  My wife worked with her in 1999 and back in January 2000, Nancy agreed to talk with totally stuck me even though I wasn't in her target market.   I used to work on Wall Street and knew the Ground Zero area really well. 

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

What trends do you see in the market, and how does your competition relate to them? In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. How clear are you about the criteria for success? How well equipped are you to measure your company against those criteria?

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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. Some deals have failed because of national security concerns in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

.” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels. The program delivered $1.6

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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. ”, and “How are we going to get there?”

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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. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In the guitar business , too.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

But marketing plays a broader role in shaping a brand. Good marketing helps ensure that brands are meaningful, different, and salient. The company came along in 2005, after years of focus on low-fat products had left the US yogurt market vulnerable. Greek yogurt market, and nearly 20 percent of the total yogurt market.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Based on data covering the period from 2005 to 2011, it charts how globalization has evolved since the onset of the financial crisis at the global, regional, and national levels. Capital markets are fragmenting and while merchandise trade recovered strongly since 2009, the intensity of services trade has remained stagnant.

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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. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

trillion US$ in 2012 with respect to 2011 and still remains below 2005-2007 precrisis figures. As illustrated in a recent article , in the aftermath of the crisis, MNCs are adjusting their global strategies by narrowing their focus relative to international markets. to a plant in Kentucky. to a plant in Kentucky.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

I looked at quarterly earnings call transcripts for Yahoo and two of its competitors from late 2005 to the first quarter of 2016 and counted mentions of “mobile,” “phone,” or “smartphone.” In 2011 we were playing a bit of catch-up compared to the market. The company has written off its $7.2

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. China Economy Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. Google''s 2005 purchase of YouTube fits into this category. CEO Marissa Mayer acknowledged the long odds of making the $1.1

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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. housing market could collapse and trigger a global financial crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

August 2011 HBR. But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. By 2005, Garanti began to open branches and grow rapidly. This is a commentary on " The Paradox of Samsung's Rise ," an article by Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee in the July?August

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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. A 2005 survey by the Boston Consulting Group found that only 7.5% of the top 200 managers in the firms sampled came from a set of 16 emerging markets where the firms intended to generate 35% of their growth over the next 5 years.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. Dell''s fortunes have not reversed over the past six years, owing in part to the recession, but more fundamentally to the decline of the PC market. For more background on the potential deal, click here.)

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 17, 2010

But what I tend to see in a lot of places is a real reluctance to go as far as they should for this very fear. What leaders need to keep in mind in their messaging are concepts that are very similar to marketers and their messaging. There’s certainly an “open rate” involved, to use a marketing term. Seriously, though, I agree.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive. It took a few years to get things back on track, but from 2005-2010 Apple's innovation premium jumped to 52%. This is not the first time, of course, that Jobs has left the helm at Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

per year from 2011 to 2016, compared to 3% from 1996 to 2005, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Job retraining programs are faster, but have only been partially successful in addressing job market mismatches. and other advanced economies have suffered a severe drop in productivity growth since the great recession.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

By our calculations, a company had to be in 60 cities to reach 80 percent of the country's middle class in 2005. Treated as part of a cluster, however, it becomes the center of a market with 6.9 Finally, there are also hundreds of small, geographically dispersed emerging-market cities. Today, they have to be in 340 of them.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 29, 2010

Thirteen years later, the stock price is now above $240, and it has a market cap bigger than Microsoft. Jobs returned to Apple full-time in 1997 and quickly put together a brand new marketing campaign that he presented in a speech that summer. Jobs, in that speech, declares that “ Marketing is about values&#.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. The successes of the collaboratives have been reported in the Wall Street Journal , the book Pursuing the Triple Aim , and a Harvard Business Review article that explains how other employers can replicate these efforts in their local markets.

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Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. This is an important point for all business leaders, but in my experience, I believe marketers are particularly prone to what I call “smart syndrome.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Like a shopper in a flea market, it is quite easy for a CEO at a midsized company to get distracted by sexy deals. After a first deal fell through in late 2010, EORM acquired a Southern California firm in 2011. When Lyndon Faulkner joined as CEO in 2005, he felt the then-$80 million firm had to make acquisitions to grow.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

As Shell, Chevron, Total, the IEA, and a host of other serious observers have openly declared since 2005, the age of cheap and easy oil has ended. We know that the economy fell on its face at $147 per barrel in 2008, and brought growth to a halt in 2011 at $120. The new pain tolerance limit appears to be $90 in the U.S.,

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Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

We have been analyzing cash usage behavior in emerging markets on different continents and experiencing different socio-political and economic challenges through our research in Egypt, India, and Mexico. However, this proportion is not growing; it has remained relatively static over the period 2005-2011, even as Mexico’s economy has grown.

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Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Slywotzky is a consultant and author of several books on economic theory and management. He graduated from Harvard College and holds a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has worked as a consultant since 1979 and is currently a partner at Oliver Wyman.

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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. The Business Transformation Agency was populated by people brought in from the commercial sector.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

And Bain & Company’s analysis of the performance of nearly 100 Western firms with listed subsidiaries in emerging markets found that these companies increased their profits there by an average of 15 percent a year between 2005 and 2010—compared to 23 percent a year for comparable local companies.

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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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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. Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. Cambridge, U.K.

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