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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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.

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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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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 success can be attributed in large part to its "direct model." This simple strategy proved wildly successful. For more background on the potential deal, click here.) Dell returned as CEO in 2007.

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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? How clear are you about the criteria for success? In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. How well equipped are you to measure your company against those criteria?

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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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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions. That is because owners of small and medium size businesses focus mostly on the product and how to sell it.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

China's consumer goods market expanded rapidly over the past two decades primarily because of the growing number of first-time buyers, who were eager to buy goods and services that were previously unavailable or unaffordable. In fact, making products widely available will continue to be critical for success.

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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. Build, Buy, Partner.

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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. That makes sense.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Pizza Hut''s campaign unwittingly shut the door on thousands of customers who were either: 1) people within the target market that the ad alienated (ex: millennials who care about politics more than pizza); or 2) people excluded from the target market altogether (ex: non-Gen Yers).

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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. Remember, these difficulties are the fruits of success. China Economy Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

But the vast majority of successful entrepreneurs never take any venture capital. Take Claus Moseholm, co-founder of GoViral , a Danish company created in 2005 to harness the then-emerging power of the Internet to deliver advertisers’ video content in viral fashion. Less money raised leads to more success. Yes, I mean that.

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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

JULY 20, 2011

The success formula is part car guy, part bean counter, and part strategist. A succession of CEOs prior to Rick Wagoner (who fought heroically to overcome the dreadful hand he was dealt) allowed all manner of legacy costs to build up (retiree health, Jobs Bank, etc.) market: small and mid-car. Outside the U.S., And in the U.S.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

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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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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. That is, it isn’t enough to have solid strategies and good programs – to be successful, you must also have the influence to get them implemented.

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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

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. In the United States productivity growth averaged just 0.5% but also in most of the developed world.

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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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Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

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

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? 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.

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Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

With the passing of the torch at Apple from Steve Jobs to Tim Cook, the entire business world is wondering whether Apple can keep up the stellar performance of the second reign (1997-2011) of King Jobs or if this spells the end of its great run. Like Weinstein, he green-lighted the two projects and marketed them masterfully.

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Airlines Succession Creativity Motivation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. I can’t think of a single one” A fair point.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011. While there was some interest in our plans for China's mobile market, their primary concerns were economic and reputational: how could I prove to them that they would become rich, and that our company would be famous?

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Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Or they could analyze the behaviors of the most successful consultants and train others on their methods. Revenue in 2011 was $59 million. The most successful CFOs I know insist their company’s core strategy be written down.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Are characteristics like empathy and love a key ingredient in the making of a successful leader? She published her first book, Spark: How Creativity Works in 2011 and now hosts her own podcast, Pursuit of Spark! All of these companies use gamification in both their products and in motivating their employees for maximum success.

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Godin Open-book Mass Marketing Creativity 8

Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

There are 10 confrontations in particular that can make or break us, and we need to consistently be on the winning side of every one of them to reach the pinnacle of success. Each and every day we choose our sides and try to do the right things, with the objective of achieving something great.

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Leadership How To Blog Learning-by-Doing 337

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Over the course of my career I’ve assembled a very handy annual New Year’s “Checklist&# that helps get me focused and ready for the challenges to come in the days and months ahead, and well positioned for success. Do you need to reshuffle a few things now before things get too busy? Fantastic post.

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

In 2005, after years of negative publicity, Nike published its list of suppliers and toughened its compliance policy, requiring subcontractors to comply with the Atlanta Agreement on child labor, international conventions on freedom to unionize, and local labor laws. Enforcement of minimum wage law in Sialkot is not robust.).

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Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 8, 2010

It’s that power of the imagination, and while it can create a magical (and admittedly sometimes scary) candy factory, it can also create a similarly wondrous “idea factory&# that can drive leadership success, and long-term profitability.

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Leadership Idea Generation Open-book BHAG 283

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Seats are filling fast - dont delay [link] about 42 minutes ago from TweetDeck @tom_peters No, absolutely not. :-) about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck in reply to tom_peters @debworks Indeed he was.

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Productivity Products Blog Learning-by-Doing 306

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 27, 2009

But nothing continues in a market over time without continued demand. I can think of several that I’ve witnessed that, after succession, didn’t last too much longer. First is the dying of the local shop here in America, replaced by the big box. Ok, so why is this the case? Great point.

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Open-book Price Blog Learning-by-Doing 311

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

This is a book for the times we live in—and one that for many companies could mean the difference between success and failure. Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position?

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