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 That''s a problem.

Advertising 8

Advertising Business Model Audience Retail 8

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. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. The more people develop leadership and followership skills, the more successful they will be. Followers Get Things Done Better followership often begets better leadership.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

” Although the early merger integration was successful, it ultimately missed key mid- and long-term goals under Fiorina. When Mark Hurd took over as CEO in 2005, he took that picture down, and noticeably didn’t put his own up on the wall. People found that to be very tacky.

CEO 8

CEO Charisma COO Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

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. That's important for growth; many multinational companies still operate only in a handful of top-tier cities in China.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products McKinsey Survey 15

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.

CEO 8

CEO Content Long-term Operations 8

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. As Shawn’s book Big Potential demonstrates, social support is also a key predictor of overall happiness and success at work. Putting Meaning to Work.

Creativity 15

Creativity Report Conference Mentor 15

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. To understand Dimon's blindness, let's look at a quick history of the trading debacle.

Banking 9

Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

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.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 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.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Their crowning achievement was a service launched in 2011 called Google Takeout, a unified site for exporting user data from multiple services like Gmail and Google Photos.

Strategy 8

Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture. Rebrand from the inside out.

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Company Development 8

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. Thanks again to you both, and all the best.

Leadership 284

Leadership Follow-up Blog Learning-by-Doing 284

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.

Budgeting 256

Budgeting CPA Maturity Open-book 256

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

There’s no doubt that there is something special about those who can project the full potency of charisma – my immense enjoyment of Jack Welch is testament to that – but it’s no guarantee of success, nor is it an unbeatable difference between winning and losing. We need a good operational definition of charisma.

Charisma 309

Charisma Welch Stage-Gate Self-aware 309

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. I see this quite a bit and it is challenging when operating in a system where you only see parts of the larger picture.

Leadership 337

Leadership How To Blog Learning-by-Doing 337

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.

Influence 275

Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

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. I thought, “ how in the world could I possibly summarize all that we did to be successful in 30 seconds ?&# “Pr&# is Pride.

Blog 246

Blog Metrics Learning-by-Doing Handbook 246

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

I’ve had the opportunity to participate with many large, self-insured employers in three such marketplace collaboratives: one led by Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle in 2005, another led by Intel in Portland, Oregon, in 2009, and the Robert Bree Collaborative , created by the Washington State legislature in 2011.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Terry Starbucker

MAY 16, 2010

How these two goals are connected by the company’s leadership is critical to building operational greatness – an organization that is working at high efficiency, with great enthusiasm and ever increasing productivity. You’re right – businesses that work to bridge the gap will certainly be more successful.

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Metrics Mission Statement Download Objective 243

Terry Starbucker

JUNE 6, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Mid-Year Leadership Check-Up: 10 Ways To Stay On The Path To Success by Starbucker on June 6, 2010 With summer approaching it’s time for a mid-year leadership “Check-Up&#.

Leadership 263

Leadership Blog Learning-by-Doing Benchmarking 263

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Just one in three diagnostic mistakes result from physicians’ mental mistakes, according to a 2005 analysis by the Archives of Internal Medicine. But if we can put more technologically advanced, evidence-based tools in the hands of skilled providers, we can turn the most expensive 15 minutes of medicine into the most successful.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care System Software 8

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Three years later, it was clear that we had chosen our pillars well, for we had made substantial improvements in nearly every measurable aspect of our operations, and, most importantly, drove excellent financial results that exceeded expectations. What were these magical tenets? Something way out of the box? Revolutionary? Popularity: 2% [

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Quality Blog Media Objective 272

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. Delivering such training can be expensive, because this is typically the largest management group in most organizations. So many times in my career, I have seen managers choose supervisors for the wrong reason.

Team 261

Team Training Blog Skills 261

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. At J&J it may go back to 2005 when employees reported a lack of alignment between manager behavior and company values and policies. Poor execution doesn’t happen overnight. When one million bottles of St.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

By 2005 smartphones were already popular, but the Cupertino visionary saw something much cooler than a “Crackberry.” “Natural monopoly” was jettisoned as the operative assumption. Instead of having operations mandated, cellular carriers were given defined spectrum spaces. — would feature iPhones.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. In sum, the decline in the number of listing companies is a sign of successful adaptation of organizational structures by U.S.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While scaling these services is challenging, our research shows that having the right business skills is critical to success. Primary care delivery faces additional challenges for scaling because it operates on thin margins, often is not highly valued by patients, and has difficulty attracting trained providers. Insight Center.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. But there are four rules which can help managers of all walks of an organization instill the principle in their day-to-day work, in order to make self-cannibalization successful in the long run. Consider China’s Tencent.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

We set out to understand why once successful companies enter these deadly tailspins, and found that the root causes are usually internal. After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 10, 2010

I visit my company’s field operations quite often, and I like to talk personally with as many folks as I can. The karma comes back to me when I get e-mails or letters about how just showing up, and taking the time to chat, made a difference in how they felt about their jobs. The point is to live in a way that makes me proud.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing Follow-up Media 348