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. Much of this is driven by the needs of the financial sector, which itself has consolidated massively.

Pharmaceuticals 10

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

A brand’s difference gives consumers an easy rationale for choosing it, and a ready justification for paying a price premium. Research by Millward Brown finds that brands with a meaningful difference command a price premium 13 percent higher than weaker category alternatives. By 2011, Chobani was the number-one yogurt brand in America.

Apparel 8

Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

In the first, published in Asian Economic Papers last year, they reported a marked tendency toward slower economic growth when per capita incomes reach around $17,000 a year (in 2005 prices).

GDP 9

GDP Banking Finance Maturity 9

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. In spite of rising affluence, accumulating assets has become increasingly difficult, as China's economic growth has also resulted in the runaway growth of prices.

Engineering 8

Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 8

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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

However, this proportion is not growing; it has remained relatively static over the period 2005-2011, even as Mexico’s economy has grown. Each of these countries pays a price for the heavy usage of cash. pays a price as well of a different kind. How can this be? Much like the U.S., Much like the U.S.,

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking 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. By 2005, eBay was already being locally outmatched — by none other than Jack Ma’s Taobao.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

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. The height of the price tag that workers place on meaning surprised us all. Current compensation levels show only a marginal relationship with job satisfaction.

Creativity 15

Creativity Report Conference Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

In contrast, the capitalization of NOW, the former commerce unit of National Oilwell Varco, has been much less affected by the recent oil price collapse, which reflects the investor community’s confidence in the spin-off’s ability to prosper on its own. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. A Short History of Dell.

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

This is a true golden age for consumers, who are demanding innovation in both the packaging and pricing of content. Since 2005, cable companies have lost ten million subscribers. That was clearly the incentive behind the 2011 acquisition of NBC Universal , which gave the company access to a massive library of old and new content.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Dimon’s raise obviously has special resonance because JP Morgan’s legal woes were one of the top business stories last year as it agreed to $20 billion in payments to settle a variety of cases involving the bank’s conduct since 2005 when Dimon became JPM CEO. The bank earned about $18 billion, down from $21 billion the year before.

Banking 8

Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 27, 2009

It’s NOT about the lowest price, as you point out. i wrote about this here a few weeks ago ( [link] ) as relates to the American Booksellers Assoc suing Target, Walmart and Amazon for price cutting and threatening the local bookseller industry. One that will last a LIFETIME. How powerful is THAT?! What a missed opportunity here.

Open-book 311

Open-book Price Blog Learning-by-Doing 311

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 3, 2009

Then my perspective changed from the great experience place to the very expensive place, no VALUE then price is an issue. Seats are filling fast - dont delay [link] about 43 minutes ago from TweetDeck @tom_peters No, absolutely not. :-) about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck in reply to tom_peters @debworks Indeed he was.

Productivity 171

Productivity Products Sample Blog 171

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

billion leveraged private equity buyout in 2005, with the aim of turning the chain around, but the resulting debt has proved to be unserviceable. As Darrell Rigby argued in a 2011 HBR article , every 50 years the retail industry goes through a major disruption. Parents, for their part, were drawn by the “everyday low price.”

Retail 9

Retail Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Comparison 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

My understanding is that you''re in a bubble when the price of an asset becomes completely detached from its intrinsic value. A price of $198 per bitcoin is surely not justified by the fundamentals. But neither is a price of 10 cents. But maybe asset pricing is the wrong lens to be looking through here.

Price 8

Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

By 2005 smartphones were already popular, but the Cupertino visionary saw something much cooler than a “Crackberry.” Soon, multiple players were in the mix, offering “digital one-rate” plans and driving mobile prices from expensive to cheap (and bumping long-distance carriers from the market altogether).

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Because Leica made cameras at the top end of the price range and didn’t adapt to these changes, it lost money throughout the 1990s. From 2005 to 2007 its revenues declined from 144 million euros to 90 million euros, and it lost between 10 million and 20 million euros per year.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

The drug price situation in the USA is greatly exsaserbated by the corrupt political process. I wrote about this in 2005: Excessive Drug Prices in the USA (and several times since then, Drug Price Crisis [2008] – it is a long term, huge economic problem for the USA). Health care is extremely expensive everywhere.

Health Care 40

Health Care System Deming Letter 40

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

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. We will need strong global policies and a price on carbon. every year until 2050.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey GDP Cost-Benefit Analysis Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. But others have been larger, such as the $200 million price Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten put on Viki, a video-streaming provider.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Others cite the nine organizations leaving the program and the humbling results of a prior ACO experiment in Medicare — the Physician Group Practice Demonstration (PGPD) that ran from 2005 to 2010 — as reasons to be pessimistic. Thus, the only way for ACOs in Medicare to lower spending is to lower utilization.

Organization 8

Organization Health Care Insurance Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

corporations responded by bringing back $299 billion in profits in 2005, compared with an average of $62 billion from 2000 to 2004 and a subsequent decline to $102 billion in 2006. ” The researchers estimated that for every $1 increase in the amount repatriated in 2005, the companies increased distributions to shareholders by $0.60

Hedge 8

Hedge Proposal Pharmaceuticals Price 8