CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Nothing gets done in organizations without followers, as they are people closest to the customers and issues, creating the products, taking orders, and collecting payments. Research has consistently shown that more engaged employees are harder working, more productive, and more likely to stay with organizations than those who are disengaged.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

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 Best Buy''s purchase of Geek Squad fits into this category.

Advertising 8

Advertising Business Model Audience Retail 8

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.

CEO 8

CEO Content Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Figuring that their earnings would decline, the cutters were trying to block adoption, in part by misinforming owners about the benefits of the technology. About half of the firms that accepted this offer adopted the technology in the next six months. The second surprise was an exception to this general rule. Not necessarily.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

There’s Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford commencement speaker and technology icon. Or as a software company chairman once put it to me in conversation, “if everyone else is misrepresenting product availability, can we afford not to?” ” (This is where vaporware emanates from.).

Morale 8

Morale Ethics Case Study CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 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. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 11, 2010

Let’s assume we are considering an investment in a new automated technology that could replace the need for certain personnel. Next there is the opportunity cost- that is, the cost of something we’ll be giving up to get this new technology. Or are we concerned that our initial assessment is a mirage, and we must dig in?

ROI 273

ROI Cost Blog Learning-by-Doing 273

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Revenue in 2011 was $59 million. Tinkering can kill midsize companies.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

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. facility in Cambridge Science Park. Reliance MediaWorks.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. 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.

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain 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. After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. Then there is the challenge of finding a spouse and starting their own families.

Engineering 9

Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 9

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I can say this with confidence, because my decision to jump into Social Media headfirst back in 2005 has played an important role in my personal development as a leader -nearly as important as the direct leadership experience itself. Here are 9 ways Social Media has helped me, and can help you too: 1.

Media 306

Media Blog Learning-by-Doing Influence 306

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

She published her first book, Spark: How Creativity Works in 2011 and now hosts her own podcast, Pursuit of Spark! If you're looking for a TED Talks that engenders every pillar of the word "TED" — technology, entertainment and design — this would be the one. Susan Cain: The power of introverts. Like to read?

Godin 8

Godin Open-book Mass Marketing Creativity 8

Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

So I see it as a mission when I talk to clients to find their CTM, what is your special, spicy, delicious sauce that you can add to your commodity chicken product or service? We all have something about us that is new, different, special and valuable, we just have to bring it out. We had a meal together in Melbourne too, which was great.

Succession 236

Succession Media Mentor Blog 236

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Many are betting on the new generation of technology firms to unsettle the old guard. More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. Self-cannibalization occurs when a company chooses to proactively replace one product or process with another that is potentially worth less.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

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. Furthermore, as production shifts to Asia and more and more U.S.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Regulators would now decide how spectrum would be used, what technologies were permissible, and approve — or reject — the wireless services, networks, applications, and business models that might be introduced. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

But thanks to social and mobile technologies, consumers are now "hyper-connected and super-empowered," to use Thomas Friedman's memorable phrase. We normally think of insurgency in a political context, but today's digital technologies are creating a similar dynamic in business.

Brand 15

Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

Businesses are beholden to quarterly profit targets and product life cycles that span several years or less, whereas government planners focus on assets that can take a decade to build and remain in active service for many decades. We designed a one-day workshop for planning and, in 2011, took it on the road to venues across the country.

Planning 8

Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion. According to recent estimates from the Telework Research Network, telecommuting grew by over 70 percent between 2005 & 2011 - and based on existing trends, the number of virtual or telecommuting workers will expand to almost five million by 2016.

Tips 145

Tips Team Management Teamwork 145

Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion. According to recent estimates from the Telework Research Network, telecommuting grew by over 70 percent between 2005 & 2011 - and based on existing trends, the number of virtual or telecommuting workers will expand to almost five million by 2016.

Tips 133

Tips Team Management Teamwork 133

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Nike did this successfully for its own target demographic in its 2005 print campaign that empowered women who workout to celebrate their natural curves by reclaiming and redefining phrases like "thunder thighs.". Tide found these voices and their 2013 "The Princess Dress" commercial aired to rave reviews.

Market Segmentation 8

Market Segmentation Advertising Marketing Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A 2011 McKinsey study estimated that the internet accounted for 21% of GDP growth over the previous five years among the developed countries studied, a sharp increase over the 10% contribution over the 15 years prior. since 2005 are due to this phenomenon. As most of us know by now, we have an increasingly internet-powered economy.

Politics 9

Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 9