Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The deep recession in commercial real estate had forced corporations to freeze all marketing budgets. In 2005, he sold USI to Johnson Controls, a Fortune 100 company, and at that point, became CEO of JCI’s Global Workplace Business for the Americas. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. You are a new visitor to this blog.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Prahalad and his colleagues more than a decade ago in a series of articles and books, and it has stuck in the minds of businesspeople, policy makers, and nonprofits despite results that can only be described as dismal. And in D and E markets, the environment demands a very high contribution per transaction. It was laid down by C.K.

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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. Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. In 2005, they launched a U.S. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Wouldn't it be nice, Francis Fukuyama writes in an article called " The Future of History " in the current issue of Foreign Affairs , if some "obscure scribbler. I know this because these people are constantly submitting articles to HBR. Its scribblers aren't in "a garret somewhere." Note to U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward. increased by over $300,000.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism. Philippe Intraligi/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Entrepreneurship, even in the form of part-time work to complement a traditional day job, can provide a useful hedge against economic uncertainty and a way to develop new skills. ” Don’t just come up with a clever notion; make sure people actually want it before you spend a lot of money developing it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

For one thing, in an era when trust in traditional sources has eroded — in government, media, and in companies and the marketing they employ — word-of-mouth from trusted peers wields greater clout than ever. Around 2005, marketing became a bigger force driving growth. That’s no longer true.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

As an article in a 1985 issue of Fortune said: "[T]hese pioneers of the baby-bust generation are finding life on the career frontier harsher than ever. As an article in a 1985 issue of Fortune said: "[T]hese pioneers of the baby-bust generation are finding life on the career frontier harsher than ever. Unemployment hit 10.3

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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. According to a recent survey, 76% of senior executives reported that their organizations needed to develop global leadership capabilities , but a mere 7% felt they were doing so effectively. Some 30% of U.S.

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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. 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

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Wallace Garrison/Getty Images. We get back to core stuff.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

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 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. August 2011 HBR.

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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

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Given its current approximate market cap, we could call this the $640 billion dollar question.). Yes, Apple's marketers are being coy. At the same time, the word recalls an article of faith for the company, that little can be more. Apple's success comes despite spending much less than its peers on research and development.

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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

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. On April 4 of this year, Dimon read a short article in the Wall Street Journal about a JPMorgan trader in London, Bruno Iksil, who was making massive bets that exposed the bank to high levels of risk.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Kauffman research has shown that in some years (1985-2005), young firms have been responsible for as much as two-thirds of new American jobs. I call this the Six+Six Model for entrepreneurship ecosystem development. the total spending on entrepreneurship promotion in developing countries is still miniscule. While the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

After all, if acquisitions pay off they can provide a transformational antidote to a slowing core market and declining margins. Helping customers complete their “journey” An example of a stunningly successful merger was Procter & Gamble’s 2005 acquisition of Gillette.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Nokia is still struggling to find a future beyond going head to head with the Android and iPhone platforms in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. To see why, please check out "Two Routes to Resilience," an article from Innosight-affiliated authors in the December issue of Harvard Business Review.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

So we must develop an intuitive process to make these split-second assessments on the fly. Craig (TMNinja) March 1, 2010 at 3:33 pm Great article, love it! Barb Dworak March 2, 2010 at 1:19 pm Great Article. Priyanka D March 3, 2010 at 3:14 am Great article, mentioned it on our blog too! But we can’t do that.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. And wages are stagnant.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Investors favorably receive projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development. At that time, we had major drugs about to go off patent, which would lead to a rapid decline in revenue, and we also had lost drugs in late stages of development that we were counting on for future growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2013

I first wrote about these contemptible "information" graphics in HBR in 2005, and since then they've only seemed to multiply. Here's the original article. The friendly-looking sunburst that follows, captured from the website of a solar energy advocacy group, shows how to create an unlimited market for your product.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 24, 2010

] Tweet This Post Tagged as: Leadership , Social Media { 10 comments… read them below or add one } Brandon Cox January 24, 2010 at 10:21 pm It’s funny to me how boardrooms are now addressing a subject that grassroots marketers and small business owners have adopted ahead of time. Great stuff! But it’s a step.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Yet the determinants of its successful development are far from established or well understood. In 2005, the OECD estimated that annual TFP growth averaged 3.7% What about spillover gains tied to foreign direct investment, joint ventures, and other ties to developed countries? per annum during 1978-2003, but slowed to 2.8%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

By 2005, Kodak ranked No. It developed over 1,000 patents related to image capture that commanded billions of dollars in licensing revenues (for access to its “218” patent alone, it was paid $550 million by Samsung and $414 million by LG). 4 in the inkjet-printer market, where it joined the likes of HP, Lexmark, and Canon.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

In today’s fast-changing, unpredictable environments, companies must simultaneously exploit existing profitable business models to run their core business and also explore new products, markets, and models to drive growth. In 2005, Disney was lagging in creative output and commercial traction.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

When it comes to technological development for safer guns, it is a task assigned to the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security — not to the U.S. For example, Ruger’s new product development process is “doing things right.” ” Good management is an ample supply at the gun manufacturers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

As these technologies have fallen in cost, they are within reach in more markets, meaning that it’s easier to create and grow these high-growth, high-tech businesses in more cities. Techies and entrepreneurs around the world can count on greater opportunities in their home markets. The second factor is economic.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 21, 2010

It is part of the overall marketing and advertising plan. One of the first things I did when coming on board was develop a Social Media Roadmap. It is the way people are now communicating with eachother and the way business’ are marketing. Thanks for your brief, but insightful post. Community, and Measurement.

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