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Beyond Core Competence

Harvard Business Review

But it got stuck in its core competence of traditional film products and missed the rise of digital photography and printing. In 2005, IBM sold its PC division to its former competitor, Lenovo. And the ability to do that may become a new core competence. For decades, it was synonymous with photography.

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HPU: A Case Study in the Extraordinary

Mark Sanborn

In fall 2021, HPU ’ s freshman class was larger than the entire student body was in 2005 and will have access to 62 majors and 64 minors. . Qubein, an alumnus of High Point University, became the seventh president of this 94-year-old institution in 2005. We ’ ve invested $200 billion in our campus since 2005.”

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Square Pegs, Round Holes, and the Peter Principle

Terry Starbucker

Now 23 years on from that all-important 1 st lesson I have realized something else – right hiring decisions go beyond core competencies. The personality profile also has to match. Because ultimately, that is what you really cannot change. those “ where do you see yourself in 5 years “ types of queries).

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Three Unexpected Ways to Help with Disaster Recovery

Harvard Business Review

But Thomson Reuters Foundation took a different tack in its response, going beyond donating to leverage its parent company's core competencies in information and the legal industry to catalyze change. Yet rape has only been outlawed in Haiti since 2005 and hundreds of thousands are still housed post-quake in insecure tent cities.

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The Question with AI Isn’t Whether We’ll Lose Our Jobs — It’s How Much We’ll Get Paid

Harvard Business Review

The “fissured workplace” — where firms focus on their core competencies and contract out everything else — results in low pay, few benefits, and job insecurity for workers. in 2005 to 15.8%

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

British law created the Community Interest Company in 2005, and a number of U.S. They can launch new for-benefit ventures by leveraging their products and services, know-how, core competencies, and assets to develop market-based solutions to particular social or environmental challenges.

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Corporate Inequality Is the Defining Fact of Business Today

Harvard Business Review

public companies from the 1960s up to 2005 in HBR: “Since the mid-1990s, a new competitive dynamic has emerged — greater gaps between the leaders and laggards in an industry, more concentrated and winner-take-all markets, and more churn among rivals in a sector.” There’s Too Little Competition.