The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 29, 2023

In 2005, Vineet Nayar made waves when he announced that the Indian IT company HCL would put employees first. This focus on customers continued when the researchers analyzed a wider range of corporate literature, including strategy textbooks, articles in the Harvard Business Review , and academic journal articles.

Leadership Styles 59

Leadership Styles Trends Agility Letter 59

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

We started in 2005 working with a lot of multinationals that were globalizing, seeing much of their future growth coming from new markets and needing their leadership teams to reflect a deeper understanding and representation of these places and cultures. Bundling these two mega-trends made a lot of sense. This isn’t new.

Diversity 52

Diversity Globalization Presenteeism CEO 52

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. But, what about agency, or intentionality, or what today we generally call strategy? If we have enough past information of competitive successes and failures, BDAI is capable of helping leaders develop options.

CEO 66

CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

However, all hope is not lost for Canadian businesswomen. In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1% of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% That means some of those women could be on the right path to move into corporate executive positions in the future.

Press Release 113

Press Release Discount PR Directory 113

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

If you’re not too proud to admit defeat and seek inspiration and ideas from elsewhere, you might find that crowdsourcing is a breakthrough concept that can help you to break new ground and potentially disrupt a market. A cash sum was offered as an incentive.

Project 50

Project Idea Generation Brainstorming Long-term 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Just six months later, eBay went public with its initial public offering, and by 2005, eBay was on fire with nothing stopping it. When Meg Whitman joined eBay in 1998, no one knew how successful the company would become. Whitman took the helm when eBay employed only a few dozen people.

Press Release 100

Press Release CEO Discount PR 100

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2016

These circumstances made the market ripe for our business idea – a central exchange for commercial real estate. We also made a point to engage insurance company executives because their companies had been the major underwriters of real estate development in the United States. We knew they were anxious to unload their holdings.

Real Estate 50

Real Estate Chief Financial Officer Business Model Magazine 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

This awareness helped cement my corporate world exit strategy. Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. It was time to let go of the illusion of control that the “big bucks&# created. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock! No longer a company creature; my job was surely destroying my soul.

Press Release 100

Press Release PR Exit Strategy Discount 100

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. Advertising revenues were slow to trickle in. 500 company.

Real Estate 50

Real Estate Advertising Magazine Finance 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

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. Wyn Lydecker is the founder of Upstart Business Planning, where she works with entrepreneurs to develop plans that answer the questions investors ask most often. 500 company.

Real Estate 73

Real Estate Magazine Entrepreneur Advertising 73

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

We've seen success with a novel approach to talent engagement: an integrated HR-Marketing strategy that teams Marketing's brand messaging savvy with HR's internal perspective and expertise. The partnership brings added value to Marketing as well.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Benchmarking Marketing Strategy 8

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.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Biotechnology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

And they love to pursue them, deadline commitments or old strategies be damned. They forget that the strategy which took them from small to midsize has already proven itself a winner. So they begin tinkering with their core strategy, burning up resources while their companies wander off their tried-and-true growth path.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The product's performance didn't live up to early press releases and has struggled in the market. This pundit makes predictions about markets that she doesn't participate in. Back in 2005 I wrote a piece [ PDF ] looking at a new video recorder introduced by Pure Digital Technologies, the Flip. The projector. The freeze framer.

Press Release 13

Press Release Strategy Long-term Video 13

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. Here are five strategies to keep in mind. That was my strategy as well. How do you know what to focus on? How do you assess your expertise?

Webinar 13

Webinar How To Audience Hedge 13

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. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. Build, Buy, Partner.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

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.

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

It's rare to find a corporate human resources function that accelerates change by actively finding ways to help drive new strategies. HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent.

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Its corporate development group looked at upwards of 150 targets a year, and used a remarkably efficient screening process that rejected any potential acquisition that didn't make good sense strategically. The company did not overlook small deals if they contributed to the development of critical capabilities. IBM-Lenovo.

Due Diligence 15

Due Diligence EBITDA Health Care Gordon 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

I had worked for over a decade to develop relationships with Latin American business leaders, several of whom were on Forbes' billionaire list. Moving into investment banking wasn't a fait accompli by pursuing a disruptive strategy, but my odds had improved. The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword.

Disruptive Innovation 16

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Success in this environment will depend on more than just creating better digital-enabled products; it will depend on building ecosystem-level strategies that encompass the many moving pieces that come together to create the new value proposition. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. A misunderstood story. digital-camera sales (No. 3 globally).

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

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.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

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.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. We developed this map after observing a small set of novice users try to complete the process.

Leadership 10

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

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.

Incubator 11

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 11

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 21, 2010

I wanna clarify your first point though… Social Media in an of itself is not a strategy, but it is absolutely smart to utilize Social Media with a strategy. Mike Suzanne Vara October 22, 2010 at 12:28 am Terry I agree it is not a strategy but like Mike it is part of/use with a strategy. Make sense?

Media 289

Media Tactics Strategy Open-book 289

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

invests vast amounts in innovation – $135 billion from federal government sources alone in 2015 – yet it lacks a coherent intellectual property strategy to ensure that the investment pays off. The strategy of promoting its technology helped Europe win this battle and gather the spoils in growth, profitability, and employment.

Licensing 8

Licensing Technology Participative Globalization 8

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.

Film 8

Film Merchandising Creativity Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Big-company corporate development departments dream of acquisitions that substantially boost revenue or bring assets that turbo-charge growth. Most midsize companies lack the breadth and depth of skilled corporate development professionals whose jobs are to source, make, and integrate acquisitions. The second reason is more important.

Company 8

Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

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. Although long ignored, these middle management positions have become increasingly recognized as critical to executing a company’s strategy.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Instead of simply providing health insurance, savvy employers are tackling health care costs by supporting the whole employee—everything from their finances to their career development to physical health. This strategy has helped the company both flat-line health care costs and book record profits. Employees get to choose which.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Morale Company 8

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. Doing little and more seems to be a good strategy when it comes to R&D, too. Apple's success comes despite spending much less than its peers on research and development. measures of.

Press Release 15

Press Release Technology Productivity Products 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

I've taught a course about these questions for many years at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and this year I notice a shift in the answers my students are developing. Another is planning an online resource to help disaffected high school students learn programming through developing apps for mobile phones.

Power 15

Power Education Construction Participative 15