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.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

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! However, they will rock even louder on my terms as an entrepreneur and professional coach.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In recent years, Indian firms such as Dr Reddy's have also started globalizing their R&D footprint by moving into Western markets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

In an earlier post , I discussed the impact the Global Financial Crisis had on the formation of this new generation. Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. Mobile technology. Cloud Computing.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

You might think that emerging country companies are more ready to address the needs of and win customers in other emerging markets. is expanding rapidly via acquisitions of Issue Group and Cosmetica Nacional in Latin America, while China's Huawei has a large direct presence in India's telecom market.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

In the past ten years, we've had two major wars and a near meltdown of the global economy.    On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.    A lot of this, I think, is driven by the 24/7 expectations that are made possible by our communications technology. 

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Often, managers think about patent litigation as a “narrow” strategy to protect a particular technology against a specific infringer. The first one is the marketing effect of IP litigation. And this is particularly interesting given the aggressive marketing strategy implemented by Samsung in the past few years.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

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. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

To survive, it has stopped selling film cameras, focusing on the digital ones that dominate the market. In 2005, IBM sold its PC division to its former competitor, Lenovo. It sold this money-losing division systematically evolved itself to become, once again, a respected technology competitor. But it arrived late.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

But as with so many aspects of American economic ingenuity, high-tech startups have now truly gone global. cities continue to dominate the global landscape, including the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Boston, and Los Angeles, but the rest of the world is gaining ground rapidly. Globalization. A number of U.S. Urbanization.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. — National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress, Technology and the American Economy, Volume 1, February 1966, pg. in 2005 to 15.8% Humans have always shifted away from work suitable for machines and to other jobs. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Numerous countries, from Singapore to Japan, have established intellectual-property strategies aimed at achieving the greatest possible public benefits from their companies’ innovative ideas, primarily by ensuring that home-grown technologies become globally dominant in their fields. For example, in the late 1980s, a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

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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. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. The next year featured a modest decline of 8%, which could be explained away by a global recession. This post isn’t for you. Everyone still here?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Globalization need be seen not as an inexorable fact of life but rather as a challenge and an opportunity that must be carefully controlled politically. In the nineteenth century it was political activists and radical social theorists such as Marx who held out the promise that new technology was creating a new world.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

There was a heartening rally between 1996 and 2004, when growth returned to its 1950s/1960s levels of 3% — a performance almost universally attributed to the efficiency gains from information technology. year from 2005-2014, with the slowdown starting well before the global financial crisis. Many US firms in many U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

One answer is to take a cue from pivotal technology companies leading the change. Many of the companies leading today’s technology-driven transformations across industries are leveraging transitional strategies, or more specifically transitional business platforms. Businesses able to most cost-effectively provide it will win.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. Remember, these difficulties are the fruits of success. China Economy Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. 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

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. Technology makes reviewing, refining, redesigning and revising both jobs and job descriptions as dynamic as a commodities trading desk. Like Smartphones, part-timerism''s global growth proliferates. Of course not.

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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 found Mr. Yergin's dismissal of these risks premature and repetitive.

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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. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. As of November 2016, the market value of the world’s 179 unicorns was estimated to be $646 billion. .” Those fears are not entirely unfounded.

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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. Our experience with many global companies across industries and sectors has revealed a framework for pursuing growth through acquisition that lowers risks and helps beat the odds.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. 3 globally).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

Deloitte attributes this fall in part to rising competitive intensity, as a result of new technologies and lower entry barriers. It then leapt suddenly to 14% by the 2005–2007 period. But this phenomenon of rising competitive intensity does not, evidently, apply to all firms. An increasing number of U.S. economic performance.

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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. “With what we are paying them, we are getting their input and feedback as well,” said Belal Jahangir, director of global marketing and son (and heir apparent) of the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

Yet rape has only been outlawed in Haiti since 2005 and hundreds of thousands are still housed post-quake in insecure tent cities. So the Foundation reached out to its global network of TrustLaw lawyers and provided pro bono help to local Haitian leaders to establish and enforce rule of law on these matters. Take Cisco.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

After 20 years of global negotiations that got us approximately nowhere near where the science tells us we need to be, this time looks different. These talks will reshape the global energy sector and every other industry that relies on energy — in other words, all of them. For example, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

In the spirit of TED 2013, here are 10 amazing TED Talks that have helped me think differently about what business can be, how to be a better leader, and how to become a better global citizen. Leading business and marketing practitioner Seth Godin imagines a world where the mass market dies, where mediocrity holds no economic value.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) Beyond the humiliating difficulties for millions of impoverished individual women trying to improve themselves and support their families, this is a global issue with significant consequences for the economies of developing countries.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

While there was some interest in our plans for China's mobile market, their primary concerns were economic and reputational: how could I prove to them that they would become rich, and that our company would be famous? They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

But, my friends, one of the best things I’ve done, in summer of 2005, was start painting the wall. Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%. Apple owned 0%.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

This large national study, conducted from March 2000 to February 2005, enrolled 2,505 patients with disc herniation, spinal stenosis, or degenerative spondylosis. To get a sense of the power of patient-reported outcomes data that’s collected on a large scale, consider the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial ( SPORT ).

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