Mills Scofield

JANUARY 17, 2013

With the 3rd anniversary of Haiti's Earthquake upon us, I asked Kona Shen , Founder and Director of GOALS Haiti , for her perspective. I began volunteering in Haiti in 2007, and moved to Léogane in 2010 to begin my work with GOALS. In 2005, only 343 were registered with the government ( Schuller ).

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Long-term Goal Learning-by-Doing Review 174

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. Engage your customers and build trust.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Readers of this blog are aware of the problems created by using quotas: Achieved the goal by not the aim (2013) – The Futility of a Numerical Goal (2014) , Distorting the System, Distorting the Data or Improving the System (2013) , Dr. Deming on the problems with targets or goals.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

For those organizations who have gender-balanced boards, data is striking: Since 2005, publicly traded companies with more than one women on their boards have seen stock market returns of a compound 3.7 Set goals for gender balance in your organization. percent a year higher than those with no female representation.

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Chief Operating Officer How To Leadership Telecommunications 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

You’ve got very lofty goals,” Dick said. 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. He listened carefully as I told him about my idea for my magazine. When we started Sports Illustrated , we didn’t make a profit for six years.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

Even though the chosen path resulted in the realization of my goals and dreams, I quickly became completely disinterested in corporate culture and, unwilling to jump through any more hoops for the big bucks. Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock!

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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

APRIL 26, 2016

On October 23, 1996, the day AT&T announced that John Walter, an industry outsider, would be named CEO, the company’s market valuation dropped by $4 billion. Stock market reactions are often used to judge whether a firm’s actions are successful. We tested our ideas using a sample of roughly 800 acquisitions in the U.S.,

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

During the private beta we will engage with some influentials (example A-listers ) and our goal is to convert these influentials into evangelists. The goal is to fully leverage the power of Amazon EC2 kind of infrastructure to help with scaling when we start seeing an eyeball-explosion. That will probably be the tipping point for us.

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 27, 2008

I will be posting answers (which will be Quoughts) one by one.This one is from Dave Taylor Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980, has written twenty business and technical books, launched four startups, and is widely considered a leader in the social marketing and blogging universe.

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Taylorism Taylor Licensing Newsletter 28

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.

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Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Her fields of experience span from hard core technology disciplines like semiconductors to sophisticated consumer marketing industries including fashion and education. And for those in all the emerging markets. What I want people to learn is that entrepreneurship – successful entrepreneurship – is a very achievable goal.

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Entrepreneur Licensing Newsletter Books 28

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

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

To gain advantage on this leveled playing field, there’s one powerful branding tool that has been generally overlooked — or perhaps undervalued — by most marketers: sound. They launched an audio branding initiative in 2005 for two key reasons. SNCF Audio DNA, 2005. SNCF’s Audio Logo, 2005.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Win the hearts and minds of individuals, so they share and work toward your organization’s goals. What trends do you see in the market, and how does your competition relate to them? In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award. Improve communication at all levels. Today’s call is even more urgent.

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Learning-by-Doing Industry Follow-up Skills 62

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.  My wife worked with her in 1999 and back in January 2000, Nancy agreed to talk with totally stuck me even though I wasn't in her target market.   I used to work on Wall Street and knew the Ground Zero area really well. 

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Laswell Blog Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 183

Women's Leadership Exchange

DECEMBER 21, 2005

My years of studying the inner workings of the minds of women (from a marketing stand point) tells me the following: 1. We like to sit down, get to know each other, and build trust with the ultimate goal of coming to an agreement. Settling the strike quickly would be the best gift that New Yorkers could get in 2005.

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Transportation Media Follow-up Sports 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In the worst case, busyness can become an implicit goal or cultural norm, and the original strategic intent can be lost in a frenzy of detail and activity. But the worst way to achieve a goal can sometimes be to pursue it directly. A famous example is YouTube, which began as a video dating site back in 2005.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

In response, more and more employers are providing Employee Assistance Programs (74% in 2012, up from 46% in 2005) and wellness programs (63% in 2012, up from 47% in 2005). Employees are rewarded for following through on their goals with either a reduction in premiums or paid time off. per member per month. to $387.20

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

We had already made a lot of progress in reducing energy consumption and water usage, improving forestry policies, and limiting air and water emissions, but my predecessor thought we should set some stretch goals for 2000. I shared our goals for 2005 with him. This was the first time we really put something down on paper.

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CEO Company Reputation Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Instructors wear the clothing at in-store events like self-defense and goal-setting workshops, simultaneously building product awareness and forging ties with local communities. But marketing plays a broader role in shaping a brand. Good marketing helps ensure that brands are meaningful, different, and salient.

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Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 9

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. In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. Growth market leaders learn from major markets, and equally important, vice versa.".

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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. If job creation is the primary policy goal, then all forms of entrepreneurship need to be explored. The idea of making a business climate more attractive is not new.

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Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

In 2005, HP split off the printer business from the personal computer business, dissolved the Customer Solutions Group (CSG) which was a sales and marketing organization that cut across product categories, and pushed selling responsibilities down to the product business units. The merging of the two businesses is a reversal for HP.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The new ideology would not see markets as an end in themselves; instead, it would value global trade and investment to the extent that they contributed to a flourishing middle class, not just to greater aggregate national wealth. The problem is that nobody's ever really been able to answer which shareholders, when?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

Companies should look beyond the typical goals of size, scale and efficiency – and instead seek to rebuild their capacity for growth. In 2005, Disney was lagging in creative output and commercial traction. of your market cap to about 25%—Pixar was about 10% of Disney. What needs to change? ” Why?

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Film Merchandising Creativity Short-term 8

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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Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

That’s up from 64% having such a report in 2005. However, one scenario said that the CEO only decided to commit after market research confirmed that the donation would be profitable for the firm. But our research suggests that prosocial incentives whose main goal is to increase the firm’s profit can backfire.

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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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Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

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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Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

During the briefing call I sat in on, the White House called it a "whole of government approach," with many agencies applying pressure or affecting markets in numerous ways. Walmart is the largest private user of solar power in the country, and has set goals to increase that amount 6-fold by 2020. Regulations are just one path.

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Payback Period Energy Politics Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The 1970s, 1980s, and even the 1990s were dominated by legendary players such as Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, and Diego Maradona, who, thanks to their skill and speed, found empty spaces in midfield, created the time to take the ball to the box, and then decided to pass or shoot at the goal.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

Nourish an online learning community by making goals and expectations explicit; establish norms to build trust and familiarity early; remind participants to respond thoughtfully to discussion prompts and deliberately build on one another's ideas; involve them in sharing responsibility for stimulating and guiding the online discussion.

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Power Education Construction Participative 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

To keep costs under control, you’d set goals for reducing it every year. Bush took over American Express’s far-flung service operations in 2005. Leaders kept a tight rein on costs, with goals for reducing average call time, improving customer satisfaction levels, and driving more service volume to the Web.

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Call Center Attrition Cost Center Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

When a Walmart lawyer in Mexico blew the whistle in 2005, senior officers both in Mexico and in the United States allegedly stopped two different efforts by other Walmart employees at headquarters to conduct a thorough and independent inquiry. This step aims to bring appropriate expertise (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

By 2005, Kodak ranked No. It dominated the ultra-profitable, digital-photo-kiosk market, even pushing archrival Fuji out of Walgreens’s retail-pharmacy juggernaut. 4 in the inkjet-printer market, where it joined the likes of HP, Lexmark, and Canon. It made huge investments in new technology, new plant, and new personnel.

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Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

As markets rose and bonus pools grew, it was all too easy to celebrate the rising tide of wealth without examining the process that created it. The course that I created in 2005, Authentic Leadership Development (ALD), has become one of the most popular elective MBA courses, thanks to my HBS colleagues who are currently teaching it.

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