Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

– Martha Beck Not long ago, my career had been dedicated to sales, mentoring, coaching and leading an exceptional sales force. However, they will rock even louder on my terms as an entrepreneur and professional coach. Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock!

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

However, skills required for long-term success (such as building a personal brand, building lasting relationships etc.) are built slowly and over a long period of time. The dilemma we face is to continue to invest in skills that provide results only after a long period of time when the world just wants us to move FAST.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. These issues are referred to as strategic alignment and employee engagement.

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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. More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

For a technology person to succeed, the coding skills are only a beginning. For long-term success, the person has to look “Beyond Code&# – mostly related to the people side of things. Here's a thing about life: Something that has been built over a long period of time can be destroyed almost instantly.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2018

In much the same way, IBM’s Watson project , which is helping the venerable company overcome the disruption of its traditional business, began in 2005. Google has created its own moonshot factory , to pursue game-changing technologies that may take years to pay off. We need to set our sights higher. Why We Need to Think Bigger.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

In some cases, insurers have actually agreed to increase what they’ll pay so long as other insurers are forced to pay even more. In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Dickens Jr.

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Deming Institute

MAY 18, 2015

Move toward a single supplier for any one item, on a long-term relationship of loyalty and trust. Dr. And to do so most effectively you need to partner with your suppliers over the long term. I wrote about this on my personal blog in 2005, Ford and Managing the Supplier Relationship. Instead, minimize total cost.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In terms of speed of adoption, only Apple's iPad has rivaled the Kinect. Aside from some tough comments on my blog, the long-term repercussions were low. Back in 2005 I wrote a piece [ PDF ] looking at a new video recorder introduced by Pure Digital Technologies, the Flip. Life is tougher for the strategist.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency.

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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. Amara’s law teaches us that we tend to overestimate the amount of change in the short term but under-estimate it in the long term.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque. Today some business gurus have a similar message.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

I wanted to see if there was a method to that magic, since it’s so critical for organizations to keep innovating and reinventing if they want to survive over the long term. You describe your vision vividly and compellingly so that your fellow travelers long to see it become reality.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

In 2005, four dozen senior executives at Lehman Brothers took a decision-making course. Today’s super-fast technology cues traders’ fight-or-flight responses, leading them to make snap decisions that do not account for the probability of disastrous future events. To some extent, human beings can overcome their cognitive biases.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

My Bain colleagues and I estimated the odds of success of investments in major adjacency moves using a sample of nearly 200 companies’ experiences including “close-in moves” like expansion into a neighboring country and “distant” moves like a new business to new customers using new technologies. What has changed?

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In terms of the underlying psychological driver, leaders need to understand that Self-Starters fundamentally lack patience and are always thinking – in the shower, during a run or over their Saturday morning coffee. Engagement is concerned with the level of effort people put forth at work.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. But as former Air Force CIO Bill Lord told me, updating IT doesn’t match an agency’s central mission in terms of priorities. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. I can imagine that balancing act is frustrating.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Looking at the merger in terms of continued consolidation within the cable industry, however, misses the bigger picture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. Then it must pick the right areas to reinvest in, to fuel the company''s longer-term success.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, New Orleans was a place where too many people accepted that the city’s zenith had passed over 150 years ago. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Yes, both have played a role in making the city a less risky base for businesses. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust.

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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. This is about using the technology of "business analytics" within the workforce, bringing vital statistics to the art of performance reviews.

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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. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. IT also upgraded old technology and processes, achieving significant improvements in service and compliance.

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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. Nothing has served me better in my long life than continuous learning.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

-based telecoms, technology companies and internet platforms such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo and even Dropbox. based technology companies is at stake here, as is the future of U.S./EU would they rather be ''collateral damage'' now or take collective action to address potential long-term issues?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. For example: when I left Wall Street in 2005, I was writing a children's book and pitching a reality TV show about soccer in Latin America: neither transpired. Maybe your hand is forced by downsizing or new technologies are automating you right out of relevance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Included on a long list of transgressions , Uber has been dogged by its decision to classify its vast network of drivers as independent contractors. From a practical perspective, removing the guidance changed nothing in terms of employer responsibilities — the law is still the law. of employment in 2005 to 9.6%

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

One answer: the creation of cross-company virtual collaborative communities based on shared passion (whether around a specific technology or a particular role or even a business process). Burned out from a merger in 2005, TMN launched a "work style reform" initiative which has grown progressively more autonomous, transparent, and Web-enabled.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) A study fielded by the Council on Foreign Relations, " Addressing the Special Needs of Girls ," underscores why missing school matters in a big, long-term way. I've found," says Scharpf, "that the common language is the one of emotion.".

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

I looked at quarterly earnings call transcripts for Yahoo and two of its competitors from late 2005 to the first quarter of 2016 and counted mentions of “mobile,” “phone,” or “smartphone.” For its part, Microsoft seems to be coming to terms with its failings in mobile.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

In the wake of any natural disaster, including the catastrophic March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan , urgent response eventually gives way to long-term recovery. 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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

They’re given state-of-the-art technology, $2,000 to build a home office, and a large travel budget so they can meet up with other team members twice a year in beautiful, exciting places such as La Paz, Mexico, and Amsterdam. grew by nearly 80% between 2005 and 2012. Advances in technology are keeping pace.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

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. But rules affect profits and long-term sustainability. This convergence hypothesis is reassuring on many fronts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. That leadership style is effective as long as you’re always one step ahead of rivals, and know what’s best for your team.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

Not only does that give the BJP an unequivocal mandate for change, but also, it allows the right-of-center party to adopt a long-term perspective while making policy decisions. That should result in faster clearances of investment proposals, especially those from foreign companies, by the central government.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

He admires Uber’s technology, but he sees the influx of non-occupational drivers as a threat to his livelihood: “Competition is always good for everyone, but again, it should be reasonable, not that you just flood the market.” “You know how many people went to the dealer and buy new cars?” ” he asked.

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