Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2016

At the time we launched my second business, Sigma Communications, and its flagship magazine, The National Register of Commercial Real Estate , the biggest issue facing chief financial officers and real estate executives was their surplus real estate. Capital was extremely scarce, and interest rates were extraordinarily high. 500 company.

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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

When we launched my publishing business, Sigma Communications, I was so passionate about the magazine, and so confident that it would be a runaway success, that I decided to self-fund. Sigma’s quarterly magazine, The National Register of Commercial Real Estate , consumed capital at a rate far greater than USI could generate it.

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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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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Magazine » December 06, 2010 How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View Every so often, The New York Times will run a long feature on the CEO of a large business.    Seeing that clean energy was going to be a growth market, Immelt launched ecomagination in 2005.    That was a start.

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Women's Leadership Exchange

DECEMBER 21, 2005

I say Capital of the World not because I'm an egomanic about WLE's home base, but because it's been said by many others in books, magazine articles, etc. My years of studying the inner workings of the minds of women (from a marketing stand point) tells me the following: 1. How is it that the Capital of the World goes on strike?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2016

In a provocative and influential article , Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired magazine, argued, “…faced with massive data, this approach to science – hypothesize, model, test – is becoming obsolete…There is now a better way. Measuring Marketing Insights. ’ We can stop looking for models.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

We all want to start a disruptive company or invest in disruptive ventures, but in reality an innovation that takes place at the low-end of the market or where there is no market (yet) is just not that sexy. Because disruptive innovations are in search of a yet-to-be-defined market, we can't know the opportunity at the outset.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

A lengthy New York Times Magazine piece describes how the Obama administration put too much faith in policy and gave too little attention to politics: Most of all, [Obama] has learned that, for all his anti-Washington rhetoric, he has to play by Washington rules if he wants to win in Washington. and public opinion.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

They said that it might be possible to go to the FDA, add warnings to the label, and keep Vioxx on the market, but they believed that the most responsible course of action in the interests of the patient was to voluntarily withdraw the drug. We had important new drugs and vaccines that we expected to bring to market over the next few years.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

A transitional business platform such as Netflix’s DVD rental business provides a potentially profitable business opportunity that gets to market and enables, rather than hinders, transition to future business models as technologies, customer behaviors, regulations, or other factors evolve. Consider drone delivery services.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I wrote a piece for Studio30 Plus magazine about this very topic. Now I’ve been hired by a company for social media marketing – something I’ve never considered. Here’s a link if you would like to read it: [link] Studio30 Plus is a social media site for writers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2018

I’ve been following Netflix since 2005, when I first visited its headquarters in Silicon Valley and interviewed Reed Hastings, its founder and CEO. The company, which is barely 20 years old, has a stock-market value of nearly $165 billion , more than Disney. Noam Galai/Contributor/Getty Images. ” Wealth creation?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL Technologies, the German division of online auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Willing to Take Chances. “That (assumption) made him crazy,” Hill says.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL Technologies, the German division of online auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Willing to Take Chances. “That (assumption) made him crazy,” Hill says.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. These businesses include Bloomberg and Morningstar, which provide data about financial markets. That’s changing. Uber is another example.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How can we create $12 trillion a year in market opportunities by 2030? But a recent report concludes that meeting the goals in just four out of 60 sectors (food and agriculture, cities, energy and materials, and health and wellbeing) could indeed open up market opportunities worth up to $12 trillion a year in less than 15 years.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 19, 2016

The first product I envisioned was a high-quality commercial real estate magazine listing properties for sale, lease, and sublease. (I When I launched Sigma, I believed that my passion for publishing the magazine would trump my lack of competence. The Birth of Sigma Communications. Passion vs. Distinctive Competence. 500 company.

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