Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Google''s 2005 purchase of YouTube fits into this category. Google''s buyout of Android also fits into this category, adding the licensing of telecom-operating software to its main business model of contextual advertising. CEO Marissa Mayer acknowledged the long odds of making the $1.1 That''s a problem.

Advertising 8

Advertising Business Model Audience Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. In 2011 we were playing a bit of catch-up compared to the market.

CEO 8

CEO Content Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

This cost is also disproportionately borne by mom-and-pops, many of which operate in poor neighborhoods and rural areas. For the government, the annual value of under-reported taxes in the United States is $400 billion to $600 billion. If even half of this under-reporting is directly enabled by a cash economy, the U.S.

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

But marketing plays a broader role in shaping a brand. Good marketing helps ensure that brands are meaningful, different, and salient. The company came along in 2005, after years of focus on low-fat products had left the US yogurt market vulnerable. Greek yogurt market, and nearly 20 percent of the total yogurt market.

Apparel 8

Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Like a shopper in a flea market, it is quite easy for a CEO at a midsized company to get distracted by sexy deals. When Lyndon Faulkner joined as CEO in 2005, he felt the then-$80 million firm had to make acquisitions to grow. Midmarket investment bankers love to shop potential acquisitions to their CEO clients.

Company 8

Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

In 2005, Dimon hired Ina Drew to head the company's Chief Investment Office, the unit responsible for the bank's risk exposure. At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. And few people foresaw that the U.S.

Banking 9

Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Do we see similar patterns when we look at company level—and particularly at multinationals that operate in multiple countries? South and Central Asian, broken out separately in that report, ranks much lower on both internationalization and regionalization levels.). There are indeed some indications that point in this direction.

Globalization 9

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

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. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Do we see similar patterns when we look at company level—and particularly at multinationals that operate in multiple countries? South and Central Asian, broken out separately in that report, ranks much lower on both internationalization and regionalization levels.). There are indeed some indications that point in this direction.

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Many firms operating brick and mortar stores are in trouble. And in the years that followed, conventional retailers’ confidence in the future increased as Census continued to report puny online sales. Of course, the shuttered stores, depressed execs, and tanking stocks suggest otherwise. What’s the real story?

Retail 8

Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 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. This is an important point for all business leaders, but in my experience, I believe marketers are particularly prone to what I call “smart syndrome.”

Influence 275

Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

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. We''re operating in a "what can we get done" mentality, which is what passes for vision in Washington these days. Regulations are just one path.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period Energy Politics Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The piece, which won a Pulitzer Prize for reporter David Barstow , raised a host of personal accountability and corporate governance issues for the company. Late last month, on the second anniversary of the story nearly to the day, Walmart released its first Global Compliance Report (GCR).

Compliance 8

Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Fueled by growing demand among entrepreneurs, investors , and consumers , a specialized ecosystem of support has also been emerging around for-benefits, providing tailored legal services , capital markets , management education , technical assistance , performance metrics , and more. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example.

CEO 11

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) Because the "unmentionable" subject of menstruation is taboo, the market failure — supplying cheaper pads — had never received the attention it deserved. 11/pad) for the cheapest imported sanitary pad can often be simply unaffordable.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

Such leaders understand that a push to undertake a new strategy or to redirect operational performance depends pivotally on how well they communicate with employees. In 2008, the coffee chain was struggling to maintain its market position and to ward off a growing set of competitive threats. Consider the example of Starbucks.

Company 8

Company Video CEO Crisis 8

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. Companies, by contrast, still go through the nerve-wracking ritual of performance evaluations, during which executives set goals for direct reports.

Cooper 16

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

We found that 49 percent of the leaders surveyed in the study reported a gap between their organization’s ability to formulate and communicate a vision and strategy and its ability to deliver results. Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. So what happened?

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

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. Companies, by contrast, still go through the nerve-wracking ritual of performance evaluations, during which executives set goals for direct reports.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global. Stung by a series of risky foreign adventures that came back to bite them, most large global banks in Europe and the United States have retreated from foreign operations.

Banking 8

Banking McKinsey Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The process was said to protect against “etheric bedlam,” as a navy report warned, or a “cacaphony of competing voices,” as the Supreme Court later described, and misspelled, it. Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result. Armstrong’s Killer App.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

This idea of prospect theory, developed by Tversky and Kahneman and reported in a classic 1979 article (for which the Nobel prize was awarded) demonstrated that individuals do not make decisions rationally by selecting options with the highest expected value, because they are risk-averse and 'losses loom larger than gains.'.

Kahneman 14

Kahneman Tversky Company Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. ” What was reported to happen as a consequence of this shift was a steady decline in firms’ R&D intensity (R&D/Sales) and a corresponding decline in firms’ R&D capability. This means they generate less revenue, profit and market value per dollar of R&D.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Indeed, a 2003 Lancet study reported that 63% of child deaths in the 42 countries that account for 90% of global child mortality could be prevented each year through more effective primary care. Market focus. That is 6 million lives – 100 football stadiums of children – that could be saved each year.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Providers commonly cite quality, research, or education as goals, but few measure their patients’ treatment outcomes or report them – either to their clinicians or the public. In 2005, when Prof. The entire system was informed and refined by ongoing tracking of outcomes, as reported by both patient and clinicians.

Health Care 8

Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. Caesars Entertainment has built test-and-learn into its marketing investments.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

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.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

In 2005, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched Hospital Compare , which publicized data on hospitals’ compliance with process-of-care metrics (for instance, whether a patient with pneumonia received the correct type of antibiotic, according to the medical evidence). Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Trends Report Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

In 2005, Hamdi Ulukaya purchased a yogurt factory in upstate New York that had been shuttered by Kraft Foods. But for years, as Chobani gobbled up market share, the major food companies stuck to their regular lines of yogurt. He wanted to use it to produce a line of strained, or “Greek,” yogurt called Chobani.

Word of Mouth Marketing 8

Word of Mouth Marketing Brand Marketing Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For decades, the production of corn has been led by family-based businesses who operate their farms with a time-tested mix of traditional agriculture tools. farms have signed up to use FarmLogs to manage their operations. In 2005, for instance, the agency issued its first net neutrality policy statement.

Policies 8

Policies Content Long-term Operations 8