Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Consider TPG, the American-based PE firm that acquired a significant fraction of China’s Lenovo after its 2005 purchase of IBM’s personal-computer division. Whether major investors on a board add or subtract value has become a contentious debate of the era, fueled by a sharp rise in activist campaigns.

Hedge 8

Hedge Sharpe Short-term Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

The last fifteen years have seen an explosion of technologies and applications that have given us easy access to content in multiple forms: Google (1998), iTunes (2001), Wikipedia (2002), Facebook (2004, YouTube (2005), and Twitter (2006) are just a small sample of technologies that found their way into our vocabularies and day-to-day lives.

Technology 15

Technology Wireless Stage-Gate Content 15

Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

The longer version is that an intentional leader revolutionized the academic institution of High Point University with powerful and practical business principles, which often received sharp criticism but ultimately proved to be wildly successful. We ’ ve invested $200 billion in our campus since 2005.” Even more astonishing?

Case Study 70

Case Study Education Learning-by-Doing Brand 70

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

You get to a point where you believe your skills are so sharp, and so good, that you can actually overcome the Peter Principle, and change a person into something they are clearly not. Because of something called hubris, an affliction that seems to lurk around nearly every leadership corner, mixed in with a fear of failure.

Open-book 222

Open-book Blog Core Competence Books 222

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. Here’s how Reed Hastings explained it in 2005, when the company had just 3.5 Noam Galai/Contributor/Getty Images. million subscribers.

Technology 15

Technology Sharpe Strategy Content 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Since 2007, gross cross-border capital flows have fallen by 65%, and half of that is due to a sharp reduction in cross-border lending and other banking activities, a new McKinsey Global Institute report finds. China has risen from 16th place in 2005 to 8th in 2015. Brazil has moved up seven places since 2005.

Banking 8

Banking McKinsey Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

In the photography industry, Leica provides a sharp example of how adding new capabilities can help a company reverse free fall. From 2005 to 2007 its revenues declined from 144 million euros to 90 million euros, and it lost between 10 million and 20 million euros per year. The company was in free fall.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 30, 2020

A sharp fall. The data suggests the sharpest fall has been since 2005, during which 38.7% “We find that dissatisfaction with democracy has risen over time, and is reaching an all-time global high, in particular in developed countries.”. of people were unhappy with democracy, but this has since risen to a shocking 57.5%.

Report 82

Report Crisis Sharpe Politics 82

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A 2011 McKinsey study estimated that the internet accounted for 21% of GDP growth over the previous five years among the developed countries studied, a sharp increase over the 10% contribution over the 15 years prior. since 2005 are due to this phenomenon. As most of us know by now, we have an increasingly internet-powered economy.

Politics 9

Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 9