In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

Never in the history of marketing has there been so much talk about branding. The conversation in the world of branding is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. I am not suggesting restructuring the entire brand management system. Not so long ago, Sony looked invincible. Panic has set in.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies. Still skeptical?

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

As part of this research, we conducted 120 interviews, including nine with board members and 19 with top managers. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. Practice #1: Increase trust by defining new conversational norms.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs.

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Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In the aftermath of the US financial crisis in 2008, companies from North America and Europe rushed into China, seeking to grow both sales and profits. Despite entering the world’s largest personal care products market in 1996, Revlon was able to generate just 2% of sales from China 17 years later. 2 in the market.

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Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Each requires customized risk management processes. Many people, including quite a few U.S.

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Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). percentage points in 2003-2012. Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. In preparation for the 2012 Games, Atos ran more than 200,000 hours of tests and rehearsals, including full technical tests and simulations of hundreds of worst-case scenarios.

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Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Large companies rarely face this growth killer since most of them maintain deep cash reserves, have access to the financial markets, and possess the financial discipline to react long before a crash. Midsized companies need to be far more cash-conscious — even penurious — when their markets go sour. firm in 1989.

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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). In 2008, TURCK, a leading manufacturer in industrial automation with 500 employees in the U.S., In 2008, TURCK’s health care claim costs were $280.52

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Health Care Cost Morale Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

Lack of gender diversity in a company's management team, a recent Financial Times editorial emphasized, "now sends negative signals of a conservative mind-set, an inability to look beyond a tried circle of directors and a proneness to damaging group-think.". Call it "gender fatigue," the growing invisibility of bias in the business world.

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

We stand today on July 27, one year away from the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. For the 2008 Games, China built a spectacle of unmatchable scale , with a budget of some $80 billion. Despite this, the 2012 Oympic Games has become a critical component for it. This is not even a marketing partnership.

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Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

By December 16, 2008, interest rates were close to 0% in the U.S. Although policymakers agreed that the measures were necessary to prevent the Euro from breaking up under the pressure of the crisis, they came too late to save the Eurozone from its second recession in 2012. Fiscal policy. I am afraid the answer is no.

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Crisis Policies GDP Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

From the first quarter of 2007 to 2008 bankruptcy filings for small businesses grew 33%. From first quarter 2008 to 2009, bankruptcy filings leapt by 75%. Management set out to build the best customer experience possible by instituting a training program for sales staff and fully committing themselves to its implementation.

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TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

In fact, since we began our outreach and monitoring, we have seen a fourfold increase in employer-to-employee political communications, from 5% of the private workforce hearing from their employer about politics in 2000 to over 20% in 2008. In the 2011-2012 Market Research Report for BIPAC , performed by Moore Information, Inc.,

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Politics Policies Survey Information 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

"A general who fears to unsheathe his sword is not a good general," says Mr. Li Jiaxiang , Chairman of Air China from 2004 to 2008 and the #1 performing corporate leader in China according to our new ranking (just published in the Harvard Business Review China and the centerpiece for the magazine's launch events in Beijing and Shanghai).

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Long-term Short-term Globalization Reputation 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

I'll Have Another will try to enter the pantheon of horseracing by winning the Belmont Stakes , the final leg of the Triple Crown, on Saturday night (June 9, 2012). Win or lose, I'll Have Another's situation provides useful lessons about business and markets. And he went on to finish dead last in the Belmont in 2008.

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Beyer Tversky Price Kahneman 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

Ruth Simon at the Wall Street Journal reports that the expected median salary for newly hired MBAs was essentially flat between 2008 and 2011. For graduates with minimal experience (three years or less), median pay was $53,900 in 2012, down 4.6% from 2007-08. Pay fell at 62% of the 186 schools examined.

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Lewin Simon Licensing Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Despite secondary-school enrollment increasing by 48% from 2000 to 2008 , access to university education remains severely limited. With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012. Even at three times the U.S.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them. In 2012, over 50% of dentists are women, as are 47% of medical students.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

and in its home market in the U.K. In the UK, Tesco lost the plot several times in recent years as they grew to double the market share of competitors like Sainsbury''s and Asda/WalMart. The danger is that their management approaches cannot sense or respond to shocks. Operations Risk management Strategy'

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Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

But The Washington Post , which billionaire Jeff Bezos agreed to buy yesterday , had been losing money since 2008. It''s partly because managers of well-moated companies tend to turn complacent — or just don''t need much skill to run such a business in the first place. And for the most part the margins have declined anyway.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We attracted many new doctors when we opened a replacement hospital in 2012, ultimately doubling the size of our medical staff. Many of them want to share responsibility in how the hospital is managed. Indeed, market share in each service line has grown substantially. Silver Cross has now achieved primary stroke certification.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Contrary to the adverse experience of some governing boards, activist investors can actually prove to be a leadership asset on the board rather than a disruptive force—providing the boardroom is well-managed and led. Singer came on the board in October 2012. Would the new activist be strategically aligned and prove to be a good fit?

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Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

You may recall that NUMMI was a joint venture of Toyota and GM, where Toyota took over one of GM''s worst plants and turned it around with a new management system — using many of the same people and the same unions. Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. manufacturing, management had to take a big swing.

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Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. Scoping projects for success and managing ambition: Interdisciplinary design teams are, by nature, optimistic and ambitious.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

I'll Have Another will try to enter the pantheon of horseracing by winning the Belmont Stakes , the final leg of the Triple Crown, on Saturday night (June 9, 2012). Win or lose, I'll Have Another's situation provides useful lessons about business and markets. And he went on to finish dead last in the Belmont in 2008.

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Beyer Tversky Price Kahneman 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. In 2012 it was $1.9 He did have a horrific 2008. His game plan instead looks something like this: Buy stock in a company.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In consumer packaged goods, SC Johnson has sourced raw materials from farmers in Rwanda, partnered with local providers to improve hygiene and sanitation in low-income urban communities in Kenya, and chosen to eliminate harmful chemicals from its production processes in spite of the negative consequences for its market share.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

From the first quarter of 2007 to 2008 bankruptcy filings for small businesses grew 33%. From first quarter 2008 to 2009, bankruptcy filings leapt by 75%. Management set out to build the best customer experience possible by instituting a training program for sales staff and fully committing themselves to its implementation.

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TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Ever since the financial crisis of 2008, I have sensed from many leaders that they want to do a better job of leading in accordance with their personal values. 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.

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

This new style in soccer was first experimented with by FC Barcelona manager Laureano Ruiz, who called it rondos, and between 1988 and 1996, Johan Cruyff built on it to develop the concept of futball total , or total football. Studies however show that less than 10% of departmental managers develop visions that guide their staff.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

At the current rate, 2012 will easily see more disputes than in the two previous years combined. As business managers know, tariffs and quotas take time to shift sales from foreign to domestic sources—time they don't have during financial crises, as the credit needed to make payroll and to pay for parts and components dries up.

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Crisis Policies Globalization Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

I spoke over the phone with MIT's Andrew McAfee, a regular contributor and principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management. To take the Obama campaign as an example, look at their move from having two databases in 2008 to one in 2012. I guarantee you that was not easy.

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Organization Health Care Supply Chain Magazine 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. To get a better picture of this trend, Stiebale, along with Kevin Amess from Nottingham University Business School and Mike Wright from Imperial College Business School, analyzed hundreds of PE-backed LBOs of UK companies from 1998 to 2008.

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