Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

And I predict that leaders who get the whole story, and act on it, will reap unexpectedly better workplace morale in 2012, despite all the uncertainty and volatility of the global economic realities. His firm grew explosively during the 90s and right up through 2008, constructing offices and high-end homes for the technological elite.

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P&L Construction Survey Stress 13

Steve Farber

DECEMBER 19, 2016

She built a public relations company from scratch in the northwest corner of Arkansas beginning in 1995 and sold it in 2012 to a Dentsu Inc. She started her own agency and grew it despite the shallow talent pool in the region, the lack of potential clients in the market, and the limited connection to the mainstream agency world.

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Steve Farber

DECEMBER 19, 2016

She built a public relations company from scratch in the northwest corner of Arkansas beginning in 1995 and sold it in 2012 to a Dentsu Inc. She started her own agency and grew it despite the shallow talent pool in the region, the lack of potential clients in the market, and the limited connection to the mainstream agency world.

Public Relations 40

Public Relations Stress CEO Learning-by-Doing 40

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

We've seen success with a novel approach to talent engagement: an integrated HR-Marketing strategy that teams Marketing's brand messaging savvy with HR's internal perspective and expertise. The partnership brings added value to Marketing as well.

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Marketing Brand Benchmarking Marketing Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

After seven long years of preparation, the London 2012 Olympic Games are finally underway, and even the notoriously critical British press is falling into line. As the financial crisis began in 2008-9, spending $15bn on hosting the Olympic Games looked like a commitment Britain simply could not afford to make.

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Sports Budgeting Short-term Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

JULY 18, 2012

In 2008, we expanded our organization by one. In essence, we needed less administrative work and more research and marketing. In February of 2012 Bruce published his first book Front Line Heroes : Battling the business Tsunami by developing high performance organizations (Volume 1). Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Team Sports BHAG Customer Loyalty 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

To gain advantage on this leveled playing field, there’s one powerful branding tool that has been generally overlooked — or perhaps undervalued — by most marketers: sound. Then in 2008, to emphasize its eco-mobility , the instrumentation became more natural and acoustic. SNCF’s Audio Logo, 2008.

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Brand Advertising B2C B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

As recently as 2012, over 90% of U.S. But the market is in turmoil , despite attempts to suggest it’s business as usual , because that proportion has dropped in recent years. Netflix and Hulu began offering streaming video services in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Pay TV has over $100 billion in revenue in the U.S.

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Content Forrester Trends Press Release 8

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. With the exception of niche, specialty, and some consumer technology markets, I see less and less of this in big business.

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Brand P&L Human Resources Brand Management 260

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

However, 48% of the mid-sized world market leaders come from Germany. Nearly all of them survived the great recession of 2008-2009. This has allowed them to reach 70% of market share in this category. But focus makes a market small. Only about 1.1% of the world population is German. How can you make it bigger?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

They might make a targeted acquisition here or there, form an alliance now and again, or license in some specialized technology, but by and large they made their own drugs, supporting big, fully staffed research labs, which they would then market themselves.

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Licensing Depreciation Pharmaceuticals Budgeting 12

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

JUNE 2, 2016

. “Yahoo’s mobile business barely existed” when Marissa Mayer took over as CEO in 2012, wrote Vauhini Vara at The New Yorker. Perhaps by 2012 it was already too late. Mentions of mobile were more than three times higher in 2012, the year she started, than in 2011, and the uptick happened when she was hired.

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CEO Content Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

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Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

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. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share.

Brand 11

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

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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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This emerging social era is about engaging everyone around you to redefine what you do and how you do it – including sales, marketing, R&D, customer support, and product development. billion on these social sites by 2012. Avon was one of the few companies to chart growth during the 2008-2009 recession. And guess what?

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

We recently released the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2012 , which tracks the depth and breadth of trade, capital, information, and people flows across 140 countries that account for 99% of the world's GDP and 95% of its population. We cannot simply take for granted that future generations will enjoy the benefits of a more connected planet.

Report 15

Report Merchandising GDP Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. This bold strategic leap was, we found, in part facilitated by Nokia’s newly appointed board who actively attended to top managers’ emotions in 2012-2013.

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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

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

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 22, 2013

The center of gravity for jobs, wealth, and market opportunities is moving, disrupting the world economic order as we have known it. In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Iger used the Pixar and Marvel purchases to convince George Lucas to sell them Lucasfilm (for about $4 billion) in 2012. During a six-month period from December 2015 to May 2016 , Disney has cleaned the clock with a 25% market share in box office with Star Wars sequel, the Jungle Book , and Captain America: Civil War.

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Creativity Franchising Succession Film 8

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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Between 2001 and the end of 2008, for example, no less than 15 U.S. Around 2008, however, something unexpected occurred. In the past few years, profits have become positive across the industry, and market caps are soaring from prior lows. In 2012, the major U.S. But since deregulation in 1978, airlines in the U.S.

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Airlines Industry Transportation Travel 8

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

MAY 3, 2011

France plans to impose a 20 percent quota by 2012 and double it to 40 percent by 2016 for the country's 2,500 largest companies. These corporations understand that cracking the last glass ceiling will give them a significant competitive advantage in talent markets the world over. But should the U.S. What are your thoughts?

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15

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

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Since the 2008 financial crisis, policy makers, professors, politicians, and others have expressed concern over America’s best and brightest minds electing to work in finance instead of pursuing potentially more socially valuable careers in science, medicine, and engineering. And not just their parents.

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Engineering Finance Bottom-up Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The world's second largest carbon market (after the European Union) opened in the state as part of California's ambitious program to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. economy during the peak of the Great Recession (2008-2010). The market will decide that. s carbon market. While leaders in Washington D.C

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Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

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 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%. The results are staggering: same-store sales are up 55% from the first half of 2011 to the same period in 2012.

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TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 15

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

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. Where does the Euro go from here?

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Crisis Policies GDP Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. CEOs need to know how a change in strategy (a new target market, say, or a new product) will affect manufacturing, marketing, selling, servicing, and other processes.

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CEO Company Due Diligence Engineering 8