Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Way back in the first decade of the new millennium, when Craigslist seemed like the biggest threat facing newspapers, founder Craig Newmark paid visits to lots of media companies and media conferences. But The Washington Post , which billionaire Jeff Bezos agreed to buy yesterday , had been losing money since 2008. Scripps 6.9%

Advertising 8

Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 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. Even the notoriously cynical British media remain supportive. For the 2008 Games, China built a spectacle of unmatchable scale , with a budget of some $80 billion. This is not even a marketing partnership.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 11

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

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

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Why are these global brands using different marketing strategies in the U.S. the luxury sales market in greater China is expected to grow by 6-8% this year, to exceed $35B — making it second only to America. For example, the Chinese do not trust local milk brands due to the notorious milk contamination incident in 2008.

Price 8

Price Brand Globalization Cost 8

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 26, 2012

(First published in Forbes.com, April 20, 2012) Two years have now passed since the explosion at BP ’s deep-water rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The available avenues are advertising, the press, and social media. The ”Health safety environment” theme contains zero releases since 2008.

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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." Many people, including quite a few U.S. Can we continue to rely on firms to manage such risks by themselves?

Risk Management 9

Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

While articles in the media have focused on the impossibility of getting by on such low wages, little attention has been paid to the company’s enormous appetite for stock buybacks. million in 2012, with the proportion of these totals derived from gains from stock-based compensation ranging from 37% in 2006 to 77% in 2010.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Then Josep “Pep” Guardiola-i-Sala, the former Spanish footballer who is currently the manager of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich, further evolved the idea when he was the coach at Barcelona FC between 2008 and 2012.

Cooper 16

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Then Josep “Pep” Guardiola-i-Sala, the former Spanish footballer who is currently the manager of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich, further evolved the idea when he was the coach at Barcelona FC between 2008 and 2012.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

Everyone and everything is connected or soon will be by social media, on mobile platforms, and in the cloud. But no less planned or executed than another viral blockbuster — the OMGPOP team's March 2012 breakout of Draw Something , a Pictionary-like game. Rapid Innovation/Move-to-Market Cycles. The Invisible Children, Inc.

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Team Self-aware Media Download 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Like YouTube in 2006 and Facebook in 2008 , 2012 will go down as the year that online polling joined telephone polling as part of our electoral process. But in this election all but the die-hards made room for online polling, just as marketing teams have now near-universally gone social. Embracing the inevitable.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Bottom-up Media Survey 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

These tax rates will remain in effect through 2012. Extends the repeal of phase-outs of personal deductions and limits on itemized deductions for higher income taxpayers through 2012. Extends certain middle class incentives and credits such as the Earned Income Credit and Coverdell Education Savings credit.

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Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Men saw a decline in median years on the job in the 1980s and 1990s, in keeping with media narratives of declining job security and rising entrepreneurialism. The employment-to-population ratio — the simplest of job-market metrics — shows a sharp drop for men in particular in the last recession. Given the beating the U.S.

Organization 8

Organization Trends Long-term Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

by 80% between 2005 and 2012. Researchers at a social media company recently tracked the habits of their most productive employees. After 10 years in the corporate world, she was laid off from a six-figure sales job in 2008, but “I had a baby at home, so I just sort of shifted my focus,” Heather says. How often is best?

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Case Study Motivation Productivity Products 14

Coaching Tip

JUNE 29, 2013

A 2008 Goldman Sachs GS -1.47% report defined this group as those with incomes between $6,000 and $30,000 a year and predicted that it would grow by some two billion people by 2030. They are technology-savvy and use social media like Facebook FB +0.89% and Twitter to broadcast information and organize demonstrations.

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Class Leadership Politics eBook 85

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The carnage of that decision was strewn across the media. Drew merged Checkdate Solutions with payroll industry leader Paycor, stepping away from the company in 2008 and serving on its board for eight years. Dan Cooper co-founded ej4, a video-based online training company, in 2003, and was its CEO until selling in 2012.

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Cooper Groupthink Leadership Styles Servant Leader 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

There are three key Internet markets in the world. Twitter has operated in this market since 2006, so almost everyone who wanted to try Twitter has tried it. Finally there is India, where in 2012 there were 150 million Internet users. The market is not as rich as in China or the U.S., Here’s why. Then there is the U.S.

Advertising 8

Advertising Strategy Marketing Globalization 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Bringing a new prescription drug to market, for example, now costs nearly $2.6 Even a simpler product like the SpinBrush, which entered the market priced at $5 each, required an upfront investment of $1.5 As a result, Fitbit held 68 percent market share through 2013 versus 19 percent for Jawbone and just 10 percent for Nike.

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

as the most attractive market worldwide for renewable energy investment, this year downgraded it to third , behind China and India. And though the idea of VCs abandoning cleantech has been around since at least early 2012 , I was initially skeptical. First, another recent Brookings analysis found that U.S. never put a price on carbon.

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Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The 2012 election cycle is remarkable for how much information the campaigns have about voters. If we're launching a new type of bicycle and we want to know how likely it is that this person is a bicycle rider, we would apply that score, saying: here's the likelihood that this person is a bicycle rider in the market for a new bike.

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