Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

These present drivers of its economy, however, are under threat from technology. I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. Education drives technology. publicly traded companies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

As recently as 2012, over 90% of U.S. Delivery method and technology matter too. Netflix and Hulu began offering streaming video services in 2007 and 2008, respectively. By the end of 2008, both had partnered with major networks to provide television content. pm images/Getty Images.

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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. This was obvious during the financial crisis in 2008, when the government invested about 4 trillion RMB to enhance growth. It contributed 1.4

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time.

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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. Historically, big pharma firms made their own drugs.

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Licensing Depreciation Pharmaceuticals Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Nearly all of them survived the great recession of 2008-2009. In addition, there are traditional regional crafts, such as the clock-making industry in the Black Forest with its highly developed fine mechanical competencies, which developed into 450 medical technology companies, most of them makers of surgical instruments.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

With the exception of niche, specialty, and some consumer technology markets, I see less and less of this in big business. This company lost $5 billion in 2012 and hasn’t made a profit since 2008. The hemorrhaging is in electronics, and in late 2012, they shelled out $1.8 Not so long ago, Sony looked invincible.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

The same sentiment was behind Twitter’s announcement in 2012 of an Innovator’s Patent Agreement, designed so that “employees can be assured that their patents will be used only as a shield rather than as a weapon.”. Innovation Technology' Tesla isn’t the first to recognize this. But it doesn’t really fix the problem.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. 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

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 2, 2018

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

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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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

In fact, as recently as 2012, a Gallup poll revealed that 40% of U.S. According to a 2008 survey , the vast majority of professionals (94%) worked 50 hours or more a week, and almost half worked more than 65 hours a week. Unfortunately, this story of impending burnout is not unusual. Time spent deciding what to do next? Start there.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Bala Iyer and Tom Davenport attempted to “reverse engineer” Google’s innovation machine in 2008. The authors are ex-DARPA leaders now running an innovation group at Motorola Mobility, which Google acquired in 2012. He suggested letting the data decide, an approach Google could no doubt get on board with.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In dollar terms, small players—defined as those with sales less than $1 billion—grabbed approximately $15 billion in sales from their larger peers between 2012 and 2017. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share. P&G should follow suit.

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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 2012, the major U.S. United Airlines first introduced checked-bag fees and other extras in February 2008, but within months all the other major carriers, except Southwest, joined them.

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Airlines Industry Transportation Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Since 2008, through government subsidies, the manufacturing capacity of China''s solar-panel industry grew tenfold, leading to a vast global oversupply. In 2012, China''s top six solar companies had debt ratios of over 80%. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5% In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S.

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Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In 2008, when the Harvard Business School case study was written on the launch two years earlier of the PlayStation 3, the question was whether it was “game over” for Sony. Cloud is one of these perennial ‘right around the corner’ technologies,” according to IDC’s Ward. Strategy Tech industry Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

There are many reasons why Silicon Valley might have been a top contender: for years, it''s been the premier technology hub of the world. While no one can dispute Silicon Valley embodies the quintessential technology culture, there''s another piece of the culture equation that matters just as much for a company like ours: diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. The easy narrative is that Kodak is a classic case of a company blind to the disruptive changes in its marketplace. Kodak wasn't blind to this shift.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

We saw after the 2008 recession how men lost their jobs in greater numbers than women. In 2012, according to the State of Women-Owned Businesses Report from American Express Open, there are more than 8.3 In 2012, over 50% of dentists are women, as are 47% of medical students. The gender gap has continued to widen since then.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

All in all, they bear remarkable resemblance to the essential management practices Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenem identified when researching the question "Does Management Really Work," which you can read about in our most current, November 2012, issue.

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Restructuring Disruptive Innovation Health Care Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The basic facts were established in a 2012 study by The Bridgespan Group in the Stanford Social Innovation Review , which looked at the more than 200,000 nonprofit organizations founded between 1975 and 2008 to determine how many had grown to $50 million or more in annual revenues. The answer? 201 — just 1%.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Founded in 1928, Motorola diversified over the decades from car radios into a host of communication technologies, ranging from equipment aboard Apollo 11 to the best-selling RAZR mobile phones. Singer came on the board in October 2012.

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Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Indeed, a 2012 Royal Society report emphasized that these “enhancements,” along with other technologies for self-enhancement, are likely to have far-reaching implications for the business world. And senior employees with demanding jobs might find these drugs even more useful than a 19-year-old college kid does.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

economy during the peak of the Great Recession (2008-2010). Further evidence can be found in a 2012 report prepared for the Environmental Defense Fund, where I work, which identifies seven sectors in the California clean economy that have consistently outperformed the rest of the state. million annually.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. We attracted many new doctors when we opened a replacement hospital in 2012, ultimately doubling the size of our medical staff.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

When he ran for president in 2008, Obama made three big promises: end the Iraq War, extend health care coverage to all Americans, and take federal action to reduce the threat of global climate change. In fact, 2012 is likely to be the hottest year since accurate record-keeping began in the late 19th century. Fortunately, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

For example, the Chinese do not trust local milk brands due to the notorious milk contamination incident in 2008. In 2012, Chinese took 83M foreign trips, up by 18.4% These experiences, along with technology development and social media channels, have helped Chinese consumers become more informed and sophisticated.

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Price Brand Globalization Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

After all, India’s growth has slowed to a crawl, with GDP expanding by less than 5% in the last two years compared to 9% per annum in the five years before 2008. No one can forget how the Singh government amended a law in 2012 with retrospective effect from April 1962 to force the telecom giant, Vodafone, to pay a $2-billion tax bill.

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Bureaucracy Policies Globalization Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

New technology has turned the U.S., The need to renew manufacturing was a big issue in the Presidential election of 2012. A new wave of it began before the crash in 2008, stopped while the world caught its breath, and is now resuming. American creativity remains unsurpassed. And capital is abundant. American Creativity.

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Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Energy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

To take the Obama campaign as an example, look at their move from having two databases in 2008 to one in 2012. The amount of centralization and rationalization to take real advantage of big data is pretty daunting for a lot of organizations. I guarantee you that was not easy.

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Organization Health Care Supply Chain Magazine 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5 These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Flyknit reduces waste by 80% compared with regular cut and sew footwear.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Our findings include the following: One percent of Intermountain’s patients used 24% of the total amount we spent on patient care between 2008 and 2012. Health Information & technology Operations' Five percent of Intermountain’s patients consumed almost 51% of our total costs over the same time period.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Cost Operations 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.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

A 2008 study conducted by the health policy journal Health Affairs showed that average annual premiums increased 5 percent to $4,704 for single coverage and $12,680 for family coverage. Healthcare Sector Forecast to 2012”, national healthcare spending is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of around 5 percent during 2010-2013.

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