Women on Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

percent of board seats as of mid-year 2012. Shortly thereafter, I found myself part of what I like to call Fannie Mae’s “graduating class of 2009.” However, the progress for women in reaching the very top seats of the corporate world has been slow. According to a new research report by Catalyst, women held 14.3

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Here are some recent celebrations that drew acclaim and participation: Rice University, 100th in 2012. Star Furniture, 100th in 2012. Civil Rights Act, 50th.

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Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

The Idolbuster

MAY 11, 2012

On May 3, 2012, a dissident investor accused Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson of falsifying his resume on the company web site and in financial disclosures by claiming a computer science degree that he didn’t earn. Maybe not, but he certainly had ample opportunity between the 2009 interview and now to set the record straight.

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CEO Letter PR Ethics 48

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

China's luxury market — and the global phenomenon of " trading up " — are well known. Yet when China's consumer markets recently experienced short terms blips, several doubters promptly questioned the pace of their long term growth. But the middle classes are the key drivers for the future.". But times are changing.

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Marketing Apparel Short-term Brand 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

The borrower would then sell the discounted $970 post note on the money market, also paying a discount to the post note purchaser of say $30, receiving $940 in cash. The insurance company would repay the money market investor’s post note of $970, yielding a $30 profit for both the insurance company and the investor.

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Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 51

Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Slate also recently published a map of where to watch for burgeoning startup communities, including Austin, Boston and even Detroit, and Cincinnati was named the number one place for startups to thrive by CNN Money in 2012. One state in particular has made it a priority to attract new and established businesses over the last decade: Texas.

Company 51

Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 51

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

In 2012 the rise in consumer activism and mobility, the Occupy movement, 24-hour accountability (thanks to social media), and global resource depletion will force every enterprise, large and small, to make CSR a focal point. Cause-Marketing: Cause-marketing programs will multiply. Marketing experts agree.

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Supply Chain Company Strategic Planning Bottom-up 16

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. Using the internet archive and press releases, we augmented this data with information on television content offered by Hulu and Netflix by the end of 2009.

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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

AUGUST 21, 2018

Our research points to one possible reason: employers increased skill requirements during the recession, when high-skill workers were more plentiful, making it more difficult to fill those positions as the job market began to recover. ” Of course, this theory predicts that skill requirements should fall when the labor market tightens.

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Education Skills Marketing Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

market growing. According to the most recent Congressional Budget Office projections , the current proposed fiscal measures, if implemented, would automatically slash the federal budget deficit by $503 billion between FY 2012 and FY 2013. But they can also invest heavily in China's domestic markets. They want to see the U.S.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Back in the fall of 2009, Cindy, one of our customer service representatives, received a phone call that nearly made her fall off her chair. The development process continues and we introduce the “Amalgatome” in the middle of 2011 to a narrow market of fifteen primary processors with an annual sales potential of $2.76

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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. The correct figure is only 10 percent.

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Report Merchandising GDP Globalization 15

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 29, 2014

The study explores net growth in private-sector business establishments from 2001 to 2012, ranking the best and worst states for new establishments post-recession and shedding light on national trends. The number of private-sector business establishments grew just 2 percent from 2009 to 2012 after growing 12 percent from 2001 to 2007.

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Real Estate Health Care Insurance Construction 97

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

Value is defined in the other paper according to the Tobin’s q ratio, which indicates the market value of a company’s assets. The latter is a market-based measurement, which may be better for evaluating firm performance in the long run, but can be influenced by accounting methods. family firms (from 1993 to 2009).

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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

JANUARY 5, 2015

Companies spend an enormous amount of time and dollars on market research, and all too often it disappoints. Even when there is a clear winner, that top-rated concept often bombs when it actually hits the market. Prediction markets work similarly to the stock market. Their results have been impressive.

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Survey Marketing Banking Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

It has doubled its market cap in the five years and sales reached almost $1.5 billion in the year ended March 2012, up close to ten times since 2000. What's more, these are markets that traditional developed market firms are increasingly targeting for their own growth goals. and other traditionally developed markets.

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Company Pharmaceuticals Business Model Fixed Costs 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

A movement that began with Bhutan's Index of Gross National Happiness has grown to include Nicolas Sarkozy's 2009 commission , and David Cameron's new initiative to track wellbeing in the UK. Here, the 2012 Index sheds light. Take, for example, citizens' perceptions of job markets.

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Social Capital GDP Human Capital Education 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

billion spent on all media advertising in 2012 and more than 20 times the estimated $39.5 billion spent on Internet advertising in 2012. Compared to marketing, the number of good books and academic articles in the sales force space is woefully inadequate. By our estimates, the amount invested in U.S. times the estimated $169.5

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Short-term Telecommunications Advertising Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market. Demand quickly bounced back.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

This was originally posted in 2009, and it remains one of our most popular posts. Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012. What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets. A lesson in accurately valuing yourself -- from the stock market. More people commented on this post than on any other in HBR.org's history.

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Blog Silverman Govindarajan Letter 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

A few years later, Iger made another successful deal to buy Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion in 2009. Iger used the Pixar and Marvel purchases to convince George Lucas to sell them Lucasfilm (for about $4 billion) in 2012. It was a bold push towards the future. And the revitalized approach is paying dividends.

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Creativity Franchising Succession Film 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. In 2012, China''s top six solar companies had debt ratios of over 80%.

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Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

The Spanish Prime Minister has become preoccupied with creating market confidence, as was the Irish Prime Minister in the run up to the EU/IMF bailout. percent in the first quarter of 2009 alone. By March 2012 unemployment was 24.1 percent and youth unemployment reached 29 percent in early 2012. percent to 102.9

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Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Back in January 2009 European officials assumed that the crisis was purely a U.S. This assumption could not have been farther from the truth; a recession started in Europe in the first quarter of 2009, just a couple of months after it hit the U.S. phenomenon, unlikely to affect European economies. Fiscal policy.

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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

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Instagram is an exciting marketing channel; GoPro’s account helps keep users engaged with the company and lets GoPro know how people use its products.

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Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.

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P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Since 2009 we have interviewed and surveyed 181 executives who run PE-owned companies, as well as eight to 15 people who work with each of these 181 executives (supervisors, board members, director reports, and others). OSI’s revenue are 65% higher than they were in 2012, and its valued has doubled.

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CEO Company Due Diligence Engineering 8

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. At first, we worked with RIC as a consultant but then became its partner in 2009. Indeed, market share in each service line has grown substantially. How Our Journey Began.

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Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

This preserved one of the indicators that have consistently pointed north since the economy emerged from recession in 2009. Many chase market share they'll never get. A lot of companies throw money at the problem — more R&D, more marketing, more sales people. Nor can they rely on macroeconomic growth.

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Retail Long-term Short-term Apparel 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Drawing on a sample of top science talent — 6,469 people who graduated from MIT between 2006 and 2012 — Shu shows that Wall Street is not attracting the best future scientists and engineers out of college (or at least, not the ones from MIT). This implies that the two sectors aren’t actually competing for the same talent.

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Engineering Finance Bottom-up Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. But typical of disruptive transformation in other industries, the U.S. ” But the law of smart vehicles isn’t all reactive.

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Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. Novo Campo, a program launched in 2012 by ICV, helps local ranchers produce sustainable and deforestation-free beef. Brazil’s Beef Industry. Brazil is the world’s biggest beef exporter, with 19.6%

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Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

According to the National Center for Women and Information Technology, women pursuing undergraduate computer science degrees have dropped from 37% to 18%, from 1987 to 2012 , respectively. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers. For many of the very largest market opportunities, technology is merely an enabler.

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Attrition Diversity Sports CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

The first sign of trouble emerged in 2009, shortly after GFT launched, when it completely missed the swine flu pandemic. Last year, Nature reported that Flu Trends overestimated by 50% the peak Christmas season flu of 2012. Unfortunately, no. Last week came the most damning evaluation yet. They don’t matter.”

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