Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Under new ownership (Volvo was sold to China’s Geely by Ford in 2010), the Swedish automaker decided to transform its product line by becoming a premium player. To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry. The company sold 571,000 cars last year, up from 373,000 in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

For American companies seeking strategic investment , Chinese ownership presents a new alternative to the traditional routes of private equity investment or acquisition by a larger domestic industry incumbent. In 2010, Chinese firm AVIC Automotive purchased Nexteer for $465 million. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. In several industries, such as consumer goods, financial services, industrial products, and logistics, COOs usually had backgrounds in either managing operations or information technology departments.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Quantifying the impressive rise of the middle class, FSG calculates private consumption in Peru is set to grow 54% between 2010 and 2015. The three main grocery retail chains in Peru grew from 57 stores in 2001 to 155 stores in 2010. Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

In 2010 the “New GM” did one of the largest initial public offerings in history, with share sales to the public of $23.1 billion from 2010 through 2013), it would probably still be bankrupt but for the booming Chinese market. Economy Financial markets Labor National competitiveness Automotive' Instead, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

In the past, new technological achievements created new industries that not only absorbed the displaced workers but generated opportunities for many more. The integrated circuit also spawned new industries and applications that never existed before — cellular communications, PCs, tablets, and the Internet of Things.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

With One Ford, he put the purpose and values of the Ford brand at the center of the organization and unified the company’s people, plans, operations, and products to restore the brand to automotive leadership. In 2010, Motor Trend named one of Ford’s newest cars, the Ford Fusion, “Car of the Year.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

As China's soybean production is constrained by land availability, the alternatives would be to import from Brazil and Argentina, which accounted for 27% and 16% respectively of China's soybean supply in 2010. Chinese airlines have entered into contractual commitments to purchase tens of billions of dollars of aircraft, mainly from Boeing.

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Apparel Real Estate Automotive Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

By contrast, consider the 2010 Chilean mining disaster, which resulted in the triumphant rescue of 33 miners trapped underground. As Faaiza Rashid, Amy C. Edmondson, and Herman B. The overhaul even benefited from occasional conversations with Mulally’s counterpart at General Motors.

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CEO Supply Chain Automotive Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No. CRT television; online vs. brick-and-mortar banks). Today, it is occurring at the level of ecosystems.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

As a 2010 study by the Center for College Affordability , a non-profit research center, expressed it: "With a tenure system, colleges are not able to reduce the number of medieval history professors in order to increase the number of information technology and business professors.".

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Engineering Education Class Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win? The contest is now shifting toward more-traditional industries, like transportation (Lyft and Uber, for example) and hospitality (Airbnb). Now, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The combination of increased expenditures and decreased revenues resulting from the crisis from 2008 to 2010 is likely to cost the United States government well over $2 trillion , more than twice the cost of the 17-year-long war in Afghanistan. It is hard to overstate the sheer economic cost of the 2008 financial crisis.

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