LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. Regulators now worry that declining seed competition may lead to price increases on foods that every American family consumes.

Strategy 74

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The “turnaround plan” recently announced by McDonald’s includes an aggressive program to manipulatively boost its stock price via stock buybacks, an activity that has become the major focus of its corporate strategy over the past decade. ” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 The winners.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2013

Writing under a pseudonym in the Financial Analysts Journal in 1960, mutual fund executive Jack Bogle made "The Case for Mutual Fund Management." After costs, actively managed mutual funds trail the market. trillion in assets in 2010, up from $25.8 Multiple academic studies soon backed up that conclusion. billion in in 1980).

Asset Management 8

Asset Management Industry Management Cost 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. Provide refunds quickly and efficiently. Great customer service doesn’t just happen.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. The founders hired marketing and advertising experts and created what they called their ‘Drink Tank’ – a group responsible for developing and managing the Odwalla brand. Dickens Jr.

Wilde 62

Wilde Tactics Advertising Brand 62

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. So how exactly does a small firm with only 20 employees manage to make millions every year without offering prices much lower than their competitors? Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Wilde 50

Wilde Real Estate Discount Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

I tend to care about prices: Will this merger affect my monthly wireless bill? Wireless telephone prices are falling, a sign of competitive markets. And because the CPI cannot easily account for increases in call quality , this index understates the true decrease in the quality-adjusted price of wireless telephony.

Wireless 13

Wireless Price Marketing Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. Set internal prices on carbon to incentivize reductions, preferably imposing an internal tax that collects funds or using “shadow” prices to influence investment decision making. Getting to 1.5

Efficiency 9

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Meanwhile, Whole Foods could lower its prices (organic avocados for just $1.69!) Tight cultures have an efficient orderliness and reassuring predictability, but are less adaptable. Rooted firmly in the manufacturing industry, Amazon has defined processes to maximize its efficiency. Loose cultures are much more fluid.

Price 10

Price Decentralization Long-term CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Up-front price is no longer a barrier. These new trucks will create significant additional value for the business in ongoing operational savings, improved routing efficiency, and brand building. in 2010, and has a couple thousand hybrids or EVs on the road now. Second, the higher-tech vehicles will operate more efficiently.

Strategy 8

Strategy Efficiency Brand Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K., In the life and retirement services area, start-ups such as LearnVest offer personalized financial advice at fixed prices that most middle-class consumers can afford. Google bought U.K. Germany, and France. Insurethebox, a U.K.

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In 2010, data centers represented 2% of all electricity use in the United States. If the world is to become ever more efficient and reach global climate goals, internet power will need to play its part. Clean energy can provide a hedge against rising and more volatile electricity prices.

Energy 8

Energy Globalization Hedge Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

We measured digital innovation based on the number of digital patents the firm had secured from 1998 to 2010. To do this, we compared the market valuations between 1998-2010 of companies that were similar in terms of their digital status (leader or laggard) and their growth trajectory (based on our model estimate).

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Marketing Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Attitudes have changed since 2010, the last time Washington debated serious climate action, and not only because most of us have connected the dots between climate change and the extreme weather events that ravage our communities. In Colorado, the state renewable energy mandate was bumped up from 20% to 30% in 2010. And the U.S.

Power 8

Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Sure, you’ll hit something with a shotgun, but the price in doing so seldom provides the big payback. When you take the time to focus, have discipline, and require follow-up, whether you’re a business owner, a manager, or an employee moving up the ladder, you’re creating a road map that documents what has to be accomplished and by when.

Bottom-up 50

Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.&# - Eugene B. Covey “It’s not the will to win that matters…everyone has that. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress.

Definition 370

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The SEC’s new disclosure requirement implements a section of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 that seeks to expose extreme pay gaps within corporations and to permit cross-company comparisons of CEO-worker pay inequality. To monitor this ratio, the Portland law will make use of data that, beginning in 2017, U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Black-Scholes Price Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

But that will not in any way deter hedge-fund activists from demanding that companies do stock buybacks so that they can time their stock sales to take advantage of short-term, buyback-induced, stock-price boosts. A prime example is Carl Icahn, who began to accumulate his multibillion-dollar stake in Apple in August 2013.

Proposal 8

Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

What are the dynamic change management techniques you want to use? How can multinationals develop innovative business models with "small store" formats to promote convenience, yet give consumers lower prices through economies of scale in purchasing and supply chain efficiencies? Disrupting the Status Quo. trillion market.

Retail 15

Retail Supply Chain Business Model Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

But there our story deviates from the norm because our turnaround wasn't based on cost control, financial leverage, or manufacturing efficiencies. Starting in our biggest business — carpet tiles — our managers and staff have gone through the grinding process of identifying every single chemical in our products. We did that.

Strategy 10

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

In 2010, the United Nations Global Compact conducted a survey [PDF] on sustainability and found that 93% of businesses consider it important to their future success. When new routes or distribution centers are added, the company now applies this model to maximize fuel efficiency. Establish some short-term goals.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Retail Energy ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K., In the life and retirement services area, start-ups such as LearnVest offer personalized financial advice at fixed prices that most middle-class consumers can afford. Google bought U.K. Germany, and France. Insurethebox, a U.K.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Our research has found that embedded sustainability drives financial performance through mediating factors such as innovation, operational efficiency, risk reduction, employee recruitment, engagement and retention, customer and supplier loyalty, competitive advantage, reduced cost of capital, and improved marketing and sales.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It was called "Equal Opportunity for Women Is Smart Business" but it might just as easily have been called "Management Development for Women Is Just Management Development (but with women in it)." So many of the elements," she pointed out herself, "are simply good management procedures. What Your Stock Price Really Means.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Disruptive Innovation Health Care Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Who were the Top Five in 2010 ? Success today in every field is about so much more than price, performance, features — pure economic value. The companies that I admire aren't just efficient and productive, they are memorable to encounter. Who are the Top Five organization's on Fortune's list for 2011? Anybody shocked?

Company 15

Company Collins Airlines Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. In 2010 it was $900 million — seventh place. There is tons of evidence, much of it compiled by the formulator of the efficient market hypothesis, Eugene Fama , that value investing works. He’s been winning a lot of them lately. In 2012 it was $1.9

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

When eyeglass maker Warby Parker launched in 2010, its founders had $2,500 seed funding and impressive business school pedigrees. Brands that don’t think strategically about shipping and last-mile delivery will pay the price — literally. In the future, smart inventory management and supply chain analytics can fix this.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Merchandising Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

firm, Qualcomm, developed the world’s most advanced technology for second-generation mobile telephony, but European firms had an advantage: a coherent pan-Continental IP strategy that included mandating technology sharing among European competitors and setting the pricing and licensing arrangements to ensure rapid adoption.

Licensing 8

Licensing Technology Participative Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

If they remove waste, errors, and time from these processes, they will get cost efficiency as a byproduct. Consider ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, which eliminated its budgeting process in 2010. According to ThedaCare's chief financial officer, Tim Olson , top management viewed it as a significant waste of time.

Budgeting 11

Budgeting Chief Financial Officer Cost CFO 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

Over the long term, markets are efficient and generally increase in value. High frequency traders use complex algorithms to exploit micro differences in trading prices over time — not years, months, or days. Computer networks are working faster and more efficiently than the markets can bear. but seconds and milliseconds.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Long-term Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Matthijs de Jong details in a fascinating 2010 paper on the subject , no dividends were paid for the first eight years of the company’s existence. One is as part of an inevitable progression toward a truly modern corporate form in which shareholders reign supreme and corporate managers efficiently do their bidding.

Class 8

Class Price Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

After 2010, climate all but disappeared from the national conversation. Since January, we have seen record drought, rising commodities prices, the lowest Arctic ice levels in recorded history, and a rash of costly extreme weather events. Put a price on carbon. Hurricane Sandy put it back on the map. Start a clean energy race.

Cost 8

Cost Price Energy Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

trillion spent on health care in the United States in 2010 was wages for health care workers, and labor productivity has historically worsened at a rate of 0.6% Surprisingly, 10 of the 16 non-doctor workers are purely administrative and management staff, receptionists and information clerks, and office clerks. Over half of the $2.6

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Technology will only be able to deliver on its promise of moving TV dollars online if it creates greater process efficiencies, drives more commerce, and enables deeper engagement with consumers. Projections put about 22% of all digital media being automated next year – up from just 4% in 2010. Open ecosystems will succeed.

Advertising 8

Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Since 2000, the Chinese economy has been growing at an increasing rate — from 6% per year in 2000 to 12% per year in 2010. This is exactly what happened during 2010 and 2011 as the global economy was bouncing back.)

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8