Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

A working group whose members include Humana, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, PepsiCo, Unilever, and South African insurer Discovery recently proposed that publicly traded corporations provide an overview on the health of their workforces in their various forms of public disclosure, including annual reports, 10-Ks, and sustainability reports.

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Company Metrics Proposal Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

All economists recognize that competitive analysis is all about customers; if firms exercise market power, customers suffer through higher prices and foreclosed entry of new competitors. Then along came the proposed merger of Staples and Office Depot. If firms are not exercising market power, competition reigns.

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Wireless Report Price Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Already there is political backlash to Prime Minister's proposed reforms. 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? So how should businesses approach the new reality?

Retail 15

Retail Supply Chain Business Model Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Leaders defeat themselves when they seek gain when others suffer, for example, raising prices in a time of high unemployment when consumers have less to spend, to ensure profits when sales are down. McDonald's raised prices three percent in early 2012 and by the third quarter, faced the first drop in same-store sales in nine years.

Career 13

Career Company Bureaucracy Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

On November 10, 2010, Cisco's stock price dropped 16%, erasing roughly $20 billion of market value in a matter of hours. Here's what I propose. And knowing that our "upside surprise" mentality will not be easily overturned, my proposal is modest. Had something catastrophic happened? The problem? They reported $0.42

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Proposal Benchmarking Consensus Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. If the "innovation obvious" answer is "cut prices," that speaks volumes about your firm's innovation culture. Not only is there no shortage of innovative proposals, there's no shortage of innovation obvious proposals. What happened?

Wireless 12

Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 12

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. Fortunately, U.S.

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Cost Price Energy Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

To be sure, the proposal set forth by the Greek finance minister is less detailed than that of his predecessor, and leaves some room for maneuvering, but this is a mixed blessing, as the EU, the IMF, and the ECB will need to sign off on specifics. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense. Will there be progress in this regard?

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Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Today’s business environment is highly unpredictable, and organizations need strategies that can weather both large-scale changes and occasional shocks to the system—fluctuating oil prices, for example. Here are three ways CSOs and organizations can craft flexible, comprehensive strategies for today.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Trends Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

If they were required to purchase a seat to strap their car carrier into, it would increase the price of the trip for their parents, who would then be more likely to drive. By forcing people to purchase additional seats it would inevitably drive up the demand and therefore the price of airline tickets (and I fly quite a bit).

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Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

When ValueAct called to propose a board seat, Brown was surprised. From the inception of Motorola Solutions stock at the end of 2010, its price rose by some 90 percent over the next three years, roughly twice the rise of the S&P 500 benchmark. Singer came on the board in October 2012.

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Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Based on this insight, Gimmy proposed a radical rethinking and new corporate venturing tool to boost corporate innovation: the “venture client” model. Creating the Venture Client Model.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

Bribery Act of 2010 makes the FCPA look meek by comparison and the UN Convention Against Corruption has spurred the European Union, China, and others to establish corporate integrity standards of their own. When Wal-Mart's general counsel solicited a bid for such an investigation, a respected law firm proposed a three-month investigation.

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Execution Retail Report Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Two companies transfer selected similar assets into a joint venture in order to support the orderly management of capacity in their industry and reduce the risk of prices spiraling downward. Cooperation with competitors entails the risk of triggering scrutiny by competition authorities.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Investors also did well: A $100 investment in Ruger in late 2010 was worth $443 in late 2015, while the equivalent investment in the S&P 500 yielded only $163 over that time frame. Debate-producing proposals on curbing gun violence have come from many corners, including the White House. presidential election.

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Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. Business as usual is no more.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In 2010, Google rocked the $60 billion broadband industry by announcing plans to deploy fiber-based home internet service, offering connections up to a gigabit per second — 100 times faster than average speeds at the time. PM Images/Getty Images. Cities saw great value to their communities of being one of the testbeds.

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Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

The restaurants were known across the Emirates for having the best egg dishes west of Okha, made with local farm-fresh ingredients, priced affordably, and always served with a smile, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Yolk-ay’s 2010 turnover had been two million dirhams. “Where to now? In Wolfgang’s, a chicken leg.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

For example, one of her key proposals is for shares to be held well beyond the current minimum period of one year before the profits from their sale are taxed as a capital gain. A prime example is Carl Icahn, who began to accumulate his multibillion-dollar stake in Apple in August 2013. To date Apple has acceded to Icahn’s demands.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

Congressional lawmakers have adopted both these strategies in the Paycheck Fairness Act—a proposed bill aimed at closing the gender wage gap. Online shoppers often go to more than one website to compare prices. Searching for the best price for labor is the exact same principle, only the stakes are much higher.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

What do you make of his proposal? But when it comes to achieving the goal of doubling exports in five years [a goal Obama outlined in his 2010 State of the Union speech ], we already did the easy part: because our exports were so depressed due to the global financial crisis, we saw growth in the first couple of years. Trade Policy.".

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Price Aggregate Demand Proposal Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The SEC has recognized this point; in 2010 it issued a planning document asking publicly traded companies to disclose their climate exposure risk. The SEC’s proposed rules require firms to go through a process of “self-discovery” to learn about what new risks they face.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

” No technology company would object to that proposal. Liberation of so-called “orphan works” would have been enabled by a proposed settlement in a case involving wholesale scanning by Google Books, but that settlement was scuttled in 2011. Google went on to win the case outright.)

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Planning Innovation Review Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Structural reform: Structural reform policies are proposed in many areas, including price formation, tax regulation, financial and investment regulation, and de-monopolization. All point in the direction of further embracing competitive market mechanisms.

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Planning Policies GDP Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

While concerns about conflicts of interest regarding President Trump’s business holdings have received a lot of attention, resulting in proposed legislation to end loopholes for the commander in chief , there has been much less discussion of another source of conflicting interests: the investments of members of Congress.

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Conflict of Interest Committee Collins Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

Neither, however, is the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the repeal and replacement legislation proposed by House Republicans and embraced by President Trump. Individual markets were troubled prior to the ACA’s enactment in 2010. Third, the reforms that will improve individual markets, which we discuss below, are known.

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Insurance Marketing Health Care Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Without greater investment in new capacity, tight supply will ration demand and prices will skyrocket — which could bring the world economy to its knees. The per barrel oil price of $140 four years ago was not an aberration, but a warning. Proposals to reduce the world's carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050 are not achievable.

Policies 12

Policies Energy Transportation Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

When a court found in 2010 that the FCC lacked authority to enforce them, the agency formalized them as rules. broadband deployment and pricing is the envy of much of the rest of the world. And that is exactly what House and Senate Republicans proposed in late 2014. By comparison, private investors have spent nearly $1.5

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