Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 29, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full How Passion Can Revolutionize Digital Technology, AND Change The World: A Video Every Leader Must See by Starbucker on August 29, 2010 In early 1997, its stock price was $4. Which brings us back to passion.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Too much money is spent on attention-grabbing activities that are straightforward to do, like hiring new people, procuring new technologies, and buying more facilities. This includes technology and people, as well as tangible, intangible, and financial assets. Together, these companies have spent billions on innovation.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Inside you’ll find scenarios, case studies, tips, templates, and checklists that will help you capture and retain your company’s intellectual capital as Baby Boomers leave the workplace. From this point on, it is critical that you follow the needs of your audience.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

GoDaddy (a web hosting company) announced its support of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in late October 2011. The news of GoDaddy's pro-SOPA stance appeared on Reddit on December 22, 2011, and then went viral. Even Ashton Kutcher joined in. How can you avoid a customer revolt?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

” In 2011, Rita McGrath echoed another one of Iver and Davenport’s points: the importance of failure. In 2011, Joshua Gans used Google+ to argue that the company was now playing catchup in key areas. Earlier this year, Michael Schrage used Glass as a case study of how not to roll out an innovative new product.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

In fact, it matters as much or more than a number of other factors associated with successful businesses, like technology adoption. Sure, there are thousands of case studies and small sample studies, but it’s hard to generalize from them, since the companies they focus on are seldom representative of the broader economy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Case Study #1: Stay current and build relationships with your colleagues so that you understand what motivates them. ” Case Study #2: Create a message that resonates, and forge a path for others to become proponents. ” In 2011, when Gallegos first started at Jitterbit, the company had about 50 customers. .

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. The Case of IBM. Both strategies are evident in the case of Gerstner and IBM.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

For example, when Apple expanded from music players to phones, it carried over to the iPhone not just the technology and software that powered the iPod but also users' entire music collections and its music store's entire supplier base. Amazon and Apple will go down as case studies in alternative strategies for succeeding in ecosystems.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

Back in 2011, crowdsourcing was fueling an explosion in open innovation. One author of the Harvard Business School Case Study on Threadless observes that, based on numbers of applications, the odds of winning admission to Harvard are higher than the chance of winning a Threadless contest. Each winner receives just $2,500.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Consider the case study unfolding right now in Brazil at the World Cup. There’s Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford commencement speaker and technology icon. If lying — or even just exaggerating a bit — would help your team win, would you do it? More provocatively: should you do it?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Nearly every criticism the authors levy in their op-ed is answered in 12 blog posts , a magazine article from January/February 2011, a video interview , and a slideshow that integrated community and commentary, which were published between last October and this May. The $300 House project is a housing ecosystem project. It is both, always.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Thanks to internet and mobile technology, we can now work where and when we want, they argue. Case Study #1: Creating a unique job share. Not only did Ford's management agree, they put the duo in charge of one of their most high-profile 2011 launches — the new Ford Explorer. Case Study #3: Setting the precedent.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

If you still don’t know whether or not your attitude is affecting your performance, I would strongly suggest participation in a 360 review process where your strengths and weakness are objectively assessed by those whom you interface with on a frequent basis. The beautiful thing about your story is it makes for a wonderful case study.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Case study #1: Create financial flexibility for yourself and commit to an end date. Kate had had a taste of entrepreneurial life — she was on the management team of ArtusLabs, the North Carolina-based software company that was bought by PerkinElmer in 2011 — and knew how “exciting it was to work at a start-up.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

The media and technology sectors have traditionally been the biggest employers of freelancers but the good news is that “almost every industry is expanding their use of contingent workers,” says King. Case Study #1: A vague plan is better than no plan. ” Case study #2: Your network is bigger than you think.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

India has numerous small retailers and service providers who are shining examples of scrappy entrepreneurship at its best, but the information technology startups that are my primary interest typically require outside funding. India has done well in the last twenty odd years to build its technology industry through services.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

He has written a case study about food safety testing and is the author of All Business Is Local. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Shouldn’t advancing technologies, in agriculture and operations, also be able to help here? Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Case Study #1: Stay in touch by offering to be helpful and expressing interest in your contacts’ lives. Back in 2011, when he was an MBA student at Wharton, he attended a talk by one of the founders of TechStars. ” Case Study #2: Ask questions and don’t self-promote.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries. Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

The cloud containing most of this data is vast and abstract; the technology that keeps it running takes up real space — a lot of it. eBay closely documented the building of its Arizona site, called Project Mercury, and created a case study sharing its specs and specifics on how the company achieved them. The problem.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The company cried ‘case study’ from the very beginning, when it segued from the former Houston Natural Gas moniker. These are my considered opinions, having conducted Performance Reviews, Strategic Planning and Visioning for other companies over 35+ years. Companies should be doing full-scope Performance Reviews.

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