Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

One required any company with nine or more stores in the state to pay a yearly tax of $500 per store, roughly half the annual profits of the average grocery store. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, the nation's largest chain retailer by far, insisted on remaining aloof from politics. The brothers who ran it, George L.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Is your company ready to compete in a world of smart, connected products ? How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. Together, these constituted radical moves for an industrial company headquartered on the East Coast.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

While the first 787 was originally scheduled to be delivered back in 2008, a string of delays and cost overruns meant that deliveries didn't start until 2011. Boeing's experience bears comparing to another company, one which has mastered the art of managing design as an integrated process, while still utilizing outsourcing — Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Researchers in the fields of business, economics, and psychology maintained their relentless pursuit of knowledge in 2011, discovering, among other things, that a joke can get you a raise and that it's OK to mimic your customers. Chi and Allan W. Snyder of the University of Sydney. Roediger III of Washington University. by standing 0.6

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2018

” Lorrie had seen the path from startup to scale-up first hand at companies like eBay and Intuit, and I valued her perspective. Borrowing a morsel of wisdom from HP co-founder David Packard, she warned me that “more companies die of indigestion than starvation.” At the time, in 2011, we already had over 300 non-U.S.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. At the same time – I had to clearly understand what my company expected from me, and really believe on it. Juan, I admire your attention to and intention with your team.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Companies have long struggled to generate sustained profitable growth – and few have succeeded. Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. ’ The companies exist to exploit existing businesses, not to create new ones.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

but are still, as is clear from the chart below, costing companies a lot of money. These lawsuits have been enabled in part by the efficient-market teaching that “in an open and developed securities market, the price of a company’s stock is determined by the available material information regarding the company and its business.”

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