Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2012

Amazon now has total market dominance based on leadership, vision, and technological excellence. Billion-dollar MIS-MEASUREMENT: Bank of America DIDN’T measure or understand the power of Facebook. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. If Bezos measured the ROI at Amazon in the first five years, he would have quit.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. At worst, they misjudge or simply stay out of markets vastly different from their own.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

We build institutes for leadership and the advancement of civil society on our campuses for it. Similarly, many bemoan the march of students into business schools and investment banking. Their movement has galvanized hundreds of thousands of young people all over the world. They raise in excess of $13 million annually.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. ” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. The Commonwealth Bank appeared to shareholders as simply putting out a fire.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

They modify their appearance, body language, and communication style — all components of executive presence (EP), that intangible element that defines leadership material. ” Multinational companies based in the US are desperate to unlock this growth market. They’re always told, ‘Calm down.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

million for 2012, a 74 percent increase. Dimon’s raise obviously has special resonance because JP Morgan’s legal woes were one of the top business stories last year as it agreed to $20 billion in payments to settle a variety of cases involving the bank’s conduct since 2005 when Dimon became JPM CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. As business tycoon Richard Branson has proclaimed in 2012, “our only option to stop climate change is for industry to make money from it.” Wallace Garrison/Getty Images. We get back to core stuff.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

They had surged with the rise of digital camera only to peak in 2012, coming back down as smart phones became widely used. Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. What he heard was uncomfortable.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. In the fast growth markets of Asia, Africa and Latin America, national governments are responding to a more empowered citizenship, and looking for corporate partners to achieve their development goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

The company, Australia’s largest wealth platform provider, is the wealth management arm of the Westpac Group (Australia’s second largest bank in terms of market capitalization). As business leaders, they were acutely aware that there was no decent solution in the market. Related Video. The Explainer: Design Thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. It was a much-watched contest, as many had thought it might turn out otherwise—that the old boys' bargain, under which an American gets to lead the World Bank and a European gets the IMF, would cave in to pressure from everyone else.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Instagram is an exciting marketing channel; GoPro’s account helps keep users engaged with the company and lets GoPro know how people use its products.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market. Demand quickly bounced back.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Greece appears also to lose control of the €11 billion reserves of the Greek banking stability fund. For all the talk of reform, little has happened on the ground: this is partly a legacy of poor leadership from the previous government as well as of the Troika’s priorities.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

Although you may enjoy the same convenience with your own bank, you can thank USAA for it. This clarity of focus is why in 2012 USAA achieved 98% customer retention , and 95% of their customers said they will stay with USAA for life. I often hear large companies claim that “leadership” or “culture” is their differentiator.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Where was its leadership bench? Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? Using data from the 2012 survey, we also found that boards gave their companies'' very poor grades on talent management. Is P&G no longer an academy company?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. Growth events were almost immediate: An entrepreneur with a line of men’s underwear entered export markets for the first time.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The answer to those questions is threefold: Central Bank choices. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank followed broadly similar policies in reaction to the crisis, lowering interest rates and injecting liquidity. What went wrong? How could a crisis that started in the U.S. have caused so much damage in Europe? Both the U.S.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them. In 2012, according to the State of Women-Owned Businesses Report from American Express Open, there are more than 8.3 million in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Take Australia-based hearing-aid manufacturer Cochlear, which when faced with a chronic underrepresentation of women in its high-potential pool, made an effort to better align its leadership roles both to their candidates'' individual strengths and to their individual career aspirations. Women in Leadership Special Series.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. One key reason for shareholders'' positive tone is that the stock market has been doing well. This shift to financial-markets-based compensation had some of the promised impact — CEOs did become less risk-averse (bureaucrat-like) in their decision-making. Since say-on-pay hit the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

Branch 3: Accounting, banking, investments, financial planning, benefits programs, real estate, fund raising for non-profit organizations and investor relations services for public companies. You provide leadership for progress, rather than following along. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. He has advised two U.S.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. My analysis: The stock market looks primarily at profits…one small part (1%) of the business picture.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

This escalation illustrates a significant change: highly expensive scandals across business sectors , not just in single companies, and this is reflected in the January 7th agreement by major banks to pay $8.5 Other banks are considering whether to join the agreement (e.g. Other banks are considering whether to join the agreement (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

of GDP in 2012 from 1.1% by 2020, according to the World Bank. in 2012, and was second only to that of the US, whose share was 29% in 2012. In 2012, the share of China-based inventors in patents granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office was 1.8% in 2002, and should touch 2.0%

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. billion, which has experienced incredible growth, with the total number of users having practically doubled each year since 2012. Narrowly focused.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 29, 2013

A 2012 report by the European Union Institute for Security Studies, using a broader definition of middle class, predicted that the number of people in that category would grow from 1.8 John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership (ebook editions). Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership: Self Coaching Secrets (paperback edition). .

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