Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Our 2012 survey, in partnership with WomenCorporateDirectors and Heidrick & Struggles, of more than 1,000 corporate directors across the globe, found that only 48% of the boards had a formal process of determining the combination of skills and attributes required for their board and, therefore, for new directors.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Sheex is on track to sell $70 million worth of bedsheets in 2012 and to double that next year. BONUS BITS: Telecommunications Takedowns. The duo determined that since the material wicks sweat, dries quickly, and keeps elite athletes cool in the summer and warm in the winter, that it could also make for some very elite sheets.

Apparel 8

Apparel Telecommunications Transportation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

Two studies of firms in the telecommunications and financial services industries showed that only about 10% of declared promoters actually do refer profitable new customers. The concept that emerged at the 2012 Summit on Customer Engagement was "defender." That may not be the case at all: they need to be asked. It's too passive.

Reference 12

Reference Telecommunications Survey Customer Loyalty 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

According to Selling Power magazine, the largest companies in America selling products such as computer and office equipment, consumable goods, insurance, telecommunications, and financial services, each employ tens of thousands of salespeople. billion spent on all media advertising in 2012 and more than 20 times the estimated $39.5

Short-term 8

Short-term Telecommunications Advertising Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few.

Telecommunications 15

Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

2012 was a big year for payments leader Square, founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. In 2012 Square received a significant round of funding , and formed an innovative deal with Starbucks (which included an investment of $25 million). Disruption has been swirling around the telecommunications industry for years.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications Innovation Fashion 8

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Likewise, leading telecommunications and other equipment providers now have to compete by offering “network solutions” involving many products formerly sold separately. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There has just been listed as the #2 bestselling business book for 2012 by INC magazine / 800 CEO Read. 1-858-759-0950.

Telecommunications 111

Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

.” There are several reasons why the top job is increasingly going to outsiders when boards have time to plan for succession, which was the case for nearly three-quarters of CEO hires from 2012 to 2015. The industries facing the most disruption have brought in higher-than-average numbers of outsiders recently.

CEO 8

CEO Company Telecommunications Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

To cap off a small sliver of dismal data points, research firm Gallup found that over a twelve-year period between 2000 and 2012, the percentage of engaged employees in the workforce has shifted between 26% and 30%. And, a paltry 38% reported that their organizations had effective leadership running the show.

CIO 8

CIO Leadership Drucker Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Ellen Kullman (DuPont), Maria das Graças Silva Foster (Petrobras), and Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) lead three of the most powerful companies in the world. These women, like many other great leaders, got there by working their way up the ladder — not by founding entrepreneurial ventures.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

This is the virtual network operator (VNO) model used by the telecommunications sector. For example, in 2012, Intel, TSMC, and Samsung — three large semiconductor manufacturers based in the U.S., The virtual operator purchases bulk network capacity from an integrated telecom carrier while retaining a separate commercial identity.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

So far I haven''t been able to get Comcast''s PR people to tell me what the odds of that are, but I did find a 2012 article from Multichannel News that said cable boxes have "an effective life of seven years," and that there are lots of things in them that can be repurposed after that.

Market Penetration 8

Market Penetration Industry Telecommunications Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Moreover, in India, the total value of ATM transactions increased more than five times between 2007 and 2012, from about 3 trillion to about 18 trillion rupees, while the value of card transactions barely doubled in the same period from 1 to 2 trillion rupees.

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

So the question is really whether the current, mostly hands-off regulatory regime for broadband has led to faster growth and more investment than if Powell, as chairman of the FCC, hadn’t decided in 2002 to classify cable broadband as a lightly regulated “information service” instead of a common-carrier “telecommunications service.”

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Industry GDP Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

When the chain launched its Pig Out Burger in 2012, employees posted that the new menu item was getting panned by customers. David Thodey, the CEO of Telstra, the largest telecommunications company in Australia, wanted to make it crystal clear that he was serious about using the organization’s enterprise social network for business.

Technology 8

Technology Tools Telecommunications CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

The CMO of a telecommunications company, for instance, found the biggest spike in churn came when customers moved. With its 2012 London Olympics sponsorship it resolved to optimize its ads in real time. Marketing leaders know that they have to be prepared to iterate and optimize on the go.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

In 2012, Huawei surpassed Ericsson – at that time the world leader in telecommunications and networks – in terms of sales revenue and net profit, and this trend continued in the fiscal year of 2014 when Huawei reached an all-time high sales revenue of $46.5 billion and net profits of $4.49 billion (both in U.S. dollars).

Succession 8

Succession Golden Handcuff IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

The problem, the court said, was that the FCC’s bans on blocking or discriminating against certain Internet traffic sounded like the kind of rules that would apply to a “telecommunications service,” yet the FCC has classified broadband internet as an “information service.” It’s been a great decade to be a telecommunications lawyer.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8