Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015. At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

While sales objectives are most common, trade shows may also be behavior, product, distribution or marketing oriented. Perform informal market research. Develop action plans for accomplishing your goals and getting the right people to visit with your company at the show. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. Here are eight cross-cutting themes and stories from 2015 that are driving us toward a sustainable world (and two that are doing the opposite): 1. degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals).

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2015

The mentor requests pro-active changes of mentee, evaluates realism of goals and offers truths about path to success and shortcomings of mentee’s approaches. This requires planning, purpose and commitment. How you fulfill commitments and pro-bono work speaks to the kind of professional that you are. Culture and Mission.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

And now, more than ever, everyone seems committed to dismantling discrimination. Diversity is complicated, and that’s why most companies fail to meet their Diversity, Equity & Inclusion goals. In both the 2015 and 2018 reports, McKinsey delivered bad news to companies with poor diversity.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Corporations working with public sector and non-profit organizations to achieve mutual goals in the communities. Here are some examples of Joint-Venturing: Producers of energy create an independent drilling or marketing entity. International trade development, including research, marketing, relocation, negotiations and lobbying.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Willingness requires complete and never-ending commitment by management. Setting goals that are too low. Marketing’s importance was fully embraced in the 1960′s. Higher sales.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In 2015, we conducted a workforce analysis that revealed a significant shortage of women in leadership at our company. While this number was comparable to the percentage of women executives at Fortune 500 healthcare companies in 2015, it was not a number we were proud of. Commit to change. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. This needs to change.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Of that number, 29% involved the use of personal data to commit tax fraud. More than 32% reported that their data was used to commit credit card fraud, up sharply from 16% in 2015. A rationalized market would help ensure that consumers have as much information as possible about the use of their personal data by others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C The UN then asked the IPCC to study what it would take to achieve that goal.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. As of November 2016, the market value of the world’s 179 unicorns was estimated to be $646 billion. In 2015 global M&A volume surpassed $5 trillion — a record.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

They can benefit greatly from assessing the distance between their recruitment marketing and the actual employee experience. Few employees had been to regional offices or even interacted with colleagues in other markets. Beginning in 2015 the company made a conscious decision to build a more authentic employer brand.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

” These customer-praising marketing messages are part of a broader trend in “corporate societal marketing,” which aim to emphasize companies’ social efforts to consumers. So giving customers credit for making progress toward an altruistic goal may play a role in immediately boosting self-indulgent behavior.

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Ethics Licensing Self-aware Morale 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Last year during Climate Week, my company took the opportunity to publicly announce a commitment to increase the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of our operations and product portfolio. Embedding the values of your commitment into every aspect of your organization requires strong leadership to uphold these values.

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Energy Commitment Globalization Operations 8

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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Ever since the idea of strategy came to the business world in the early 1960s, the goal of differentiation has been paramount. Back in the 1980s, a company could set itself apart through scale, being the largest company in a category provided leverage over costs, back office processes, distribution, and marketing effectiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Among the largest 250 companies in the world, 92% produced a CSR report in 2015, informing shareholders and the public about the firm’s activities. In both scenarios, a firm committed to annually donating part of its profit to a renowned charity. Taira Kurihara/Getty Images. That’s up from 64% having such a report in 2005.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Their scope and pace often run counter to the rhythms of company goals. It’s understanding, for example, how automation and self-driving cars will slowly but radically transform job markets and proactively building new strategies to address those changes. Slow innovation projects can be just as impactful in the long-term.

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Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

It is important to re-connect to our calling and choose – re-commit – the way forward that will best fuel our happiness and contribution. What’s your goal? To generate breakthroughs: Define goals that inspire you and share them broadly. Take forward action in support of goals. Happy New Year! An awesome force of nature.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

Once a firm embraces maximizing shareholder value and the current stock price as its goal, and lavishly compensates top management to that end, the C-suite has little choice but to deploy command-and-control management. Profits and share price increases are the result, not the goal of a firm’s activities.

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Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2015

You know it’s important to weigh the costs and benefits before committing resources. And how can you ensure your budget will help you meet your strategic goals? First, list three to five goals that you hope to achieve during the period for which you are budgeting. Here’s how to begin. Is your budget defensible?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Determined to explore how today’s philanthropists are harnessing market forces to make a difference in the world, and what they are learning, my team and I conducted interviews with several of the most prominent: from Ackman and Cohen to Virgin’s Sir Richard Branson and Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

With that goal, we thought carefully about each of our clinical service lines: Are we the best at this service line? Next, Cadence Health (now Northwestern Memorial Hospital) approached us with the idea of setting up an endovascular neuroradiology laboratory, led by their star physician, who committed to being on site at Silver Cross.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Raising the bar on performance or commitment. Aligning with creative colleagues, like those in design or marketing. Achieving our 2015 results. Imagine how great it will feel when we hit our targets — when we crush the competition and claim the market share we deserve? The destination? Winning Minds.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

In addition, highly successful companies — those who are leaders in their market and have surpassed revenue expectations — are the most likely to adopt this compensation policy. The survey reveals 81% of top performing companies (compared to 74% of average companies) used some form of pay-for-performance practices in 2015.

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Metrics Price Policies Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The social issue is clear: too many children die before their fifth birthday, something Millennium Development Goal 4 targets to reduce. This opportunity is even more marked because of the very rapid pace of change in these emerging markets. This is the only way to ensure tangible commitment and long-term success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

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Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

’” Martin’s story is one we heard repeatedly over the course of our 2015 study of black women and leadership. “You have to ask for his commitment, and, once he’s vested, you have hold him accountable.” He did such a great job with that cost reduction project.’” ”

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Management Diversity Report Globalization 8

Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

It is important to re-connect to our calling and choose – re-commit – the way forward that will best fuel our happiness and contribution. What’s your goal? To generate breakthroughs: Define goals that inspire you and share them broadly. Take forward action in support of goals. Happy New Year! An awesome force of nature.

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How To Course Chaos Theory Hotels 40

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

Furthermore, a 2015 study by Interaction Associates shows that high-trust companies “ are more than 2½ times more likely to be high performing revenue organizations ” than low-trust companies. At first, Doug’s commitment to improving the offices began with something as miniscule as a fresh coat of paint.

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Supply Chain Commitment Report Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Building alignment and commitment to the firm’s strategy (in particular, by emphasizing empathy as much as urgency). What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. From 2008 to 2015 SCA’s revenue rose 88% (from $690 million to $1.3

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CEO Company Due Diligence Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

I see Amazon’s price strategy with Whole Foods, fueled by constant testing and experimentation, to evolve in three steps: changing price perception, growing the market for healthy foods, and then applying insights to other offline retail sectors and services. Growing the market for healthy foods. Changing price perception.

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Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2017

Jane is a marketing director at a technology firm, where she manages a small team, works late, and travels once per quarter. A 2015 study from McKinsey and LeanIn.org found that “women in senior management are seven times more likely than men at the same level to say they do more than half of the housework.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In January 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new provider reimbursement code for non–face-to-face health care services for patients who have chronic medical conditions. Timed text messages help the smoker cope with cravings, encourage longer practice-quit commitments, and applaud successes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

This has big implications for businesses, entrepreneurs, and innovators seeking growth beyond their home markets: there just isn’t a one-size-fits-all app or approach to building scale in the global digital economy. must take action, then set individual targets or commitments accordingly.

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Benchmarking Policies Globalization Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In fact, aside from enthusiasm and commitment, there’s a huge financial incentive as well: a bad hire can cost up to 15 times their base salary. Just imagine: a whole team of people passionate about the same vision, working towards the same goals without any dead weight dragging them down. Sounds pretty good to me.

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