Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

The company’s 2013 annual report contained the usual statements on income, changes in equity, and cash flows — standard stuff. That was in keeping with the Corporations Act of 2001. Its revenue comes from franchises ($AU4.77 billion) and, to a lesser extent, company-owned stores (about $AU2.55

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Then in early 2001 came an industry-wide crash, and suddenly Cisco was near death. © 2013 Lolly Daskal. In 2000 under the leadership of CEO John Chambers, Cisco was at the top of the game. For a couple of days its market cap was number one in the world. A good judgment call doesn’t happen with a simple adjustment here and there.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. Why did this happen? An easy explanation is myopia. It was so close.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It is one of most successful companies in the world. As Bezos says, “Setting the bar high and our approach to hiring has been and will continue to be, the single most important element of Amazon.com’s success.” For those who haven’t read your book yet, would you share one of them and its importance to business success?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

The three main grocery retail chains in Peru grew from 57 stores in 2001 to 155 stores in 2010. Case in point: Ford is planning to introduce at least five new models after seeing a 33% increase in sales in the first half of 2013 in Nigeria. Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” In other words, Bunge views success as the result of exercise and work going hand-in-hand. Between 2001 and 2011, the number of CEOs finishing at least one marathon doubled, and in a Swedish survey of nearly 3,000 managers , more than 90% said that physical exercise had a positive impact on their leadership skills.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

There have been far-reaching business after-effects from the attacks on September 11, 2001. In the fourth quarter of 2001, there were 408 extended mass layoff events, involving 114,711 workers, directly or indirectly attributed to the attacks. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. by Hank Moore.

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Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Up until that March evening, Apple had been notoriously successful at concealing its new designs. For instance, Apple filed applications for the original iPhone only four days before it was announced in 2007; for the original iPod in 2001, the filing was one day before release.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

“Succession between generations is a very risky project,” says Fernández-Aráoz, which is why it’s critical to talk early and openly about rules for advancement and what handing off power might look like. For your sanity and future success, it’s critical to maintain outside interests and contacts of your own.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Having done so put the city in the position of responding to the unthinkable on September 11, 2001. Activities included crisis communications, grassroots lobbying, dealer relations, issues management, and the recently-completed successful market reintroduction of the product. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector. It’s easy to get caught up in the hype.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Today’s successful companies close the strategy-to-performance gap with a new strategy approach best described as “Decide-Do/Refine-Do” This agile, test-and-learn approach is better suited to today’s tumultuous environment. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

It was the brainchild of Donald Clifton , the late grandfather of Positive Psychology , but is associated in the popular culture with Marcus Buckingham , Clifton''s coauthor of Now, Discover Your Strengths (2001). Like any successful movement, the strengths movement drove a single issue and inevitably left out a lot.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

Using a sample of 1,069 Danish couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010, the study revealed that couples often establish a business together because one spouse (usually the female) has limited outside opportunities in the labor market. New research from the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) looks into this.

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Human Capital Entrepreneur Sample Case Study 11

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

The Bush cuts also gradually raised the estate exemption and lowered the estate tax from 2001 until 2010, when the estate tax disappeared for that year only. Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Congress had a moderately successful run with budget pre-commitment mechanisms in the 1980s and 1990s, in the form of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the successor known as " paygo." In 2010, Congress voted to extend the 2001 cuts for two years. But it has worked in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

percent in 2013). Until then, successive U.S. President Bush also pursued agreement in the WTO’s multilateral Doha Round, launched in 2001, but divisions between advanced and developing nations led to a stalemate. As a result of these negotiations, U.S. percent by 1980 (and down further to 2.7

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