Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

We are committed to something larger than ourselves: the protection of America’s interests around the world and democracy.” The Value Bridge Admiral Clark described his strategy as using the Navy’s “asymmetrical advantages” of the “best technology in the world” combined with the “genius of our people.” What we do is hard work.

Long-term 207

Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on? Where will this period of discovery take the company?

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But HP is no longer a values-driven, family-like, innovation-oriented company that inspires commitment. A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. I studied IBM and HP (and your former company, eBay) for my 2001 book, Evolve. HP Invent is an empty slogan.

Tips 11

Tips CEO Software Drucker 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems. In part 2, employees rated the best-of-the-best ideas and senior management committed to implement the top 35.

Process 15

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

And while it''s impossible to know why any one person commits suicide, people close to both men suggest factors included their 24/7 professional lives, their competitive natures, and the intense financial pressure to perform. In Your Medicine Cabinet Use Only as Directed ProPublica Can Tylenol kill? Internet Tech industry'

Review 8

Review CFO PR Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

In the decades that followed Kodak established a dominant position in the lucrative film business, with its "you push a button, we do the rest" slogan demonstrating its commitment to making photography accessible to the masses. Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts.

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Several years later, in 2001, I was working as chief of staff to then-Harvard University President Larry Summers when we unveiled Harvard’s Sustainability Principles. My husband was one of the earliest investors in alternative energy technologies in the U.S., More than anything, I learned that sustainability is local.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CPI for "wireless telephone services" has declined every year since 2001; the same basket of wireless services in January 2011 cost consumers 12 percent less than what it cost in January 2001, and 40 percent less than what it cost in January 1998.

Wireless 13

Wireless Price Marketing Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

I was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) in 2001. Take, for instance, my IM exchanges with a technology manager at a financial services firm. In addition, as clients have pointed out, the written record also holds me accountable for any ground rules we’ve established and follow-up commitments I’ve made.

Argyris 8

Argyris Document Construction Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

So at the Cancun climate talks , one country has already committed to updating it for the 21st century — by including the costs of environmental damage to make the numbers a little more meaningful. Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. That country? Not America, the UK, or France — but India.

GDP 16

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Between 1994 when he was first elected and 2001, in his third term, the Firm more than doubled its number of consultants (3,300 to 7,700), partners (425 to 891), and annual revenues ($1.5 Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets. billion to $3.4

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The late 1940s were a tough time for the fledgling electronic equipment maker that would eventually become one of the America’s best-known technology companies. Then came the September 11, 2001, attacks, followed by fully-fledged economic crises in the U.S. Just look to the early days of Hewlett-Packard.

Management 8

Management Uncertainty Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. I picked these firms for no other reason than their genuine commitment and actions toward embracing an outside-in perspective. Bagged salad would not have risen to what is now, a $2.5-billion-a-year

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. ” Nadella challenged the company to see beyond its legacy products like Windows, invested heavily in new technologies like AI and SaaS, purchased LinkedIn to plug Microsoft services into the company’s social graph, and more.

CEO 8

CEO Consensus Management Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Take Dell Technologies, for example. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. By treating strategic investments like options, Alphabet has avoided committing too early to new businesses. Any deviation from management’s forecast meant failure, regardless of how effectively the strategy was executed.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991. But it was exploiting this technology’s growth potential some years later that put Irwin Jacobs in our top 10 tech CEOs between 1995 and 2014.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

One high profile example is Walmart’s commitment to source an additional $250 billion in products made, assembled, or grown in the United States. Advances in manufacturing technology. supply base: The United States suffered a net loss of nearly 19,000 manufacturing firms between 2001 and 2015, according to our analysis of U.S.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. By 2001, many charities that were still counting on pledged donations and found themselves left in a lurch (though it was also their fault for not casting other nets for funding and being too dependent upon Enron).

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. Almost everybody is bullish, expects the market to go up, and is fully committed. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002. They are not.

Long-term 11

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

It’s achieved impressive results since being founded in 2001, and is run by a committee of about ten people. This is what has carried Second Chance through their tough times – their shared commitment to the women they are helping. In the early days, a management consultant used the familiar chiefs/Indians line to predict they’d fail.

Case Study 13

Case Study Committee Software Hamel 13