Building Personal Strength

JUNE 17, 2010

This meant that I was involved in some kind of combat operation several times a week—air-mobile assaults, search-and-destroy missions, night ambushes, and so forth. I remember being afraid one night in 2001. The economy had been in a recession after the stock market “tech bubble” burst.

Learning-by-Doing 88

Learning-by-Doing Training Travel Skills 88

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

This practice, which is largely the evolution of database marketing, has become a critical driver of business strategy for global organizations in nearly every industry and vertical, because it supports decisions with data. In this way, CI's value extends well beyond the marketing organization. The ability to speak "IT."

Company 14

Company Business Intelligence CRM Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. They keep customers happier.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

We believe that organizations need to explicitly develop two parallel management systems: the operational system that manages the short-term execution of work — what we call the "Surface System," and a second system that focuses externally on sensing and driving strategic change — what we call the "Deep System."

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.

P&L 14

P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Business development. For many years, we will be measuring how loss of corporate credibility has tainted all facets of business, in terms of remediation, replacement, litigation, make-good, rework, damage control, recovery process, settlements to victims, decreased stock market value and sagging retail sales. Running the business.

Crisis 60

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

No matter how you look at it, there have been terrible, unintended outcomes from the introduction and marketing of next-generation prescription opioids. How did the making and marketing of drugs like OxyContin go so terribly wrong? has quadrupled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Commercial.

Incentives 8

Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. I’ll then discuss some of LVMH’s challenges.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

The term “mindset” conjures the image of a single setting, like a TV channel or a prearranged machine operation. Create opportunities for people to engage in professional development and acquire new skills. Develop a process that learns from these efforts and views them as a sense-making step to notice change.

Open-book 78

Open-book Shaw Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 78

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. Product upgrades make up the majority of corporate research and development activity. That’s why Harvard Business School marketing professors John T. Developing the Global Leader.

Brand 8

Brand Education Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

One way to tell the story of mothers2mothers' growth is as follows: since 2001, the organization has expanded its operations to nine countries with an approximately $20 million operating budget. The organization's ultimate aim is to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV. I'm not sure either frame is right.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

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. There seems to be variety in customers’ requirements, meaning that software vendors would not be able to tap into the whole market without a perpetual license offering.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

It is rare to find an American company that is not developing a market strategy to benefit from the rapid growth of emerging markets such as Brazil, India, and China. These include, among others, access to foreign markets for investments, protecting intellectual property, or visas for skilled, temporary staff.

Strategy 9

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

” This is a framework I have developed over the course of 35 years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world. And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. Now it’s less than 15 years. So, how do you build Box 2 muscle?

Company 8

Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

In 2007 AOL and Time Warner finally pulled the plug on the $350 billion 2001 merger that Time Warner chiefs Jeff Bewkes and Gerald Levin later called “ the biggest mistake in corporate history.”. Southwest’s decision in 2007 to hedge against increases in the price of jet fuel proved remarkably prescient.

Hedge 8

Hedge Restructuring Execution Download 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. By the fourth quarter of 2001 — that is, within about 21 months — it was turning a profit. That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. billion in bonds the year before).

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. Business development. Having done so put the city in the position of responding to the unthinkable on September 11, 2001. Food and Drug Administration ban on saccharine, thus restoring the product to the market.

Crisis 72

Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. Such acquisitions become more lucrative with rising first-mover advantages, pace of technological development, and network externality.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. The problem with giving division managers control of R&D, is that their compensation is typically based on division profits (which they largely control), rather than on the company’s market value (over which they have little control). MirageC/Getty Images.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

According to a new book by Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Strategy development at Dell is no longer a batch process tied to some planning calendar; it is a continuous process. Value flexibility.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2015

Using data from the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook from 2001, 2005, and 2009 for 54 countries, he also configured a model featuring power structures he expected to influence compensation, based on prior research of determinants of executive pay. 2) The development of equity markets. 7) Employment market forces.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Analysis Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

In 2001, Bill Gates stood up at Comdex and introduced Microsoft's first attempt at a Tablet PC to the world. But they just couldn't get it right — the company has rarely been able to bring innovations to market without seeing someone else do it first, and this instance was no different. The wheels are just starting to fall off.

Cost 16

Cost Operations System Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Palma Cay is Alegre's newest flagship hotel, and I think I can make it work with lower prices to the key travel agencies, tour operators, and online portals. In fact, we barely have a marketing budget at the corporate level. Since 2001, when she'd arrived at the company, she'd turned around two hotels. How is it going?".

Case Study 10

Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. Most industries in the U.S. IT Does Matter.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

have been quietly working to develop another agreement containing rules to restrain Chinese subsidies. When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy. Such market shares will create a platform for global juggernauts. negotiators.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Wired reported late last year, "The top 10 Web sites accounted for 31% of US page views in 2001, 40% in 2006, and 75% in 2010." Adding a profile on Facebook has little to no impact on Facebook's operating costs. In effect, they are turning online advertising into a lead generation play to deliver better ROI for marketers.

CPA 15

CPA CPM Advertising Disintermediation 15

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

As Ogilvy’s Ian MacKellar, who helped develop the current creative platform, would say: “For any campaign or creative idea, it helps to have a conflict, a tension, an enemy.” competitors are entering the market. Nabob has seen many during its 120 years in the coffee biz. There is exponential growth to be had.

Brand 100

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. No executive development program was held at Enron. Running the business. Executives.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57