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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Join me in THANKS and in prayer for our Patriots, both domestically and abroad, who continue to fight valiently for the Freedoms we all enjoy!

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Of those 8 functional areas, 5 of them are led by senior executives who are in their 60s and expected to retire within the next 3 – 5 years. The other 3 are led by senior executives in their mid-50s. There is no planned retirement date for them, but the Board of Directors for XYZ Widget wants to be prepared. Succession: Are You Ready?

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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. 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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. About the Author.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. billion estate.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Apking, High-Impact Learning (Perseus, 2001) Calhoun Wick, et al , The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning (Pfeiffer, 2006) Fourth , my enduring interest in the cognitive neuroscience of learning led me to understand why the post-training follow-through is absolutely essential. Brinkerhoff and Anne M.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Even senior executives who want to stay in their corporate jobs should strongly consider developing at least one side income stream, whether it’s consulting, speaking, coaching, or creating some other product or service. Intrigued by technology and innovation, Achan took the initiative to develop two iPhone apps.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Technology is but one tool of the trade. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they're victims of it.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition, Corporate Executive Board research shows that 40 percent of engaged employees are not aligning their behavior with organizational goals, The bottom line is that only one out of ten employees are both engaged and aligned with strategy. Organizations with aligned and engaged employees clearly have a competitive edge.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. ” The case of healthcare technology firm athenahealth is an instructive one. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The problem was that Ballmer organized the company around execution of its current strengths, the Windows and Office businesses. Microsoft executed its 20 th -century business model extremely well, but it missed the new and more important ones. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Dozens of senior executives at large organizations revealed to us in interviews that in most cases they did not feel personally responsible for coming up with innovations. But in the world's most innovative companies, senior executives like Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Marc Benioff (salesforce.com), and A.G. Jobs agreed with Tesler.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. A B2B technology supplier used Microsoft Workplace Analytics and other digital tools to track the behaviors of its sales reps. Start small, fail fast.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

And collaboration technologies like shared calendars too often create a chock-a-block schedule of meetings, many-sided conversations, and a tangled skein of emails, IMs, and tweets. Thomas is the executive director of the Accenture Institute for High Performance and professor at Brandeis University International Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

The answer lies in the rise of a new type of executive, the Chief Customer Officer. A decade ago, the only option for an ambitious CI professional was the CMO's office, even though in most enterprises, that seat will be filled by an executive with brand and media expertise. But what does a successful CI professional's future look like?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

But the key question is whether Cook can sniff out technology and market opportunities while knowing intuitively (or with the help of others) what risks to take. Most acknowledge Cook as exceptional at execution, but we know little about whether he has the innovator's DNA to "see what's next," the way Jobs did consistently. Before A.G.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. In turn, top executives should provide direction on improvement priorities down to front-line workers. And top executives don't have good mechanisms to share their vision downward. But this is rare. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.”. Customers Decision making Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. UX, as user experience is known, is the new black in business culture. All of it.".

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

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. Put other people forward, especially current HP executives who know more than you do about the technology and markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Rational managers for the past thirty years have tightly focused on efficiency, cost cutting, and day-to-day execution — perhaps to a fault. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. The technology was great. They executed on their plans well. The technology was remarkable and it could fit into your pocket. HP rise had been remarkable.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Unanswered Questions Tragedy in Switzerland: What Drove Two Top Executives to Suicide? According to this investigation it can, with overdoses of the drug claiming the lives of more than 1,500 Americans between 2001 and 2010. She points out, however, that LinkedIn does offer a few advantages. Internet Tech industry'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. I met the team at Albert (formerly known as Adgorithms) while I was doing research into artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven marketing technologies for my book, Marketing, Interrupted.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Look to see if our officials and executives are prepared for that. In the race for opportunity and influence in Africa, no competitor looms larger than China, which has increased its total trade with Africa twenty-fold since 2001. has the potential to create more skill, technology, and innovation in Africa than a Statist partner could.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. 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. Why do you think tech executives seem to elevate this issue particularly?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

After all, we expect companies that were born digital to accomplish things that business executives could only dream of a generation ago. In search of a better solution, the airline turned to PASSUR Aerospace, a provider of decision-support technologies for the aviation industry. The technologies are new and in some cases exotic.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

In the decade since September 11, 2001, Americans have learned how to get along in a new world. America's technological superiority and unparalleled resources allowed it to obliterate the world's seventh largest army in a matter of weeks. military to execute the deliberate strategies that were developed at the military's highest ranks.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Everyone is familiar with the primary methods Gillette used to grow: It innovated via technology (with the Sensor, Mach 3, and Fusion razors), and in 2001 it formally expanded into the women''s leg shaving market with a new brand called Venus. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

In another example Innosight has researched, Xerox was forced to lay off nearly 40,000 of its 91,000 workers from 2000 to 2005 to return to profitability and make way for its transformation from a technology company into a services company. It's only this year, for the first time, that services revenue surpassed technology revenue.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Bezos invited Collins to Amazon a few months before Collin’s book was published in 2001 to teach the senior leadership team the flywheel concept. Once that metric is decided, the team is free to execute improvements with little interference.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

After the dot-com crash of 2001 and the financial crisis of 2008, traditional investors who previously held their shares for the long term — public pension funds, institutional investors, and money managers — are now more interested in short-term gains.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Outsourcing leads to business model risk — you open the door to outsourcing your profits (in fact, a 2001 Boeing paper that is incredibly prescient and worth the time to read identified exactly this problem). Several of the top positions in the merged Boeing were assigned to executives who had previously worked in St.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Executives say that they lose 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. It also helps bridge the chasms that exists at so many companies between great strategy, great execution, and great performance. Take Dell Technologies, for example. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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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 They paid their executives accordingly, as did the banks, brokerage houses, hedge funds, and private-equity outfits whose share of U.S billion to $3.4

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Executive education students at Harvard Business School. HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. How do they do it?

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