Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets. The goal was to make IBM more agile and able to predict — even prescribe — where IBM's markets would go.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

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 As technology makes networks tighter and easier to put together, does the risk of contagion increase proportionally? billion to $3.4

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Regarding the latter, we point to some well-documented and broadly perceived shifts in the geography, demography, and technology of global economic activity. And at the time, as industrial technology appeared, it afforded many good opportunities to invest in such assets at high expected returns.

Banking 12

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. 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

The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology.

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Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

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. The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. Then came the September 11, 2001, attacks, followed by fully-fledged economic crises in the U.S.

Management 8

Management Uncertainty Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

Salvanes of the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration reported that the productivity gap between firms had risen in the UK between 1984 and 2001, and that this phenomenon was linked to income inequality. The competition story revolves around digital technology. Two things happened in the intervening years.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991. tax jurisdiction.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

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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Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002. They are not.

Long-term 12

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

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. Explore advanced manufacturing technologies and possibilities, especially flexible robotics and automation and understand how these change the equation.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy. They enjoy lower taxes and selective anti-trust enforcement to shield them from private competitors.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

In the six decades since Berlin's essay was published, hedgehogs have come to dominate academia, medicine, finance, law, and many other professional domains. A collection of specialists creates a less flexible labor force, one that requires "retraining" with technological developments creating constantly shifting human resource needs.

Hammer 21

Hammer Real Estate Uncertainty Career 21