Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Influencing skills. Financial management. Change management. The following functional areas exist within XYZ Widget: Finance, HR/Admin, Sales, Customer Service, Planning & Procurement, Materials Management, Manufacturing, and Quality Control. Collaborative decision making and problem solving. Team leadership.

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Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. Through his academic research and teaching at HBS, Jensen promulgated a new financial orthodoxy that corporate managers should avoid diversification and instead focus on the firm’s core competencies.

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Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Is that smart? Not really, suggests our analysis.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Your Voice of Encouragement

JANUARY 1, 2010

An updated version, The New Psycho-Cybernetics , was published in 2001, with new examples, material and editing by one of my marketing mentors, Dan Kennedy. His original book, Psycho-Cybernetics (1960), became the foundation of much thats been written since about self-image and self-improvement. About Psycho-Cybernetics.

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Blog eBook Video Learning-by-Doing 68

Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

It is at heart a new philosophical approach to project management. Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. In this sense, agile is more a way to create a new culture than simply a way to write software or manage a project. Agile Concept. User stories.

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Agility Project Software Short-term 71

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. Digital tools can also open new go-to-market approaches. A shift to inside sales usually requires better digital marketing capabilities.

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Team Price B2B Tools 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2015

The reasons why the disparities vary country-to-country are complex, according to a recently accepted paper for the Strategic Management Journal by LSU E.J. 2) The development of equity markets. The more developed markets increase ownership “dispersion,” or the number of people who own shares in a company.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Analysis Execution 8

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.

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Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. Then it wasn’t.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player. He will always know how he performs.

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CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

According to data from Yahoo finance, company’s market cap exceeds that of Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Tesla, and Daimler combined. ” when Ron Johnson began rolling out Apple Stores in 2001. Apple dramatically influenced even its indirect competitors. So put aside its brand equity.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The concern I expressed in the post was that these actions have become the standard by which CEOs are expected to manage. I, along with the rest of my management team and the board, agreed with the recommendation, and the drug was withdrawn. We had done a restructuring in 2001 with a significant number of layoffs.

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Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

A market segment can be characterized broadly (women 25-34) or specifically (women in an early career phase who are newly-married and starting a family). When the product was launched in 2001 , it aimed to revolutionize personal transportation , touted as a unique way for people to travel short distances.

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Word of Mouth Marketing Transportation Market Segmentation Advertising 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Most are accompanied by other restrictions, such as taxes and smoking bans in the case of cigarettes, which means it is difficult to disentangle the effects of warnings from other factors that influence behavior. In 2001 the U.S. Second, keep in mind that when orchestrated correctly, warnings influence producers as well as consumers.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

When Doug took over as CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the company had just lost half its market value, sales were declining, and the organization was reeling from a series of layoffs. To this end, Doug introduced the Influence with Honor award — the highest award given out at Campbell during his tenure as CEO.

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Commitment CEO Report Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

In my four decades as a senior manager, CEO, and corporate director of American high-tech companies, I have never seen the state of innovation in the U.S. What is most telling is the restrictive and uncreative cultural climates created by CEOs and other senior managers. In 2001, Xilinx's business drop like a rock.

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Senge Engineering Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

A cornerstone of efficient and transparent markets is freely available information. In 2001 professors Gur Huberman and Tomer Regev of Columbia University drew attention to a peculiar sequence of market reactions to news regarding a cancer research breakthrough licensed by biotech firm EntreMed.

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Price Hedge Influence Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. General Electric, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Walmart, and CitiGroup — all were businesses led by managers who were experts in efficiency and optimization and who grew their businesses by making them work better than they had previously.

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CEO Consensus Management Metrics 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. It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies. A shift toward protectionism.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

multinationals, while increasingly harassed by Beijing , have many leading market share positions in China, especially in high-tech and sophisticated capital goods such as U.S.-made He has two levels to operate on: first, directly influencing corporate investment and buying decisions, and second, diplomatic engagement with trading partners.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ It charged too much money and got away with it (because mid-managers but brand names of firms).

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

I met Tony in 2001 when he was sent to me with severe muscle weakness. In 2001 Questcor bought the rights to Acthar Gel, which is used to treat infantile spasms, a rare form of childhood epilepsy. The costs required to bring a new drug to market vary widely — anywhere from hundreds of millions to upwards of $2.6

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Price Pharmaceuticals Company Health Care 15