Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

There were 21,000 layoffs; a wage freeze for current workers; a halved wage of $14 per hour for non-core new hires; elimination of a funding program for unemployed workers; a no-strike agreement until 2015; and the VEBA that shifted UAW retiree healthcare and pension benefits from GM to the UAW, saving the company $3 billion per year. (In

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Since 2015, our data shows that rate snowballing again, nearly quadrupling to an average of 1000 deals annually. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. But Microsoft’s management saw in LinkedIn a valuable new sales channel that the market had missed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Cuba’s growth domestic product per capita in 2015 is approximately what it was in 1985. There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. They don’t know how to market them effectively.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions. But by early 2015 they stopped accepting new submissions to their open market and discontinued their API support for external developers. Failure to launch the right side.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 2002, unsure of what to do with his life, he takes off to surf in Indonesia and Australia. How come every time I write marketing copy, it sounds boring when I look at it the next day? And by January 2015, I’ll see where I end up. He wants to capture live-action shots from his surfboard. How can I find more time to read?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

Both offer important lessons in social marketing — but mouthwash may still have one key advantage. The explosive growth of Facebook today might seem unprecedented, but it is strikingly similar to Listerine’s epic halitosis advertising campaign roughly one hundred years ago. Let me explain.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.” years in 2002 to 7.2

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

in 2002, and should touch 2.0% China is well on its way to doubling the number of patent applications filed with the State Intellectual Property Office, from 1 million in 2010 to 2 million by 2015. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Industries with a higher share of IT workers saw more concentration between 2002 and 2007, even after controlling for M&A activity and several other variables. Perhaps, as OECD economist Chiara Criscuolo wrote in 2015, “ Some firms clearly ‘get it’ and others don’t.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. capital markets, and it increases the credit-worthiness of U.S. Further, U.S. There is no doubt that U.S. corporations are global leaders. trillion now.

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