Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

But it was an inevitable consequence of the value chain strategy that the company pursued in a highly constrained innovation space — one in which the hardware platform is defined by Intel and the software experience is defined by Microsoft. This constrained innovation space is a direct result of Intel's commoditization strategy.

Long-term 14

Long-term Software Retail Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Exploitation allows companies to monetize their exciting new ideas and thereby relieve some of the stakeholder pressure for short-term earnings. This may sound as though we’ve got our facts backward, but your company can significantly increase its knowledge output by cutting R&D spending.

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. Others are investing for retirement or to pay for a child's college tuition, and care about long-term returns.

Short-term 14

Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 14

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). Such investments might not be sustainable in the long term.

GDP 12

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. This strategy has been, in itself, Disney’s great breakthrough innovation. ” WB has long taken a tried-and-true approach to its films, particularly with respect to its DC Comics superheroes.

Creativity 8

Creativity Franchising Succession Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. We came up with ' Global Enablement Teams ': we took the top people in mature markets and assigned them to help and mentor people in the growth markets. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. That's almost 14 years as CEO — a long time, considering that the average CEO tenure for large U.S. Market Capitalization increase during tenure: $341.5 million, a 35.4%

CEO 13

CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

The all-day breakfast had deep appeal and by upgrading and reorganizing the kitchens, McDonald’s could satisfy this long-standing customer request without slowing overall service. The trick is, growth strategies have to fit the company’s current context, especially its brand promise and its target market.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. Brant/DePodesta could run the numbers and explain them in straightforward terms to the decision-maker.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

To be clear, this tendency to focus on exploitation and not exploration may even be welcomed by some investors who value predictable short-term returns from reduced costs and investments, increasing dividends and share buybacks. This has long term consequences: these “exploiters” significantly underperform their exploratory peers.

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. Directness.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% This economic growth has not only led to the development of a burgeoning middle-class in these markets, it has fueled an increase in the number of citizens actively engaging in philanthropy. growth in GDP.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

the NFL’s yearly list of “top 10 NFL rivalries”), those made by 56 NFL fans we surveyed who demonstrated expertise, and the count of Google search results for terms such as “New England Patriots versus New York Jets rivalry.” Our findings carry some important implications for individuals and organizations.

Participative 9

Participative Rogers Influence Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

While he was at Amazon from 1997-2002, Greg Linden prototyped a system for making personal recommendations for other products to customers as they checked out. Problem was, a marketing Senior Vice President thought these would distract customers from completing their purchase and didn't think Linden had proof it would work.

Execution 14

Execution Education Long-term Guidelines 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. Crises can have many liabilities upon companies, including loss of profits and market share.

Crisis 59

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 59

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches? The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. How far will we go to excel?

Ethics 60

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. It has now become the largest bank in the country. Importantly, profits kept pace. Resisting revenue temptations.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

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. It’s not enough to open the door and set the table.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

based corporations make up a disproportionately high share of the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world’s most important corporations (in terms of profits, assets, market capitalization, or sales). capital markets, and it increases the credit-worthiness of U.S. Further, U.S. There is no doubt that U.S. member states.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I did a quick Google search for the term business coach and received 116 million returned results – if that doesn’t scare you it should. As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection.

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

There have long been suspicions of an urban/rural divide across Western societies, with urban communities backing liberal and metropolitan parties, with their rural peers plumping for conservative alternatives. Despite this, they are also more likely than their urban peers to vote in elections. Geographical fracturing.

Politics 77

Politics Long-term Trends Globalization 77

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. The result: Market success for the product and the company was purchased by Google for $3.2 Another client introduced a connected product that required the user to go through a long set up process, including setting a clock. billion in 2014. Fix or kill?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

While it’s the level of pay that captures politicians’ (and the public’s) attention, it’s the structure of pay which matters more for firm value – for example, whether it vests in the short-term or long-term. Firms do market research consulting customers, but don’t put them on the board.

CEO 8

CEO Golden Parachute Politics Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

So while two of the three judges (the Clinton appointees) agreed that the FCC had the right to regulate broadband providers’ relationships with content providers (the FCC term is “edge providers”) even if it classified broadband as an information service, they didn’t think the agency had done it correctly up to now.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8