Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. A few facts might hint at the scale of this challenge.

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Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Back in the early 1990s, when Intel was seeking to "pace" the market for PCs, it introduced a set of standards for desktop PCs that commoditized all of the hardware components beyond the microprocessor. Taiwanese suppliers fought over the privilege of bringing new technology to Apple, but nobody wanted to bring exciting things to HP.

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Long-term Software Retail Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights. Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created.

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GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Over the years, the CEOs of these companies faced massive technology disruptions, deep industry recessions, sudden collapses in demand, price wars, oil shocks — you name it. When Peter Lewis of Progressive, the car insurance company, had the idea of expanding into the safe-driver market, he did not move in one big swoop.

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Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

billion to acquire the webOS operating system, Hewlett-Packard discontinued its webOS-based series of smartphones and line of Touchpad tablets — losing its bet on a webOS-everywhere future. This means they're buying drugs that could be similar to others already on or coming soon to the market.

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Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 12

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.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The Great Recession and jobless recovery have caused many to see flaws in the basic system of capitalism. Marx helped define this system even as he ardently critiqued it. As The Economist nicely summarized in 2002: But the fact remains that on everything that mattered most to Marx himself, he was wrong.

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Class Politics Open-book System 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

To foster it, they often give sales its own learning and development team, recruiting specialists, compensation plan, and management and IT systems — but now they’re finding that those differences can hinder success as much as they support it. The goal was to help sales reps exchange information about complex accounts.

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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.,

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. And in addition to tangible assets, one has to think about investments in people, systems, brands, and intangibles.

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Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association.

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Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. GDP in 2002 to a painful 9.8% We found Mr. Yergin's dismissal of these risks premature and repetitive.

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Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Similarly, the rivalry between Intel and AMD is thought to have helped advance computer chip technology. ” We then collected nine years of play-by-play data (2002 – 2010), totaling almost half a million unique plays. technology), rivalry could be an important lever for managers to pull to incentivize risk-taking.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Those in Clinton’s camp include the venerable Aspen Institute, which produced a 2009 call to arms arguing that corporations’ short-term objectives corrode the “foundation of the American free enterprise system.” years in 2002 to 7.2 ” A Review of Relevant Studies. .” years in 2009. years in 2014.

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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.

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Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets. They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.” That could be by offering a better business model — but it can also be by offering the same business model to a different market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

As advertisers and their agencies continue to experiment with the technological possibilities, it's not hard to imagine reaching the ultimate end, depicted in the 2002 Tom Cruise film Minority Report. In the real world, companies like NEC are already creating systems that recognize and respond to age and gender of passers-by.

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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. Computer activity constitutes less than 1% of the technology picture. In 1999, the U.S.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 73

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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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. 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.

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Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

The most obvious explanation for this is that broadband providers are serving a new and burgeoning market. And then, when the FCC decided in 2002 that cable broadband wouldn’t be regulated like that, there was no discernible spending boom — at least not for quite a few years. Internet Tech industry Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

in 2002, and should touch 2.0% Other measures suggest that the productivity of China’s innovation system is low. China’s educational system emphasizes rote learning rather than creative problem solving. However, only 13% believed that China would have overtaken the US on the technology frontier by then.

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Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 8

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. This, however, is only after it has become firmly established in the South African market — and that is a point in itself.

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Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. What’s Driving Industry Concentration.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. Development programs must evolve from a static, closed-system approach.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. ’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. Executives never stayed long.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 63

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

In 2002 the Commission switched course again and ruled that broadband access provided by cable TV companies was an information service — the reasoning being, in part, that cable broadband had ended the DSL monopoly and created a competitive market once again. communications network was the Post Office, which was run by the government.

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