Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. billion estate. The Bush law did allow a $1.3

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

My basic feeling on the topic of CEO Term Limits can be summed-up with this quote: “ There exists a season for all things, but decisive, prudent & principled leadership never goes out of season.&# ~Mike Myatt, 2003 With the average CEO tenure hovering at an all time low anyway, who needs CEO Term Limits?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. Catch up here.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

labor market of the 2000s coincided with a sharp deceleration in computer investment — a fact that appears first-order inconsistent with the onset of a new era of capital-labor substitution. job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had. job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 23, 2017

He said: “Today, mankind produces more information, data and ideas than from the stone age until the year 2003 together.“ Back then, not only did I have to deal with tough competition, changing markets and the upcoming phenomena of online shopping but also with a huge crisis within the company itself. Everything changes. Permanently.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. And remember that technology connects people in faster and more transparent ways than ever! Still skeptical? Then take a look at the hard numbers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. ” Similarly, without sufficient monitoring by owners of the firms or the stock market, managers might be tempted to enjoy the quiet life instead of making hard decisions or taking on difficult tasks. .” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

Since the birth of e-commerce, marketing experts have disagreed about the future role of brands. Some have predicted that digital technologies will hasten the demise of brands because customers will have ready access to information they need to make purchase decisions, and “brand” will therefore become less relevant.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percentage points in 2003-2012. 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). That growth was driven largely by the increased use of information technology in customer analysis and supply chain optimization.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

This is both because the resulting knowledge might walk out the door, as employees join other firms or start their own, and because you can acquire firms who have the needed technology. Although the setting was law firms, rather than technology firms, all the assets in those firms reside in human capital.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Industry players have realized the marketing and cost-saving potential, too: automaker BMW powers the plant where it manufactures the i3 and i8 electric vehicles with a 10 MW wind park, and discount retailer Aldi Süd has installed photovoltaic panels on 1,000 supermarkets. Thus markets entering “Energiewende 3.0”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

telecom carriers face daunting challenges from device makers, content providers, social networks, and an array of disruptive technologies. Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. telecoms are classified as a high technology industry: "Network is their business." In the U.S., The trend is spreading.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

It makes sense that this technology would help independents gain business — and new data shows that for restaurants, at least, the intuition is correct. As this trend gains momentum, businesses that rely on traditional marketing will be forced to adapt.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

A new restaurant or dry cleaner probably won’t end up hiring thousands of employees or commercializing new technology. This could be a function of funding availability and the IPO market, or it could reflect something darker about the U.S. What Guzman and Stern add is a method for identifying the firms that are trying to grow.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

Fast forward four years and LinkedIn is a public company with a market cap of more than $9 billion and revenues of about $400 million. LinkedIn didn't create the very quiet tech market it was born into, but it definitely benefited from it. In 2003 there were no tech IPOs at all. It stuck with its target market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Indian engineers cost less, for sure.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In a previous post , I outlined the key capabilities I've found to be present in the social ventures that are able to reach sizeable impact (which can be remembered with the acronym SCALERS—they are Staffing, Communicating, Alliance-Building, Lobbying, Earnings-Generation, Replicating, and Stimulating Market Forces).

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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. A cautionary tale from the past: After acquiring EachNet.com, eBay controlled 80% of the Chinese e-commerce market in 2003.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. IT isn''t somebody else''s job, it''s ultimately theirs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Some find evidence of a clear improvement of total factor productivity since market-oriented reforms began in 1979, estimating that the increase in TFP contributed about 40% to GDP growth, roughly the same as that contributed by fixed asset investment. per annum during 1978-2003, but slowed to 2.8% by the end of that period.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Without a doubt, providing members of linguistic minority groups with access to technology in their native tongues is very important. Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas of the Washington Post write , "In particular, [labor force entry has] suffered among women — and it''s really suffered among young women — who are a lot less likely to enter the labor force than they were in 2002 and 2003.". The question is: why?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

Leaving aside the hype of 3-D technologies, the big question about Amazon as it enters into this seemingly crowded arena will be whether its offering makes it easier or more affordable for people to do something they’ve historically cared about. Of perhaps even more interest is Amazon’s business model.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2014

Freeman Dyson is a famous theoretical physicist and mathematician who’s made numerous contributions to the fields of physics and mathematics — contributions that have paved the way for many of the technologies we enjoy today. He’s a great scientist. And some of the lessons he teaches are immediately relevant to business today.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Marketing professionals have learned the hard way that no matter what they do or do not plan to do with consumer information, privacy matters. In part, that''s because marketing has always been something of a black art. New laws aimed at specific technologies, however, are the worst possible outcome. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

And current recycling technology is limited. automaking industry currently employs 786,500 people , down from 1,136,500 in 2003. At the same time, the automotive service industry currently employs 827,900 people , losing less than 100,000 jobs since its pre-recession peak in 2003. The market has huge profit potential.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

By 2003, there were 800,000. Their market value is $9.5 It’s a question that conjures Čapek’s robot uprising, and has prompted many essays invoking Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , among other texts of monsters and unintended technological consequences. Technology' Today, more than 1.3

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Then-chairman Glenn Hubbard, for example, pushed for and got a reduction in taxes on dividends in 2003. If, in a free market, the wages and salaries paid closely approximate the actual value of the work done, then minimum-wage laws and unions can only get in the way. So when a chairman does have a clear impact, it gets noticed.

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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 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be. Directness.

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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. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. Many of these investors view Singapore as a launching pad to regional emerging markets like Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Entrepreneurship Disruptive innovation Emerging markets East & Southeast Asia'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. At this point, the commercial viability of a market-based approach to providing good quality housing in urban areas at prices affordable to low income customers is beyond question. The Use of Available Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one. Tata Consultancy Services, the India-based information technology (IT) services and solutions company, operates in an environment it can neither predict nor change.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

This practice leads highly cautious consumers to lump low-risk products in with mass-marketed products that actually merit such a warning and encourages many others to simply ignore warnings. A 2003 U.S. First, here’s what not to do: Stamp any and every product bearing even modest risk as dangerous or hazardous.

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