Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

He assumed leadership of Coca-Cola''s large South Africa operation eight years later, before taking on leadership positions worldwide and the CEO job in in 2004. In 2008 he was named by Beverage Industr y magazine as the sector''s CEO of the year. They''ve often done so under pressure from investors.

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Long-term Marketing Short-term Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure. David Kopans. Andy Molinsky.

Stress 12

Stress Learning-by-Doing Report Project 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software).

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Operational meltdowns can devour a midsized company’s cash. And crisis it was in 2008, the same year the U.S. But when it did, they were able to loan MBH a combined $1 million during the firm’s liquidity crisis in December 2008. Top management must be very careful about how they downsize the organization. firm in 1989.

Crisis 8

Crisis CFO GAAP Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time.

Company 11

Company Survey Finance Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

India love first peaked in July 2008 when India’s government of the time risked its very survival in support of a nuclear energy deal led by Washington. America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations. But they need to be alert to the following four signposts.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Until the summer of 2008, container ports on both the west and east coasts of North America were nearing capacity as imports and exports soared. For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. He did have a horrific 2008. After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money. He reportedly took home compensation of $1.7 In 2012 it was $1.9

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

To answer the question of how prices would be affected, it needed only to look at existing markets where one player operated but not the other. Meanwhile, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wireless prices decreased by three percent from January 2008 to December 2010, and were roughly 40 percent of the levels experienced in 1997.

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Wireless Report Price Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

From 1970 to 2004, the percentage of CEOs hired from outside the firm increased from 12% to 39%. When CEOs lack this expertise, they are more likely to manage R&D “by the numbers,” despite the fact that those numbers are more elusive than those for capital and advertising.

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Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

In 2004, Bharti Airtel , the Indian telecomm company, had outsourced its vast network and IT operations—a move that Ranjay Gulati saw as indicating “ more progressive and forward-looking ” thinking than was evident in many Western corporations. Virtually everything except customer management and building the brand was left to partners.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

In more and more companies today, leaders manage their communication efforts in a way that calls to mind ordinary, person-to-person conversation. Yet the Obama campaign signaled the emergence of a novel framework for managing electoral communication at a national level.

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Operations Media Long-term Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Two developments bear noting.

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Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

A former campaign manager, Strasma started his company in 2003 to find a better way to predict who the true persuadables are in a campaign, and to find smart ways to target messaging towards them. What are some of the key differences are between Obama's 2008 campaign and what you're seeing in this one? Definitely the scale.

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Survey Politics Information Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

For the 2008 presidential race, Barack Obama hired one of Facebook’s early employees, Chris Hughes, to drive the campaign’s technology strategy. In this article, I review three critical aspects to watch: marketing, operations, and profiling. Mobile operations: it saves campaign staff time and money.

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Bond Early Adopters Technology Politics 8