Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2016

As early as 2004, research by Catalyst, Inc. “The Bottom Line: Connecting Corporate Performance and Gender Diversity” January 15, 2004 Catalyst, Inc. January 2015. ” Linda Yueh, Chief Business Correspondent, BBC News January 25, 2015 [link]. World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, January 2015 [link].

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015. President to visit India twice. It’s not just frothy internet startups that are doing well in India today.

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Jason Womack

JANUARY 1, 2015

Hey, you, it’s 2015. 11 years ago was 2004. I know that may be obvious to you, but for a moment let that thought roll around your brain. Recently someone referred to “10 years ago) and I realized my thought was, “Oh, back in the 1990s." Then, I had to do a double-take. . When you go to “rewind and review" mode, what comes to your mind?

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 18, 2022

The researchers began their study after finding that around 44% of US government procurement spending went on contracts where there was a single bidder in 2015. Data was gleaned from the Federal Procurement Data System for all IT contracts between 2004 and 2015. Minimal competition. billion.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

in 2001 to 16% in 2015. In the University of California’s sprawling network, the number of managers and administrators doubled between 2000 and 2015, while student enrollment increased by just 38%. In the United Kingdom, for example, the employment share of managers and supervisors increased from 12.9% At present, there are 1.2

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

That’s nearly double the rate from 2004 to 2007. ” There are several reasons why the top job is increasingly going to outsiders when boards have time to plan for succession, which was the case for nearly three-quarters of CEO hires from 2012 to 2015. .” one of the authors of the study. and Canadian CEOs in the study.)

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

When Joseph Sirosh joined Amazon.com in 2004, he began seeing the value of AI to reduce fraud, bad debt, and the number of customers who didn’t get their goods and suppliers who didn’t get their money. That was the year Bing became a profitable business for Microsoft.) This is a machine-to-machine application of AI.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

She has learned to perform amid chaos through past postings: the former Soviet republic of Georgia during the 2008 Russian invasion, Cairo during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, and Indonesia at the time of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. These UN agencies are hotbeds of activity, with dozens of initiatives in various stages of progress. .

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

” — Bono, singer for U2, 2004 University of Pennsylvania commencement. ” – Arianna Huffington, Vassar College 2015. . “The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape…That’s what this degree of yours is — a blunt instrument.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Shining a Light: Safer Health Care Through Transparency , a 2015 report by the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute, states that “if transparency were a medication, it would be a blockbuster, with billions of dollars in sales and accolades the world over.” Patients are the ultimate beneficiaries.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

In 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit set a series of ambitious development goals for 2015 , among them reducing by half the number of people living in extreme poverty, suffering from hunger and lacking access to clean drinking water. Singer used 2004 tax figures to compute that if the top.01

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

There was a heartening rally between 1996 and 2004, when growth returned to its 1950s/1960s levels of 3% — a performance almost universally attributed to the efficiency gains from information technology. When the first quarter of 2015 revealed a 3.1% Thankfully, the just-released revisions to the second quarter 2015 growth of 3.3%

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

But in 2015, CostCo shifted its affiliation to Citigroup’s Visa. Discover suffered a similar setback in 2004, when Walmart shifted its credit card partnership to MasterCard. which permitted no other card in its popular stores.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

The first camera comes out in 2004. And by January 2015, I’ll see where I end up. It takes him two years to find and prototype the right camera. He bankrolls his efforts by selling shell necklaces and getting a small loan from his mother. He sells it door-to-door to surf shops. It’s a hit. It’s also a hit.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004. In 2013, GE had reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 32% and water use by 45% compared to 2004 and 2006 baselines, respectively, resulting in $300 million in savings. 3%; a market capitalization loss of $378M per firm.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

That’s how Lego went from losing a million dollars a day in 2004 to being the world’s largest toy company in 2015. They marshal their resources strategically, doubling down on the few capabilities that matter most and pruning back everything else. Lego cut these businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The NFL can’t unring the bell that made its 2014-2015 season into a discourse about domestic violence – or stop other bells from chiming about violence on and off the field. Consider the soul-searching that must have gone on at Merck in 2004 when its management finally made the decision to remove Vioxx from the market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Apple’s stated intention was to carry out this $130 billion distribution of corporate cash to Apple shareholders between August 2012 and December 2015. Here’s an update of some key numbers in that article: In 2004-2013, 454 companies in the S&P 500 Index that were publicly listed over the decade expended $3.4

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

Different surveys show that in 2014, 36% of global employers reported talent shortages , the highest percentage since 2007, and in a more recent 2015 survey, 73% of CEOs reported being concerned about the availability of key skills. So how can companies compete effectively in this new war for talent?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

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. Railway systems are near capacity. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate. Highways can’t keep up with demand.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

When I started blogging in 2004, I had just finished graduate school and I was trying to figure out what I was going to be when I grew up. Is that still the right advice in 2015? I didn’t start my business: my blog did. I knew I wasn’t going to pursue a traditional academic career, but I wasn’t sure what else a Ph.D.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

As shown in our value analysis below, the brand increased in value from $12 billion in 2004 to $24 billion in 2014. From this, we estimate that the value of the brand grew from $12 billion in 2004 to $16 billion in 2008 to $24 billion in 2014. Then, a 3% growth rate was applied. One thing is especially worth calling out.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy.

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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. So now that 2015 is almost here, has that come to pass?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. Founded in 2015 and now valued more than $18 billion, it raised $3.3 A third example is Airbnb, now valued at $25.5 But is there something about these specific companies that others can learn?

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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. Jobs Creation Act of 2004. Furthermore, looking at the data, it is difficult to make the case that U.S. multinational corporations are not competitive. Further, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

As recently as March 2015, for instance, Rebecca Homkes and Don and Charles Sull said in “ Why Strategy Execution Unravels – and What to Do About it ”: “Since Michael Porter’s seminal work in the 1980s we have had a clear and widely accepted definition of what strategy is.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

But by early 2015 they stopped accepting new submissions to their open market and discontinued their API support for external developers. In 2004, the residual assets were sold off for a mere $7 million, a tiny fraction of the $500 million auto manufacturers had invested.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

The fraction of global manufacturing done in Asia (measured by value added) jumped from 29% in 2000 to 45% in 2015. In 2004, the cost of manufacturing on the east coast of China was approximately 15 percentage points cheaper, on average, than in the United States. In 2016, that gap was down to about 1 percentage point.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. From 2015 to 2016, investors poured more than $8 billion into funding these tools. Thus, as the population ages, health care services will naturally expand, as will the pressure to find efficient ways to deliver those services.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

corporations responded by bringing back $299 billion in profits in 2005, compared with an average of $62 billion from 2000 to 2004 and a subsequent decline to $102 billion in 2006. FactSet Research calculates that in the 12 months ending with September 2015, S&P 500 companies spent 64.6% for investments that create jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. JC Penney spent no money on television advertising during the 2015 Super Bowl, yet its “mittens” campaign was one of the most watched. Consider Trump’s first words in the June 2015 announcement of his candidacy: “Wow. Apple learned this the hard way.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The researchers focused their efforts on Spain, where anti-Muslim sentiment was poor after terrorist incidents in 2004 and 2017. This was followed with text describing the 2015 attack by Islamic State in Paris, which contained a biography of a Muslim woman who owned a bakery in the area attacked.

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