Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Buying Smithfield allowed Shineway to sell pork in the Chinese market at a premium price. Technology. Companies in China are also on the lookout for technology that will help them expand. Access to mature global markets. The acquisition was a huge success. So determine what you have to offer in these areas.

Company 8

Company Maturity Globalization Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. By dedicating a small amount of space on every page viewed and allowing companies to display ads, the social networking giant has developed a multi-billion dollar advertising business. display advertisements online.

IPO 13

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

They get stuck making incremental improvements that are rooted in existing competencies, markets, and business models. So how do you sell a more expensive economy car, especially one with an unfamiliar, unproven technology? A core insight provides forward-looking understanding of customer needs, behaviors, and market trends.

Core Competence 14

Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012. ” They had developed inside the company and therefore knew the organization and its norms as well as the people and their capabilities — but they had also retained a strong streak of objectivity.

CEO 8

CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An example of strategic burnout can be found at Lego around 2004. Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change. The group developed an internal “Get Connected” manifesto that helped guide and leverage the web at IBM.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

By 2000, Motorola's global market share had collapsed from 45% to 15%, while Nokia's had grown to a market-leading 31%. Effective execution became harder and harder, creating a vicious cycle of falling behind in the market, losing money, cancelling projects and shedding staff, all of which further damaged its ability to execute.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. The most notable characteristic of those technologies is their accessibility — to customers, employees, partners, and competitors. But guess what?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty. Day says, "we have been able to use the best of our Nike DNA, but have the freedom to operate as an independent force for change in the development sector.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

Company 13

Company Survey Finance Engineering 13

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. We found Mr. Yergin's dismissal of these risks premature and repetitive.

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. But starting in the early 2000s, the advantages of scale were mostly eliminated, in large part because of globalization, deregulation, and the rise of digital technology.

IAM 11

IAM Productivity Products Company 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Yet the determinants of its successful development are far from established or well understood. What about spillover gains tied to foreign direct investment, joint ventures, and other ties to developed countries? growth in output per worker from 1979-2004 with TFP accounting for 3.6 percentage points of the 7.3%

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

We studied the German mobile-handset market during the feature-phone era of 2004-2008 — a dynamic period in which competition was about equipping devices with new functions such as photography. Samsung, a classic pioneer in the handset market, also had a successful year in 2006. Asking too many questions can slow you down.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Incentives Innovation Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. We developed this map after observing a small set of novice users try to complete the process. The CEO as Lead Product Designer. He was right there in the middle of it. All of it.".

Leadership 10

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The term "social media" was popularized by Chris Shipley in 2004 , as she described the impact of influencers and bloggers in shaping product adoption, more so than traditional media outlets. Because it includes the word media , and the genesis is marketing, most people think of this as the stuff the CMO and their team worry about.

Media 9

Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. Research & development Financial management' It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why. Take Cisco, for example.

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

They’re envisioning well-designed, self-contained environments, tricked-out with the latest high-tech, high-touch technology. The beauty of these vans, and the reason I believe they’ve been dreamt up by managers in very different businesses, is that they perform a wide variety of marketing functions. Customer service Marketing Sales'

B2B 8

B2B B2C Education Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

It is rare to find an American company that is not developing a market strategy to benefit from the rapid growth of emerging markets such as Brazil, India, and China. These include, among others, access to foreign markets for investments, protecting intellectual property, or visas for skilled, temporary staff.

Strategy 9

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

When Charles "Chuck" Schwab returned to the helm to turn around his troubled financial firm in 2004, for example, he installed such a system. Rackspace went public in 2008 — shortly before the financial markets went belly up. In short, it is their primary management system.

Customer Loyalty 14

Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Tom Szaky knows well the meaning of the saying “ Beware your dreams, for they may come true. ” With the 2004 Christmas retail season rapidly approaching, he was trying everything he could to scale up TerraCycle , a two year old venture selling liquid worm poop as fertilizer in used PET bottles. Pay on time.

Finance 8

Finance Company How To Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

A few years ago one of the most vexing questions for marketing executives was whether big corporations were going to have to do what Bharti Airtel had done. Airtel’s move quickly transformed the mobile-phone market in India as other telecomms followed suit. Rather than being destroyed by digital technology, they’re strengthened by it.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Next, ALL's CEO assembled a cross-functional team to develop simple rules for prioritizing capital spending. Employees frequently attribute breakdowns to incompetence or bad faith on the part of colleagues in other departments: "Those bozos in headquarters [or finance or marketing] screw everything up." reuse existing resources.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. From 1970 to 2004, the percentage of CEOs hired from outside the firm increased from 12% to 39%. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

This same mistake-proofing process and technology embedded in the electronic medical record (EMR) can move us a great distance toward safer, higher quality, and more affordable health care. Information technology has come late to health care delivery. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. It is currently at less than o.5% 5% of the federal budget.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In a recent Hamilton Project at Brookings report , we highlight what we believe are some of the most critical developments over the last few decades and consider what is necessary for the typical American to get a raise. Further, workers must receive a consistent share of those productivity gains, rather than seeing their share decline.

Policies 8

Policies Education Trends Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Apple has since figured out this balance, of course, by opening the iOS platforms to app developers.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Collins worked primarily on IT related work, such as systems integration and software development.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

in incremental market capitalization for every $1.00 in incremental market capitalization for $1.00 Much of Keurig's success comes from its superior brewer technology and wide variety of K-Cups. Our analysis showed the top 20 firms in Fortune 's 2010 list of fastest-growing companies received $3.40 of revenue growth.

B2C 13

B2C Strategy B2B Waterman 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Long term commitment in a world where the technology is advancing almost on a daily basis is difficult to maintain. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings. That was the case with Toys 'R Us and Amazon.com a few years ago.

Management 11

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. To help bring cool new technology to the world? “I was quite happy running a marketing organization within a larger software company,” Steve recalls.

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. They pointed out that we were a very young company, but our market value was $45 billion—more than the entire U.S. At that point we were a single technology company. billion in revenue, and before the bust we’d projected that by 2004, we’d be at $5 billion.

Industry 8

Industry CEO Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Norway was the first to adopt a quota for female board members (40%) in 2004. is now among the few Western developed economies with neither voluntary nor mandatory targets. Growing Recognition that Market Forces Won’t Fix the Problem. Market forces won’t make it happen.” In the U.S.,

Diversity 8

Diversity Resistance CEO Goal 8