Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

In 1992, Nathan graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland; earning a bachelor of science degree in physics followed by distinguished service as the Assistant Chief Nuclear Engineer and Quality Assurance Officer onboard USS GROTON SSN 694. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

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Chief Executive Officer Execution Operations Asset Management 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Maximize engineering productivity. Engineers love continuous delivery environments because they can immediately see how their work adds value to the organization. When Facebook was founded in 2004, the company embraced the agile software delivery methodology to ensure that code was shipped as quickly as possible.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

It was a wonderful moment for the normally staid engineering team. Landing on Mars is a huge engineering challenge. But to the young engineers it was simply a challenge to be bested. Two more rovers followed in 2004. Unfortunately, much of the engineering data and expertise was long gone.

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Innovation Engineering Learning-by-Doing Creativity 255

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. For example, in 2004, Renault launched Logan, a small, no-frills family car.

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CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. Ford reengineered its global product development process so that an engineering plan designed in Detroit can drive the shop floor in a European factory.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

Murdock purchased the old mill in 2004 and turned it into what journalist Amanda Wilson describes as "a public–private campus that would host research efforts broadly in his areas of interest." Yes, it employs people — but primarily people with advanced degrees from out of town.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Short-term PR Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” They were desperately looking for great engineers, designers, and business people – but were very picky about who they hired. For example, one new engineer reported that his dad called to say, “There’s a problem with this drop-down menu.”

Engineering 11

Engineering Class Software Mentor 11

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. While this is a surmountable problem, it puts the media company in a very different position than that of Google in 2004 - the company that Facebook is most often compared against.

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IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

In fact, although we saw examples of companies using AI in computer-to-computer transactions such as in recommendation engines that suggest what a customer should buy next or when conducting online securities trading and media buying, we saw that IT was one of the largest adopters of AI. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

With electric power steering you draw power from the engine only when you need it, not constantly as with a belt-driven hydraulic pump. One automotive engineer told me that mandated fuel-economy standards were forcing manufacturers to replace engine-driven mechanical and hydraulic loads with electric.

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Software Engineering Efficiency Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management.

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Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

A few young engineers and executives from the mobile division soon found themselves running the whole show, and they inculcated a team-oriented, no-BS approach to getting things done that came to permeate the company. Around Nokia, you don't hear so much talk about Jorma this or Jorma that.

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Team Crisis Globalization Magazine 14

HR Digest

JANUARY 2, 2020

This threshold has been raised from the previous limit of $455 per week of 40 hours, which was set in 2004. Non-managerial employees in maintenance, construction, carpenters, electricians, mechanics, plumbers, ironworkers, craftsmen, operating engineers, and longshoremen, all qualify. It is estimated that 1.3

Safe Harbor 84

Safe Harbor Proposal Long-term Comparison 84

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

search engine company Inktomi in 2002. The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

The second generation Prius launched in 2004 and included premium technology and convenience features not normally associated with an "economy" car, such as a large dashboard LCD screen showing animations of the hybrid engine at work, and doors and an ignition that respond to a Bluetooth-equipped key.

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Then, between 2004 and 2014, Nordstrom made an extraordinary series of investments, each aimed squarely at that same purpose of providing a fabulous customer experience. These investments included Nordstrom.com and a perpetual inventory system that allowed Nordstrom to offer a consistent multi-channel experience by 2002. Insight Center.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

While its competitors were spending lavishly on new equipment, ALL repaired decommissioned engines from its "dead fleet," bought used locomotives from African carriers, and replaced damaged sections of the main line with dismantled tracks from abandoned parking stations.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers. According to the National Center for Women and Information Technology, women pursuing undergraduate computer science degrees have dropped from 37% to 18%, from 1987 to 2012 , respectively. There has also been a 5.2%

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Diversity Attrition Sports CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

Moores Law, in contrast, is a statement about the work of the computer industrys engineers and scientists; its an observation about how constant and successful their efforts have been. Those laws describe how the universe works; theyre true no matter what we do.

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Technology Long-term Short-term Survey 10

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

But Chrysler was in bankruptcy, and we didn’t know whether our Chrysler Jeep Dodge dealership that we opened in 2004 would survive the ax of the bankruptcy court. To this day, I get excited about seeing Subaru’s new products and learning about the engineering that went into making them. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

Learning-by-Doing 257

Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 257

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 12, 2011

The Best Business Books Ever: The Most Influential Management Books You’ll Never Have Time to Read Basic Books (2011) Note: This review is of a book published earlier this year. It is a sequel to one published in 2003. What we have here is a series of brief discussions “the most influential management books you’ll [.].

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Books Review Management Ansoff 85

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. The 3+%/year labor productivity growth rates of the 1950s and 1960s slowed to under 2% in the 1970s and then to 1.5%

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Price Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

Meanwhile, from 2004 to 2009, emerging economies accounted for almost all of the world's GDP growth." That brings us to the third big shift in capitalism: its changing geography. The center of gravity of capitalism has been high-income societies in the G7. These are now not only high-income but slow growth and aging.

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GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

For starters, he will be running a $75 billion+ enterprise with some 100,000 employees, an army of software engineers and many moving parts. Consider the CEO succession process at pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline beginning in 2004 when chief executive Jean-Pierre Garnier said he would be exiting in three years.

CEO 8

CEO Bottom-up Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

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. And Icahn, like Buffett, no longer has to worry about what is probably the biggest barrier to value-investing success — clients who abandon you when value falls out of fashion.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. That is, build a massive database of travel information that provided a white label search engine for travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity. Big Data meets travel.in

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EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

The Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984 (and amendments in 1988 and 2004) called for government agencies such as NASA to support the development and growth of commercial space. NASA focused on developing and monitoring precise engineering specifications. NASA engineers had large amounts of control over what the contractors were doing.

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. For another, it can be difficult to find good external partners.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In the language of systems engineering, the transaction is “mistake-proofed.” In 2004, large Seattle employers came to our medical center seeking more affordable health care. A uniquely disruptive application of the EMR is its use to block costly and unnecessary care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Former Google engineer James Damore was hardly the first person to argue that biological differences between men and women determine career outcomes. Many people — even smart, science-minded ones — have asserted that biological differences can explain the gender gap in math, engineering, and science.

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Long-term Review Morale Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

To this end, if we reverse engineer today’s sustainability agenda, it is clear that a powerful element of its genetic code has been the Triple Bottom Line (variously rendered as TBL or 3PL). While there have been successes, our climate, water resources, oceans, forests, soils and biodiversity are all increasingly threatened.

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TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

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. Boston Scientific a few years back launched a secret project to reverse-engineer the technology of its single-source supplier of coronary stents. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings.

Management 11

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

My research has shown that there are ways for everyone — from the managers of sales teams, to executives in government agencies, to computer engineers, to florists, to coaches — to achieve professional success without always having to sacrifice the things that matter in their personal lives. national team, won the first Women’s World Cup.

Succession 13

Succession COO Career Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

They decided to pursue their doctorates, and offered their search engine to Yahoo for $1 million. And in 2004 Paolo Pellegrini, a VP at the investment bank Lazard Freres, was fired — then took on a low-level position at a hedge fund after a lucky phone call. Yahoo declined (as did others). Lucky thing, that.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

The switches could, if bumped or weighed down by a heavy key ring, cut off engine power and disable air bags. According to another , “GM has said the issue was discovered as early as 2001, and in 2004, a company engineer ran into the problem during the testing phase of the soon-to-be-released Chevrolet Cobalt.”.

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Report Learning-by-Doing Crisis Management CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

billion in revenue, and before the bust we’d projected that by 2004, we’d be at $5 billion. At the same time, we hired a lot of engineering talent and invested in the development of the organic talent we already had on board. They presented various scenarios, including the worst-case for our company.

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