Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2023

Born to immigrant parents in the Australian outback, he would eventually rise to the top of the corporate world, taking over in 2004 as CEO of Dow Chemical. Andrew Liveris likes to defy expectations.

Chemicals 15

Chemicals Travel CEO Execution 15

Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. EVEN MORE: Yet another example: a good friend of mine from the 2004 Dean campaign, who was active in the 2008 Obama campaign as well, put in a request for web developers through his Facebook e-mail.

Press Release 174

Press Release Discount PR Media 174

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Howard Morgan and I published an article titled “Leadership Is a Contact Sport” in the fall 2004 issue of Strategy+Business that involved more than 86,000 respondents from eight major corporations. Their answers never have anything to do with ethics or integrity. previously published in Workforce Management Online).

360-Degree Feedback 96

360-Degree Feedback Follow-up Ethics Training 96

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. Jacoway "I leverage my avid love of learning and mastery of online technology to facilitate career management for trend-setting professionals who strive to be dynamic and high achieving in their business."

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

which resulted in an increase in brand awareness of 72 percent between 2004 and 2010. To the general public, it has come to epitomize the dysfunction of Wall Street—the greed, risk and lack of ethics that drove profits over the last twenty years, but went relatively ignored until the recent collapse.

Brand 60

Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 60

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Writing for the Harvard Business Review in 1988, Peter Drucker predicted that in 20 years the average organization would have slashed the number of management layers by half and shrunk its managerial ranks by two-thirds. Between 1983 and 2014, the number of managers, supervisors and support staff in the U.S. in 2001 to 16% in 2015.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Organization Health Care Drucker 9

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. As you can imagine, this is where things get complicated.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Short-term PR Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

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. Crisis management Ethics Leadership' An unignorable moment calls into question the identity of the entire organization and raises upsetting questions: Who are we?

Company 13

Company Crisis Crisis Management Video 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

Both Business Insider and Slate.com highlighted a 126-slide PowerPoint presentation by Reed Hastings , founder and CEO of Netflix, that explains the company's management philosophy and culture. Back in November 2004, the company's stock was trading at $18 per share. Back in November 2004, Netflix was trading at $10 per share.

Report 12

Report Advertising Learning-by-Doing Media 12

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. But the majority of the business owners I know prefer to manage risks by minimizing them or bypassing them entirely. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

Learning-by-Doing 255

Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. After all, the fixed overheads are already in place.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

At least seven hedge fund managers earned more than $1 billion just in 2009. Singer used 2004 tax figures to compute that if the top.01 The widening gap between the haves and the have-nots in today's world is breathtaking. Some 400 people on the Forbes list of richest Americans have a net worth in excess of $1 billion.

Hedge 15

Hedge Cost Energy Construction 15

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2011

This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics. This isn’t just an empty mantra.

Bottom-up 50

Bottom-up Survey Case Study Positioning 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? 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