Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2013

Three years after I wrote an article on the Athens 2004 wiretapping case, which involved Greek government officials, I found somebody snooping on my own email as I served the next Greek administration. Yet the complexity of cloud-based technology also helped me catch the perpetrator. Online marketing Social media Technology'

Document 8

Document Open-book Bottom-up System 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

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. Why do these shifts occur? Note the solution is not to avoid outside CEOs.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

In 2004, the residual assets were sold off for a mere $7 million, a tiny fraction of the $500 million auto manufacturers had invested. Firms guilty of this oversight never get past the idea that they sell products when they could be building ecosystems. It had the world’s first and best compact disc players.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

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? “You might move from product to engineering to ops.” Why do you want to join a startup in the first place?

Due Diligence 10

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

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. Public shareholders, including Carl Icahn, do not invest in Apple’s productive capabilities. I disagree with this priority.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Recently, I wrote about Akamai, a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet's fabric. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

They include years of 15% to 20% annual increases in labor costs without compensating productivity growth in manufacturing titans such as China, cheap energy in North America unlocked by hydraulic fracturing, and the increasing complexity and cost of managing global supply chains. Advances in manufacturing technology. made products.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10