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. The concept of irony was, after all, invented by the Greeks.). Identifying my nosy assistant was easier than expected.

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Document Open-book Bottom-up System 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

That system was efficient, but the new management team decided that, at this moment in its history, the company needed adaptability more than efficiency. That inventive, from-the-ground-up approach contrasted sharply with the way investment decisions had been made in the past. Fostering coordination.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The United States corporate tax system is in desperate need of reform, and there are many sources of discontent. raises less corporate tax revenue than peer countries do, and the system is mind-numbingly complex, rife with distortion, and widely perceived to be unfair. companies are not being held back by the corporate tax code.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2018

Complex systems are an inevitable part of business and socio-economic structures. Entire new systems need to be constructed just to manage this complexity, with questionable or negative value to society at large. Beyond analyzing how incredibly complex socio-economic systems have emerged in recent years in the U.S., Government.

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Cost Health Care IPO Finance 172

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.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Yet poor management systems can jeopardize lives in the air, at sea, on roads or in hospitals. Changing the System. Fundamentally, we have a hard-wired cultural problem in business, finance and markets. It was never supposed to be just an accounting system. They can also put entire businesses and sectors at risk.

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TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Reacting quickly, Google regained control of the Android system by restricting access to difficult-to-replicate services such as mapping and by shifting important application programming interfaces (APIs) to the proprietary Google Play Store. It was the digital payment system eBay pushed before it gave up and acquired PayPal.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Google, which adopted a similar share structure at the time of its initial public offering in 2004, has gone further with its decision last spring to issue non-voting stock. Sweden , for instance, amended its company law in 2004 to reduce the permitted disparity of voting rights from 1,000 to one to a maximum of 10 to one.

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Short-term Long-term Class Proposal 8

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. Through the tax system, business interests that gain from these investments return funds to the government. I disagree with this priority.

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2019

of Horizon2020 research funding going to the 13 countries that joined the EU in 2004, despite these nations representing 17% of the EU population. The European Index of Digital Entrepreneurship Systems (EIDES) aims to rank each of the 28 EU Member States across a range of metrics to gauge their ability to support entpreneurialism.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Human Capital Education 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

from 2004 to 2007. Many companies appointed process owners to design processes as part of a new system implementation such as enterprise resource planning (ERP). However, after the system was installed, the process owners vacated their jobs because the company didn't see them as being responsible for process execution.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15