Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. And that satisfaction leads to a more attractive work environment in a competitive talent market. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

If you’re one of the many managers out there who must negotiate with companies in China — the world’s largest emerging economy — you probably need to change your approach. Buying Smithfield allowed Shineway to sell pork in the Chinese market at a premium price. Technology. Access to mature global markets.

Company 8

Company Maturity Globalization Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Kearney as "the best-managed company in the world" — not so different from Apple today. By 2000, Motorola's global market share had collapsed from 45% to 15%, while Nokia's had grown to a market-leading 31%. In 2004, three years before the iPhone, it rejected a proposal to develop a Nokia online applications store.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 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. While they might be good at cutting costs, they rarely knew enough to manage growth and innovation. Fields spent nearly a decade overseas learning how to compete with leaders in the industry in their markets.

CEO 8

CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 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. 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. There is a lot of emotion behind the Facebook IPO.

IPO 13

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Strategic stress is characterized by three zones, which executives must consider and effectively manage: Strategic Burnout (too much strategic stress). An example of strategic burnout can be found at Lego around 2004. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Sponsored by the Brightline Initiative.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. Related Video.

Company 13

Company Survey Finance Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

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

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

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

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. To do this, Goldman used its competencies in understanding markets, convening needed expertise and business networks. Early results are encouraging.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India. Choose the right India country manager: The role of country manager for India can mean many things depending on the scope of operations and the structure of an organization. David Mulford, U.S.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

When women start companies they quite naturally create more permeable and diverse management teams, having worked on gender diverse teams, or, conversely, having seen the pitfalls of being the token woman in a homogenous grouping. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers. There has also been a 5.2% It can be hired or bought.

Diversity 8

Diversity Attrition Sports CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management. For more background on the potential deal, click here.)

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The managers who express this idea in our simulated competitive games aren’t thinking of some simple shelving-units-on-wheels format – the kind of oversized salesman’s bag that’s been hauled out to prospects for decades. The social media channel was another source of feedback to help Cisco hone its marketing messages.

B2B 8

B2B B2C Education Travel 8

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

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Others need a course correction while still profitable (Microsoft), or a momentum shift because of disruptive new technologies (newspaper companies).

How To 9

How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. The CEO as Lead Product Designer. Photo courtesy of Morio , Wikimedia Commons.

Leadership 10

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

This was the headline finding of a recent study (PDF) by the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. In short, it is their primary management system. When Charles "Chuck" Schwab returned to the helm to turn around his troubled financial firm in 2004, for example, he installed such a system.

Customer Loyalty 14

Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Managers in these organizations translate corporate objectives into a few straightforward guidelines that help employees make on-the-spot decisions and adapt to constantly shifting environments, while keeping the big picture in mind. Its new management team took over an organization that was bureaucratic, overstaffed, and bleeding cash.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 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. Virtually everything except customer management and building the brand was left to partners. Then there’s the perennial difficulty of managing partnerships.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

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

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

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. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. 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.

Management 11

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

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

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 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. Our experience suggests three key factors.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions.

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. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 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? “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

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Norway was the first to adopt a quota for female board members (40%) in 2004. Growing Recognition that Market Forces Won’t Fix the Problem. Market forces won’t make it happen.” Women represent 50% of the workforce, 30% of managers and 4% of top leaders? In the U.S., Given the latest data on U.S.

Diversity 8

Diversity Resistance CEO Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash , a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital. billion market capitalization as of this writing. TripAdvisor And Expedia: From $4 million invested to $4 billion in value.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Kram, the Shipley Professor in Management at the Boston University School of Management and author of Mentoring at Work. In their book, The 2020 Workplace , Meister and Willyerd talk about reverse mentoring in which a more junior person advises a senior person on things like new technology.

Mentor 16

Mentor Career Long-term Advice 16