Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." ​ Tamara Dowling ​"As a catalyst for positive change, I have a history of engaging board and staff members to generate new ideas and increase overall performance.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Technology. Companies in China are also on the lookout for technology that will help them expand. Lenovo bought IBM’s PC business in 2004 (and its x86 server business in 2014) for access to brands and customer relationships in mature markets in developed countries. The acquisition was a huge success.

Company 8

Company Maturity Globalization Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

Conventional wisdom has long held that, while technology may displace workers in the short-term, it does not reduce employment over the long-term. Some of the gap may reflect economists general optimism, but more than that, it signals the recognition that this wave of technological disruption could in fact be different.

Technology 10

Technology Long-term Short-term Survey 10

HR Digest

AUGUST 21, 2023

The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” (released in 2019) and Natasha Bedingfield’s 2004 single “Unwritten” topped the list, accumulating a staggering 4 billion plays on the platform. For instance, they were challenged by a technology company to encourage its staff to take the stairs instead of the elevator.

Productivity 98

Productivity Products IAS Succession 98

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.

IPO 12

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The electronics giant had seemingly lost its dominant position in the gaming console market, with the Nintendo Wii’s surprise success overshadowing the more powerful but pricier PS3. The easiest way to understand Sony’s position with the PS4 is to review the mistakes it made last time around, beginning with its price.

Strategy 12

Strategy Price Case Study Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. 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. 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 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. Few companies pivot easily, but those that do position themselves to ride wave after lucrative wave of exploratory, then exploitative, R&D.

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

to 1% per year if not for joint ventures that allowed for transfers of knowledge and technology, as opposed to domestic innovation. Positive spillovers and imitation of existing know-how, which can be controversial if it’s done via piracy instead of paying for a license, thus could account for between one-third to two-thirds of TFP.

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

In 2004, Michael Dell left the company, replaced by Kevin Rollins, a former Bain consultant who joined the company in 1996. As Lerner summed it up for me in an interview, "There seemed to be a pretty positive track record in terms of technology companies after buyouts.". Yet the improved financial position came at a cost.

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. Embedded sustainability efforts clearly result in a positive impact on business performance. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

But starting in the early 2000s, the advantages of scale were mostly eliminated, in large part because of globalization, deregulation, and the rise of digital technology. Discover suffered a similar setback in 2004, when Walmart shifted its credit card partnership to MasterCard. which permitted no other card in its popular stores.

IAM 11

IAM Productivity Products Company 11

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

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 12, 2012

The forces of internet transparency, rapid technology and young generations demanding empowerment are challenging organizations of all sizes across every industry to sail differently. To build a positive workplace culture, you must name it, celebrate it, and pass it onto new generations through leaders. Charles Darwin.

Competitive Advantage 244

Competitive Advantage Resistance Short-term Learning-by-Doing 244

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

When Charles "Chuck" Schwab returned to the helm to turn around his troubled financial firm in 2004, for example, he installed such a system. After all, can you really run a business without information about the asset — customers — that provides the source of all positive cash flow?

Customer Loyalty 13

Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 13

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

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. Although technologically advanced, this did not prove profitable and Motorola had launched little else to compensate.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Incentives Innovation Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Yet many employers still struggle to fill certain types of vacancies, especially for so-called middle-skills jobs — in computer technology, nursing, high-skill manufacturing, and other fields — that require postsecondary technical education and training and, in some cases, college math courses or degrees.

Skills 8

Skills Company Health Care Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

We are in the midst of a technological revolution that is every bit as profound as the impact of cheap computing power, but it’s subtler and harder to notice. For a few dollars, designers can easily connect a computer to remember the seat position in your car. The most innovative applications are probably still to come.

Software 8

Software Engineering Efficiency Productivity 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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 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. In this model, the relational approach was one of positional authority and hierarchy.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

The term was coined by the late Harvard Business School marketing professor, Theodore Levitt, in a 1960 article by the same name (republished in 2004). “People who apply technology to ad targeting don’t necessarily think they are in a particular industry. Where did the concept originate? ” Take programmatic ad buying.

Levitt 8

Levitt Marketing Transportation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Strategy, it follows for Porter, is a matter of working out your company’s best position relative not just to pricing pressures from rivals but to all the forces in your competitive environment. When they are strong, as in the airline and hotel industries, almost no company earns an attractive return on investment.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Norway was the first to adopt a quota for female board members (40%) in 2004. ” The resistance in Denmark may be particularly strong because there are so few positions in a very small tight-knit business community. That is positive. It is really difficult to deal with in Denmark.” In the U.S.,

Diversity 8

Diversity Resistance CEO Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

One of the most significant came in early 2004 when we decided to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas. We view it as something that can grow if we create positive emotional associations with our brand. In the years since Zappos was founded, we’ve had to make some big decisions. We’ve also expanded far beyond shoes.

CEO 8

CEO Call Center Real Estate Merchandising 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. You and your board are in the position to decide whether that happens or not. You clearly have a different point of view on distributions to shareholders.

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

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. She had already held several positions in both consulting and sales and marketing, so she wasn't a junior upstart. Case Study #2: When you think you don't need it.

Mentor 16

Mentor Career Long-term Advice 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

I remember last year settling into the booth of a café deep in the rainforest in Costa Rica and looking up to see a placard on the table begging for a positive TripAdvisor review. In the hyper-competitive world of technology and consumer Internet, it is hard to find a company that is pound for pound as profitable as TripAdvisor.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

When Facebook was founded in 2004, it began with a seemingly innocuous mission: to connect friends. Since our Facebook profiles are self-curated, users have a strong bias toward sharing positive milestones and avoid mentioning the more humdrum, negative parts of their lives. First, it's creating a den of comparison.

Comparison 16

Comparison Media Tactics Sports 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Similar differences apply to intra-network program choices, since programs on the same network can differ in their positioning.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

In 2004, microtargeting was a fairly new concept. One of the things about 2008 was, early on, there was the one key issue on most Democratic primary voters' minds: the war in Iraq, where he had a very different position from the Republicans, and even some of the Democratic primary field. Definitely the scale. Predict faster.

Survey 8

Survey Politics Information Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

The author of these words is University of California, Davis economic historian Peter Lindert, who hid them among the data appendices in volume two of his epic 2004 empirical study, Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Bottom-up Budgeting 8