Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

cents for a sachet that could purify 10 liters, Pur achieved penetration rates of 5% to 10% in its test markets — strong by almost any yardstick — but in 2005 the company gave up on Pur as a business, because the numbers simply hadn't worked. At a price equivalent to 10 U.S. The result has been explosive growth.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

including CNOOC's attempt to purchase Unocal in 2005 and Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf Systems in 2011. As noted, several high profile deals involving Chinese firms, such as CNOOC's 2005 attempt to purchase Unocal in the U.S., Unfortunately they have been struggling to actually close their deals. billion and $3.0

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Ideas Plus Influence by Starbucker on December 2, 2010 (This is Part 1 in a two-part blog series which I’ve worked on with a colleague, Denise Lee Yohn. and public opinion.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Like a shopper in a flea market, it is quite easy for a CEO at a midsized company to get distracted by sexy deals. But in 2010 (at $13 million in revenue), management decided that to grow, the firm needed to buy other companies. After a first deal fell through in late 2010, EORM acquired a Southern California firm in 2011.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?) Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Did you struggle to regain your post-recession footing?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

When the devastating earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010 , killing more than 250,000 and injuring countless more, donors and governments sent billions in aid and in-kind support. Yet rape has only been outlawed in Haiti since 2005 and hundreds of thousands are still housed post-quake in insecure tent cities. Leverage your know-how.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. The diverging fortunes of two recent spin-offs in the energy industry illustrate how financial markets value autonomy from the parent.

Chemicals 8

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

This cost is also disproportionately borne by mom-and-pops, many of which operate in poor neighborhoods and rural areas. Such government safety net programs kept some 25 million people out of poverty in 2010. While the overall costs of cash usage in all these markets are daunting, the U.S. How can this be? Much like the U.S.,

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Get out in the field – engage with your teammates, roll up your sleeves, talk to customers – especially if there’s distance between you and your actual operations. I see this quite a bit and it is challenging when operating in a system where you only see parts of the larger picture. SURESHKUMAR.S

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Do we see similar patterns when we look at company level—and particularly at multinationals that operate in multiple countries? But advanced economies, in particular, have not kept up with the big shift of economic activity to emerging economies, leading to declines in the breadth of globalization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Do we see similar patterns when we look at company level—and particularly at multinationals that operate in multiple countries? But advanced economies, in particular, have not kept up with the big shift of economic activity to emerging economies, leading to declines in the breadth of globalization.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Apparently he didn’t care and the next thing you know I was indeed running the operations of that company. I can really identify with your story…I’ve been laid off a few times in five years in the marketing area. Best of luck in 2010! I couldn’t believe what I was hearing – didn’t he know I was only 27 years old?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

China's consumer goods market expanded rapidly over the past two decades primarily because of the growing number of first-time buyers, who were eager to buy goods and services that were previously unavailable or unaffordable. That's important for growth; many multinational companies still operate only in a handful of top-tier cities in China.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

In 2010, Gap announced a brand new logo, then retreated after a week. military leaders realized we were fighting a type of enemy that would require fundamental changes in operations and strategy. In 2005, a single post by blogger Jeff Jarvis led to a customer uprising now known as "Dell Hell."

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Brand PR Strategy Politics 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Organizations have always depended on data — to manage operations, to communicate with customers, to pay employees and suppliers, to plan their futures, and so forth. These businesses include Bloomberg and Morningstar, which provide data about financial markets. My friends in the industry tell me that bogey was met by 2005.

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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. Since then its stock has more than doubled. The results were amazing.

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