Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

She never took the time to develop rapport with individual employees, and therefore never got buy-in or support for her initiatives. When Mark Hurd took over as CEO in 2005, he took that picture down, and noticeably didn’t put his own up on the wall. It wasn’t the HP way. People found that to be very tacky.

CEO 8

CEO Charisma COO Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Big-company corporate development departments dream of acquisitions that substantially boost revenue or bring assets that turbo-charge growth. Most midsize companies lack the breadth and depth of skilled corporate development professionals whose jobs are to source, make, and integrate acquisitions. The second reason is more important.

Company 8

Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. In Jakarta, from 2005-2009, the number of cars rose by 22% annually, while the distance of usable roads actually declined (PDF).

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

In 2005, Dimon hired Ina Drew to head the company's Chief Investment Office, the unit responsible for the bank's risk exposure. In 2011, the company dropped its requirement to exit investment positions when losses exceeded $20 million. To understand Dimon's blindness, let's look at a quick history of the trading debacle.

Banking 9

Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

In 2011, Netflix announced it would split into two businesses, then retreated after only three weeks. 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."

Brand 15

Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data.

Strategy 8

Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I’ve been delivering them on a regular basis for the past 8 years in my (soon-to-be) former position as an SVP of Operations, and throughout that time I have sprinkled a few famous quotes here and there, to really bring home the point I was trying to make. The kind that is designed to “jazz up&# and inspire the team.

Leadership 330

Leadership Strategic Planning Learning-by-Doing Blog 330

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I thing that we need to understand accurately what makes a person have charisma before developing it and this is where many people struggle, which is why they think charisma is something you’re born with. We need a good operational definition of charisma. Carlos Saldivia October 11, 2010 at 12:35 pm ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Charisma 309

Charisma Welch Stage-Gate Self-aware 309

Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Because it’s obviously important to do this, it often can overwhelm our brains and put us in a position where we operate as if our “job&# is: Get Stuff Done But is that really a leader’s job? I don’t believe so. Rather, it’s a byproduct of the real job of a leader.

Leadership 284

Leadership Follow-up Blog Learning-by-Doing 284

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. and the U.K.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

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.

Globalization 9

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

A brilliant (but oh so eccentric) entrepreneur who had already amassed a large fortune was looking for more, and tapped me to oversee the operations of his latest acquisition.

Budgeting 256

Budgeting CPA Maturity Open-book 256

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.

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

We work really hard on developing smart solutions, only to see them fail because we don’t have enough juice in the organization. For years, I operated with the belief that all I had to do was come up with the most brilliantly creative and strategically sound solution. And I say “we” because I’ve been as guilty of this as anybody.

Influence 275

Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

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. What about the costs of cash in developing economies, where cash use is much more prevalent? It can be difficult to transport and is inherently insecure. How can this be?

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Terry Starbucker

MAY 16, 2010

How these two goals are connected by the company’s leadership is critical to building operational greatness – an organization that is working at high efficiency, with great enthusiasm and ever increasing productivity. Work Quality and Accuracy.

Metrics 243

Metrics Mission Statement Download Objective 243

Terry Starbucker

JUNE 6, 2010

Analyze and Absorb Your Current Position – Just like we “studied&# up in January to know our business plan inside and out, we need to analyze and absorb the year-to-date operating results, so we can make meaningful comparisons (and more importantly, any mid-course corrections).

Leadership 263

Leadership Blog Learning-by-Doing Benchmarking 263

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

I’ve had the opportunity to participate with many large, self-insured employers in three such marketplace collaboratives: one led by Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle in 2005, another led by Intel in Portland, Oregon, in 2009, and the Robert Bree Collaborative , created by the Washington State legislature in 2011.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Three years later, it was clear that we had chosen our pillars well, for we had made substantial improvements in nearly every measurable aspect of our operations, and, most importantly, drove excellent financial results that exceeded expectations. What were these magical tenets? Something way out of the box? Revolutionary?

Quality 272

Quality Blog Media Objective 272

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

Leadership 337

Leadership How To Blog Learning-by-Doing 337

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

He had just spent several days reviewing our business operations, and after absorbing our successes and industry-leading metrics, he couldn’t figure it out on his own. So he was compelled to ask me that question, perhaps hoping I would reply with some magic formula that he could take back home with him.

Blog 246

Blog Metrics Learning-by-Doing Handbook 246

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

That’s because the digital revolution has now made it possible to develop, produce, and distribute information in regular waves of better and cheaper technologies—the pre-conditions for what Paul Nunes and I have called “ Big Bang Disruption.”. Since 2005, cable companies have lost ten million subscribers.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Terry Starbucker

MARCH 15, 2010

Plus, taking these critical cogs in the wheel out of circulation for even a few days can certainly be a burden on the operation. Taking the top management once every year to a training program and then hoping for the best does not qualify as leadership development for me. Mark Silver March 17, 2010 at 8:43 am Yes and yes.

Team 261

Team Training Blog Skills 261

Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

We recently hired an outside firm at my company to take a look at some of our operations, and sure enough, they looked at some rocks we hadn’t looked under for several years – and found some things that we could change to make us better.

Succession 203

Succession Blog Learning-by-Doing Media 203

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. Out of the blue, I got a call from an executive recruiter who was looking for a particular kind of accountant to “run” a service company with over 425,000 customers.

Blog 214

Blog Letter Learning-by-Doing Career 214

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. In developing countries, primary care tends to be delivered by a mix of public and private sector providers.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Plus, as a result of a lack of cross-organizational coordination and cooperation, Nokia wasn’t able to improve its proprietary operating system, Symbian, which would have allowed it to support a more sophisticated smartphone. Here are a few of this year’s headline makers and the lessons that can be learned from each of them.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. The number of listed firms can decline because of three developments: 1) bankruptcy, failure, or closure of listed firms, 2) delisting of firms going private or acquired, and 3) decrease in number of initial public offerings (IPOs). westend61/Getty Images.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Armstrong returned to service, developing FM radios for the Army, and was promoted to the rank of Colonel. The FCC quickly developed a “public interest” rationale for the move: sunspots. By 2005 smartphones were already popular, but the Cupertino visionary saw something much cooler than a “Crackberry.”

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. In 2005, when the demand for the iPod Mini remained huge, the Nano was launched, effectively destroying the revenue stream of an existing product. Back in 2009, there were just four companies that fit the bill.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Founded in the 1930s, Lego developed a repeatable model that allowed it to grow for decades. Since Knudstorp took over, Lego’s revenues have increased by 400%, and its operating profit margin has increased from -21% to 34%. In 2011 the private equity firm Blackstone invested 160 million euros in the company.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 10, 2010

I visit my company’s field operations quite often, and I like to talk personally with as many folks as I can. The karma comes back to me when I get e-mails or letters about how just showing up, and taking the time to chat, made a difference in how they felt about their jobs.

Blog 348

Blog Learning-by-Doing Follow-up Media 348