Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

On October 23, 1996, the day AT&T announced that John Walter, an industry outsider, would be named CEO, the company’s market valuation dropped by $4 billion. Stock market reactions are often used to judge whether a firm’s actions are successful. We tested our ideas using a sample of roughly 800 acquisitions in the U.S.,

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.  My wife worked with her in 1999 and back in January 2000, Nancy agreed to talk with totally stuck me even though I wasn't in her target market.   I used to work on Wall Street and knew the Ground Zero area really well. 

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

What trends do you see in the market, and how does your competition relate to them? In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. How clear are you about the criteria for success? How well equipped are you to measure your company against those criteria?

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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. billion in 2011 , but then had to retract because the companies could not agree on terms and struggled to get Chinese regulatory approval. Some deals have failed because of national security concerns in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

.” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels. The program delivered $1.6

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

” By detailing out how to orchestrate complex interdependencies such as customers, competitors, operations, logistics, marketing, and sales, writing a plan first appears to schedule out actions and strengthen the link between actions and performance for the new venture. ”, and “How are we going to get there?”

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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. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Slywotzky is a consultant and author of several books on economic theory and management. He graduated from Harvard College and holds a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has worked as a consultant since 1979 and is currently a partner at Oliver Wyman.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

But marketing plays a broader role in shaping a brand. It does not just manage to get a brand into a customer’s consideration set; it powerfully influences which aspects of that brand the customer notices and experiences. Good marketing helps ensure that brands are meaningful, different, and salient.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

If your company''s management team isn''t as global as its target markets, you aren''t alone. Dig a few layers deeper into firms'' management teams and the situation doesn''t look much better. A 2005 survey by the Boston Consulting Group found that only 7.5% Broadening the current management team''s mindsets.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

August 2011 HBR. But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. By 2005, Garanti began to open branches and grow rapidly. This is a commentary on " The Paradox of Samsung's Rise ," an article by Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee in the July?August

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. Google''s 2005 purchase of YouTube fits into this category. CEO Marissa Mayer acknowledged the long odds of making the $1.1

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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. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive. It took a few years to get things back on track, but from 2005-2010 Apple's innovation premium jumped to 52%. Can he do it? History suggests Cook's task will be difficult, but not impossible.

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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.)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. The successes of the collaboratives have been reported in the Wall Street Journal , the book Pursuing the Triple Aim , and a Harvard Business Review article that explains how other employers can replicate these efforts in their local markets.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. The Business Transformation Agency was populated by people brought in from the commercial sector.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

We counter that managers who would see their businesses survive the next few decades of extreme economic volatility will need to develop some literacy about oil and its complex relationships with the economy. We know that the economy fell on its face at $147 per barrel in 2008, and brought growth to a halt in 2011 at $120.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

For businesses, paper money has to be managed: it must be stored, guarded, and accounted for. We have been analyzing cash usage behavior in emerging markets on different continents and experiencing different socio-political and economic challenges through our research in Egypt, India, and Mexico. How can this be? Much like the U.S.,

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 18, 2010

] Tweet This Post Tagged as: colin powell , Leadership , so you think you can lead { 4 comments… read them below or add one } John Burrows (Twitter: @John_Burrows) July 19, 2010 at 1:40 pm I think all of the things you list here are essential for managers as well. The challenge is that both require very different skill sets.

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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. Cambridge, U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Just a few examples illustrate some of the pressing issues: South Africa''s power distribution network has an estimated maintenance backlog of $4 billion — equivalent to half of the country''s total investment in electric power generation and distribution in 2011. an estimated $100 billion per year.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011. After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In 2006, they hired an experienced president to manage their rapidly growing business. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. The management team at Rodan + Fields, today a $250 million skincare products company, understood this risk. Revenue in 2011 was $59 million.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Dimon’s raise obviously has special resonance because JP Morgan’s legal woes were one of the top business stories last year as it agreed to $20 billion in payments to settle a variety of cases involving the bank’s conduct since 2005 when Dimon became JPM CEO.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 24, 2010

Because this elephant can take on so many faces, there is a good chance that all of those points of view exist within the management ranks of many companies – even the ones that already have some kind of SM presence. It has implications from customer service to marketing to sales to HR and beyond. So what to do?

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 21, 2010

It is part of the overall marketing and advertising plan. It can, if not managed properly, make the user terribly unproductive (don’t I know it) Very True so beware! It is the way people are now communicating with eachother and the way business’ are marketing. Thanks for your brief, but insightful post.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

In 2005, after years of negative publicity, Nike published its list of suppliers and toughened its compliance policy, requiring subcontractors to comply with the Atlanta Agreement on child labor, international conventions on freedom to unionize, and local labor laws. Enforcement of minimum wage law in Sialkot is not robust.).

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

This sets up a wall between management and the rank-and-file that is very, very hard to knock down. Leading vs. Managing – This is the big one- the ultimate battle. The easiest way to make the distinction is just open a dictionary and read the definitions of “manage&# and “lead&#. SURESHKUMAR.S

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 28, 2010

Customer service is the new marketing… Peter Zuev January 29, 2010 at 8:09 pm Dear Starbucker, I’m a student in BADM 720 “Management and Organizational Science&# class. Glad to hear the book was a mental “flash bang&# for you. Barry Moltz January 28, 2010 at 10:07 am Let me get you a button! Seeling, T.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Sometimes as managers we get too caught up in the big picture and forget to focus on the details. After graduating from my undergrad education (2007) I unexpectedly joined my parents’ company as the Global Sales and Marketing Director…it has been amazing yet seems to be a daily trial by fire test. Fantastic post.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position? It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management. So what happened?

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions. I quit my job, and here I am, working only on what I am good at: business quality management.

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