Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels. All told, they slashed carbon pollution from electricity by 20% from 2005-2011, led by Washington, which saw a 46% reduction during that period. Government Risk management Sustainability'

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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 That''s a problem.

Advertising 8

Advertising Business Model Audience Retail 8

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. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

By contrast, since 2005, the importance of meaningfulness in driving job selection has grown steadily. “Meaning is the new money, an HBR article argued in 2011. Managers can also build in time during team meetings to clearly articulate the connection between current projects and the company’s overall purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

I interviewed more than 50 executives and mid-level managers who had worked for HP in the 2004-2007 timeframe, many of whom reported to Fiorina and subsequently worked with her successor, Mark Hurd. 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.

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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. ”, “Where do we want to get to?”, entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

The current setup for taxing the foreign operations of U.S. corporations allows them to defer taxes on their profits from international operations until they bring the cash back to the U.S. An economic distortion caused by the tax code — by which foreign corporations operating in the U.S. corporations. or whatever.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. On the contrary, academic research and business experience point to quite the opposite.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

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. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS. Five House Rules for Managing Risky Behaviors.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

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. When Lyndon Faulkner joined as CEO in 2005, he felt the then-$80 million firm had to make acquisitions to grow.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

It is a simple matter of the big and strong (but often too slow) being unable to manage, or even see, the small and weaker (but fast and agile) threat. In 2011, Netflix announced it would split into two businesses, then retreated after only three weeks. In 2010, Gap announced a brand new logo, then retreated after a week.

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Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2014

What Auerbach did write in 2005 was that “the cardinal rule of incidence analysis” is “that only individuals can bear the burden of taxation and that all tax burdens should be traced back to individuals.”. Consumers, meanwhile, can buy from foreign suppliers. By comparison, workers are pretty immobile.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

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. The company came along in 2005, after years of focus on low-fat products had left the US yogurt market vulnerable. But marketing plays a broader role in shaping a brand.

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Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 8

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

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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. Under Rossotti's guidance, the IRS reorganized from a geographic structure to four new customer-oriented operating divisions.

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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).

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Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Their crowning achievement was a service launched in 2011 called Google Takeout, a unified site for exporting user data from multiple services like Gmail and Google Photos.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture. Rebrand from the inside out.

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Brand Globalization Company Development 8

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. I think fear-based management is a carry over from the industrial age and scarcity days. Meier February 15, 2010 at 1:52 am Beautiful reflection and insight.

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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. Engagement vs. 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. Which person do you want to be?

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Leadership How To Blog Learning-by-Doing 337

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

We need a good operational definition of charisma. The real tasks of management are left to technocrats in sub-governmental and managerial units. Eduard, I agree with you – there needs to be a more “operational&# definition of charisma. Carlos Saldivia October 11, 2010 at 12:35 pm ABSOLUTELY NOT!

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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.

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Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

For businesses, paper money has to be managed: it must be stored, guarded, and accounted for. This cost is also disproportionately borne by mom-and-pops, many of which operate in poor neighborhoods and rural areas. It can be difficult to transport and is inherently insecure. How can this be?

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Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

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. TMETC, which was established in 2005, got a big talent boost when Tata Motors acquired Jaguar and Land Rover in 2008. You can't run your global R&D operations from headquarters in Mumbai.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

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. These points steadily progress between the subjectivity of human happiness and the pure objectivity of profits.

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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. We could make the point that focus and persistence on the management side will lead to better systems, but that’s certainly not always the case. Great work.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 15, 2010

All too often I see new supervisors struggling mightily with the idea of actually “managing&# a staff – setting priorities, communicating the company vision, motivating, holding people accountable, and delivering the necessary coaching and corrections. This is where awareness of the benefits leadership skills provide comes in.

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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

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management. Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives. Here are a few of this year’s headline makers and the lessons that can be learned from each of them.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. The aggregate market capitalization of listed companies keeps increasing , unemployment remains manageable, and U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Primary care delivery faces additional challenges for scaling because it operates on thin margins, often is not highly valued by patients, and has difficulty attracting trained providers. North Star primarily serves truck drivers and sex workers, operating in the afternoons and evenings to fit its clients’ schedules.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 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. But there are four rules which can help managers of all walks of an organization instill the principle in their day-to-day work, in order to make self-cannibalization successful in the long run. Similar to Cosmo , Glamour , and GQ.)

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Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

By 2005 smartphones were already popular, but the Cupertino visionary saw something much cooler than a “Crackberry.” Wireless rights became more flexible, ceding spectrum management to the market. “Natural monopoly” was jettisoned as the operative assumption. Second, wireless licenses were made flexible.

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Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team. Since Knudstorp took over, Lego’s revenues have increased by 400%, and its operating profit margin has increased from -21% to 34%. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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