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.    A lot of this, I think, is driven by the 24/7 expectations that are made possible by our communications technology.    I used to work on Wall Street and knew the Ground Zero area really well. 

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

You might think that emerging country companies are more ready to address the needs of and win customers in other emerging markets. is expanding rapidly via acquisitions of Issue Group and Cosmetica Nacional in Latin America, while China's Huawei has a large direct presence in India's telecom market.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. stock exchanges.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In the guitar business , too.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

The relationship between technology and jobs is center stage in the policy and academic debate. Upskilling technologies, a partnership between humans and smart machines, can augment workers’ abilities, resulting in dramatically improved performance, greater safety, and higher worker satisfaction.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. Remember, these difficulties are the fruits of success. China Economy Finance'

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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%. This is not the first time, of course, that Jobs has left the helm at Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Regulators would now decide how spectrum would be used, what technologies were permissible, and approve — or reject — the wireless services, networks, applications, and business models that might be introduced. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate.

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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 Mergers & Acquisitions Social media RBM LBM'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Pizza Hut''s campaign unwittingly shut the door on thousands of customers who were either: 1) people within the target market that the ad alienated (ex: millennials who care about politics more than pizza); or 2) people excluded from the target market altogether (ex: non-Gen Yers).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The world’s five largest companies (by market capitalization) are all American and compete in the digital sphere: Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. since 2005 are due to this phenomenon. Of late, it is China, not Silicon Valley, taking the lead in developing mobile technologies. digital industries.

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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. Market focus. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.

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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. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

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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. Dell''s fortunes have not reversed over the past six years, owing in part to the recession, but more fundamentally to the decline of the PC market. For more background on the potential deal, click here.)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

I looked at quarterly earnings call transcripts for Yahoo and two of its competitors from late 2005 to the first quarter of 2016 and counted mentions of “mobile,” “phone,” or “smartphone.” In 2011 we were playing a bit of catch-up compared to the market. The company has written off its $7.2

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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. The company was in free fall.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Figuring that their earnings would decline, the cutters were trying to block adoption, in part by misinforming owners about the benefits of the technology. “With what we are paying them, we are getting their input and feedback as well,” said Belal Jahangir, director of global marketing and son (and heir apparent) of the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. 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

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. And we counted 10 local exits in 2014.

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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. IT also upgraded old technology and processes, achieving significant improvements in service and compliance.

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Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

A 2005 survey of more than 500 freight interests from the public and private sectors carried out by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) revealed deep divisions on freight traffic congestion causes and solutions, and an alarming lack of communication between the two sides.

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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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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

But thanks to social and mobile technologies, consumers are now "hyper-connected and super-empowered," to use Thomas Friedman's memorable phrase. We normally think of insurgency in a political context, but today's digital technologies are creating a similar dynamic in business.

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Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

She published her first book, Spark: How Creativity Works in 2011 and now hosts her own podcast, Pursuit of Spark! Leading business and marketing practitioner Seth Godin imagines a world where the mass market dies, where mediocrity holds no economic value. Susan Cain: The power of introverts. Like to read?

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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. While there was some interest in our plans for China's mobile market, their primary concerns were economic and reputational: how could I prove to them that they would become rich, and that our company would be famous?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three. Revenue in 2011 was $59 million. Tinkering can kill midsize companies.

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Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

This large national study, conducted from March 2000 to February 2005, enrolled 2,505 patients with disc herniation, spinal stenosis, or degenerative spondylosis. To get a sense of the power of patient-reported outcomes data that’s collected on a large scale, consider the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial ( SPORT ).

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Health Care Report Sports Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

It''s a bubble when the price you pay for share of stock cannot conceivably be recouped from the earnings of the company (this was Cisco in 2000 ) or the price you pay for house cannot conceivably be recouped from rental earnings (this was Phoenix in 2005 ). Economy Innovation Technology'

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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