Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

When Dr. Nido Qubein assumed the presidency in January 2005, he realized the enormous potential of this academy of higher learning. HPU was named a 2013 Green College in The Princeton Review. Leadership Development Leadership Students University' And, the operating budget has climbed from $38M to $178M. Just Google it.

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Leadership Education Wireless Rogers 150

Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

Toyota sometimes talks about the primary goal of improvement efforts to be learning and the development of people, with improved metrics being a secondary goal. The document continues, “In committing to the above philosophy, we recognize the development of the Livonia Plant environment to be a dynamic process.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012.

Globalization 9

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012.

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

By 2005, the Chief Lightning Catcher found a company that wanted to acquire the firm and provide badly needed investment capital. But in December 2005, the offer fell through. By 2013, the CEO, his business partner and an early private equity investor received an offer to sell some of their shares to a large company.

Leadership 8

Leadership Leadership Pipeline Loyalty CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

years in the country’s heavily polluted north and an estimated $112 billion in labor and health care costs in 2005. Finally, in September 2013, faced with mounting social discontent, Premier Li Keqiang announced a sweeping new plan to try to address the country’s air quality problems. That has been the bet for more than 60 years.

Environment 8

Environment Health Care Politics Document 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.

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Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Recognizing the growing consumer interest in sustainable products and looking to solve consumer challenges such as high energy costs, CPG companies have developed new products to gain access to this market.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. They pinpointed a number of new consultants who were excelling, identified their behaviors and then implemented the new field development strategies with their Atlanta consultants (a tough market for the firm). Tinkering can kill midsize companies.

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Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Last week Chen Demin, China's commerce minister, offered an upbeat outlook for China's overall 2013 economy , forecasting steady improvement in domestic consumption and investment, and predicting that foreign direct investment over the coming year would also remain stable. Today, they have to be in 340 of them. million people and 1.5

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Class Construction GDP Report 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Thousands of very lucky individuals are seated in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center are at TED 2013. In the spirit of TED 2013, here are 10 amazing TED Talks that have helped me think differently about what business can be, how to be a better leader, and how to become a better global citizen. It's happening right now.

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Godin Open-book Mass Marketing Creativity 8

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Angelou received several honors throughout her career, including two NAACP Image Awards in the outstanding literary work (nonfiction) category, in 2005 and 2009. . The close-knit sisters lived together for more than a dozen years but then went their separate ways after in 2013. Rosa Parks (1913-2005). They were married in 1992.

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Open-book Career Learning-by-Doing Licensing 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

For the decade 2005-2014, McDonald’s expended $29.4 million in 2013, when realized gains from stock-based pay represented 27% of total pay, to a high of $20.1 billion on buybacks, representing 67% of net income, and $22.1 billion on dividends, equivalent to 51% of net income.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

For more than 10 years now I have been helping people to develop their own Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME). Many of the clients I worked with had had developed the idea for years, but they were reluctant to quit their Jobs, or were afraid of failing. Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company.

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Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Trouble was, the launch violated eBay’s well-established corporate project-development processes. Developing the Global Leader. “He allowed both ideas to be developed and tested enough, to learn and not combine them right away,” Hill says. A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Trouble was, the launch violated eBay’s well-established corporate project-development processes. Developing the Global Leader. “He allowed both ideas to be developed and tested enough, to learn and not combine them right away,” Hill says. A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Strategy development at Dell is no longer a batch process tied to some planning calendar; it is a continuous process. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Case closed (until engineers develop an algorithm that does the job better). That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The Justice Department charges of gross negligence were filed before the judge considering whether to approve this private party settlement in order to ensure the issues were preserved for the BP-Department of Justice (DoJ) trial scheduled for January, 2013. No criminal charges have been filed against the company.).

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Industry Operations Report Globalization 15

Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

was developed at a U.S. I wrote about this in 2005: Excessive Drug Prices in the USA (and several times since then, Drug Price Crisis [2008] – it is a long term, huge economic problem for the USA). Related: USA Health Care Spending 2013: $2.9 university with grants funded by taxpayer dollars. We have to do better.

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Health Care System Deming Letter 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. 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. based WiFi service provider Ruckus Wireless snatched it up in 2013.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8