Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2015

The paper, published in the European Management Journal, isn’t the first to look at the values firms list on their websites; a 2013 paper tried something similar but found no correlation with performance. Companies that changed their values between 2005 and 2008 had higher return on assets than those that did not.

Company 8

Company Collins Short-term Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. In 2005, they launched a U.S. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

In fact, Iger reportedly noticed that Pixar’s hugely popular Toy Story characters appeared in the 2005 opening parade at Hong Kong Disneyland while recent Disney animated characters—for example, Lilo & Stitch , released in 2002—were MIA (although Mickey and pals were present and accounted for, of course).

Creativity 8

Creativity Franchising Succession Film 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

In 2005, Amazon introduced its Prime service, which provides members with unlimited “free” two-day delivery (as well as discounted overnight delivery) on eligible products for $79 a year. Amazon claims it has at least 20 million Prime members, having signed up 1 million new subscribers in the third week of December 2013 alone.

Library 9

Library Price Forrester Wilde 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The JP Morgan Chase board of directors has vexed the world with its terse announcement in a recent 8-K filing that CEO Jamie Dimon would receive a big pay raise — $20 million in total pay for 2013, up from $11.5 A legitimate case can be made for Dimon’s 2013 raise. million for 2012, a 74 percent increase.

Banking 8

Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 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

Class 9

Class Construction GDP Report 9

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. When Lyndon Faulkner joined as CEO in 2005, he felt the then-$80 million firm had to make acquisitions to grow. 2013 revenue of about $450 million), knows this well.

Company 8

Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 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.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

year from 2005-2014, with the slowdown starting well before the global financial crisis. decline on the back of a flat 2013 and +0.7% markets was to systematically reduce prevailing price levels. When the first quarter of 2015 revealed a 3.1% 2014, it precipitated much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Many US firms in many U.S.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Price Globalization 8

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.

Godin 8

Godin Open-book Mass Marketing Creativity 8

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

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. Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company.

Deming 28

Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL Technologies, the German division of online auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Willing to Take Chances. “That (assumption) made him crazy,” Hill says.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL Technologies, the German division of online auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Willing to Take Chances. “That (assumption) made him crazy,” Hill says.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Since 2005, Google (and more recently, its parent company, Alphabet) has invested in countless new ventures. Take Google.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 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 ). By contrast, bitcoins have been skyrocketing in value.

Price 9

Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

” One interpretation of the literature’s near-universal prior finding of a gay male earnings penalty was that it was a consequence of labor market discrimination against gay men. The simplest explanation that came to mind first was the Dan Savage explanation: “It Gets Better.”

Education 8

Education Document Survey Sample 8

Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

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 Health care is extremely expensive everywhere. We have to do better. trillion $9,255 per person and 17.4%

Health Care 40

Health Care System Deming Letter 40

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.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

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).

Market Segmentation 8

Market Segmentation Advertising Marketing Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

corporations responded by bringing back $299 billion in profits in 2005, compared with an average of $62 billion from 2000 to 2004 and a subsequent decline to $102 billion in 2006. ” The researchers estimated that for every $1 increase in the amount repatriated in 2005, the companies increased distributions to shareholders by $0.60

Hedge 8

Hedge Proposal Pharmaceuticals Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

In 2002 the Commission switched course again and ruled that broadband access provided by cable TV companies was an information service — the reasoning being, in part, that cable broadband had ended the DSL monopoly and created a competitive market once again. The FCC chairman who went after Comcast in 2008 was Bush appointee Kevin Martin.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8