The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 29, 2023

In 2005, Vineet Nayar made waves when he announced that the Indian IT company HCL would put employees first. These disruptions and productivity losses not only slow down operations, but they can also significantly hurt a company’s bottom line.” the researchers explain.

Leadership Styles 59

Leadership Styles Trends Agility Letter 59

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 12, 2016

There is a change happening at the very top of the organizational hierarchy that, like a weather vane, reflects some of the fundamental changes happening across every organization and the marketplace they operate in. Marketing became part of a broader, social media dialogue taking place between a brand and its customers.

Organization 100

Organization Leadership Media Marketing Mix 100

HR Digest

AUGUST 9, 2020

Brett White is not just the CEO of the firm but also its chairman as well as a commercial real estate veteran who led CBRE from 2005 to 2012. White also expects that the US office market might take around two to three years to recover along with seeing this pain to be just the beginning.

Real Estate 98

Real Estate Constraint CEO Long-term 98

Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2013

When newly recruited, the following types of executives experienced the highest failure rates within the first 18 months: senior-level executives (39%), sales executives (30%), marketing executives (25%), and operations executives (23%). Also, two out of every five new CEOs fail in the first 18 months (HBR, January 2005).

Execution 123

Execution Reference Letter Teamwork 123

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

If you’re not too proud to admit defeat and seek inspiration and ideas from elsewhere, you might find that crowdsourcing is a breakthrough concept that can help you to break new ground and potentially disrupt a market. Does your business suffer “blindness” to problems relating to your operations and its industry as a whole?

Project 50

Project Idea Generation Brainstorming Long-term 50

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

For those organizations who have gender-balanced boards, data is striking: Since 2005, publicly traded companies with more than one women on their boards have seen stock market returns of a compound 3.7 High-potential women often operate under the radar. percent a year higher than those with no female representation.

Chief Operating Officer 50

Chief Operating Officer How To Leadership Telecommunications 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. Famously, Steve Jobs had no interest in market research when imagining where Apple needed to go next. He named that moment, the Singularity. Will there be a moment when the Singularity arrives in the C-suite?

CEO 66

CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Morgan (2005) uses a great image of a spider-plant to describe the decentralization trend. eBay has a core group of full-time employees who handle the framework of the site, monitor it, market it and are involved in operations similar to a traditional company. In fact, one company does: eBay. New York, NY: Portfolio.

Decentralization 74

Decentralization Organization Trends Reference 74

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

world, the “real estate&# needed to do these things was the operating system. The power is slowly being taken away from the operating system. Overview can be found in this book “ How to Grow When Markets Don’t &# All the best! © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

Real Estate 28

Real Estate Competitive Advantage Slywotzky Licensing 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

This term is just what it sounds like: external constraints are market, environmental and/or consumer conditions forced on any company doing business in their space — something from outside the company that it has little or no control over. If customers couldn't get to opticians in urban centers, why not bring them to the customers?

Constraint 15

Constraint Marketing Travel Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

The first one is the marketing effect of IP litigation. And this is particularly interesting given the aggressive marketing strategy implemented by Samsung in the past few years. At this point it seems reasonable to add patent litigation to Apple’s history of non-traditional marketing strategies.

Marketing Strategy 8

Marketing Strategy Strategy Marketing Licensing 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. Many insurers simply exit a market once a rival negotiates an MFN. In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. Johns Hopkins is not alone.

Crisis 63

Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Her fields of experience span from hard core technology disciplines like semiconductors to sophisticated consumer marketing industries including fashion and education. And for those in all the emerging markets. Traditional publishers take very long to get their acts together, and frankly, I don’t operate with those timelines.

Entrepreneur 28

Entrepreneur Licensing Newsletter Books 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 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. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

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?”,

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Planning Marketing Advice 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Wallace Garrison/Getty Images. We get back to core stuff.”

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 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. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

For one thing, in an era when trust in traditional sources has eroded — in government, media, and in companies and the marketing they employ — word-of-mouth from trusted peers wields greater clout than ever. Around 2005, marketing became a bigger force driving growth. That’s no longer true.

B2C 14

B2C Energy Marketing Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

cents for a sachet that could purify 10 liters, Pur achieved penetration rates of 5% to 10% in its test markets — strong by almost any yardstick — but in 2005 the company gave up on Pur as a business, because the numbers simply hadn't worked. At a price equivalent to 10 U.S. The result has been explosive growth.

Microfinance 13

Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent.

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

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

Power 8

Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

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. As noted, several high profile deals involving Chinese firms, such as CNOOC's 2005 attempt to purchase Unocal in the U.S., Unfortunately they have been struggling to actually close their deals. billion and $3.0

Due Diligence 15

Due Diligence Strategic Planning Politics Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

trillion US$ in 2012 with respect to 2011 and still remains below 2005-2007 precrisis figures. As illustrated in a recent article , in the aftermath of the crisis, MNCs are adjusting their global strategies by narrowing their focus relative to international markets. to a plant in Kentucky. to a plant in Kentucky.

Globalization 8

Globalization Operations Report Document 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In the guitar business , too.

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

The 2005 refinery disaster at BP’s Texas City is an example of what can happen when these investments get neglected. What happened is very well documented: they kept running down the maintenance budget, pushing their operating budget to make their numbers. the capital markets are much stickier. Insight Center.

Short-term 8

Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

There was a time when companies could operate without corporate websites or email contacts; now websites are the centerpiece of marketing and branding. Though acquisition cost was relatively high then, the main factor was lack of clear benefits to their operations. This is a tremendous marketing opportunity.

Brand 8

Brand Budgeting Media Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

billion to acquire the webOS operating system, Hewlett-Packard discontinued its webOS-based series of smartphones and line of Touchpad tablets — losing its bet on a webOS-everywhere future. This means they're buying drugs that could be similar to others already on or coming soon to the market.

Innovation 12

Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Google''s 2005 purchase of YouTube fits into this category. Google''s buyout of Android also fits into this category, adding the licensing of telecom-operating software to its main business model of contextual advertising. 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

OCTOBER 25, 2013

But marketing plays a broader role in shaping a brand. Good marketing helps ensure that brands are meaningful, different, and salient. The company came along in 2005, after years of focus on low-fat products had left the US yogurt market vulnerable. Greek yogurt market, and nearly 20 percent of the total yogurt market.

Apparel 8

Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. In 2011 we were playing a bit of catch-up compared to the market.

CEO 8

CEO Content Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

He also emphasized in a 1999 book that “the wrong structure can doom all other market-driven initiatives in the organization to failure.” Moreover, customer-centric firms that operated in highly competitive markets had 69% lower performance, compared with product-centric peers. In his 2006 survey of U.S.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Successful companies between $5 million and $50 million in revenues can't get the capital they need to expand their operations and hire more people in city neighborhoods where the best social program is a job. Large corporations know more about opportunities in Chinese markets than they do about opportunities in US cities.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Mass Marketing Banking Asset Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

In 2005, HP split off the printer business from the personal computer business, dissolved the Customer Solutions Group (CSG) which was a sales and marketing organization that cut across product categories, and pushed selling responsibilities down to the product business units. But that remains to be seen. Unreasonably so.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Organization Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. They are not employees; they are contingent workers who are nonetheless vital to an organization’s R&D, marketing, and other key processes.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

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. Midmarket investment bankers love to shop potential acquisitions to their CEO clients.

Company 8

Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Marketing groups like to think of themselves as technically savvy and feel a need to prove it. Tesco in the UK pioneered an RFID-based approach to checkout in 2005. While the technology is new to the market, early results are very promising. Leading technology advocates such as Tesco and Subway in the U.S.

Technology 12

Technology Cost Discount ROI 12