Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2018

M&A deals that are made for the purpose of acquiring new technology can make or break a company. On the flip side, a strategic transaction can catapult a company into first-mover position, give a speed to market advantage over rivals, and potentially let a larger company run away with a new market.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence How To Technology Emotional Intelligence 8

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.    Just having the idea of taking regular balcony time is a step in a positive direction.

Laswell 183

Laswell Blog Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 183

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Embedded sustainability efforts clearly result in a positive impact on business performance. In 2005, they launched a U.S. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. Critical contractors.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 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 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. inch vs. 3.5-inch

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

One answer is to take a cue from pivotal technology companies leading the change. Many of the companies leading today’s technology-driven transformations across industries are leveraging transitional strategies, or more specifically transitional business platforms. Businesses able to most cost-effectively provide it will win.

Business Model 8

Business Model Constraint Technology Transportation 8

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.)

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

In leaving Wall Street, I was not only walking away from the money that came with my position, but from a certain level of prestige and power as well. Because disruptive innovations are in search of a yet-to-be-defined market, we can't know the opportunity at the outset. The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword.

Disruptive Innovation 16

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

When IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo in 2005, many people questioned the wisdom of divesting a successful business, especially one that IBM had worked so hard to create. Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow.

Business Model 15

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

In 2005 A.G. Lafley, who at the time was CEO of the world’s largest advertiser, Procter & Gamble, introduced a marketing concept he called “the moment of truth” for building brand loyalty. This is the new moment of truth for online shoppers. Provide shoppers with relevant, personalized information.

Retail 9

Retail Supply Chain Loyalty Reis 9

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.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. Technology makes reviewing, refining, redesigning and revising both jobs and job descriptions as dynamic as a commodities trading desk. Amazon has its below-the-radar " Mechanical Turk " workplace market.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Numerous countries, from Singapore to Japan, have established intellectual-property strategies aimed at achieving the greatest possible public benefits from their companies’ innovative ideas, primarily by ensuring that home-grown technologies become globally dominant in their fields. For example, in the late 1980s, a U.S.

Licensing 8

Licensing Technology Participative Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Some find evidence of a clear improvement of total factor productivity since market-oriented reforms began in 1979, estimating that the increase in TFP contributed about 40% to GDP growth, roughly the same as that contributed by fixed asset investment. In 2005, the OECD estimated that annual TFP growth averaged 3.7%

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Why did an observed technology boom coincide with a prolonged slump in the productivity data? and Japan between 1995 and 2005. As many economists have noted, productivity figure are often quite difficult to calculate in new technology categories, and could be larger or smaller than official estimates.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Cost GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

In 2005, four dozen senior executives at Lehman Brothers took a decision-making course. Then they rushed back to their headquarters in Times Square and made some of the worst snap decisions in the history of financial markets. Five years after Lehman’s collapse, the question endures: can bankers learn the limits of human cognition?

Banking 8

Banking Reputation Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

When it comes to technological development for safer guns, it is a task assigned to the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security — not to the U.S. Step one is for manufacturers to adopt the role of steward for the entire gun marketing system, all the way to the buyer. I see at least three steps to take.

Licensing 8

Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

When IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo in 2005, many people questioned the wisdom of divesting a successful business, especially one that IBM had worked so hard to create. Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow.

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

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. Or did they get it and just fail to execute?

CEO 8

CEO Content Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Hobbyists like Nathan, who continue to drive despite declining earnings, represent an influx of workers who are motivated in part by non-financial values and are usually better-positioned to absorb pay cuts. This may contribute to income destabilization for occupational drivers. What motivates full-time ridehail drivers.

Motivation 8

Motivation Survey Incentives Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

But, my friends, one of the best things I’ve done, in summer of 2005, was start painting the wall. Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%.

Career 8

Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. That’s because soccer players today work closer than ever before.

Cooper 15

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

In almost every sector, there are once-dominant enterprises that find themselves on the wrong side of a shift in customer demand or the emergence of a disruptive technology. In 2008, the coffee chain was struggling to maintain its market position and to ward off a growing set of competitive threats. RadioShack.

Company 8

Company Video CEO Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. That’s because soccer players today work closer than ever before.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

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.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

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.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How can we create $12 trillion a year in market opportunities by 2030? But a recent report concludes that meeting the goals in just four out of 60 sectors (food and agriculture, cities, energy and materials, and health and wellbeing) could indeed open up market opportunities worth up to $12 trillion a year in less than 15 years.

Chemicals 10

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In a study of nearly 250 manufacturers over a 10-year period (2005–2015), we found that 78% of firms had improved their ability to fill their total actual market demand but had lost control over costs. Hardly a desirable position. All kinds of companies had failed at operational flexibility.

Automotive 8

Automotive Operations Efficiency Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Despite some positive press , it felt too much like Google Glass (and skepticism of that platform looks increasingly warranted ) and reminded me of many past gee-whiz announcements from Microsoft. They like technology, they have an Xbox, they have children, and they have an annual household income of more than $100,000.

Forrester 8

Forrester Technology Execution Automotive 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. Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. Take Google.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

And these often have to be significantly better than what’s on the market (in other words, breakthroughs) due to the high cost of R&D. Meanwhile, Lars Sorensen was CEO of Novo Nordisk as the company’s core market, diabetes care, experienced growth beyond expectations. tax jurisdiction.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

His prediction came true in 2005. There are the usual marketing questions (How do we position the newly informationalized product? I tried Taggart's prediction out on my friends in the shipping business. Most think Taggart was wrong — by about five years. Companies that don't informationalize may be left behind.

Productivity 13

Productivity Products Information Course 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. Greenspan was never a hardline believer in the rationality of financial markets. It’s true of all commodity markets. Almost everybody is bullish, expects the market to go up, and is fully committed.

Long-term 10

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Does this create pressure to adopt the same technology or the same processes? This will be the first year since 2005 in which Pixar has not had a feature film to release. By the time we got to Frozen , the marketing organization completely lined up behind it worldwide, built upon the earlier successes.

Creativity 9

Creativity Film Management Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8