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.

Marketing 11

Marketing Company Six Sigma Engineering 11

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.    Hope that I've helped some in the process.  Nancy is awesome.

Laswell 183

Laswell Blog Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 183

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

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The product's performance didn't live up to early press releases and has struggled in the market. This pundit makes predictions about markets that she doesn't participate in. Back in 2005 I wrote a piece [ PDF ] looking at a new video recorder introduced by Pure Digital Technologies, the Flip. The projector. The opiner.

Press Release 12

Press Release Strategy Long-term Video 12

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.

Video 10

Video Technology Education Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Given its current approximate market cap, we could call this the $640 billion dollar question.). Yes, Apple's marketers are being coy. It spends about 3% of revenues ; other technology titans such as Microsoft, Google, and Nokia spend multiples of this&/38212;in some cases, several times as much. measures of.

Press Release 15

Press Release Technology Productivity Products 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share. This post isn’t for you. Everyone still here? Thought so.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 8

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.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 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. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism. Philippe Intraligi/Getty Images.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. — National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress, Technology and the American Economy, Volume 1, February 1966, pg. in 2005 to 15.8% Humans have always shifted away from work suitable for machines and to other jobs. Insight Center.

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

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'

GDP 8

GDP Banking Finance Maturity 8

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.

Innovation 13

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

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

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy?

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

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. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 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. Intuit had many failures as part of their innovation process. Yet leaders of both companies persevered despite these headwinds, setbacks, and challenges.

Business Model 15

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

The EU has spent twenty years trying to create the kind of market conditions needed for explosive growth seen elsewhere in the digital economy. Few of these rules were made with computing, or even technology, in mind. So far, nothing has worked. Of the 15 largest public Internet companies today, none are European. Bygrave and Jeffry A.

Policies 8

Policies Offshoring Engineering Incubator 8

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. Meanwhile, stats show that half of e-commerce is now done on mobile, heralding in the mobile moment of truth.

Retail 9

Retail Supply Chain Loyalty Reis 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

After all, if acquisitions pay off they can provide a transformational antidote to a slowing core market and declining margins. Helping customers complete their “journey” An example of a stunningly successful merger was Procter & Gamble’s 2005 acquisition of Gillette.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Biotechnology Franchising 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

MAY 3, 2013

Outraged by the mockery to the democratic process, millennials shamed the popular company across national outlets. Using unrefined market segmentation to understand the preferences of potential target customers often backfires. However, most companies that use target marketing are unaware of when it fails.

Market Segmentation 8

Market Segmentation Advertising Marketing Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2014

Launched in 2005, ecomagination has always been a bit amorphous. Is it a marketing campaign? The company has reaped $160 billion from the program since 2005. By stretching ecomagination into areas that many people clearly don’t consider very green, GE may be risking a valuable business and brand asset. A corporate strategy?

Energy 8

Energy Globalization Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 13

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. The PC division was sold in 2005. and smooth succession to a new CEO in 2002, while continuing an innovation thrust that included grid technologies, cloud computing, and supercomputing. Get the best advisers.

Tips 10

Tips CEO Software Drucker 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

There was a heartening rally between 1996 and 2004, when growth returned to its 1950s/1960s levels of 3% — a performance almost universally attributed to the efficiency gains from information technology. year from 2005-2014, with the slowdown starting well before the global financial crisis. Many US firms in many U.S.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Price Globalization 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. For example, Ruger’s new product development process is “doing things right.” ” Good management is an ample supply at the gun manufacturers.

Licensing 8

Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

The standard ball design combines hexagons and pentagons, cut from rectangular sheets of artificial leather called rexine, which is by far the most expensive material in the process. Figuring that their earnings would decline, the cutters were trying to block adoption, in part by misinforming owners about the benefits of the technology.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. 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.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

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.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

They like technology, they have an Xbox, they have children, and they have an annual household income of more than $100,000. And going into 2017, just two years from now, the momentum they will have generated will force executives at your company to sidestep drones, self-driving cars, and robots to focus on this technology.

Forrester 8

Forrester Technology Execution Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

It is not hard to see why the two sides find it challenging to confer about infrastructure needs – much less participate in each other’s planning processes. We hope this will be part of our planning process that drives our decisions on how we invest transportation dollars,” said Brett Fusco, Senior Transportation Planner, DVRPC.

Planning 8

Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

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.

Brand 15

Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

Deloitte attributes this fall in part to rising competitive intensity, as a result of new technologies and lower entry barriers. It then leapt suddenly to 14% by the 2005–2007 period. But this phenomenon of rising competitive intensity does not, evidently, apply to all firms. An increasing number of U.S. Is this a bad thing?

ROIC 8

ROIC McKinsey GDP Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze." Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. The business model innovation of accelerators is that they have a systematized selection process that is akin to the application process for college.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14