Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

” But the only real wins are a victory for the hedge funds, and a Pyrrhic victory for GM in that it managed to keep Wilson off its board and reduced the size of the buyback from the $8 billion the investors had been demanding. government sold off all of its GM holdings in December 2013, U.S. million vehicles in 2008.

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

In 2013, Jayne Juvan became one of the youngest partners ever at the Cleveland-based law firm Roetzel & Andres — thanks to Twitter. In 2007 and 2008, the economy collapsed. He had planned on teaching neuroscience at the college level, but when he graduated the job market was abysmal. Good thing.

Media 8

Media Marketing Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

An example of the difficulties of competing for dependence can be seen in the rise of the “ DIY-economy ,” which was particularly pronounced after the 2008 recession. Therefore, the retail market is actually several markets. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Competition for preference.

Stress 10

Stress Insourcing Uncertainty Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In the aftermath of the US financial crisis in 2008, companies from North America and Europe rushed into China, seeking to grow both sales and profits. Despite entering the world’s largest personal care products market in 1996, Revlon was able to generate just 2% of sales from China 17 years later. 2 in the market.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Goodwin was notoriously combative, with a “Fred says” autocratic management style.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In 2008, GE corporate decided to invest $1 billion in the $5.6 In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” and compete successfully.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

India love first peaked in July 2008 when India’s government of the time risked its very survival in support of a nuclear energy deal led by Washington. In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. But it won’t be “India’s fault,” in our view.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% This economic growth has not only led to the development of a burgeoning middle-class in these markets, it has fueled an increase in the number of citizens actively engaging in philanthropy. growth in GDP.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 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. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

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

JANUARY 22, 2018

Shareholder activism is on the rise in American financial markets. Managers generally view activists antagonistically, as bullies who publicly express dissatisfaction with management and demand changes in the firm. Activists are prohibited by law to group together against management without publicly disclosing their efforts.

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CEO Sample Influence Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

and in its home market in the U.K. In the UK, Tesco lost the plot several times in recent years as they grew to double the market share of competitors like Sainsbury''s and Asda/WalMart. The danger is that their management approaches cannot sense or respond to shocks. Operations Risk management Strategy'

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Sales doubled in 2013. And after withering down to 40 employees during the 2008 housing crisis, the company now has 175 employees. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. Based on better customer retention alone, management estimates this innovation has boosted annual revenues by $10 to $20 million.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After an unprecedented decade of growth, analysts wrote off 2013 as a year to forget for Apple. After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy.

Industry 9

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Even more important to the redesign of GE, this portfolio of products has been a growth engine, providing ballast against the serious pain of the financial meltdown of 2008. In a 2013 advertisement in The Washington Post, HP claimed that if you measured countries by power consumption in kilowatts, the fifth largest after China, the U.S.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

More than 200 activist-investor initiatives hit companies in 2013, a seven-fold increase over a decade earlier. Contrary to the adverse experience of some governing boards, activist investors can actually prove to be a leadership asset on the board rather than a disruptive force—providing the boardroom is well-managed and led.

Hostile Takeover 8

Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

In fact, since we began our outreach and monitoring, we have seen a fourfold increase in employer-to-employee political communications, from 5% of the private workforce hearing from their employer about politics in 2000 to over 20% in 2008. In the 2011-2012 Market Research Report for BIPAC , performed by Moore Information, Inc.,

Politics 8

Politics Policies Survey Information 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. He did have a horrific 2008. Yet the simplicity and almost child-like nature of Icahn’s approach still begs examination.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Imagine that you are choosing between two similar mutual funds, one managed by Marcus and the other by Tanya. exchange over a six-year period (2008 to 2013). Therefore, managers should be tasked with evaluating smaller subsets of a larger candidate pool. Tooga/Getty Images.

Objective 8

Objective Metrics Sample Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In early 2013, when factory conditions in Bangladesh came to light , Nike cut ties to some suppliers whose factories were deemed unsafe—even at the expense of its margins and in the face of declining profitability relative to competitors.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

healthcare system have taken at least one well-worn market-based path: strive for economies of scale. Thanks to lower overhead, she is able to earn a full-time salary working part time. ”It’s actually very easy to run a solo ideal medical clinic in 2013,” she said. Entrepreneurship Health Managing yourself'

Health Care 8

Health Care Gordon Travel Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. It is probably the best, most well-trained workforce at the cheapest labor-market price that any international investor could find anywhere in the world.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

As you can see, the company ramped up its buyback activity during the internet boom of the late 1990s and then again in the years preceding the financial crisis of late 2008 and 2009. million in 2013, when realized gains from stock-based pay represented 27% of total pay, to a high of $20.1 The winners.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. Executive education students at Harvard Business School. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A. Join the conversation. With Linda Hill.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. You’d have this beta with the market, so you have the riskless rate plus beta times the equity premium.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

First, the frontier technologies that NASA needed were not already available on the market; they had to be developed from scratch by specialized contractors. The work was distributed: NASA ISS program managers led the effort at the operational level and worked with international counterparts to implement the program.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

The framework, introduced by Dr. Don Berwick and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement back in 2008, proposes that in order to bring about the change we seek in our bloated health care system we must “simultaneously” pursue these three aims. No talk of profits, opening new markets, or any of the usual crowd pleasers.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Retail Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Review your investment portfolio to identify certain appreciated positions to sell now before taxes potentially increase in 2013. Medicare tax that will be imposed on certain investment income for higher income Americans beginning in 2013. The Social Security tax holiday is designed to leave more money in our paychecks.

Press Release 178

Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

Edwards Deming named 7 deadly diseases of western management. 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 Decades ago W. was developed at a U.S.

Health Care 40

Health Care System Deming Letter 40

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Twitter’s managers have tried to fix the problem by changing the look of Twitter profiles. There are three key Internet markets in the world. Twitter has operated in this market since 2006, so almost everyone who wanted to try Twitter has tried it. The market is not as rich as in China or the U.S., Here’s why.

Advertising 8

Advertising Strategy Marketing Globalization 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

But Nincompoopery is something different: it’s the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy, and keeps everyone—customers, employees, managers and business owners—from getting what they want. And that’s only scratching the surface of everything we’re trying to manage in this brave new world.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. But in the last two contests in which Hillary Clinton has participated, the 2008 primary and the 2016 election, she won on most of these metrics — and lost the elections. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11