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

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. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

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

JANUARY 12, 2018

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. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

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

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. for three years.

Industry 9

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

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.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The world's second largest carbon market (after the European Union) opened in the state as part of California's ambitious program to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. economy during the peak of the Great Recession (2008-2010). The market will decide that. While leaders in Washington D.C While leaders in Washington D.C

Price 15

Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

The AfDB has the strongest credit rating of any organization in Africa and in 2008, it surpassed the World Bank in lending to Africa , a signal of Africa’s growing agency in its own development. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The launch of Pokémon Go this summer was a huge success—both for the gaming industry and for Augmented Reality (AR). In a previous piece I discussed why some AR apps are destined to be forgotten as gimmicks, and what mistakes marketers should avoid when trying to deploy them. Aside from complex technological advances (e.g.,

Tourism 9

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Many large, successful organizations are more fragile than they seem. Start-ups tend to be anti-fragile; large, successful organizations tend to be fragile. If lucky, a start-up grows and develops a success formula. It''s a great success story, but there''s a catch. and in its home market in the U.K. Not anymore.".

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

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. Once most of GE Capital is gone, ecomagination will clearly be a major driver of the success of the overall business. Russia, and India would be the cloud.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 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. And maybe random chance does explain a lot of Icahn’s success. In 2012 it was $1.9

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 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. I hope they do the same for you.

Godin 8

Godin Open-book Mass Marketing Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

In other words, successful scaling means finding ways to limit the number of things that people are expected to focus on and execute. 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.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

Shareholder activism is on the rise in American financial markets. At Yahoo, for example, activist shareholders were quite vocal in 2008, asking the firm to accept an acquisition bid from Microsoft , though it was not consistent with the CEO’s strategy for the firm at the time. firms between 1996 and 2013.

CEO 8

CEO Sample Influence Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Spun out of Carnegie Mellon’s materials science research department in 2008, Aquion now employs 130 workers, manufacturing batteries to store electricity generated by intermittent renewable resources. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. times higher, respectively, than all other industries combined.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

With Dupont in mind, we can come up with a better measurement by sub-dividing ROII as follows: Innovation magnitude (financial contribution divided by successful ideas). Innovation success rate (successful ideas divided by total ideas explored). or "what does 'success' mean?" need to be answered in consistent ways.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

With Dupont in mind, we can come up with a better measurement by sub-dividing ROII as follows: Innovation magnitude (financial contribution divided by successful ideas). Innovation success rate (successful ideas divided by total ideas explored). or "what does 'success' mean?" need to be answered in consistent ways.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. Digital players wield outsize market power. Digital markets are uneven.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

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.

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.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

As someone who’s been involved in marketing breakthrough innovations, I’m convinced Google’s approach is the right one. Successful innovations programs create a balance between the probable/profitable short-term programs and the possibility programs that challenge the status quo. billion in net sales from 2008-2013.

Innovation 9

Innovation Short-term Long-term Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

For a preview of what Harvard grads might expect, see the embedded video from Oprah’s 2008 Stanford commencement speech, where she reflects on harnessing passion, finding meaningful work, giving back, and what we can all learn from failure. Michael Bloomberg will speak at Stanford, Cory Booker at Yale, and Steve Wozniak at U.C.

Brainstorming 8

Brainstorming Innovation Video Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

This means that the technologies necessary for successful space-faring, particularly human space travel beyond low earth orbit, cannot all be developed by a single organization. First, the frontier technologies that NASA needed were not already available on the market; they had to be developed from scratch by specialized contractors.

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

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.

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Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one. To be successful at strategy through experimentation, adaptive firms master three essential thinking steps: they continuously vary their approach, generating a range of strategic options to test. • Adaptive: Be fast.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Coaching Tip

JUNE 29, 2013

A 2008 Goldman Sachs GS -1.47% report defined this group as those with incomes between $6,000 and $30,000 a year and predicted that it would grow by some two billion people by 2030. Source: The Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2013. In Brazil, Turkey, and Chile, Protests Follow Economic Success. billion in 2009 to 3.2

Class 85

Class Leadership Politics eBook 85

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. based WiFi service provider Ruckus Wireless snatched it up in 2013.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

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., Meanwhile, Twitter had only 33 million users in India in 2013. But what Twitter really needs is a global strategy.

Advertising 8

Advertising Strategy Marketing Globalization 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Bringing a new prescription drug to market, for example, now costs nearly $2.6 Even a simpler product like the SpinBrush, which entered the market priced at $5 each, required an upfront investment of $1.5 As a result, Fitbit held 68 percent market share through 2013 versus 19 percent for Jawbone and just 10 percent for Nike.

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

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

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Congress had a moderately successful run with budget pre-commitment mechanisms in the 1980s and 1990s, in the form of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the successor known as " paygo." Deficits started ballooning again, and really blew up after the financial crisis of 2008.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Bond Committee Commitment 8