Chart Your Course

AUGUST 21, 2013

03-26-2013 3:00 AM, EDT. 3) The market rewards your stock: According to the Parnassus prospectus for its Workplace Fund (a portfolio of stocks of companies with outstanding workplaces) – as quoted in Fast Company, the average annual return on the Workplace Fund over the past 5 years (a recessionary period) was 10.81%. By Kate Olsen.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.” ” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Why is marketing important for your business? Writing is a key element of marketing.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

Indeed, data reveal that rates of entrepreneurship have been in perpetual decline across the United States between 1978 and 2011. It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore, that data from Rice University shows that market power today is more concentrated in the hands of a relatively small number of incumbents than ever before.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 16, 2013

Schaefer is author of The Tao of Twitter: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time (2011), Return On Influence (2012), and Born to Blog: Building Your Blog for Personal and Business Success One Post at a Time (2013) as well as a globally-recognized educator, speaker, business consultant, and author. His [.].

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Influence Blog Education Globalization 75

Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2018

Vincent Barabba led the US Census Bureau, founded Market Insight Corporation and authored The Decision Loom: A design or interactive decision-making in organizations (among other books). 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor? 2013, Vijay Nair: Industrial Statistics – Research vs Practice. 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W.

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Deming Kaizen Rogers Drucker 28

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Indeed, if a department attracts new customers, it wins the lion’s share of the marketing budget, but it is well documented that it costs some companies five to ten times more to attract new customers than to retain an existing one. The Powerful Role of Trust. Customer relationships, like interpersonal relationships, are built on trust.

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Aaker Short-term Marketing Benchmarking 63

Strategy Driven

MAY 18, 2016

Life insurance sales and sales of plans in teachers’ retirement programs – two of our core business lines – have more than doubled between 2011 and 2015. American Enthusiasm to Shop with a Conscience at Record-High, but Doubts About Corporate Impact Persist , Cause Marketing Forum, October 2013. References.

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Insurance Chief Executive Officer Brand Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Recent data has shown the top 1,500 companies worldwide increased their R&D by 12 percent in 2011, as they have identified the need to maintain their edge in their respective industries. By tuning in to customer needs, a company is able to define the market in ways they could not have identified had they only looked inward.

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Led by its Steve Jobs-inspired CEO Lei Jun, the company has experienced breakneck speed since its first smartphone launch in October 2011. With a business model of at-cost hardware and software up-selling, it recently raised its 2013 sales targets from 15 million smartphones to 20 million, and is now gazing abroad.

Marketing 8

Marketing B2B Levitt Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The $50 billion to be divested is a drop the fossil fuel market’s bucket, but to the much smaller clean tech market it’s a tidal wave. billion in 2011, despite the fact that venture capital funding overall has been increasing. And early-stage clean tech is particularly in need of an influx of capital.

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Venture Capitalist How To Energy Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Starting in 2011, Mercedes chose to develop direct distribution capabilities for electric bicycle sales under its Smart brand. This dual distribution strategy resonated with both consumers and investors — as Cree’s stock price tripled from 2011 to 2013. market for personal computers. Minimize Pain.

Strategy 10

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

market growing. According to the most recent Congressional Budget Office projections , the current proposed fiscal measures, if implemented, would automatically slash the federal budget deficit by $503 billion between FY 2012 and FY 2013. But they can also invest heavily in China's domestic markets. They want to see the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012.

Globalization 9

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012.

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Our research points to one possible reason: employers increased skill requirements during the recession, when high-skill workers were more plentiful, making it more difficult to fill those positions as the job market began to recover. ” Of course, this theory predicts that skill requirements should fall when the labor market tightens.

Education 10

Education Skills Marketing Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. 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%. In the guitar business , too.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

Businesses like Facebook are filling an internet access gap in emerging markets that others, including the public sector, may simply never be able to address. Despite having 200 million internet users at the end of 2014, India is not even among the top 10 e-commerce markets in the world, according to a recent eMarketer report.

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Telecommunications Marketing Wireless McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The JP Morgan Chase board of directors has vexed the world with its terse announcement in a recent 8-K filing that CEO Jamie Dimon would receive a big pay raise — $20 million in total pay for 2013, up from $11.5 A legitimate case can be made for Dimon’s 2013 raise. million for 2012, a 74 percent increase.

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Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. and spends it in international markets. Aldi UK sales grew from $6.3

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

The market exit will stop Target’s continued losses in Canada and help the company focus on its strategic initiatives in the U.S. However, in the end, the market entry seemed rushed and oversized, with 124 stores opening within ten months. Crew’s approach when it entered Canada in 2011. Consider J. Like Target, J.

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. And more are joining every day.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

At 74% of the 1,471 companies that have voted so far in 2013, according to Equilar''s say-on-pay tracker , the "yes" percentage exceeded 90%. That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. Only 31 companies (2%) have gotten sub-50% no-confidence votes in 2013. Since say-on-pay hit the U.S. One recent study by David F. Larcker, Allan L.

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Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

This of course helps Cisco, but it's the labor market as a whole that benefits when those individuals acquire skills that will be relevant for the foreseeable future. percent in 2011. Last August, they pledged to hire 1,000 veterans and spouses of active duty soldiers by the end of 2013 - a noble commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

However, with China’s growth slowing over the past two years, costs shooting up, the government making life difficult for multinational companies, and confusion following the reforms emanating from the Third Plenum in November 2013, some companies are heading in the opposite direction. 2 in the market. Go for Broke.

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Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets. Yagi Studios/Getty Images. Our assessment is that it probably still is, even though the digital push was slowed when McDonald departed.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Already in 2011 the Chinese spent more time on the Internet than watching TV , while in the U.S. And users in China are probably going to spend more money on e-commerce in 2013 than Americans will. For example, in 2013 there were 315 people in China who had more than a billion dollars , up from zero in 2003.

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Advertising Retail Media Price 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

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. The application was one of the first marketing campaigns that allowed interaction with a digital model in real time. Aside from complex technological advances (e.g.,

Tourism 9

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

We're focusing on a dozen different sponsors in detail — covering a range of sponsorship levels and market categories — to understand the impact of their sponsorships on consumer attitudes and behaviour towards their brand: Does the sponsorship actually affect how people feel towards the brand? Initial Findings.

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Brand Audience Committee Sports 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Research in 2013 from demographer Richelle Winkler shows that in the U.S., A 2011 study from MetLife and the National Association of Homebuilders found that nearly one-third of people over the age of 55 live in communities that entirely or mostly comprise people 55 and older. age segregation is often as ingrained as racial segregation.

Education 12

Education Absenteeism Efficiency Hotels 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Last week Chen Demin, China's commerce minister, offered an upbeat outlook for China's overall 2013 economy , forecasting steady improvement in domestic consumption and investment, and predicting that foreign direct investment over the coming year would also remain stable. On its own, Wuxi has a population of 2.3 million people and 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Unless you are willing to bootstrap yourself to some degree of validation of your concept, and can convince investors that there is real demand for what you offer, and a really large market, no one will write a check. Let''s suppose your idea is a good, viable business idea, but not a billion dollar market opportunity.

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Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 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. In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. He’s not a Steve Cohen , pushing at the edges of legality to get an information edge.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

It is true that that breaches are expected and have become a regular cost of doing business, but there are deeper reasons for the market’s failure to respond to these incidents. During the 2013 holiday season shopping period, Target was the object of then the biggest cyber attack on a retailer. The stock price declined 0.3%

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