Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

After a general election that saw an Islamist-led coalition rise to power, the country witnessed two political assassinations in February and July 2013. This was the context when, on Christmas Day 2013, the then-designated Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa offered me the aforementioned thankless and non-lucrative opportunity.

Politics 10

Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

When an organization is small enough that each member can have a personal relationship with every other, or at least recognize their faces and names, gathering everyone for regular meetings strengthens social bonds and bolsters the feeling that “we are one company.” Sales doubled in 2013. The average order size is 1,500 pounds.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. A short-lived economic revival followed, helped by international assistance from European countries and multilateral institutions, and high prices for Zimbabwe’s commodity exports.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. Companies across the spectrum are grappling with change as new technologies, innovations, and customer behaviors disrupt old business models.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

The question confronting Cisco and other companies is how to do that – how to speed the process of innovation, especially as technological change threatens to upend our current business models. To keep up, new standards, architectures, and infrastructures will have to develop at the same pace. Internal diversity.

Innovation 8

Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Each of these companies, in its own way, is a superior innovator. So to better understand how Google innovates, I took a close look at what it’s doing in one area: Deep Learning, a devilishly complex form of artificial intelligence that helps machines to absorb and act on information much as humans do. Innovating the core.

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Our longtime client Smule, a leading iPhone app company and frequent innovative marketer, came to us with a simple proposition: “We want a video that will do a million views and introduce our product to 13- to 17-year-old girls.” Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

Marketing 50

Marketing Video Content Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In 1993, Apple distributed $273 million in buybacks and $56 million in dividends, even as profits plunged from $530 million to $87 million, compelling the company to do a $297 million long-term bond issue in 1994. I agree and ask you to consider what public shareholders and stock buybacks have to do with innovation at Apple.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

[A mini-glossary: beta is the amount that an individual stock fluctuates relative to the overall stock market, and the equity premium is the difference in expected return between stocks and a “riskless” asset such as Treasury bonds.]. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8