Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

In highly uncertain contexts, the best tool is often “case based decision making” — developing a set of analogous situations (like the previously released movies), determining the results achieved in those cases, and then assessing how similar each case is to the decision at hand.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

That suggests that they may be trying to persuade firms to buy the device and develop applications for it. Sure enough, in April Google announced “ Glass for Work ,” an initiative aimed at developing more work-related apps on the Glass platform. The comparison to the PC is telling. Glass is different.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

October 2013) The Dark Side of Generic Drugs Dirty Medicine Fortune Generic drugs can be inexpensive and effective alternatives to their branded counterparts. February 2013) By the People, Not For the People Maximizing Shareholder Value: The Goal That Changed Corporate America The Washington Post In 1963, IBM CEO Thomas J.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target. When a unique brand personality manifests itself in a unique customer experience, it enables a brand to rise above competitive comparison. How – personality. Southwest Airlines exists in a class of its own in large part due to its fun personality.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

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. China is one of the world's most shrewd investors. But they can also invest heavily in China's domestic markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013. Every company requires a way of calibrating its strategy to the growth drivers in its industry, and developing a geographic value map.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

Furthermore, I understand all too keenly the complexities of determining a fair valuation for companies that are too early in their development to fit existing measurement standards and can't meet the criteria for standard bank or SBA funding. will not be legalized until 2013).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

For this comparison, we used a scaled score of private equity investment funds that were invested into digital ecosystems in that particular year. And until the public sector has a plan — and the budget — for spurring access, spurning ideas from the private sector could further slow the pace of development. Only 19.2%

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. ” A good line, but not completely accurate.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Beijing’s business circles are buzzing this week about what the Communist Party of China (CPC) is cooking up for the Third Plenary Session of the 18 th Party Congress, scheduled to start on November 9, 2013. That will require the development of new corporate capabilities and resources.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

I’d like to share what I learned while leading an SBM — to help other states as they navigate the health insurance landscape and, more broadly, to inform health-system leaders, employers, and policy makers about the challenges SBMs face and the solutions they’re developing. Since 2013, an estimated 16.4

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

With the advent of the Internet, businesses are learning that the influence of what you say about yourself in ads or even on social media simply pales in comparison to what customers say about you. Tosi on April 1, 2013. Improving the Quality of Your Life By Author M.B. This is such a book! A great read! . . . .

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Teachers also have little influence over professional development content, school-wide organization, or school budget decisions. ” And yet, for decades, teachers have endured.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. Lacking C ontrols: controls are typically unavailable, making valid comparisons and analysis more difficult.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

” As Elspeth Reeve wrote in The Atlantic in 2013 “It’s not that people born after 1980 are narcissists, it’s that young people are narcissists, and they get over themselves as they get older.” ” Even the most widely accepted stereotypes about Millennials appear to be suspect.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models. The National Association of College and University Business Officers Study on Endowments reveals that endowments are performing enviably — with returns of near 12% in 2013. a better place to be.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In 2013, only 8% of the companies in this annual benchmarking survey received a top grade from their customers — and that''s a pathetically low number in comparison to the amount of professed innovation in the industry.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. In comparison to larger firms, small businesses are less well equipped to efficiently navigate the loan process  in economic parlance, their search costs are higher.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

First, it is hard to see the historical development of US income taxation as a gradual evolution. I have inflated all the incomes to 2013 dollars to make comparisons more easily understood. Two things strike me as I study the history. Rather, it is characterized by major swings. The First Era: 1862-1915.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. It’s stated mission is to “focus on the development of infrastructure and other productive sectors in Asia.” billion of subscribed capital) or the Asian Development Bank ($162.8 Still, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Amazon entered India in 2013 when two local Indian companies, Flipkart and Snapdeal, had already established themselves as market leaders in eCommerce – and still rose to become the #1 online retailer in India. For comparison, this is the opposite of what Apple is doing in the world’s second largest smartphone market.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Strategy development at Dell is no longer a batch process tied to some planning calendar; it is a continuous process. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Congress, however, wisely left the internet out of that experiment , letting fixed and mobile broadband access markets to develop largely on their own. This has helped contribute to the development of innovative Internet-based businesses , where 11 of the top 15 Internet businesses, most started in the last decade, are U.S.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

was developed at a U.S. That is a pretty sad state of affairs especially when you consider that other countries are not doing a great job – so we are twice as costly, not as some extremely wonderful amazing system but twice as costly as mediocre comparisons. Related: USA Health Care Spending 2013: $2.9

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