Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Inside you’ll find scenarios, case studies, tips, templates, and checklists that will help you capture and retain your company’s intellectual capital as Baby Boomers leave the workplace. He has a marketing communications degree from Bradley University. workforce is between 45 and 64. Petersburg, Florida.

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How To Tacit Knowledge Intellectual Capital Newsletter 72

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

A large division of this company had recognized the need to dramatically change its business model to survive and succeed in a changing market. Two years later the company was the poster child for reengineering success — the subject of speeches, a Harvard Business School case study, articles, and book references.

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Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

On the contrary, they may become the most powerful tools yet developed to raise the productivity of high-skill knowledge workers — the kind of workers who help drive innovation and growth, and who are going to be in increasingly short supply. With consumers spending gobs of time in online communities ( more than 1.5 trillion annually.

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Media Productivity Products Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

Throughout his childhood, Hassani loved to create toys, some of which were wind-powered and would blow across the desert near his home. Years later, this memory would return to him and suggest a solution : a wind-powered toy to clear land mines. Twitter didn’t steal market share in a head-to-head shootout. An HBR Insight Center.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Strategy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. But as soon as they began, the communal power of African extended family system weighed on them.

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Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

We all have a stake in the infrastructure surrounding us — the roads, buildings, power lines, and telephone networks that we rely on daily. A focus on the huge need for additional investment and potential difficulties in financing it dominate the debate. an estimated $100 billion per year.

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Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

As impact investing tries to make the move from philanthropic thought experiment to powerful instrument for global change, a vital demographic and financial reality is emerging — it’s going to be millennial investors (particularly those inheriting or building significant private wealth) who make or break it. These opinions matter.

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Commitment Banking Class Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

Is there a market opportunity the company is overlooking? If the finance person frets about keeping expenses under control, discuss expense numbers,” says Sheen. “If The real power of his presentation, she says, was in the strength of his narrative. Case study #1: Build buy-in ahead of time. ” says Sheen.

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IPO Audience Chief Information Officer Case Study 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

Case Study #1: The power of enthusiastic peers. Though she liked the stability of her role as head of communications for the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), which finances private-sector ventures in developing countries, she could feel her interest in her role beginning to wane.

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How To Mentor Case Study Career 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

And this isn’t for lack of ambition among them: Black women are even more likely to aspire to hold a powerful position with a prestigious title than white women. To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company.

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Case studies on companies that have failed to invest in IT innovations, and the resulting business impacts--usually disastrous--abound.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. In Derek’s view, the subsidiaries already had far too much power. We have to take back control at the top—not give the subsidiaries more power.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The founder has to build a company capable of marketing and selling large volumes of the product and of providing customers with after-sales service. The venture’s finances become more complex, and the CEO needs to depend on finance executives and accountants. At that point, leaders face a different set of business challenges.

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Succession Leadership CEO COO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

While leaders in most corporate functions naturally try to absorb and demonstrate power, HR diffuses responsibility toward its internal customers because of some major misunderstandings. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. I doubt it. I doubt it.

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CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

Trouble Letting Go Companies Deal With Employees Who Refuse to Take Time Off by Requiring Vacations, Paying Them to Go Wall Street Journal I like FullContact''s approach to getting employees to take vacation: The Denver-based contact-management company offers workers $7,500 a year to help finance their vacations.

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Real Estate Class Sports Case Study 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt. Social Media Influence [.]

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

Despite our belief in the power of impact investing and the need for capital to scale, most social entrepreneurs should not seek this type of capital unless four fundamental conditions are met: 1. Is your potential market big enough? The answer is almost always "No". Your business model is stable. Are you profitable?

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Entrepreneur Business Model Case Study Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

“You need to be seen as credible” when you’re talking about the financial implications of your initiative to the finance group, for instance. “That’s the language of marketing,” says Butman. Case Study #1: Gather feedback and, if necessary, adjust your message.

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Project Restructuring Hotels Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

“When you’re on your own freelancing for a big company, there is a fundamental power imbalance,” says Caitlin Pearce, director of advocacy and member engagement there. Another tip: “Make sure you have the name and contact details of the person in finance with whom you’ll be dealing with,” says Pearce.

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Long-term Follow-up Project Due Diligence 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

What made this presentation so powerful was it was more than just an act put on for the benefit of the attendees, it was completely authentic and the audience knew it. Let me be clear – don’t underestimate the power of a positive attitude. The beautiful thing about your story is it makes for a wonderful case study.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

" If you, or anyone else is interest in reading about those they can download my report filled with specific client case studies at [link]. link] mikemyatt Hi Skip: Thanks for the comment as well as for sharing your insightful observations. I appreciate you sharing your link which also contains some great advice.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Harvard Business Review Cart My Account Downloads Explore Today on HBR Blogs Magazine Books Authors Store Harvard Business School Topics Change Management Competition Innovation Leadership Strategy Skills Emotional Intelligence Managing Yourself Measuring Business Performance Project Management Strategy Execution Industries Finance & Insurance (..)

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

So many brilliant people have been writing, speaking, and sharing case studies over that length of time, that if I only listed a few, I'd miss some really important thinkers. But despite this outpouring of expertise, many organizations still find marketing in the social era ridiculously hard to do well, if at all.

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Marketing Brand Mass Marketing Metrics 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. ” The EVP of marketing was pleased she could now track the assignment of every single lead. Integrate your marketing efforts with sales activity.

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CRM Project Succession CIO 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Companies with dual-class shares have two designations of common stock, typically A shares and B shares, with one class having more powerful voting rights than the other. Some of the largest companies of recent times by market capitalization, such as Facebook, Alphabet, and Alibaba, carry dual class-shares.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Competition" has changed when individuals can create value through a centralized network of resources: for example, designing a product from anywhere, producing it through a 3D factory , financing it through community and distribution from anywhere to anywhere. Yet our business models have not changed to keep pace with these shifts.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

Ford’s success with social media is well documentd in numerous case studies, and can largely be attributed to Scott’s efforts. However increasing your personal brand equity is good for adding value to your company’s brand, leveraging your earning power, and improving your job security and/or marketability.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. A loan to a gun manufacturer would announce to the world that we really have no principles and that the green thing is just a marketing gimmick. Ethics Finance'

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions. It’s been my experience that regardless of the subject, it is precisely when the noise becomes the loudest, that it’s most difficult for the consumer to extract quality and value from the market. D from Columbia. And he was considered an expert!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The opportunity to reach people directly is powerful, and still underexploited," says Dorie Clark, a strategy consultant and author of the forthcoming book What's Next?: For example, if you're in sales, you are likely to have a depth of knowledge in that area, but you can also show that you know something about marketing or finance.

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Media Career Tips Content 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The market for smart technologies is predicted to be worth up to $1.6 The score assigned to this component is an aggregate of scores earned by different clusters of inclusion-related indicators; the clusters that make up inclusivity are labor market inclusion, economic mobility, diversity and acceptance, and policies that promote inclusion.

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