Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

As corporations witness the huge economic growth and burgeoning purchasing power in emerging markets, a huge debate is focused on where to find the most profit. Should companies target the customers at the bottom of the income pyramid, where the numbers of potential buyers are large, but price points are low? Listen here.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Middle-market businesses often assume they’ll be overlooked by attackers, whether due to a large number of similar companies, or a lack of enticing assets. Andrew Douthwaite has over 17 years of technology experience joining VirtualArmour in 2007 as a senior engineer. About the Author.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 20, 2022

Despite the pandemic, executive recruiters face one of the strongest candidate markets in the past twenty years. You have more negotiating power than ever for executive compensation. When it comes to executive equity compensation, do you know that there are differences between employee equity from a corporation and an LLC?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. In Asia alone, spending in that market tier will surge during that time period from $5 trillion to $30 trillion. billion by 2030.

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Management Craft

APRIL 18, 2014

Phil Gerbyshak , author, speaker and VP of Sales and Marketing for Advisology. Dwayne Melancon, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc. And not only can you learn the secrets - you can learn how to actually use them - to do more, and, most importantly, to maximize the performance of your team. You want a powerful team?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

We knew what to do," said Harper Reed, the campaign's Chief Technology Officer. "We I was particularly impressed by how rigorously and relentlessly the analytics teams modeled their "markets," i.e., the voters and electorate. All these near-real-time "market" data helped determine resource allocation.

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Management Craft

APRIL 18, 2014

Phil Gerbyshak , author, speaker and VP of Sales and Marketing for Advisology. Dwayne Melancon, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc. And not only can you learn the secrets - you can learn how to actually use them - to do more, and, most importantly, to maximize the performance of your team. You want a powerful team?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

While speaking a few months ago to the Chief Technology Officer of a highly diversified Fortune 500 manufacturer, I asked if he was able to fill all the science and engineering jobs required at his growing company. But before turning to the raw data, I want to make a slight detour into anecdote. About 15.7%

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. The potential size of the worldwide online grocery market combined with these spin-off opportunities is why grocery really is the holy grail of online retail. One of the more popular business mantras to hit town recently has been: “Forget products, think platform!”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. It is impossible to earn healthy profits in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

A smart founder understands that there is often a trade-off between creating sustainable market value and preserving control. I’ve seen founders stay on successfully as chief technology officer, chief marketing officer, or as a board member. But how can founders handle that transition?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

You cannot presume that packaging is simply a matter of clever design that helps your products fly off the shelves of a super market. Consider the chief technology officer of a company who is able to influence standards by being on an industry body – the revenue impact of such a thing can be immense.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

While business markets are obviously different from societies in many ways, they share more things in common, especially in today's networked world. Many companies, dipping their toes into social media and Web marketing, try to engage with bloggers who've built up audiences and exert influence over their buying decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

June's Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." The pace of change in today's markets is relentless. It even goes so far as to ask business leaders to think about what could make their business obsolete.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

In business, winning is often a matter of speed — to new markets with new offerings — rather than slow, steady plodding. For the hands-on managers, nearly 80% of CEOs took the most active role; in contrast, hands-off companies relied much more on their R&D head or chief technology officer.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

In a recent article , I suggested that the role of the CIO needs to shift from Chief Information Officer to a Chief Innovation Officer, due to the massive, rapid, multiple technology-driven transformations that are occurring today.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed. Instead of debuting a new, tech-savvy firm that would, in the words of chief digital officer Anne Vasquez, be like “having a tech startup culture meet a legacy corporate culture,” it came off as buzzword-laden and naive.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The 70-year-old will stay on as the software giant’s executive chairman and also its chief technology officer — the latter title a formalization of a role he was already playing. After 37 years in charge, Larry Ellison finally stepped down as Oracle’s CEO on Thursday. Except that he’s not really stepping down.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Facebook's chief technology officer, Bret Taylor, was a co-founder of FriendFeed, one of those acquisitions. We've noticed that the most successful M&As are small tuck-ins — deals made to acquire skills and capabilities rather than large-scale acquisitions designed to enlarge market share or to diversify.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

“Retailers are all using scanner data to track what happened at the point of sale ,” says Sam Hui, an associate professor of marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business. The redder the location, the more frequently it was trafficked: For chief technology officer Joe Lezon, the results were both helpful and surprising.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

Earlier this year, Emily Burns, founder and CEO of Learnivore, the Boston-based start-up that helps people find local instructors, coaches, and classes, set out to hire a chief technology officer. But when you don’t, you have to listen and be receptive.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Sales and marketing were once disciplines ruled by emotions. But somewhere along the way, we recognized that they were based on definable pipelines and applied technology to manage those pipelines. After all, innovation, like marketing and sales, is a pipeline. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. In one end go raw concepts and notions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Ellison will remain chairman of the board and will still serve as chief technology officer. While research has found that the market seems to like the co-CEO arrangement, there isn’t a clear-cut answer on its effectiveness. In his place, Oracle presidents Mark Hurd and Safra Catz will share the CEO role.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The company, founded in 1996 by an engineer from Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center , Pradeep Sindhu (who remains its chief technology officer and vice chairman), was one of the highest flyers of the fin de siècle tech stock boom. It turned out to be a lower-than-anticipated sky.

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