CEO Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Our products are marketed under seven brand names: Danby®, Danby Designer®, Danby Diplomat®, Danby Premiere®, Simplicity®, Arcticaire®, and Silhouette®, as well as some private brands like Sunbeam for major retail stores. Our strong leadership, creativity and innovation provide us with the tools to ensure future growth for many years to come.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 26, 2020

The research combines foot-traffic data from Seoul with publicly disclosed information on the precise location of those people who had tested positive. The authors provide a direct comparison with China, who introduced a full lockdown, and saw a near 10% fall in GDP in the first quarter of 2020. ” Containing the spread.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 21, 2020

It’s a phenomenon documented in a recently published paper from Wharton, which explored how firms can often base their offshored operations in locations with a high number of expats are, so, for instance, a company from Korea locate themselves where a high number of Korean diaspora are.

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Coaching Ourselves

MARCH 6, 2019

The leadership development program has surpassed our expectations with a huge satisfaction rate and good transfer of learning on the job. CoachingOurselves is a big part of this success; the peer-learning groups added a lot of value to the program and are an effective and appreciated aspect of our program!

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

Key players in 3D displays include most of the top display makers in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China in addition to several startup companies with unique technologies. There are already 3D models of 75 city centers across the world, with structures accurately reproduced with physical location, volume, elevation, and façade color information.

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Curious Cat

APRIL 23, 2016

It strikes me similar to Walmart 15 years ago telling people “we only have stores go to them, we just use the internet for advertising our stores.” ” Today for Uber: we only have apps, “we only use the web for advertising our apps.” But most cases not having a functional website is just lousy Ux.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

“Without a substantial change in our approach, this deficit of skills in key fields will hinder economic growth.” Business schools are uniquely positioned to explain how mobility of talent connects to economic growth and vitality through our faculty research and expertise. Our future depends on it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Apple gets a lot of stick about manufacturing in China, and the issue came up again recently with the release of the iPhone 5. This begs the question: can't Apple do the same and move jobs back from China? As it happens, one of us actually authored the case on Timbuk2 cited in that article and both of us have taught it for many years.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Ten Best Cities to Stage an Economic Revival Location is the other piece of the stimulus puzzle. Internet Marketig tools such as pay-per-click (PPC), social media marekting can help you represent artists from Cheyenne to China. Then expand your following with a world-class Web design.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically? To find out, we developed a measure and coined the term Global Engineering Intensity (GEI) as the ratio of the headcount of R&D staff in India plus China to a company’s current annual R&D expense.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

America's other well-known Mac, Apple's Mac computer, is manufactured in China (like all other Apple products). After all, Apple is often criticized for being the ultimate "designed in America, made in China" company — even though many other companies follow the same strategy. That's about to change. economy longer term.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

So the firm wanted to replicate that success in other places, namely India and China. held week-long workshops designed to expose workers at the China and India sites to the U.S.-developed In China, however, workers equated speed with efficiency. Leaders from the U.S. But they aren’t always successful. In the U.S.,

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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. Typically, and perhaps not surprisingly, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

from China and elsewhere. The study, which focused on large companies with more than $500 million in revenues, also involved in-depth interviews with high-level executives about the factors driving their decisions on where to locate their manufacturing. or considering it as a location for new manufacturing facilities.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

All the world's apparel manufacturers and retailers have joined the race to clothe China. Unsurprisingly, apparel spending in China has been growing by a robust 16% per annum. In 2009, sales totaled $114 billion, making China the world's second-largest apparel market behind the $287 billion U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

This Olympics the field is already littered with examples, such as the Citibank Every Step of the Way campaign which highlights fantastic athletes but doesn't link back to the brand, or the Visa films which seem to say "we've sponsored the Olympics a long time so you should use our product.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

Making the United States an even more attractive location for factories and investments is critical for the health of our nation. Our research last year suggested to us that changing conditions in China would bring home some of the manufacturing work that migrated overseas during the past decade. imports from China.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Slowing Chinese economic growth coupled with confidence-sapping tumult on the stock market have set alarm bells ringing at companies about their future growth prospects in China. Our research on China’s prospects, in comparison to the development trends of 167 countries over 60 years, highlights the magnitude of the opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Sue Decker, Yahoo’s former president, describes how the deal came about and what Yahoo learned from doing business in China. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Build, Buy, Partner.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

But our recent research found that this style of leadership works best in motivating certain types of performance and certain types of employees. Our paper was published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior. “Empowering” leaders should know when they can be most effective.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

A quick scan of the list indicates that all 100 organizations are located in developed countries. From this list, some readers may infer that innovation is largely the realm of engineers and scientists working in developed countries for large companies, assuming that innovators from countries such as India and China don''t matter after all.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

It's generally assumed that the top graduates of China's universities will want to work for multinational corporations and that foreign employers can have their pick of the best and brightest. But that's no longer the case — especially for some of China's smartest women. They're located in the most beautiful buildings in Beijing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Not really, suggests our analysis. 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. As a result, some consumer-facing companies would do well to enter Brazil or India before targeting China.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

We are in the early stages of building out our global talent system, though we recognize the need, with 15% of our 110,000 employees located outside India and global talent coming to India continually. Our focus on hiring a few Ivy-educated undergraduates annually is somewhat unique for an India-based organization.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2017

However, it’s important to note that our findings are a snapshot of where these employees are at this moment in time; employees’ needs and expectations often evolve over the course of their careers, and we hope future surveys will update these findings. Our survey respondents gave varying reasons. Entrepreneurial Ambitions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2016

In 2009, over two-thirds of all ecommerce payments in China were cash on delivery. Thanks in no small part to the mobile wallet wars among the BAT – Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent – mobile payments today account for over 70% of all e-commerce transactions in China. China on the other hand while well ahead of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

I was in one of the Shanghai locations of a chain of hot pot restaurants called Hai Di Lao. The popularity of that cooking style in many parts of China means many nondescript restaurants compete ferociously for customers. Even as we approached the building, wait staff ran up to us to make sure we found our way in.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

With China hacking the US, the US hacking China, and LinkedIn and Facebook and credit card companies and Google and who knows who else all vomiting our data all over the web, I was intrigued when a new report on data loss ran across my desk from auditing firm KPMG.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

These kinds of small towns are not just charming locations. GE is headquartered in Fairfield, a small town in Connecticut, while its famous Leadership Development Center is located in Crotonville, New York. For example, there's a public middle school in the small town of Fontainebleau, where my Alma Mater INSEAD is located.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

car market , to General Electric, which recently moved the manufacturing of washing machines, fridges, and heaters from China back to the U.S., In particular, for each affiliate we recorded its location as well as the variation of the parent company’s equity stake in such affiliate in 2012 with respect to 2011.) to a plant in Kentucky.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2013

Suppose that Amtrak could achieve the speed of China''s bullet trains and move at 175 miles per hour. That is exactly what happened in China as a consequence of the country''s enormous investment in bullet trains, as work that I did with Siqi Zheng of Tsinghua University shows. Here''s China''s story.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game. Customers and suppliers: The ultimate goal of our business is not to sell products but to serve customers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Once compromised, our phones offer easy access to our personal and financial information, giving hackers the ability to sell that information on the dark web and to ransom our information. Yet mobile device security often gets less attention than security for network systems or even our laptop computers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Despite evidence to the contrary, Americans like to think our nation is about to be eclipsed. Now it’s China’s turn to pull ahead. I have nothing against China, or any other country. Other countries would love to have a cluster of research institutions like those located in Cambridge. We certainly have our share.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The first experience involved extensive field visits to India and China as part of work with a multinational company looking to boost growth in those markets. Our team collectively spent about 100 days across the two markets, visiting urban areas, rural areas, homes, retail locations, hospitals, and more.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

is integrally tied to maintaining our historical lead in high technology. Clearly, then, the United States remains a premium location for research and it is still the largest investor in R&D among all countries. Most analysts believe that the future of the manufacturing sector in the U.S. One should also look at the fact that U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

China alone has set a target of having six hospital beds per 1,000 people by 2020 — more than twice the ratio maintained in the United States and the United Kingdom. For example, shipments of medical, scientific, and hospital equipment to China have risen 69% percent since 2011. Insight Center. Over the last five years, U.S.

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