Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Since the Expedition One launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001 — the first long-duration stay on the orbital construction site — NASA’s Human Health and Performance team has been developing expertise in the planning and provision of medical support to crews staying in our world’s most remote environment.

Intangible Assets 15

Intangible Assets Operations Health Care Conference 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

In his research, he reports that these individuals typically have extensive sales, marketing and operational backgrounds. But Hagen has identified three attributes that these leaders must possess: 1) a passion for customer experience; 2) a strong personal brand; and 3) operational know-how. Get operational expertise, and fast.

Company 15

Company Business Intelligence CRM Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it. Before Mark Zuckerberg wrote a line of Facebook’s code, Kodak made a prescient purchase, acquiring a photo sharing site called Ofoto in 2001.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

The declines in manufacturing jobs during the downturns of 2001 and 2007, which totaled over 5.8 Technology to the rescue? One of the promising areas supported by technology is at the intersection of the internet and online technologies with the physical world: the “internet of things” (IoT). Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

Indeed, the gap between firms in the top 10% by productivity and those in the bottom 10% increased by approximately 14% from 2001 to 2012. The pay gap between the top- and bottom-paying firms in the same sector has increased by more than 12% from 2001 to 2012. One of them has clearly been information technology.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Policies Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. retains its leadership in technological progress.

IPO 14

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001. Today people turn to digital cameras embedded in their mobile phones, share pictures over the Internet, and eschew prints altogether.

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

We believe that organizations need to explicitly develop two parallel management systems: the operational system that manages the short-term execution of work — what we call the "Surface System," and a second system that focuses externally on sensing and driving strategic change — what we call the "Deep System."

Agility 11

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Zara was founded in 1975 and its parent company, the Inditex group went public in 2001. While Pfizer's advantage from its technology innovation and Apple's advantage from product innovation were imitated by the competition in 5 years, why does Zara continue to profit from its business model innovation?

Business Model 12

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. A B2B technology supplier used Microsoft Workplace Analytics and other digital tools to track the behaviors of its sales reps.

Team 14

Team Price B2B Tools 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

It’s achieved impressive results since being founded in 2001, and is run by a committee of about ten people. But all of these examples have had flat structures from the day they were founded – you couldn’t do something like this in a firm that has been operating for a while with the normal hierarchical structure, could you?

Case Study 15

Case Study Committee Software Hamel 15

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Join me in THANKS and in prayer for our Patriots, both domestically and abroad, who continue to fight valiently for the Freedoms we all enjoy!

Blog 404

Blog Hotels Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 404

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Borrowing many of the HBR article’s key ideas and filling in specific operational practices, Sutherland created a new way of developing software; honoring the rugby imagery, he dubbed his approach “scrum.” Disruptive technologies were terrorizing slow-footed competitors. The Information Age was exploding.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs. labor market over the past 30 years.

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

I Give This Blurb 3 Stars Operation Clean Turf and the War on Fake Yelp Reviews Businessweek Were the 19 companies accused of commissioning fake online reviews the only firms out there engaged in this nefarious practice? Not likely. Federal Trade Commission says 15% to 20% of all reader reviews might be fake. Internet Tech industry'

Review 8

Review CFO PR Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5% In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. percent annually, while similar U.S.

Price 8

Price Bond Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Someday, Apple's now 11-year-long run of nearly unbroken triumph (I'm dating it to the launch of the iPod in November 2001) is going to end. Of course, modern technology businesses have some other unique strategic characteristics. That is just the way of the business world. The questions, of course, are when, and how.

Strategy 12

Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

In the 1990s, the Clinton Administration pursued "open sectoral" multilateral agreements in information technology, telecommunications, and financial services. 50, February 2001). With widespread operations in emerging markets — and the understanding that arises from that focus — such U.S.

Strategy 10

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 Every single customer can trust us to encrypt all of their files with bank-grade technology before we back them up to our cloud servers. technology firms.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. I met the team at Albert (formerly known as Adgorithms) while I was doing research into artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven marketing technologies for my book, Marketing, Interrupted. Not Albert.

Retail 8

Retail Audience Budgeting Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Several years later, in 2001, I was working as chief of staff to then-Harvard University President Larry Summers when we unveiled Harvard’s Sustainability Principles. we have a responsibility to lead.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. The focus is on technological excellence with some diffuse understanding of customers who may buy the product. Bagged salad would not have risen to what is now, a $2.5-billion-a-year And what are the benchmarks of success?

Education 10

Education Execution Content Cooper 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). GE’s gross margin was 21% last year, compared with 28% for United Technologies and 30% for Siemens. Comstock is out.

Long-term 8

Long-term Ries Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Take Dell Technologies, for example. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. This mindset focuses leadership on making near-term decisions with the longer-term destination in mind, but it doesn’t presume that there is only one path from here to there. Think of strategy as a portfolio of options, not bonds.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Navy One example of a leader who intentionally developed a Connection Culture using all three bridges is Admiral Vern Clark, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 2000 until his retirement in 2005. Knowing that their input has been factored into a leader’s decision is motivating and it positively impacts their future participation.

Long-term 207

Long-term Class Consensus Learning-by-Doing 207

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Technology companies must now learn the lessons that steady-growth companies in other industries absorbed.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector. They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. Empirically, this is simply not true.

Sull 14

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). One of the strengths of visionary CEOs is that they build an executive staff of world-class operating executives (and that they unconsciously force out the world-class innovators among their direct reports).

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The FBI Could Easily Read Your Email, Too (MIT Technology Review). Joffe-Walt says that for now, you’re going to have to operate, basically, like a drug dealer. Gleeson reminds leaders of every ilk that “Leadership is a privilege we must earn every day.”. IF YOU CAN'T SAY SOMETHING NICE. your own messages are? BONUS BITS: Good Reads.

Banking 9

Banking Loyalty Morale Report 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Technology, on the other hand, makes it much easier. And while you might scoff at these as something that only early adopters use, even late adopters of digital technologies leave behind an incredibly detailed trail of their lives. But the technology alone isn''t the problem.

Film 8

Film Information Technology Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

May 2 marks the fifth anniversary of the operation that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. His death was the culmination of a global manhunt that lasted more than a decade and assumed extreme urgency after the September 11, 2001, attacks. The trail had gone cold. He had deep knowledge and credibility.

Management 8

Management Operations Planning Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

When Agile software development was born in 2001, it articulated a set of four critical principles to elevate the craft of software development and improve engineering and product manager motivation. But at the heart of most of these models are two things: forming hypotheses (e.g., Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Advances in manufacturing technology. Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States. supply base: The United States suffered a net loss of nearly 19,000 manufacturing firms between 2001 and 2015, according to our analysis of U.S. Manufacturing is on the cusp of a robotics revolution.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Recent research suggests that Chinese imports, over the 12 years after the country’s WTO entry in 2001, took in excess of an estimated two million jobs out of U.S. Low-wage economies like Mexico’s and China’s absorb American technology and build industrial capability more easily today than ever. communities.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8