The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 31, 2023

Weak management Bloom’s World Management Survey was established in 2004 to measure management practices across hundreds of medium-sized firms in the likes of the U.K., It’s less common for poor management to be targeted to explain lackluster productivity, but research from Stanford’s Nick Bloom suggests that is a mistake.

Productivity 113

Productivity Products Management Participative 113

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The country has attempted to engage with this significant, often highly educated, and well-connected population through its Compatriots Program, which was launched in 2004. This helps both in terms of coming up with novel ideas for new businesses and also attracting the finance to help them to grow.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Human Capital Comparison Education 124

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Tom Szaky knows well the meaning of the saying “ Beware your dreams, for they may come true. ” With the 2004 Christmas retail season rapidly approaching, he was trying everything he could to scale up TerraCycle , a two year old venture selling liquid worm poop as fertilizer in used PET bottles. Use multiple sources of finance.

Finance 8

Finance Company How To Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The trio (respectively, a finance professor at Cornell, an applied-math Ph.D This is the kind of thing that can drive people outside of quantitative finance a little crazy ; there's no reference to company fundamentals, just "sophisticated volatility estimation techniques combined with the method of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces."

Company 15

Company Finance Price IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. While this is a surmountable problem, it puts the media company in a very different position than that of Google in 2004 - the company that Facebook is most often compared against.

IPO 19

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

We became involved with the company, which produces inventory software, in 2004 when one of us (David) was sent by the prior majority investor to shut the fledgling company down. Instead, seeing the potential in the product and commitment of employees, we came up with financing to buy out the investor and keep the company operating.

Team 19

Team Leadership COO Software 19

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

When Google introduced a controversial dual-class share structure at the time of its IPO in 2004, I had reservations (as you would expect of someone whose specialty is corporate governance). Given my sympathy for the "long-term, innovative approach" elucidated by Google in 2004, why am I so opposed to its plan to issue non-voting stock?

Planning 14

Planning IPO Proposal Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

Company 19

Company Survey Finance Engineering 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 14

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

Michael Mauboussin doesn't write about innovation, but his clear writing that blends finance, strategy, and psychology puts him on my list. I first met Dediu when we did an engagement with Nokia back in 2004. Some readers have asked why I put A.G. Lafley and not Steve Jobs on my list. Horace Dediu.

Innovation 17

Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward. increased by over $300,000.

Execution 13

Execution P&L CEO COO 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Despite the continuing rarity of women at the very tops of large corporations (which will inexorably shift as the cohort of overwhelmingly male CEOs retires during the next decade) and in finance, a 2004 study by the women's group Catalyst, The Bottom Line: Connecting Corporate Performance and Gender Diversity , concluded that companies with the highest (..)

Bottom-up 17

Bottom-up Metrics Finance Construction 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Hence lots of the analytical, linear thinking at GM drove him to distraction; Product Planning analysts in particular: "a department composed of recycled finance types" as he calls them in the book. When Bob came on board in 2001, he inherited a mainly crummy set of 2001-2004 car launches. And in the U.S.

Company 14

Company Franchising Fixed Costs Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

These are some of the most salient issues of campaign finance facing CEOs and boards of directors as the nation heads into what will certainly be a bitter election year, with both houses of Congress and the Presidency up for grabs. Should we support generally moderate candidates who can compromise on major structural issues facing the U.S.,

Company 15

Company Politics Policies Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Fundamentally, we have a hard-wired cultural problem in business, finance and markets. To be fair, some companies did move in this direction, among them Denmark’s Novo Nordisk (which rechartered itself around the TBL in 2004), Anglo-Dutch Unilever, and Germany’s Covestro.

TBL 15

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

He notes that as recently as 2004, less than one percent of all U.S. But as Pankaj Ghemawat points out in his forthcoming World 3.0 (HBR HBR Press, April 2011), very few firms are truly global in the sense that their business isn't concentrated in any one spot.

Banking 14

Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy. The battles may be over, but the war is just beginning.

GDP 8

GDP Real Estate Tourism Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Louis Fed found that speculative forces began to drive oil prices in 2004, "which is when significant investment started to flow into commodity markets.". Ethics Finance Global business' Lucia Juvenal and Ivan Petrella of the St. Speculation is, on balance, a good thing.

Cost 9

Cost Hedge Fraser Price 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. You clearly have a different point of view on distributions to shareholders. I disagree with this priority.

EPS 14

EPS Incentives Innovation Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. exports increased by only 11%.

Price 8

Price Bond Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

As financing dries up, entrepreneurs would do well to remember the benefits of bootstrapping. In 2004, I attended my first trade show. But building a profitable, sustainable business is still really hard. Public and private markets alike are starting to remember this, correcting for years of overly exuberant startup funding.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Long-term Short-term Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5% For example, across our sectors and countries studied, in the decade from 1995 to 2004, growth in demand for goods and services averaged 4.6%, slowed to 2.3% In fact, about half of the slowdown in productivity growth — from an average of 2.4% in 2014 to 2020.

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

companies don’t pay taxes on debt-financed investments, which amounts to a subsidy. In addition, certain types of investments are tax-preferred, and the system encourages debt-financed investments over equity-financed investments. Jobs Creation Act of 2004. And in practice, the foreign income of U.S. But the U.S.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Google, which adopted a similar share structure at the time of its initial public offering in 2004, has gone further with its decision last spring to issue non-voting stock. Sweden , for instance, amended its company law in 2004 to reduce the permitted disparity of voting rights from 1,000 to one to a maximum of 10 to one.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Class Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Palantir, a B2B company founded in 2004 and offering a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, and analysing data, has around 1,500 employees worldwide and is valued around $20 billion today. Financed by VC firms. Unicorns are: Small in size. Airbnb has raised approximately $2.3

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Employees frequently attribute breakdowns to incompetence or bad faith on the part of colleagues in other departments: "Those bozos in headquarters [or finance or marketing] screw everything up." Strategies often falter in execution because of insufficient coordination across the organization.

Strategy 9

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In 2004, Hickox was a certified public accountant in Texas and at a crossroads in her career. “The culture in the bank’s accounting and finance team has changed totally since I got here,” she said. This was also true for Michelle Hickox. “I didn’t want that,” she told me.

Banking 15

Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

These were all true of Charlie, a champion I met in 2004 just as the tech world was beginning to show signs of life after the dot com implosion. In many cases, it is more closely linked to getting the green light than even financing and business fundamentals. Because understanding human nature is a primary part of doing the deal.

Motivation 9

Motivation CIO Competitive Advantage Software 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. He also considered the impact a change might have on his family and its finances. ” In the end, with his family’s support, he decided to take the leap.

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash , a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital. TripAdvisor And Expedia: From $4 million invested to $4 billion in value. Scaling Lesson 2: Maintain a Sense of Urgency.

EBITDA 11

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' Those decades also appear to have taught him that it’s okay to follow an investing strategy so simple that it invites mockery.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2013

Three years after I wrote an article on the Athens 2004 wiretapping case, which involved Greek government officials, I found somebody snooping on my own email as I served the next Greek administration. The concept of irony was, after all, invented by the Greeks.).

Document 9

Document Open-book Bottom-up System 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. Longer supply chains also increase inventory levels and carrying costs related to financing and warehousing. Railway systems are near capacity.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

In 2004, the residual assets were sold off for a mere $7 million, a tiny fraction of the $500 million auto manufacturers had invested. Before the iPhone launched in 2007, HP dominated the handheld calculator space for science and finance. As a result, parts suppliers left the platform and the market never became sustainably profitable.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

From 1970 to 2004, the percentage of CEOs hired from outside the firm increased from 12% to 39%. CEOs from rival firms); conversely not all inside CEOs have it (CEOs promoted from finance). Instead of hiring outside CEOs, hire insiders—or at least CEOs with domain expertise. Instead of decentralizing R&D, recentralize it.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

In 2004, Mike Colwell was promoted to manage a team of five directors, all of whom he’d worked with previously. Their VP of Finance kept warning them not to spend in a few key ways. Overlook nonverbal cues — they often reveal what a person is really thinking. Case Study #1: Create an environment conducive to listening.

How To 8

How To Case Study Charan Information 8