Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

On the one hand, new technologies have enabled neuroscience to discover that men and women tend to be wired differently in ways that incline men — can it be? Men on the job must feel besieged. Two seismic shifts are underway that are irrevocably changing the ways in which we've believed work works.

Bottom-up 16

Bottom-up Metrics Finance Construction 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In an essay earlier this week on the evolution of money and finance, GigaOM founder and venture capitalist Om Malik argued that crowdfunding will be the new day trading, the latest financial innovation to “cut costs and [drive] wider participation in a previously closed and clubby market.” Entrepreneurship Finance Technology'

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Finance Hedge Advertising 9

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

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

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. Yet the complexity of cloud-based technology also helped me catch the perpetrator. Online marketing Social media Technology'

Document 9

Document Open-book Bottom-up System 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

From 1970 to 2004, the percentage of CEOs hired from outside the firm increased from 12% to 39%. 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. Why do these shifts occur? Note the solution is not to avoid outside CEOs.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company CEO 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. To help bring cool new technology to the world? He also considered the impact a change might have on his family and its finances. To broaden your managerial repertoire?

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. Think about that. I'm not sure the Mafia could do better.

EBITDA 11

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 11

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. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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

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

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

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2019

of Horizon2020 research funding going to the 13 countries that joined the EU in 2004, despite these nations representing 17% of the EU population. What’s more, with each new technological change, this gap between the rich and the poor gets wider, prompting the geopolitical shifts we’re already experiencing to be exacerbated.

Entrepreneur 45

Entrepreneur Incubator Human Capital Education 45

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

In 2004, the cost of manufacturing on the east coast of China was approximately 15 percentage points cheaper, on average, than in the United States. Advances in manufacturing technology. In 2016, that gap was down to about 1 percentage point. Manufacturing is on the cusp of a robotics revolution.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 14