Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. EVEN MORE: Yet another example: a good friend of mine from the 2004 Dean campaign, who was active in the 2008 Obama campaign as well, put in a request for web developers through his Facebook e-mail.

Press Release 174

Press Release Discount PR Media 174

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world. .

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Regardless of which number is right, there is no doubt that a lot of time and energy go into marketing products that will no longer exist in a year. The term was coined by the late Harvard Business School marketing professor, Theodore Levitt, in a 1960 article by the same name (republished in 2004). What is marketing myopia?

Levitt 8

Levitt Marketing Transportation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. This is the generation of mobile technology, wireless communication, and clouds of constant content. Mobile technology. Cloud Computing. hours a day.

Technology 15

Technology Wireless Stage-Gate Content 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. After four years, systems had been tinkered with so much that new product launches became not only prohibitively expensive but also needed a very long time to market. IT management Information & technology Technology'

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. And that satisfaction leads to a more attractive work environment in a competitive talent market. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In addition, given their quest for organization leanness, digital startups seek investors who have the expertise to help outsource their noncore business functions, such as production, distribution, marketing, and payroll processing. By the time, those opportunities reach public markets, if at all, they are fully priced.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Company Kleiner 8

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. There is a lot of emotion behind the Facebook IPO.

IPO 15

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Buying Smithfield allowed Shineway to sell pork in the Chinese market at a premium price. Technology. Companies in China are also on the lookout for technology that will help them expand. Access to mature global markets. The acquisition was a huge success. So determine what you have to offer in these areas.

Company 8

Company Maturity Globalization Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

They get stuck making incremental improvements that are rooted in existing competencies, markets, and business models. So how do you sell a more expensive economy car, especially one with an unfamiliar, unproven technology? A core insight provides forward-looking understanding of customer needs, behaviors, and market trends.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 15

Modern Servant Leader

JULY 2, 2024

Patrick Lencioni 2002 Other Business, Fable, Nonpartisan, Technology Academic Good to Great Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. Leadership is a calling.

Library 100

Library Leadership Greenleaf Servant Leader 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. We found Mr. Yergin's dismissal of these risks premature and repetitive.

Price 11

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. It is currently at less than o.5% 5% of the federal budget.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

By 2000, Motorola's global market share had collapsed from 45% to 15%, while Nokia's had grown to a market-leading 31%. Effective execution became harder and harder, creating a vicious cycle of falling behind in the market, losing money, cancelling projects and shedding staff, all of which further damaged its ability to execute.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

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 14

Company Survey Finance Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

This same mistake-proofing process and technology embedded in the electronic medical record (EMR) can move us a great distance toward safer, higher quality, and more affordable health care. Information technology has come late to health care delivery. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Creativity Innovation Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An example of strategic burnout can be found at Lego around 2004. Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Sponsored by the Brightline Initiative.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. 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.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. The most notable characteristic of those technologies is their accessibility — to customers, employees, partners, and competitors. But guess what?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

It makes sense that this technology would help independents gain business — and new data shows that for restaurants, at least, the intuition is correct. Yelp has expanded rapidly since it was founded in 2004 in San Francisco. As this trend gains momentum, businesses that rely on traditional marketing will be forced to adapt.

Retail 15

Retail Mass Marketing Comparison Advertising 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The electronics giant had seemingly lost its dominant position in the gaming console market, with the Nintendo Wii’s surprise success overshadowing the more powerful but pricier PS3. Cloud-based gaming poses a higher risk to the casual end of the market because it allows relatively complex games to be played on simpler, cheaper devices.

Strategy 13

Strategy Price Case Study Industry 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

For wages to grow on a sustained basis, workers’ productivity must rise, meaning they must steadily produce more per hour, often with the help of new technology or capital. International trade and technological progress have played significant roles, putting downward pressure on the wages of low-skilled workers.

Policies 8

Policies Education Trends Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012. Far from drinking the company Kool-Aid, they had an understanding of why and how the company had to change to deal with new opportunities and challenges posed by changing markets and technology.

CEO 8

CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

To do this, Goldman used its competencies in understanding markets, convening needed expertise and business networks. Goldman used its power to scale to get to market quickly, assembling a pipeline of services, investing in sophisticated measurement systems and developing a global core curriculum. Early results are encouraging.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

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. A Rise Fueled by Subsidies.

Price 8

Price Bond Globalization Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

According to the National Center for Women and Information Technology, women pursuing undergraduate computer science degrees have dropped from 37% to 18%, from 1987 to 2012 , respectively. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers. For many of the very largest market opportunities, technology is merely an enabler.

Attrition 9

Attrition Diversity Sports CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

The usual argument is that our peculiar mix of government policies, private health insurance markets, and the design of public health insurance have produced a health care system that, in the words of economists Alan Garber and Jonathan Skinner , is “uniquely inefficient.” ” Does this sound familiar?

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Long term commitment in a world where the technology is advancing almost on a daily basis is difficult to maintain. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings. That was the case with Toys 'R Us and Amazon.com a few years ago.

Management 13

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

in incremental market capitalization for every $1.00 in incremental market capitalization for $1.00 Much of Keurig's success comes from its superior brewer technology and wide variety of K-Cups. Our analysis showed the top 20 firms in Fortune 's 2010 list of fastest-growing companies received $3.40 of revenue growth.

B2C 14

B2C B2B Strategy Waterman 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

We studied the German mobile-handset market during the feature-phone era of 2004-2008 — a dynamic period in which competition was about equipping devices with new functions such as photography. Samsung, a classic pioneer in the handset market, also had a successful year in 2006. Asking too many questions can slow you down.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Incentives Innovation Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The term "social media" was popularized by Chris Shipley in 2004 , as she described the impact of influencers and bloggers in shaping product adoption, more so than traditional media outlets. Because it includes the word media , and the genesis is marketing, most people think of this as the stuff the CMO and their team worry about.

Media 9

Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. In 2004, Michael Dell left the company, replaced by Kevin Rollins, a former Bain consultant who joined the company in 1996. For more background on the potential deal, click here.) Dell returned as CEO in 2007.

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Some find evidence of a clear improvement of total factor productivity since market-oriented reforms began in 1979, estimating that the increase in TFP contributed about 40% to GDP growth, roughly the same as that contributed by fixed asset investment. growth in output per worker from 1979-2004 with TFP accounting for 3.6

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India. Of course it would be ideal to hire a manager who is equally adept in Peoria and Pune, but there is a paucity of such talent in a growing emerging market. ’s branded generic-medicine unit in India for $3.7

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12