Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. While Steve Jobs ran Apple, he drove the vision but put strong operating execs in each domain – hardware, software, product design, supply chain, manufacturing – who translated his vision and impatience into plans, process, and procedures.

Operations 28

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

in 2001 to 16% in 2015. Notice how rapidly the thicket of bureaucracy grew back after being pruned in the wake of the 2008 recession. Rather, it’s a cancer that eats away at economic productivity and organizational resilience. Between 1983 and 2014, the number of managers, supervisors and support staff in the U.S.

Ethics 35

Ethics Trends Education Management 35

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Third-quarter Gross Domestic Product grew at a 1.5 UPS Freight , the fifth-largest LTL, reported tonnage off 10 percent (matching the record decline reported in the 2009 3Q during the depth of the Great Recession) and shipments down 5 percent year over year (the worst drop since 2008 fourth quarter). in October from 50.2 in September.

Balance Sheet 28

Balance Sheet Banking Study Policies 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Similarly, one day the team was packing away the furniture and a casual remark about how much space a pair of table legs took up led to another revolutionary idea: what would happen if we were to flat-pack our products? The rest is history, but it was a unique offering at the time. 18,000 people waited eagerly for the store to open.

Culture 28

Culture Real Estate Retail Company 28

MishTalk

OCTOBER 27, 2014

And they should have realised after the 2008 Great Recession that the longer they suppress volatility, both economic and market, the greater the subsequent crash. He also fails to note the housing bubble is a direct result of the Fed not taking its medicine in 2000 and 2001. Will these morons ever learn?

Banking 75

Banking Policies Financial Marketing 75

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Even senior executives who want to stay in their corporate jobs should strongly consider developing at least one side income stream, whether it’s consulting, speaking, coaching, or creating some other product or service. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career. Hedge against uncertainty.

Industry 28

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. Like many luxury brands, Krug was struggling after the 2008 financial crisis.

Energy 28

Energy Productivity Retail Financial 28

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Clinton's sub-40% favorable ratings in 1992 were mostly a product of the public's lack of familiarity with her, rather than any kind of broad unpopularity. Her present rating is about as low as it was in March 2001, during her first few months in office as a U.S. I made that claim in 2008, well before Hillary realized it.

Interviews 28

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Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2016

Throughout his great career, Warren Buffett has made huge bets – for example, investing billions in Goldman Sachs during the financial meltdown of 2008. In 2001, then-CEO Carly Fiorina recommended to the board the acquisition of Compaq Computer. Here the experience of Hewlett-Packard (HP) offers a cautionary tale.

Company 28

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation.

Balance Sheet 28

Balance Sheet Financial Journal Company 28

MishTalk

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

And questions regarding the 2001 recession and ECRI have still not been answered. US Recession The US won''t decouple, just as China did not decouple from the global economy in 2008-2009 (a widely-held thesis I also knocked at the time). The opposite is the case now: lower prices and higher production/extraction costs.

Energy 28

Energy Data Metrics Marketing 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic. We calculate that U.S.

Management 28

Management Metrics Financial Company 28

Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2016

The result, at least in developed nations, is a highly unequal corporate landscape, where some firms are incredibly productive and the amount of money a person makes is tied to the company they work for, not just the job that they do. And this growing productivity gap shows up within industries, not just between them.

McKinsey 28

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The result was a dramatic shift at P&G from 90% centralized control of R&D in the 1990s to 90% decentralized control of R&D by 2008. The initiative decentralized R&D in an effort to make the big company “feel small” (e.g., One reason revenue per innovation decreased is that early stage research dwindled.

Company 28

Company Trends Research Case Interview 28

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

The articles — “Competing on the Eight Dimensions of Quality” (1987) and “What Does ‘Product Quality’ Really Mean?” ” (2008), it seems to me, is that it serves as an assessment tool that allows managers and executives to benchmark their organizations against other units and companies.

Management 32

Management Turnaround Engineering Benchmarking 32

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy. Instead, particularly after the 2008 financial crisis, China has expanded central planning ; 100,000 SOEs have been the principal engine of that expansion. The growth of SOEs. Five years of U.S.

Policies 28

Policies Industry Government Chemicals 28