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The Decline of Yahoo in Its Own Words

Harvard Business

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. One of the most prominent is that Yahoo was late to mobile.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. Yet when digital photography arrived, the company was slow to embrace it, only incorporating it into its cameras in 2006.

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Your Organization Wastes Time. Here’s How to Fix It.

Harvard Business

Consider the remarkable turnaround at Ford. In 2006 then-new CEO Alan Mulally and his senior team not only set a new strategic path but also overhauled Ford’s operating model. But hidden and informal factors that create organizational drag tend to get overlooked.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

Pair it with “The Hidden Traps in Decision Making” (2006), by John S. In “Change Through Persuasion” (2005), another piece coauthored with Michael Roberto, he departed from that norm, describing how Paul Levy, then CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, led a painful turnaround.