Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Here are just a few examples: The travel ban on citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, which has raised fears among U.S. corporations (including Amazon , Nike , and MasterCard ) that increasing discrimination will leave them unable to recruit, retain, and develop talent.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2018

It’s also a lesson I learned firsthand when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011. Develop a work plan. But when it comes to cancer diagnoses, developing specific plans and processes can be powerful forms of support. If one of your employees tells you about a diagnosis, here are four things to keep in mind.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Revenue: $20B+ (2011). IBM was founded in 1911 and has a rich history of ingenuity, deep convictions, premier research and development, and trend setting. Consumer Products. Travel and Transportation. Travel to client locations are required. Locations: 170 countries. Vice President: Bridget van Kralingen.

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freshminds

MAY 24, 2016

Vertical and horizontal expansion – Existing sharing economy services will expand to capture other parts of the sectors in which they already play through developing a broader range of services both horizontally (e.g. If Google can offer lower prices to customers, Uber may struggle to compete.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Consumer markets in the developing world are an enormous but still-untapped opportunity for companies seeking new sources of growth. billion rural consumers and about 3 billion of them live in developing countries in Asia and Africa. The Guddi Bajis provide that access and become brand ambassadors for Unilever products.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 15, 2018

Since the business was particularly slow during the winter, its owners, Ferran Adrian and Juli Soler, decided to close shop 2-5 months a year to travel and search for new dish ideas. In 1990 they gained a second Michelin Star, and in 1994, they became the first high-end restaurant to invest in a development team and a lab.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011. This was a $1.2 Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Insurance is therefore a natural shared value industry — one that can employ the idea proposed by Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and Mark Kramer of FSG in 2011. Consider the Vitality program developed by the South African insurance company Discovery over 25 years ago.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2017

With the attack on Pearl Harbor, civilian radio production was halted for World War II. Armstrong returned to service, developing FM radios for the Army, and was promoted to the rank of Colonel. The FCC quickly developed a “public interest” rationale for the move: sunspots. And it traveled in your pocket.

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Effective Managers

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Little did I imagine that when I started the Mongolian Management Consultants’ Institute (MMCI) in 2011 that I would have the honour and privilege to be where I am today. In Mongolia we have only one train, the Trans-Siberian, and it makes about six stops as it travels across the whole of the country – which is five times bigger than the UK.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JANUARY 29, 2010

Maybe you hope to find cheap airfare in the local newspaper's travel section. Finding the cheapest plane tickets is difficult because travel agents and Internet websites use the central reservation systems that are updated periodically throughout the day. January 2, 2011 at 8:16 AM. January 5, 2011 at 11:25 PM.

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