Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

When Palmisano took over in early 2002, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services (such as back-office outsourcing), and personal computers (PCs). The teams didn't review and discuss; their members made things happen. Step 3: Make sure the economic model is profitable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Its HR function has been instrumental in the $100 billion company's metamorphosis from a floundering computer manufacturer in the 1990s to a prosperous software and consulting services company today. For example, I have taken 8,000 HR software applications (largely focused on the HR needs of individual IBM country units) down to under 1,000.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

But it was an inevitable consequence of the value chain strategy that the company pursued in a highly constrained innovation space — one in which the hardware platform is defined by Intel and the software experience is defined by Microsoft. This constrained innovation space is a direct result of Intel's commoditization strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

cities that held marathons from 2002 to 2012. of them died) and to patients admitted on the day of the race, but in zip codes just outside of the marathon route (24.8% of them died) and to patients admitted on the day of the race, but in zip codes just outside of the marathon route (24.8% of them died). of them died).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When I first read Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game (the book that inspired the movie that opened this past weekend), I was struck by the similarities of the challenges that General Manager Billy Beane faced in 2002 to those that business employers face as they try to achieve the best returns on their talent investments.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The number of internet users in China stood at roughly 5 million in 1999 but grew to 40 million in 2002, by which time it was clear that Yahoo was not getting the traction that local Chinese internet companies were seeing. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

Over the past several years, PARC — spun off as an independent, wholly-owned subsidiary of Xerox in 2002 — has reinvented itself as a font of innovation for Xerox and a variety of other organizations worldwide. It has delivered a stunning array of software and hardware innovations to global corporations, startups, and the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

But a lawyer for Greg Kelly, a former Nissan executive who consulted outside experts about Ghosn’s deferred compensation arrangements, said that his client believed that the payments due to Ghosn were not “fixed” in amount and therefore were not disclosable.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

They found that 95% of those occupations became more digital between 2002 and 2016, meaning that computers became a more important part of the job. Once you select an occupation, you’ll see below the main chart how that score changed since 2002, as well as the change in average pay.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The 2002 movie Minority Report told the story of a future in which law enforcement could tell who would commit crimes in the future. It also migrated outside the firm to an ever-growing crowd of vendors who offer enticing claims about the benefits of their prediction software. The better ones worry about actual causation.

Big Data 14

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Back in 2002 , when Sam Palmisano took over, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services,such as back-office outsourcing, and personal computers. IBM has gone through its own turmoil. The parallels to HP can easily be seen).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Take, for example, two exponents of the customer-alignment philosophy: the for-profit health-care company Anthem and software and services firm SunGard. Its 2002 restructuring offered little incremental benefit while adding cost and complexity. SunGard’s competitive environment was different.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

IBM's shift to software and services occurred in the 1990s. and smooth succession to a new CEO in 2002, while continuing an innovation thrust that included grid technologies, cloud computing, and supercomputing. Leo Apotheker, your immediate predecessor, reverted to his SAP comfort zone and chased a software acquisition.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

These investments included Nordstrom.com and a perpetual inventory system that allowed Nordstrom to offer a consistent multi-channel experience by 2002. First came a new point-of-sale system that included personal book software so that salespeople could track individual customer requests and needs online. Insight Center.

Strategy 15

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

We had implemented new software tools. As part of his effort to get developers at Apple to transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, Steve Jobs held a mock funeral at the 2002 Worldwide Developers Conference. We had turned our org chart on its side, so that nearly every person in the company either had a new boss or was a new boss.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. The result was that Apple struggled to create a robust platform connecting Apple customers and software producers. Conceding defeat in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.4 Failure to engage developers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. It issued numerous upgrades that increased the speed and throughput of its routers and improved the accompanying software platform. This may sound as though we’ve got our facts backward, but your company can significantly increase its knowledge output by cutting R&D spending.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

IBM had a near death experience in the early 1990s due a series of bad business decisions. When HP merged with Compaq in 2002, Bill Hewlett’s son Walter protested that “the fundamental mistake … was the perceived need to do something with scale instead of succeeding the way HP has in the past.”

How To 14

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Industries with a higher share of IT workers saw more concentration between 2002 and 2007, even after controlling for M&A activity and several other variables.

Technical Review 8

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Writing in 2002, the depths of the dot.com bust, she says that business models are “at heart, stories — stories that explain how enterprises work. Joan Magretta, too, cites Drucker when she defines what a business model is in “ Why Business Models Matter,” partly as a corrective to Lewis.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

agricultural exports to Cuba in late 2001 under presidential discretion, which exceeded $5 billion between 2002 and 2014. If its political leaders can manage to lift constraints on investment, create the right incentives, and reform its tax code, the country could really boom. On the exports side, President George W. But, oddly, U.S.

Training 14

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The 2002 movie Minority Report told the story of a future in which law enforcement could tell who would commit crimes in the future. It also migrated outside the firm to an ever-growing crowd of vendors who offer enticing claims about the benefits of their prediction software. The better ones worry about actual causation.

Big Data 8

Big Data Study Data Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Should you give them performance reviews so they know where they stand? There’s no need to do a formal review with freelancers (“I’m not even a big fan of giving employees performance reviews,” admits Pink) but that doesn’t mean you should skimp on the feedback. What the Experts Say. Give feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Individual symptoms in each domain, such as sleep, appetite, energy, and concentration, are categorized using color-coding — red (severe), orange, light orange, or green (absent or mild) — to flag patients’ top-priority concerns.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Below is a sample of the research about what happens when algorithms are given control of tasks traditionally carried out by humans (all emphasis mine): In 2002 a team of economists studied the impact of automated underwriting algorithms in the mortgage lending industry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Norway has had a quota since 2002, and women now make up more than 40% of board members. Prime Minister David Cameron has made gender balance in the boardroom a personal mission, using the bully pulpit of office to push for a voluntary code of conduct for executive search firms and succession planning within companies. since 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In fact, research suggests that big firms are dominating through their use of software. In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Research by one of us (James) links this trend to software. Years ago, one of us (James) started a company that sold publishing software.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2018

For their part, black and Latinx workers have together ticked up only slightly since 2002, to 14.7% One idea is to scale up new models of code schools or tech “bootcamps.” Women have actually lost share in computer and math occupations, having dwindled to just 25.5% of employment in those occupations in 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. Each year, the integrated software and hardware of electric vehicles (EVs) gain ground on traditional internal combustion engine vehicles, expanding the market opportunity for Tesla and other firms pursuing EVs.

Underperforming Technical Team 14

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Where once the auto-sector workforce was anchored by workers responsible for mechanical and machine-maintenance roles, the need for electrical skills is now growing exponentially due to the increasing electrical and electronic content of the car.

Industry 8

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

For example, a partner who donated 80% to Republicans and 20% to Democrats would be coded as conservative, but not as conservative as a partner who donated 100% to Republicans. (In In this way, we identified where on the liberal-versus-conservative continuum each partner fell. What we found.

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