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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
acquisitions. Today, the company Parker leads from its headquarters in Bradenton, Florida, offers a wide range of products to protect people and property, has 6,500 employees, operates in 35 countries, and generates annual sales...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Admit It: You’re in Denial
apparent at the time. But Ford dismissed sales figures documenting the product’s declining market share because he suspected rivals of manipulating them. When one of his top executives warned him of the dire situation in a detailed...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
Feet to the Fire The road to those rewards can be a bumpy one, but the Business Plan Contest gives participants a chance to test and hone their ideas. The founders of Bang Networks, the plan that took last year’s first prize, saw the...
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- 23 Oct 2019
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After the Storm
class. When I started at Johnson & Johnson right after business school, I remember being the only African American female pharmaceutical sales rep in the mid-Atlantic region at that time. It’s a sad reality, but that is also why I get so...
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- 08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
as he heard me out. And then he said, Jimmy, if you want to, just go fire him. I'm really tired of hearing about all of these complaints. And I asked my dad to repeat it. I said, Daddy, tell me that again? He said, son, if you want to, go...
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- 08 May 2019
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Lessons from the Ashes
day one of the takeover, we had a lot more debt than we anticipated. Then there was the October '87 stock market crash, which really hurt our asset sale program in Australia. So by the end of '87, we had in Australian dollars, about $1.5...
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- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
acquisition by WorldCom, Keen joined Level 3, a startup competitor—but was fired when his strategic recommendations for expansion didn't align with upper management's. At that point, Keen made good on his HBS application essay and joined...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
and CEO Thompson terms "satellite infrastructure" (technology that enables people to conduct business activity anywhere on the planet). Before reaching its fifteenth birthday this spring, Virginia-based Orbital will have surpassed $450 million in View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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Reimagining China and India
is behaving in predictable ways once you understand their circumstances and historical context. Do multinationals treat India and China largely as sales opportunities? Yes. I think most multinationals traditionally have gone to these...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame
$200 million - was expected to come from additional ticket sales and sponsorships, souvenir sales, parking, and miscellaneous sources. "We're chugging along," Frazier says, "slightly ahead in committed revenues over incurred expenses." As...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!
the pantheon of classic French treats. In the 1980s, the company employed nearly 400 workers and enjoyed a 40 percent market share. Subjected to a series of buyouts, the product line shifted to a more mass-market approach that led to a general decline in View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over
plus ultra of consulting outcomes - advising two different corporate leaders to fire themselves in order to improve their companies. « Back OPM: Executive Education for Entrepreneurs The Owner/President Management Program (OPM) is an HBS...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
medical industry; shelving units for retail consumer products; and high-tolerance firing pins for military applications. When it comes to per-piece cost for metal stampings, the United States is very competitive with China because labor...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
the best can be fairly hermaphroditic creatures, one minute exhibiting a professor’s passion for the great clarifying concept, the next displaying sales skills worthy of a street hustler. Among my contentions is that it was this very...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
the 1930s, for example, per-person movie ticket sales were seven times higher than at the end of the 1990s. Fox Photos/Getty Images In the sweep of U.S. history, consumption had been a force for great change. Much of this change played...
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