Peter Winick

JUNE 20, 2024

Hybrid publishing allows authors to manage costs and directly benefit from their work. Phil discusses how a book can elevate your brand, allowing for additional revenue streams through custom training, webinars, and bespoke book versions for corporate clients. The age of the platform back in 2012.

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Get Lighthouse

AUGUST 25, 2022

According to a 2012 study by The Alliance (P. 44) , "75% of employees say that they're willing to use their own time to further their careers and take on additional learning that would benefit them at work.". They should learn about the company's revenue metrics so they understand the business drivers better.

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15Five

JULY 23, 2015

That was the question we posed last year in this blog post based on The Society for Human Resource Management’s 2012 Employee Job Satisfaction and Engagement Report. Better relationships and communication with leadership are right up there with benefits and compensation!? 3) Benefits overall. What matters most to your employees?

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AIHR

MARCH 24, 2023

However, if taken full advantage of, this process provides countless benefits to ensure you keep your employees productive and engaged. What’s more, an analysis of performance appraisals tells you which employees and departments would benefit from which available resources.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

It wasn’t until 2012, at the beginning of the explosion in mobile apps, that yet another generation of dating apps would emerge. The company had operated for several years, starting in 2010 — several years before Uber X — and provided the template for what would become a $100 biillion+ gross revenue industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

In 2012 the rise in consumer activism and mobility, the Occupy movement, 24-hour accountability (thanks to social media), and global resource depletion will force every enterprise, large and small, to make CSR a focal point. Those companies and nonprofits that invest in engaging with such consumers will reap benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

million customers and an annual revenue of 4 million dollars, social media service Buffer has grown by introducing useful products and exemplary customer service. They build an ecosystem of mutually supportive relationships with and between their stakeholders, so the group as a whole can benefit from interactions across the network.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

After seven long years of preparation, the London 2012 Olympic Games are finally underway, and even the notoriously critical British press is falling into line. But with the benefit of hindsight, the more Britain has struggled economically, the more important London 2012 is in its potential revival.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Their findings suggest that many paid ads generate virtually no increase in sales, and even for ones that do, the sales benefits are far eclipsed by the cost of the ads themselves. The eBay team began by examining whether there's any benefit to buying search ads that contain the word "ebay."

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

The committee organizing the London 2012 Olympic Games faced an extraordinary business challenge: How to price 8 million tickets in a way that allows equitable access to 26 sporting events, meets revenue and attendance targets, and adheres to the explicit social objective of making the Olympiad "Everybody's Games.".

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. Help the user understand how they would benefit from hosting with you, and address all of their concerns. Deliver on the promise.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

When hard times hit and revenues fall, R&D is always a tempting target for corporate cuts, because reductions yield quick increases in profit, and it has always been easy for executives to tell themselves that cutting research a bit today probably won't hurt all that much over the long run. R&D is the basic engine of economic health.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Their companies ranged from start-ups to billions of dollars in sales with the majority being between $50 million and $500 million in annual revenue. From the customer's standpoint, the cost of the salesperson's solution was prohibitive because the perceived value of the operational benefits did not justify the price.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

As large retailers convert secondary, lower-value shoppers into loyal, high-value shoppers, the growth in revenue is coming at the expense of competing retailers — all too often, independent and mid-market retailers. It is widely understood that Kroger is realizing over $100 million annually in incremental revenue from these efforts.

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Revenue Marketing Diversity Scaling 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

In 2009, an Indian IT services accounting firm, called Satyam, was found to have boosted its revenue by $1.5 billion through the actions of their founder and chairman who falsified revenues, margins, and cash balances. In 2012, a JP Morgan Chase & Co trader, nicknamed the London Whale , led the Chief Investment Office to lose $6.2

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Compliance Revenue Banking Recruitment 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Yet the benefits of smarter utility consumption go beyond just a smaller bill. As a technology advisor, the CUO would understand the benefits of different energy innovations and be able to make smart purchasing decisions. In a 2012 study , Notre Dame researchers found that green buildings saved money and increased revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Their findings suggest that many paid ads generate virtually no increase in sales, and even for ones that do, the sales benefits are far eclipsed by the cost of the ads themselves. The eBay team began by examining whether there's any benefit to buying search ads that contain the word "ebay."

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue. Using information and communications technology (ICT) for development is fairly common, but surprisingly, most digital divide projects don’t generate revenue. It opens a new school every 2.5 days, and aims to teach 10 million children over the next decade. Currently 1.2

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Revenue Government Operations Compensation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

colleges today), tenure has morphed into a guaranteed "job for life," a benefit no longer enjoyed by any other segment of the U.S. universities lost ground in the UK magazine Times Higher Education 2012 list of the world's top 200 universities. A 2012 National Science Foundation report notes that U.S. Fifty-one of 76 U.S.

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Engineering Education Revenue Benefits 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

GE is now approaching $1 billion in new revenue annually from their expanded software and data activities. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Software User Experience Recruitment Scaling 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Further, while it's nice to think about ways to spend the hundreds of millions of dollars being raised at auction, we should remember that the goal of the program is to place a hard cap on emissions, not necessarily to raise revenue — the program should reflect the most cost-effective way for businesses to reduce emissions.

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Energy Transportation Marketing Revenue 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

In this era of continuous digital transformation, every manager can benefit from learning a few best practices from the boutique industry of venture capital. A fast-growing company might have just $5 million in revenue – a drop in the bucket for a global corporation. In 2012, Tesla had just over $400 million in revenue.

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Software Digital Transformation Revenue Scaling 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

billion, which has experienced incredible growth, with the total number of users having practically doubled each year since 2012. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. A third example is Airbnb, now valued at $25.5

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

American labor costs have been so well contained of late that the proportion of nonfarm business revenue going toward wages, salaries, and benefits hit a record low 57.9% in the first quarter of 2012, the most recent period for which figures are available, says the Wall Street Journal. A decade earlier, the share was 62.7%.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

In 2012, with the launch of the Surface product line, Microsoft began directly competing with the manufacturers and OEMs who had been its distribution partners for decades. During this period, Home Depot was compelled to carry Cree products. Microsoft was able to do so largely due to its monopolization of the desktop operating system market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

In 2012, even in the midst of an anemic global economy and budget tightening at firms, the amount spent on these events worldwide was an estimated $565 billion. At the event, new technologies provide cost-reduction and revenue opportunities for all stakeholders. The benefits of event marketing are undeniable.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

workers say they are "not engaged" or "actively disengaged" with their work, according to Gallup''s ongoing study of the American workplace from 2010 through 2012. In 2012, according to U.S. But companies must be worthy of real talent and, to benefit from that talent, provide the right environment for those people to flourish.

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Sales Sales Engineering Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

IdeaWorks, an airline revenue consultancy, estimates that consumers will pony up $42.6 A la carte pricing is a key strategy to consider as it provides two important benefits: Broadens a Customer Base. That said, the financial results are impressive: Spirit’s revenue increased by 88% from 2009 to 2012.

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Rollout Revenue Advertising Travel 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. Fall of 2016 marked the first convening of the ALD Revenue Growth Challenge event. American Express. Johnson & Johnson.

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Revenue Human Resources Compensation Retention 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

The personal computer (PC) chip market that the company dominated for over three decades, and which accounted for the bulk of its sales during that period, is now in decline, and accounts for only 50% of revenues, down from 65% in 2012.

Marketing 13

Marketing Accounts Engineering Revenue 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

For example, a 2009 analysis of 506 companies found that firms with more racial or gender diversity had more sales revenue, more customers, and greater profits. Under increasing scrutiny, and mindful of the benefits of diversity on the bottom line, many companies are trying to recruit and retain a more diverse workforce.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Amazon also offered booksellers a plan under which they can receive a 9% discount and forego any commission revenue. Oren Teicher, the ABA’s executive director, told book publishing daily digest Shelf Awareness , “It appears that Amazon.com has again fashioned a program that benefits the retailer it cares about most — that is, Amazon.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

Mendiola launched a campaign to increase efficiency and cut costs, followed by another campaign to introduce new products and increase revenues and profits, culminating in the acquisition of the PepsiCo business in Costa Rica. The company committed to goals of being water neutral by 2012, carbon neutral by 2017, and ultimately zero waste.

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Accounts Retention Engineering Revenue 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Brian McAndrews, Pandora’s new CEO, faces two challenges as he steps to the helm: reducing royalties from the 50-60% of sales currently paid, and increasing revenues per listener hour. Aggressively pursued mobile revenue. In Q2 2013, mobile revenue per 1K listener hours was $34, up 50% from $22 in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We thus wanted to figure out a way to help executives quantify the financial benefits of reducing their firm’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We found that sustainable and deforestation-free practices created significant financial benefits for all players in the industry’s value chain. of revenues).

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Revenue Benefits Retention Recruitment 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

Our study (published in the journal Energy Economics ) quantified the costs and benefits of retraining coal workers for employment in the rapidly expanding solar photovoltaic industry—and it explores different ways to pay for this retraining. First, some background on the coal industry: Profitability for U.S.

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Energy Engineering Government Administration 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

In the US alone, sales grew 40 percent in 2012. Meaningfully different brands are the most likely to benefit from a marketer’s efforts to improve salience. (In Sales in the US have eclipsed those in the UK, and the company posted a 26 percent increase in 2011 and 15 percent increase in 2012. billion in eight years.

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