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Guiding with purpose
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Google is an information era company, defining the new "best practices". It's early success was in search engine development, which the company turned into a massive on-line advertising placement business that superceded the first major player (Yahoo!).
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The trend toward the death of broadcast TV as we’ve known it keeps moving forward
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The age of manufacturing was based upon the productivity of machines and the application of industrial processes to what formerly was hand labor
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
, the company hires a very good investment banker to manage this share repurchase
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The problem at Pfizer is management built a Success Formula many years ago, and keeps trying to defend it.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The death spiral at Sara Lee began in 2006. "Professional managers" from top-ranked MBA schools started "improving earnings" with an ongoing program of reorganizations and cost reductions.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The company is selling assets, like the Chicago Cubs, in order to raise cash. But its media businesses, anchored by The Chicago Tribune, are a sinking ship which management has no idea how to plug.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Activists have been around a long time. And for years, they were despised.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The business media get really excited about acquisitions. And it is clear that many executives still think acquisitions are a good way to grow – especially when wanting to enter new markets.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The internet started to affect how people searched for and acquired information by the mid-1990s.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The number of single people has risen over the last decade.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The reality is that most companies falter because they miss market shifts – and the shifts cause competitors to become relatively more attractive.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The company had been laying off thousands, and most analysts were calling for more reductions.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The allure of doing one thing is high, but in the end the best businesses always utilize White Space.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The economy was bad, but nothing like the banking crisis we're in now, and a recalcitrant Congress was not happy. Nonetheless, they prevailed and Democrat Jimmy Carter signed guarantee approval in January, 1978.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The company has closed another 28 stores, and sales in stores remaining open the last year have declined on average more than 8% for each store
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The company's "return to basics" program has made it overly sensitive to retail coffee prices, while robbing the company of its highly desired cache.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
the leadership at Tesla didn't know what it meant to be a professional auto company, and to be professional auto executives.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
the value of having friends hosting TV shows was clear. Sears went from $30 to nearly $200/share on the strength of Cramer's chronic recommendation.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The more adaptable Wendy’s has demonstrated its ability to one-up McDonald’s for years.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The XBox has been a yawn, far from breaking even on the massive investments.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Instead of putting money into more stores, management would start buying back shares in order to reduce the size of the equity pool
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The longer out the timeline, the more bearish I am. Strategy sees its results long-term rather than short-term, so given more time the impact becomes more evident
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The demand for travel and cars hasn’t declined – but you’d think so if you listened to executives from United and GM.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025