
The Value of Growth – Apple, Microsoft, Exxon
Exxon and Apple have nothing in common. Exxon is a petroleum company. It’s growth almost all from acquisition. You could say it’s nonsensical to compare the two.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Topic
Guiding with purpose
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Exxon and Apple have nothing in common. Exxon is a petroleum company. It’s growth almost all from acquisition. You could say it’s nonsensical to compare the two.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) jumped to record levels – over 15,000 – today after a favorable U.S. jobs report showed 165K new jobs and a drop in unemployment to 7.5%.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Successful leadership means moving beyond traditional financial management to invest for growth
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Rod Blagojevich is the product of some pretty rough-and-tumble politics, still carried out in the wards around Chicago.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The postware economic boom may have benefited many Americans, but no one benefited more than General Motors.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The company CEO has said that he plans to invest more in the same old business model, hoping results will turn around.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Facebook is not immune to changing market trends. Although it has been the benchmark for social media, it only achieved that goal after annihilating early leader MySpace.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The Siren’s song of quick returns from Defend & Extend Management lured even the maverick CEO Ed Zander onto the rocks of disaster.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The market is about to be in flux
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Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

‘Man’ has always ‘innovated’ within the world around us
Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025

We live in a very, very connected world.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

In business the rules are not "set". There is no written music toperform.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

the company has laid off 42% of its workforce and discountinued development of its newest jet aircraft.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

the founder of modern medicine – Galen – didn’t understand the circulatory system. So he thought blood was oxygenated by invisible pores.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The company strategy was tied to being a leader in selling hardware systems. First powerful desktop systems but increasingly powerful network servers. Iron that would replace mainframes and extend computing power to challenge supercomputers.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The leader is usually the most "mature" person in the group. Those who like good art have "mature" taste. Surely, we should want to be "mature
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The market is dominated by Apple and Samsung, to the point we no longer care about Blackberry – and have pretty much forgotten about all the money spent by Microsoft to buy Nokia and launch Windows 8
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Jim Collins did a great job of describing the decades of early success at HP in Built to Last.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The Conference Board survey for 2013 reflects some interesting changes in the way in which businesses are viewing themselves.
Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025

Losers, and winners, will be varied – and not entirely obvious. Firstly, a look at those trying to maintain the status quo, and likely to lose the most.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

In Philadelphia Wal-Mart’s Success Formula cost the company $62.3million, on top of a previous award of $78.5million, as a judge ordered the company to pay workers for its labor practices
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The breakthrough is done, and the investments on variations, derivatives and enhancements are "engineering" as opposed to "science" so the development is supposedly more easily planned, the costs better understood and the returns more predictable.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

The reorganizing of Ford, and bankruptcy of Chrysler will be remembered, but not likely with the impact of GM filing bankruptcy.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025