Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

A staggering 88% of companies listed in the 1955 Fortune 500 are nowhere to be found in the same list today. If we want our companies to last, we must excel at the “ Three Box Solution.” If we want our companies to last, we must excel at the “ Three Box Solution.” Now it’s less than 15 years.

Company 8

Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

Today, the new Chief Customer Officer role — a position that I believe most smart companies will create in the upcoming decade — is well-suited to the skills of a CI leader. In his research, he reports that these individuals typically have extensive sales, marketing and operational backgrounds. It sounds like a platitude.

Company 13

Company Business Intelligence CRM Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

With the Winter holiday shopping season, fashion apparel retailer Zara has been the focus of media attention — the New York Times recently profiled the innovative fast fashion business model pioneered by Zara, while Elizabeth Cline's book on the costs of fast fashion has climbed up the sales charts. Why wasn't it copied immediately?

Business Model 8

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition to the negative impact on decision-making, diminished communications from the lack of connection reduces the marketplace of ideas inside the organization, which in turn reduces innovation. Knowing that their input has been factored into a leader’s decision is motivating and it positively impacts their future participation.

Long-term 207

Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

But if the purpose of the company is its long-term survival, then one could make the argument that he was a failure as CEO, as he optimized short-term gains by squandering long-term opportunities. Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops).

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies?

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To make big improvements in productivity and customer service, people in an organization must collaborate across corporate hierarchies, functions, companies, and geographies. Leading companies such as IBM, Ford, and Avery Dennison are making major improvements in key processes by creating online communities to share deep knowledge.

Process 15

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More large companies means the gains are distributed more broadly than would be the case with just a few—but that domestic competition can be ferocious. More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. As a recent WalMart staff proposal stated "We have cut costs too far, stores are understaffed, and associates cannot provide customers with the service that Sam Walton built the company on, and that we are proud to provide."

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. These companies can’t ignore sustainability.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Three of the company's directors quit near the end of last year, and word recently emerged that the company was on the brink of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The easy narrative is that Kodak is a classic case of a company blind to the disruptive changes in its marketplace. Start before you need to.

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Using the concept of controlled chaos it is possible to increase efficiency and innovation. Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. For this reason, it is adaptable to almost any workflow or operational situation. The result is a more effective organization.

Agility 71

Agility Project Software Short-term 71

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For many companies, a shrinking middle class means a shrinking top line, as their traditional consumer base migrates to the lower end of the market. Smucker Company. That's right — the outfit best known for selling peanut butter and those iconic jars of jam that haven't changed much since the company was founded in 1897.

Brand 12

Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001. ” Now, this prediction about remote working has not only come to life; it’s proved to be more beneficial than the traditional office model for some companies. .” The advisory firm we work for is one such company.

Team 9

Team Organization Management Consultative 9

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

between the ages of 16-30 years old in 2001, it found more than 90 percent of those surveyed rated “connection and community” as their greatest need. Companies that are hell-bent on growth at any cost are harming their employees and their own organization’s performance. CNO Admiral Vern Clark, the former chief of the Navy did this.

Stress 150

Stress Mentor Competitive Advantage Long-term 150

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

The assumption is that company growth is good. One way to tell the story of mothers2mothers' growth is as follows: since 2001, the organization has expanded its operations to nine countries with an approximately $20 million operating budget. This innovation has impact. Conclusion?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

What the naysayers are overlooking or ignoring is that one could have made a list for Steve Jobs that would look remarkably similar: Missed earnings: Apple posted a $247 million quarterly loss ( in 2001 , four years after Jobs took over — and the stock went UP in after-hours trading). Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate.

Marketing 9

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen? It was so close.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Instead, the company called the new iPad just that: “the new iPad.” Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service.

Brand 8

Brand Education Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Meanwhile, the amount of prescription opioids sold by pharmaceutical companies has quadrupled, despite no proliferation in the amount of reported pain. Generally speaking, executives are compensated for things under their control: moving projects along, the stewardship of a P&L, and for the company hitting financial targets.

Incentives 8

Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers.

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In March 2000, Barron's reported that 51 Internet companies were burning cash so fast that they'd be broke by the end of the end of the year. The Burn Rate 51 was made up mostly of now-forgotten companies like drkoop.com and CDNow. In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Nice timing, huh?

Training 8

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Do: Get experience at an outside company first to improve your judgment and boost your confidence. Toby Bozzutto’s father, Tom, never asked him if he wanted to work in the family real estate management company. ” Toby did everything his father asked, joining The Bozzuto Group in 2001 as a development associate.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

His most brilliant insight was that companies compete on a bundle of connected, mutually reinforcing activities and resources. That bundle allows the company to create value in a way that can’t be imitated. So this view is often associated with innovation or disruption. When Innovation Is Strategy. Innovation Strategy'

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein have introduced a bipartisan bill that would require all tech companies to decrypt customer data at a court’s request. based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 At my company, we promise to keep valuable data private and secure.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

In 2001, Bill Gates stood up at Comdex and introduced Microsoft's first attempt at a Tablet PC to the world. But they just couldn't get it right — the company has rarely been able to bring innovations to market without seeing someone else do it first, and this instance was no different.

Cost 15

Cost Operations System Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Someday, Apple's now 11-year-long run of nearly unbroken triumph (I'm dating it to the launch of the iPod in November 2001) is going to end. If Tim Cook and his colleagues can keep that strategic discipline, the company has a shot at maintaining its competitive edge. That is just the way of the business world.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. Based on my observation of companies for almost a decade, I map out four levels that exemplify distinct stages through which companies may evolve on this journey.”

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. For my money, “What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions” (2001), which Garvin wrote with Michael Roberto, is the best piece on organizational decision making in HBR’s archive.

Management 8

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger. They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. The people lucky enough to work at these companies are doing relatively well. ” Its appetizer seems to have been smaller companies. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Years later, it took on bigger players by introducing new innovative packaging to the market, and subsequently carving out a double-digit share when few thought it could be done. And everyone is trying to climb to the top of that to get ahead,” explains Heather Fadali, senior brand manager for coffee at Kraft Heinz, Nabob’s parent company.

Brand 100

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

It’s achieved impressive results since being founded in 2001, and is run by a committee of about ten people. About 20% of the world’s websites are now on the WordPress platform – making it one of the most important internet companies. Well, Valve is a gaming company that makes Half Life, Portal and many other popular games.

Case Study 10

Case Study Committee Software Hamel 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

There has been a dramatic shift in mentality, and it doesn''t take much to work out the date on which this happened: September 11, 2001. Not China or Iran, concerned that its citizens might benefit from rules that would allow them to cover their footprints or that companies would have a much stronger incentive to protect users'' privacy.

Film 8

Film Information Technology Information Technology 8