Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

For businesses that want to continually innovate and grow, engaged employees who work with passion and feel a profound connection to their company are required. The study showed a 27 percent performance increase when an incentive was offered for persistence toward a company goal.

Motivation 54

Motivation Incentives Chief Executive Officer Absenteeism 54

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

This is the case because innovation occurs when an individual sees a potential connection between two previously unrelated ideas e.g. shoes + wheels = roller skates. A diminished marketplace of ideas reduces the likelihood the innovative connections will be made to birth new products, processes and businesses. percent.

Long-term 207

Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

So it is with most breakthrough innovations and banner financial years. There is no line on the balance sheet for "ability to innovate" or "skill at managing brand." And even if there were, it would have to be expressed as a probability statement: How likely is Apple to innovate or out-innovate its peers?

Intangible Assets 14

Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 14

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. Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Boston-based SkillWorks , founded in 2001, has placed more than half of the 500 displaced workers it has trained in new jobs. That will take leadership and innovation from various constituencies — business (individual firms, but especially industry associations), education, and labor — and targeted federal funding and incentives.

Skills 8

Skills Company Health Care Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The staff reasoned that rewarding stellar individual performances would provide the right incentive to excel. But by 2001, the once-dominant Buckeyes had slipped into mediocrity. This social relationship between leaders and followers is at the heart of transformational leadership.

Cooper 9

Cooper Sports Groupthink Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

To learn more about how Harvard Business School can help you prepare for the challenges of global leadership, visit the program website. Gulati, whose research explores leadership and strategic challenges for building high growth organizations in turbulent markets, is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor at Harvard Business School.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8