Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable. That might surprise some.

Long-term 207

Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

Ask a buy-side analyst why Amazon or Apple fetches the price-earnings multiple they do, and inevitably the conversation turns to things like their ability to innovate, their capacity to capture and grow the best talent, their skill at managing brand and vendor relationships or ecosystems. If you can't measure it, how can you manage it?

Intangible Assets 15

Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

At Microsoft, Eichenwald argues, leaders established "a corporate culture that by 2001 was heading down the path of self-immolating chaos." The company's stacked-ranking system, for example, required managers to rate employees according to a bell-curve pattern.

Long-term 14

Long-term Short-term Engineering Price 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

We had jobless recoveries coming out of the last recessions in 2001 and 1992, but this one put the budget squeeze on recruiting and has gone on for a very long time. But even when managers give permission to hire, they may drag their feet about actually bringing someone on. Does it mean there is something really different this time?

Cost 9

Cost Incentives Budgeting Report 9

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. The Buckeyes won the national championship that year, and football teams around the country have copied the tradition of rewarding individual excellence.

Cooper 12

Cooper Sports Groupthink Construction 12

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

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

For over two years, I’ve been doing qualitative research on Uber and Lyft drivers, first examining how Uber uses automated mechanisms to manage drivers with my coauthor Luke Stark. This bifurcation has been apparent in my own research. And, more recently, I’ve interviewed 85 Uber and Lyft drivers across the U.S. ” he asked.

Motivation 8

Motivation Survey Incentives Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

But the move to SaaS comes with considerable challenges: Firms will need to change their structure , sales culture, and incentives , and convince existing as well as new customers of the new offering’s value. Disclosure: One of us works at Amazon Web Services, a provider for many SaaS businesses.).

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

And the result of an undersupply of disclosure is toxic, perverse incentives. The original Napster was shut down in 2001, but its P2P heirs continue to share pirated files, and it paved the way for the rise of iTunes and Pandora — and the fall of Tower Records.

GDP 16

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When Enron, one of the world’s largest energy companies, collapsed in 2001, it sent shock waves through the corporate world. Setting goals is one of the established tools that managers have to increase staff motivation and performance. We asked the participants to explain how they would respond to a realistic business scenario.

Goal 8

Goal Morale Ethics Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

If you invest in human capital, whether in your company or in your country, sooner or later it will pay off if you have the right set of incentives. agricultural exports to Cuba in late 2001 under presidential discretion, which exceeded $5 billion between 2002 and 2014. It turns incentives about acquiring skills upside down.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The concern I expressed in the post was that these actions have become the standard by which CEOs are expected to manage. I, along with the rest of my management team and the board, agreed with the recommendation, and the drug was withdrawn. We had done a restructuring in 2001 with a significant number of layoffs.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Remember the summer of 2001 when CIA Director George Tenet said of the Al-Qaeda threat "the system was blinking red" but few around him seemed to grasp the urgency? Government Information & technology Risk management' I believe the cyber threat right now has much the same character. Welcome to the "Data Under Siege" Insight Center.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Information Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Outsourcing leads to business model risk — you open the door to outsourcing your profits (in fact, a 2001 Boeing paper that is incredibly prescient and worth the time to read identified exactly this problem). And while outsourcing can certainly lead to problems, I'm not convinced it's the cause of these problems. At least not yet.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing P&L Airlines Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives. When CEOs lack this expertise, they are more likely to manage R&D “by the numbers,” despite the fact that those numbers are more elusive than those for capital and advertising.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. How do they do it?

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Super-investor Warren Buffett’s admonition that “When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact” doesn’t apply. ” when Ron Johnson began rolling out Apple Stores in 2001.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

In late 2001 ImClone awaited approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of its much-heralded new cancer treatment, but unexpectedly the FDA decided to reject the company’s application. It ought to be no different for managers who must continually train and prepare for the big ethical decisions they will inevitably face.

Ethics 8

Ethics Training Biotechnology Morale 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

The Bush cuts also gradually raised the estate exemption and lowered the estate tax from 2001 until 2010, when the estate tax disappeared for that year only. Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011. What’s in the Tax Bill?

Press Release 178

Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

She led him down a long corridor to a door marked "Hotel Manager." You're responsible for your own P&L, just like all the other hotel managers, and that includes promotional spending of any kind. Since 2001, when she'd arrived at the company, she'd turned around two hotels. Honestly, Fernando, not much," Beatriz said.

Case Study 9

Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ It charged too much money and got away with it (because mid-managers but brand names of firms).

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

I met Tony in 2001 when he was sent to me with severe muscle weakness. In 2001 Questcor bought the rights to Acthar Gel, which is used to treat infantile spasms, a rare form of childhood epilepsy. The business model of the exploitative companies profoundly impacts our health care system’s ability to manage costs and provide care.

Price 14

Price Pharmaceuticals Company Health Care 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The infamous East German secret police, the Stasi , managed to infiltrate every pay of German life, from factories, to schools, to apartment blocks — the Stasi had eyes and ears everywhere. 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.

Film 8

Film Information Technology Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Our company, Frontier Strategy Group, recently polled 20 Latin America general managers about Venezuela’s contributions to their regional revenues. Hence the Chinese have incentives to maintain the Venezuelan economy afloat. Exodus of Multinationals. Venezuela represented only 1% of total revenues.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Price Politics Supply Chain 8