Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. Organizations with aligned and engaged employees clearly have a competitive edge.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Any company or organization is like a tree. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. I advised several technology companies during their gravy years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). The problem was that Ballmer organized the company around execution of its current strengths, the Windows and Office businesses. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

This practice, which is largely the evolution of database marketing, has become a critical driver of business strategy for global organizations in nearly every industry and vertical, because it supports decisions with data. In this way, CI's value extends well beyond the marketing organization. It sounds like a platitude.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Borrowing many of the HBR article’s key ideas and filling in specific operational practices, Sutherland created a new way of developing software; honoring the rugby imagery, he dubbed his approach “scrum.” Disruptive technologies were terrorizing slow-footed competitors. The Information Age was exploding.

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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. Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Making Collaboration Work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. retains its leadership in technological progress.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Many large organizations have too little capacity for external sensing, strategic reflection, and business transformation. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. We’ll focus here on what the sales organization should be doing now to prepare for the next recession, with an eye toward using new digital tools.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

Indeed, the gap between firms in the top 10% by productivity and those in the bottom 10% increased by approximately 14% from 2001 to 2012. The pay gap between the top- and bottom-paying firms in the same sector has increased by more than 12% from 2001 to 2012. One of them has clearly been information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. When Agile software development was born in 2001, it articulated a set of four critical principles to elevate the craft of software development and improve engineering and product manager motivation. Peter Dazeley/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Several years later, in 2001, I was working as chief of staff to then-Harvard University President Larry Summers when we unveiled Harvard’s Sustainability Principles. we have a responsibility to lead.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Zara was founded in 1975 and its parent company, the Inditex group went public in 2001. At best, the once in a lifetime blockbuster discovery of Viagra gave its parent organization about 5 years of market dominance before the competition caught up. And this in an industry with perhaps more patent protection than any other.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5% In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. percent annually, while similar U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy. Despite recent trade conflicts, the European Union, Japan, and the U.S. have been quietly working to develop another agreement containing rules to restrain Chinese subsidies. The growth of SOEs.

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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. Organizations that don’t follow the norms are likely to fail. Firms organized around small, autonomous teams are much more nimble than large hierarchies. The organization has a shared purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Technology, on the other hand, makes it much easier. And while you might scoff at these as something that only early adopters use, even late adopters of digital technologies leave behind an incredibly detailed trail of their lives. But the technology alone isn''t the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

May 2 marks the fifth anniversary of the operation that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. His death was the culmination of a global manhunt that lasted more than a decade and assumed extreme urgency after the September 11, 2001, attacks. The trail had gone cold. The trail had gone cold. Where We Started.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). GE’s gross margin was 21% last year, compared with 28% for United Technologies and 30% for Siemens. Comstock is out.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Take Dell Technologies, for example. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

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. Most companies with an inside-out perspective become attached to what they produce and sell and to their own organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

As the recent deadlock in the latest Doha Round talks in the World Trade Organization (WTO) illustrates, it's not clear that U.S. In the 1990s, the Clinton Administration pursued "open sectoral" multilateral agreements in information technology, telecommunications, and financial services. 50, February 2001). It is time for U.S.

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