Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. A look at any performance measure shows that innovation can come from either size, and that both arguments are oversimplifications. And the CEO sees enabling a culture of collaborative innovation as key.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Converting these non-consumers into consumers will require breakthrough innovations — quality products at affordable prices. The starting point for such innovations is a big idea, a big dream. Kennedy’s put-a-man-on-the-moon charge, but there are organizational examples as well that also unleashed game-changing innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs approached AT&T about partnering on a new kind of mobile phone — a touchscreen computer that would fit in your pocket — Apple had no expertise in the mobile market. Randall Stephenson, then CEO of AT&T, famously said , “I told people you weren’t betting on a device.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Tom Falk, the CEO of Kimberly-Clark Corporation since 2002, talks about how the paper company is taking on environmental issues and has been practicing sustainability for 140 years. Did you ever have a moment where you said to yourself, “We as a company can be part of the solution to environmental problems”?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. It gives the CEO a breather until the company has to return to exploration to restock its supply of radical ideas. This may sound as though we’ve got our facts backward, but your company can significantly increase its knowledge output by cutting R&D spending. Take Cisco, for example.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002). One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures. These are just a few examples.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Steve Jobs landed the number one spot in our ranking of the best CEOs in the world, published in HBR in January 2010. Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. His tenure had not ended. companies is around six years. million, a 35.4%

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. When Robert Iger, Disney chair and CEO, purchased Pixar for $7.4 So he struck a deal with then CEO Steve Jobs to buy Pixar. This strategy has been, in itself, Disney’s great breakthrough innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As a consequence, five of its CEOs have been non-American-born, including today's CEO, Turkish-born Muhtar Kent. Many global companies have followed Coke's lead by appointing foreign-born CEOs and executives. UK-born George Buckley, CEO of 3M, will be succeeded by Swedish-born Inge Thulin.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Dear Meg: Becoming CEO of Hewlett-Packard is almost as big a deal as being Governor of California (your previous aspiration ) — and just as political. But HP is no longer a values-driven, family-like, innovation-oriented company that inspires commitment. There's no time for either. You must get right to work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Had he been born in Texas, he might be a young CEO running an energy company by now, because the funds would inevitably flow.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. Prior to 2002, when Sam Palmisano became CEO, IBM had a series of feuding fiefdoms — 170 country units — each with its own policies, procedures, and processes. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

The essence of the book is captured in the quote by Robert Eckert, former Mattel CEO: “As you go to work, your top responsibility should be to build trust.” It is one of the top selling business books of all time and a favourite among CEOs. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). By Jim Collins.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% In a recent interview Jane Wales, president and CEO of the Global Philanthropy Forum, argued that emerging philanthropists are acting more like investors than traditional philanthropists. growth in GDP.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. These are the qualities I believe made him the best CEO, so far, of the 21st century: Humility and openness. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

At Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System, where I was CEO for 15 years, changing our model for physician reimbursement was one way we aimed to combat such practices and achieve value-based care. Physicians received their 20% innovation bonus. Insight Center. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Fast forward a few years, and lower growth means fewer interactions with new, demanding customer groups and less inspiration to innovate. 3M owes part of its innovative success to the “new product vitality index.”) Peter Hancock, CEO of AIG, told us: “I always hear, ‘You’re giving me mixed messages.’

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Might a company have the same DNA for its lifetime, but be able to innovate by expressing that DNA into new business models, organizational designs, and offerings? But the following stories suggest further exploration is warranted. ” Starting in the late 1990s, a series of CEOs saw the HP Way as a liability rather than an asset.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

” A good example of customer-centricity is Tumi , the innovative U.S.-based Its 2002 restructuring offered little incremental benefit while adding cost and complexity. In addition, CEOs and functional heads need to talk to each other about proposed changes in organizational structure.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. innovative alternatives. Half the stocks in the market are now yielding more than fixed income.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

And they face an even greater challenge: maintaining flawless consistency, while simultaneously being innovative and cutting-edge. But while a dedicated lab expands a restaurant’s capacity for R&D, innovation more importantly has to be embedded in the DNA of the organization.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 11, 2010

I love the innovative structure. The movie isnt well known because the writer and director, Christopher Nolan, achieved acclaim for his later works, Memento (2000), Insomnia (2002), Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and this year Inception (2010). I love the mix of gritty realism and humor. I love the dialogue. since 1987.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. We decry CEOs for the same reasons that we formerly sainted and canonized them. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The shutdown will be completed by early 2014, bringing to a close a dramatic story of rise and fall at the hands of disruptive technological innovation, or what we have called “ big bang disruption.” As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion. The Blockbuster-Netflix skirmish is a case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

So the question is really whether the current, mostly hands-off regulatory regime for broadband has led to faster growth and more investment than if Powell, as chairman of the FCC, hadn’t decided in 2002 to classify cable broadband as a lightly regulated “information service” instead of a common-carrier “telecommunications service.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

August 2002: HBR's special innovation issue hits the street, and my contrarian article about the fickle nature of corporate innovation sits sandwiched between stories by the likes of Peter Drucker, Henry Chesbrough, John Seely Brown, and Richard Florida. Breaking Out" stood proudly at the lunatic fringe of innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection. I've never interviewed a 60 year old CEO who didn't know much more at 60 then at 50, then at 40 and so on. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 Capitec’s strategy is reminiscent of Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen’s model of disruptive innovation : It did not enter the industry taking its competitors head-on, by offering superior products or services.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. But to explain that, one needs to explain why some companies are so much better at developing software than others and why their innovations don’t seem to be diffusing to their smaller competitors the way Carr thought they inevitably would.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, said that to TechCrunch in 2010 , but the line from then to now is the graph of our growing disenchantment with tech. For their part, black and Latinx workers have together ticked up only slightly since 2002, to 14.7% of employment in those occupations in 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Similar to what we’ve learned about creating cultures of innovation, it takes more than a handful of leaders contributing creative brilliance; it takes leaders driving the focus on and readiness for change that going digital requires. Consider the case of Peter Voser, former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

Donald Trump has called high CEO pay “a total and complete joke” and “disgraceful,” arguing that CEOs stack boards with their buddies who rubber-stamp excessive pay. First, to cap, or at least force the disclosure of, the ratio of CEO pay to median employee pay. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

These information services, the thinking went, were better left free to innovate and compete largely exempt from FCC regulation. There is widespread agreement among economists that the current open, modular nature of the Internet has stimulated innovation and growth. An open Internet does seem like a good thing.

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