Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. This is a serious mistake.

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Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 9

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. Half the stocks in the market are now yielding more than fixed income. innovative alternatives.

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Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

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. Our Brazilian team saw how well it was working there and adapted it for use in their market. It’s been a huge success there.

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CEO Company Reputation Energy 8

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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Stephenson Kahneman CEO Commitment 10

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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Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

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). The more trust that exists between players, the more efficiently the system, market, or organization will work.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

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. Market Capitalization increase during tenure: $341.5

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CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

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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Creativity Franchising Succession Film 8

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. For years, Blockbuster seemed unbeatable.

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Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. We came up with ' Global Enablement Teams ': we took the top people in mature markets and assigned them to help and mentor people in the growth markets. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. As a consequence, five of its CEOs have been non-American-born, including today's CEO, Turkish-born Muhtar Kent.

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Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 13

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. The stock market is down 25%.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

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. By the late 19th century, the U.S.

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GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 10

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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Tips CEO Software Drucker 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% This economic growth has not only led to the development of a burgeoning middle-class in these markets, it has fueled an increase in the number of citizens actively engaging in philanthropy. growth in GDP.

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Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

The most obvious explanation for this is that broadband providers are serving a new and burgeoning market. The reasoning was that, without regulatory pressure, monopoly owners of communications networks tend to charge too-high prices that depress use of their networks and end up crimping innovation and economic growth.

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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. Eventually the company is likely to be out of touch with changing market requirements. 3M owes part of its innovative success to the “new product vitality index.”)

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Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

He also emphasized in a 1999 book that “the wrong structure can doom all other market-driven initiatives in the organization to failure.” ” 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.

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Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The language of ecosystems redefined our understanding of competition by viewing markets has habitats. 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? Does biology inform business? It’s happened before.

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How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

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. Google has about the same revenue and profits as Comcast, and more than twice the market capitalization. An open Internet does seem like a good thing.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. This, however, is only after it has become firmly established in the South African market — and that is a point in itself.

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Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. “How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” Walmart went from a 3% share of the general merchandise retail market in 1982 to over 50% today. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

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. Expert Coaching.

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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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CEO Golden Parachute Politics Short-term 8