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”?

CEO 8

CEO Company Reputation Energy 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). One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures. These are just a few examples.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. Fostered global teamwork.

Globalization 15

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. economy, expands America's global trade, and attracts foreign companies to base operations in the U.S. to take advantage of America's talented leaders.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 13

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.” At its peak, the company operated 10,000 stores. As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion.

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Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. We decry CEOs for the same reasons that we formerly sainted and canonized them. Operational Statistics. people steal $20,000 from coin-operated machines.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

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. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. When the U.S.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This can be quantified by analyzing the extent to which the share prices of S&P 500 firms are driven by a firm’s present value of future growth options (PVGO) rather than cash flow from current operations. 3M owes part of its innovative success to the “new product vitality index.”) Cultivate shaping capability.

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Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

” A good example of customer-centricity is Tumi , the innovative U.S.-based Moreover, customer-centric firms that operated in highly competitive markets had 69% lower performance, compared with product-centric peers. 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

JANUARY 15, 2018

And they face an even greater challenge: maintaining flawless consistency, while simultaneously being innovative and cutting-edge. Unlike test kitchens of large chains or FMCG products, the team would work in R&D during the winter and then resume restaurant operations during the summer.

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Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 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. Gerrie Fourie, its current CEO, called it “innovating around frustrations.”

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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. Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. Architectural Innovation. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. 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.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8