Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. There are few human activities whose success is measured by a single metric. And it avoids confusing success with measurability.

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Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Occasionally they get much more involved, as with Eddie Lampert''s seemingly permanent ( and not exactly successful ) takeover of Sears and Kmart. The very rarity of such interventions helps make them successful. He started developing his famous case against bond insurer MBIA in 2002, and had to wait till 2009 for it to pay off.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

And then we found Alibaba — and it found us — and that connection led to the partnership that ultimately proved to be remarkably successful. This success was built on what we learned from our prior efforts, as well as a resolve to take new risks to do what was necessary to succeed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward.

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Execution P&L CEO COO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

People who study successful corporations — I'm thinking of Jim Collins , Rosabeth Moss Kanter , Michael Beer , and many others — keep reporting that one important trait that most of them share is that they don't emphasize the maximization of shareholder value. They're a metric, not a goal.

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Short-term Collins Bottom-up Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

As long as the Model T's design remained ahead of the competition, as long as it competed on price, and as long as the market's needs remained static, this was a successful and disruptive innovation strategy, since Ford had no compelling reason to innovate in any other sphere other than cost- and price-reduction.

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Innovation Mass Marketing Price Market Segmentation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

This idea has led to regulation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), as well as requirements by the NYSE and NASDAQ that boards have a majority of independent directors and that members on the audit committee have financial expertise. Boards can and do play an important role in the success of companies.

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Company Committee CEO Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

These are some of the most salient issues of campaign finance facing CEOs and boards of directors as the nation heads into what will certainly be a bitter election year, with both houses of Congress and the Presidency up for grabs. Should we support generally moderate candidates who can compromise on major structural issues facing the U.S.,

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Company Politics Policies Proposal 12

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. He did it through sheer ingenuity, without any formal training. By the time George Washington signed the first U.S.

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GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

One of its most successful marketing campaigns was “Let’s Build a Smarter Planet.” When HP merged with Compaq in 2002, Bill Hewlett’s son Walter protested that “the fundamental mistake … was the perceived need to do something with scale instead of succeeding the way HP has in the past.”

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How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

In 2006, the last time a President had to nominate a Fed chairman, the job went to Ben Bernanke, who had spent his entire career as an economics professor before being called up to Washington for a stint as a Fed board member in 2002. Then McCabe went back to Scott Paper and Martin took over as chairman of a re-empowered Federal Reserve.

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Banking Rogers Career Education 9

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition. Successful peacekeeping missions include El Salvador, Namibia, and East Timor. Less successful include Somalia and Bosnia where there was less local support for their presence.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

The success of platform businesses like Alibaba, Airbnb, and Uber is so remarkable that discussion about them often misses just how hard they are to build. For every successful platform, there are many more that struggle or simply don’t make it. Conceding defeat in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.4

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

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. This suggests a more significant contributor to a successful coaching outcome is a person's state of mind rather than the qualifications and skills of the coach.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. I used to discuss the issue at the Fed, “What do we get by being very successful in forecasting?” And I say a bubble.

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