Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

But it was an inevitable consequence of the value chain strategy that the company pursued in a highly constrained innovation space — one in which the hardware platform is defined by Intel and the software experience is defined by Microsoft. This constrained innovation space is a direct result of Intel's commoditization strategy.

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Long-term Software Retail Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Exploitation allows companies to monetize their exciting new ideas and thereby relieve some of the stakeholder pressure for short-term earnings. 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.

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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. Perspective – ability to see or sense the big picture, long-term thinking. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002). These are just a few examples.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Short-term corporate behavior is a major problem in the 21 st century firm. Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. Tim Evans for HBR. So how can we ensure the latter?

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Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 Such investments might not be sustainable in the long term. China, too, needs more technological innovation. The ultimate goal is the ability to innovate independently. percentage points of the 10.5

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 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. This strategy has been, in itself, Disney’s great breakthrough innovation. ” WB has long taken a tried-and-true approach to its films, particularly with respect to its DC Comics superheroes.

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Creativity Franchising Succession Film 8

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. Others are investing for retirement or to pay for a child's college tuition, and care about long-term returns.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

When something isn’t working in health care, it can take a long time to change, but providers can reach their own unique breakthrough moment that serves as the catalyst for long-term transformation. ” A new paradigm.

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Health Care Quality Report Environment 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. Brant/DePodesta could run the numbers and explain them in straightforward terms to the decision-maker.

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Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

That's almost 14 years as CEO — a long time, considering that the average CEO tenure for large U.S. In all the tributes to Steve Jobs, what people recall is not these numbers, of course, but the innovations, the man himself, and what he stood for. There is a long build-up period, followed by a rapid increase.

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CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

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. Patience and a long-term view. Forward-thinking leaders are not just achieving measurable success in the short-term. Directness. He's personable, but blunt.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

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.,

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

So, during GE’s long and steep decline, where was the company’s board of directors? Before 2018, it had the three standard board committees — governance, compensation, and audit — plus a technology and risk committee to cover important areas such as product risk, cybersecurity, and technological innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

The all-day breakfast had deep appeal and by upgrading and reorganizing the kitchens, McDonald’s could satisfy this long-standing customer request without slowing overall service. Even when companies do want to expand their product offerings, internal preparation and sequencing can matter more than the innovation itself.

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Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

To be clear, this tendency to focus on exploitation and not exploration may even be welcomed by some investors who value predictable short-term returns from reduced costs and investments, increasing dividends and share buybacks. This has long term consequences: these “exploiters” significantly underperform their exploratory peers.

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

In 2002 the company hired a chief diversity officer, Anand Rohini, to make diversity a priority. But because emotional communities are held together as much by the likes as by the dislikes of members, they can be unpredictable and difficult to manage in the long term. Consider Sodexho.

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Diversity Human Resources Policies Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

While the growth of health care costs has slowed over the past few years, lowering costs over the long term will depend on improving health care labor productivity. Demand and supply are not growing in tandem: from 2002 to 2012, inpatient days per capita decreased by 12% while the workforce in hospitals grew by 11%.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Compliance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

While our own physicians are still largely reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis from non-Geisinger insurance payers, since 2002, we’ve been using the following 80/20 compensation model: 80% of total cash compensation is based on the usual piecework metrics: panel size, number of patients seen, number of work units performed, and so on.

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Insurance Cost Incentives Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% For example, Vox Capital — founded in Brazil in 2008 by three young social entrepreneurs — invests in innovative, high-potential businesses that serve low-income populations and contribute to the reduction of poverty. growth in GDP.

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Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

the NFL’s yearly list of “top 10 NFL rivalries”), those made by 56 NFL fans we surveyed who demonstrated expertise, and the count of Google search results for terms such as “New England Patriots versus New York Jets rivalry.” Our findings carry some important implications for individuals and organizations.

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Participative Rogers Influence Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

While he was at Amazon from 1997-2002, Greg Linden prototyped a system for making personal recommendations for other products to customers as they checked out. Problem was, a marketing Senior Vice President thought these would distract customers from completing their purchase and didn't think Linden had proof it would work.

Execution 14

Execution Education Long-term Guidelines 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. But rules affect profits and long-term sustainability. But where's the evidence for convergence?

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. K-Mart, long the dominant discount chain had gotten comfortable with its leads over competitors. Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises. Doing Things as We Always Have.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches? The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate reform legislation, in 2002. The product’s former innovation and dominance has somehow missed the mark in today’s business climate.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

We were completing a year in which 58,009 people would participate in one of our long-distance walks or rides for charity, and would raise $169 million in contributions for AIDS, breast cancer and suicide prevention — $32 million more than the year before, which was $31 million more than the year before that. Sixteen U.S.

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Teamwork Learning-by-Doing Maturity Case Study 14

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. ” Indeed, Capitec is more focused, in terms of what it does and does not do, than most companies and certainly most banks.

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Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

based corporations make up a disproportionately high share of the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world’s most important corporations (in terms of profits, assets, market capitalization, or sales). Further, U.S. There is no doubt that U.S. corporations are global leaders. European Union officials have recently argued that U.S.

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Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Successful platforms engage in platform evangelism, providing developers with resources to innovate, feedback on design and performance, and rewards for participation. Fraud prevention can keep platform costs down over the long term but puts friction on user transactions, which dissuades value-creating activity.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I did a quick Google search for the term business coach and received 116 million returned results – if that doesn’t scare you it should. As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

There have long been suspicions of an urban/rural divide across Western societies, with urban communities backing liberal and metropolitan parties, with their rural peers plumping for conservative alternatives. Despite this, they are also more likely than their urban peers to vote in elections. Geographical fracturing.

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Politics Long-term Trends Globalization 77

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. Another client introduced a connected product that required the user to go through a long set up process, including setting a clock. No innovation remains innovative for long. Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2018

Long before its current crises , tech gained a reputation for elitism, ” brogrammer “ culture, and an overrepresentation of white and East Asian men (albeit with mostly white ones in management.) For their part, black and Latinx workers have together ticked up only slightly since 2002, to 14.7%

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Incubator Company Technology Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

While it’s the level of pay that captures politicians’ (and the public’s) attention, it’s the structure of pay which matters more for firm value – for example, whether it vests in the short-term or long-term. A cap could also lead boards to focus on the “optics” of pay (e.g.

CEO 8

CEO Golden Parachute Politics Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

So while two of the three judges (the Clinton appointees) agreed that the FCC had the right to regulate broadband providers’ relationships with content providers (the FCC term is “edge providers”) even if it classified broadband as an information service, they didn’t think the agency had done it correctly up to now.

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Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8