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. Directness.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

But even so, they led their companies to great long-term financial performance. You can't sit around being fearful; you must act, like Herb Kelleher, who insisted on cutting costs and running lean operations in good times, so that they would be prepared for the next storm, imagined or real. Empirical Creativity.

Skills 15

Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 15

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. 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.

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

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). Only a long-term commitment to maintaining a culture that fosters trust will pay off. 5) Operational Transparency -. 4) Knowledge Sharing -.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

Between 2002 and 2012, the shareholder return of the average airline company rose an uninspiring 5.6% Of the worst-performing industries between 1992 and 2002, almost 60% percent wound up in the top half in the most recent 10-year period. Second, top-quartile companies operate more profitably than other companies.

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TSR Industry Company Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. 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. It contributed 1.4

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

That''s the finding of a big new study by Harvard''s Lucian Bebchuk, Duke''s Alon Brav, and Columbia''s Wei Jiang , which shows that companies targeted by activist hedge funds as undervalued markedly improve their operating performance in the subsequent five years. Hedge funds are often criticized as short-term speculators.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

In 2002 Norman Bodek , "the godfather of Lean ," came to Technicolor's Michigan facility to teach its leaders about how to implement a front-line suggestion process. But there wasn't much activity until six months later when Mike Karol, vice president of operations, told his managers to make it their responsibility. Their answer?

Process 13

Process How To Attrition Operations 13

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. This has long term consequences: these “exploiters” significantly underperform their exploratory peers.

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

The prevailing executive mind-set was "We take care of our people for life, as long as they show up every day and don't cause trouble.". So while the plan for change challenged long-held assumptions (among other things, it would require the elimination of 5,000 jobs, with more cuts likely to come), it was embraced by employees.

Health Care 14

Health Care Restructuring Resistance Long-term 14

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Ben : So, Larry, you mentioned your introduction to the Quakers and Robert Greenleaf is that when you first heard of the term servant-leadership? Larry : And that essay was published in 1970, when Greenleaf coined the term, “servant-leader”. Discovering Servant-Leadership. I just wondered, it was his original essay, wasn’t it?

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

The Boston Marathon is the oldest long-distance road race in the United States and one of the largest marathons in the country. cities that held marathons from 2002 to 2012. While this may seem small in absolute terms, it reflects a nearly 30% increase in travel time (the average travel time in our data was about 12 minutes).

Transportation 11

Transportation Travel Participative Sample 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The number of internet users in China stood at roughly 5 million in 1999 but grew to 40 million in 2002, by which time it was clear that Yahoo was not getting the traction that local Chinese internet companies were seeing. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Nothing has served me better in my long life than continuous learning.”.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Ben : So, Larry, you mentioned your introduction to the Quakers and Robert Greenleaf is that when you first heard of the term servant-leadership? Larry : And that essay was published in 1970, when Greenleaf coined the term, “servant-leader”. Discovering Servant-Leadership. I just wondered, it was his original essay, wasn’t it?

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. And that the two companies’ CEOs, Travis Kalanick and Cheng Wei, would take seats on each other’s boards.

Network Economy 8

Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

When you borrow talent, you obtain what you need more cost effectively than hiring it and without making a long-term commitment; and when you lend talent you’re offering your stars and high-potentials new opportunities for growth and development that they might not otherwise get within the confines of your organization.

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. In the 1990s, another international conglomerate purchased Bridgestone-Firestone.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches? The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. Operational Statistics. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

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. At present, the U.S.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 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. It enabled Capitec to remain unique in its offering for an unexpectedly long time. Importantly, profits kept pace.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Conceding defeat in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.4 billion and phased out Billpoint a year later. Failure of imagination.

Participative 8

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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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 322

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

In some ways it’s only natural that we see an increase in discussions on potential challenges for organizations in operating under a multi-generational workforce. And that is the issue of how to effectively manage a multi-generational workforce. 3) Finegold D., Mohrman S. & & Spreitzer G.M. 4) Conger J.A. Kolb D.A. &

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P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 243

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Executives never stayed long. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. These observations are intended to contextualize the Enron case studies in broader terms than were reported in the news media: Conditions Which Allowed It to Occur. Accounting.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57