Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

While on the surface revenues remained strong, its rapport with customers and physicians was rapidly eroding, and its reputation was being bludgeoned by lawsuits and a national backlash against health maintenance organizations and managed care (which Aetna had championed).

Health Care 14

Health Care Restructuring Resistance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? There was lots of resistance. Another ripe area for innovation is knowledge management and the impact of social media. Fostered global teamwork.

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

As a result, when making close calls on the company’s financial reports, that auditor may be too deferential to Nissan management. The purpose of a nominating committee is to assure that directors are selected on the basis of competence and independence, rather than friendliness to management.

Committee 8

Committee Chief Financial Officer Document Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. That''s what activist hedge fund managers like Ackman do. The particular brand of investing that Ackman and a small number of other hedge-fund managers practice is best described as medium-term. I''m not joining in. But he''s doing God''s work.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

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. His next book, Intrapreneurship: Managing Ideas within the Organization, will be released in 2011. A business drama ensued; classic "gut versus data" stuff.

Execution 14

Execution Education Long-term Guidelines 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. Resulting from inflexible conditions, obsolete policies-procedures, procrastination, attitude, resistance to innovation, failure to change.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 Resisting revenue temptations. Companies, and certainly new entrants looking for growth, often find it difficult to resist jumping onto various new sources of revenue. Yet Capitec’s management was thinking ahead. Importantly, profits kept pace.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

The preparations, produced by small teams or individual cooks, are progressively assembled, with sous-chefs (akin to middle managers) controlling the quality at every step. This collective culture of creativity multiplies the pool of ideas and softens resistance to new products and processes being adopted.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That model still exists, including in online publishing where companies like Automattic, maker of the open source content management system WordPress, sell hosting and related services to publishers. Vox is a digital publishing company known, in part, for its proprietary content management system. Why, then, did Apple prevail?

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8