Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Product and business models are evolutionary by nature, but we see four things a young company must get right: The founding team. Where the company is located. A good company usually begins with co-founders: the notion of a lone Edison willing a giant company into existence is rarely correct. The core values.

Company 16

Company Short-term Engineering PR 16

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. After all, building a thriving business is all about making lasting, personal, reliable connections inside and outside of your company. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. And it does not stop there.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Deborah joined MyCorporation in 2003 after serving as outside general counsel for 5 years. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

Uncertainty 57

Uncertainty Insurance Newsletter Incentives 57

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Too many multinational companies — particularly Japanese, Indian, German, and some American ones — still concentrate vital decisions in the hands of a small group of trusted leaders from their home country. In order to adapt to local cultures and market needs, companies must shift to decentralized, collaborative decision-making.

Globalization 15

Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

minister for equality favored the naming and shaming of those companies who failed to promote a fairer deal for women , it's clearer now that female talent doesn't have an equal place on executive boards. Gender-based quotas were raised by the government of Norway as early as 2003, and companies were given five years to comply.

Diversity 15

Diversity Guidelines Open-book Reference 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Job seekers can discover intangible aspects about a job and organization from their inside contact, helping them better assess their overall fit at a company. But firms that rely on current employees to refer new hires could end up with a less diverse workforce. promotions, assignments, job satisfaction). based sales organization.

Reference 8

Reference Sample Participative Diversity 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Jones Soda was a small Seattle-based beverage company competing against Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

Creativity 50

Creativity Bottom-up Newsletter Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

” It wasn’t just one company, though; the whole economy was slowed by the extremes and volatility we faced. So let’s consider what a company can do in a world that’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous – that’s “VUCA” for short, a military term that’s been adopted by business. Diversity.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

For the vast majority of American companies, doing business with Cuba remains illegal. The economic embargo still stands (though companies such as Caterpillar and Colgate-Palmolive have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying for an opening of Cuba). That said, the Obama administration has made a few changes. This is why U.S.

GDP 8

GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

Netflix’s shareholders notwithstanding, most people assume the right answer is to keep the two roles separate, in the interests of diversity of thinking and proper CEO oversight. But in the first two cases, once again, the data found no difference in company fortunes. Two years later, Jay W.

CEO 8

CEO Cost Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

For such a cutting-edge company, it’s disappointing that Amazon views pricing as a simple “up or down” lever. The downside of offering any unlimited plan is the over-consumers, a situation Red Lobster encountered in 2003 with its “Endless Crab” promotion. Amazon’s challenge provides two key pricing lessons to all managers.

Library 9

Library Price Forrester Wilde 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Whereas Gerstner famously declared "the last thing IBM needs is a vision," Palmisano had a clear vision for the company.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

This despite Wall Street’s uncertainty since the death of the company’s founder and visionary, Steve Jobs. Consider the recent history of Apple and Microsoft, two tech companies no longer run by their visionary founders, and how each has competed in red or blue oceans. And the company’s future hung in question.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Blue Ocean Strategy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Adopt a flexible attitude and practices and absorb the diversity of nutrients inside—even if they look different from the plain, white rice grains of yesteryear. In addition, a group of university researchers recently identified a key method while conducting a large-scale, randomized experiment in a Fortune 500 company.

Commitment 8

Commitment Quality Stress Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

A member of Seal Team 3, Webb became the Naval Special Warfare Command Sniper Course Manager in 2003. Webb wonders whether most companies are serious about what training can and should mean. This was a precarious time. By the time we had gone through the bulk of our overhaul, it had plummeted to less than 5 percent.”

Training 8

Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Deming Institute

MARCH 10, 2016

Knowledge is what differentiates successful companies from the ones that are not. It was fascinating to read some of the letters Deming would write to Noriaki Kano, or to Ford’s CEO Donald Petersen, and a bit of his work at various other companies. Edwards Deming used to say “Knowledge is the key.

Deming 28

Deming Library Tips Telecommunications 28

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

Beyond that, the households were diverse: rural, urban, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, recent immigrants, and families that have been in the U.S. Pay gaps are rising between companies more than within them. The cost of a bachelor’s degree from a public college has risen by one-third from 2003 to 2014. for generations.

Health Care 13

Health Care Insurance Video Transportation 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Founded in 2003 with $40 million in venture capital funding, Splunk was among the first companies to target the “big data” space. So if you’re a $50 million company and your goal is to grow to $250 million, consider targeting hires from firms operating at that level or higher. Training and Development.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Founded in 2003 with $40 million in venture capital funding, Splunk was among the first companies to target the “big data” space. So if you’re a $50 million company and your goal is to grow to $250 million, consider targeting hires from firms operating at that level or higher. Training and Development.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. ” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. This consistency, twinned with early successes, has made wider change possible.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

To find out which school of thought is more accurate, we looked at the value of brands and customer relationships as revealed by M&A data covering over 6,000 mergers and acquisitions worldwide between 2003 and 2013. However, marketers should be careful not to take this too far and underinvest in classic branding.

Brand 8

Brand Brand Valuation Power Brand Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

For those who believe in the promise of open innovation, the 2009 startup Quirky was an exceptionally exciting company. Founded by entrepreneur Ben Kaufman, Quirky developed a platform that connected the company with outside inventors and project contributors. Yet, in September 2015, Quirky went bankrupt.

Case Study 8

Case Study Innovation Core Competence Business Model 8