Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

My own firm released a survey recently of 835 large companies (with an average revenue of $20 billion) that predicts a net job loss of between 4% and 7% in key business functions by the year 2020 due to AI. In stark contrast, very few of the companies we surveyed were using AI to eliminate jobs altogether. Insight Center.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The SEC Chairman recently announced a policy initiative to enable the ordinary investors to invest in private companies. Currently, only wealthy accredited investors are allowed to invest in private companies. Many public traded companies, such as Alphabet, Intel, and Apple are, in part, venture capitalists in disguise.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

If you’re one of the many managers out there who must negotiate with companies in China — the world’s largest emerging economy — you probably need to change your approach. Technology. Companies in China are also on the lookout for technology that will help them expand.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. RIM is just the latest company to learn this lesson. Yet, the trend is not free from potential downsides as the case of a large multinational telecommunications company illustrates. In 1998, RIM launched the BlackBerry.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

There are a variety of places where corporations and boards look for potential CEOs, but the leagues of management consulting generally isn’t one of them. So why should a company consider hiring a management consultant to be their CEO? It can’t be the case that any old consultant should lead up a company.

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Consultative CEO Management Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. ” Today, leading companies are embracing a new business process methodology. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In 2004, there was a severe earthquake and subsequent tsunami that resulted in profound effects to several Asian countries, including India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand and Indonesia. This is where technology can save the day. Today’s mobile autonomous robotic cart (MARC) technology takes automation a step further.

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Supply Chain Compliance Fashion Efficiency 115

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To make big improvements in productivity and customer service, people in an organization must collaborate across corporate hierarchies, functions, companies, and geographies. Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. And top executives don't have good mechanisms to share their vision downward.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Tom Szaky knows well the meaning of the saying “ Beware your dreams, for they may come true. ” With the 2004 Christmas retail season rapidly approaching, he was trying everything he could to scale up TerraCycle , a two year old venture selling liquid worm poop as fertilizer in used PET bottles. Pay on time.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

According to her story, a survey by executive-search firm Spencer Stuart found that about four out of five S&P 500 companies that chose a new CEO last year promoted insiders. That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012.

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CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. The most notable characteristic of those technologies is their accessibility — to customers, employees, partners, and competitors. But guess what?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Yet many employers still struggle to fill certain types of vacancies, especially for so-called middle-skills jobs — in computer technology, nursing, high-skill manufacturing, and other fields — that require postsecondary technical education and training and, in some cases, college math courses or degrees.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

After expending considerable effort on formulating a strategy, most executives would like to see their company’s strategic plans fully executed. In a similar vein, “strategic stress” can improve your company’s performance – up until a point. An example of strategic burnout can be found at Lego around 2004.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. And despite all of Facebook's user support, investors should be skeptical of the company's pricey IPO. As of yet, the company has not built out a compelling mobile advertising platform. display advertisements online.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Today, Apple is riding high, making this the perfect time for it — and every successful company — to reflect on Nokia's fall and ensure that they don't suffer the same fate. Kearney as "the best-managed company in the world" — not so different from Apple today. Not so long ago, Nokia was the disrupter.

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Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

By the time a glass ceiling is in place, it is far too late to change the trajectory or culture of a company. When women start companies they quite naturally create more permeable and diverse management teams, having worked on gender diverse teams, or, conversely, having seen the pitfalls of being the token woman in a homogenous grouping.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

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. The company’s R&D expenditures dropped by about $1.5 billion from 2002 through 2004. It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

This was the headline finding of a recent study (PDF) by the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Companies spend countless hours tracking financials: assets, liabilities, revenue, expenses, and cash flow. In short, it is their primary management system. Unexpected, to say the least.

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Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. That''s the question Michael Dell has been asking himself since 2007, when he retook the top job at the computer company he founded in 1984. How do you get back on top? For more background on the potential deal, click here.)

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Some companies need to be rescued from the brink of extinction (BlackBerry), but that’s not the only kind of turnaround. Find a meaningful unifying purpose.

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How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. On the contrary, academic research and business experience point to quite the opposite.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Look at the companies that successfully used this approach.". Companies that practice process improvement have been victims of this hype cycle for decades. Perhaps worst of all, they are forced to abandon old approaches that worked.

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. In a 2008 New York Times interview , he said, "If I am going to be at the top of the car company, I want to be the owner-chef — with knowledge not just of its vehicles but their ingredients.

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Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Given that companies are putting more than $14 billion a year into charitable causes, measuring results and ensuring real social impact should be important goals. As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty.

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Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

When it comes to launching new products, should your company be a pioneer or a follower? Research I conducted together with John Joseph of Duke University shows that both approaches can be successful — what matters most is not simply timing but whether a company tailors its innovation strategy to whichever approach it adopts.

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Due Diligence Incentives Innovation Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

I won''t give away the end of the piece, which involves a potential legal nightmare for any company that asks users to hit an "Agree" button after reading terms and conditions. But the Strava case is prescient as we continue to develop digital technologies that influence the emotions and impulses that make us so darned human.

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Film Technology Entrepreneur Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

India Business Council found that its large company members were prepared to invest $40 billion into India by 2017. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015. President to visit India twice.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The managers who express this idea in our simulated competitive games aren’t thinking of some simple shelving-units-on-wheels format – the kind of oversized salesman’s bag that’s been hauled out to prospects for decades. Probably not for your company. First, they show the product in the best light, in the hands of an expert user.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

We are in the midst of a technological revolution that is every bit as profound as the impact of cheap computing power, but it’s subtler and harder to notice. There are important implications for companies. Companies need to be constantly on the alert for the next software-based product that might pose a competitive threat.

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Software Engineering Efficiency Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Over my 15 years of teaching a course on IT in health care, I've seen that for CIOs who are MDs, the skill of delivering difficult messages becomes part of their tool set for communicating effectively with senior management. Rather than try to educate the CEO about technology, focus on the portfolio of risks associated with the legacy system.

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System CEO CIO Chief Information Officer 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Successful companies shape their high-level strategies by relying not on complicated frameworks but on simple rules of thumb. It illustrates how simple rules can help companies shape strategy in an uncertain environment. ALL was spun off from the Brazilian railway authority in 1997 to manage one of the country's eight freight lines.

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Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

With growing congestion a global megatrend, companies have a choice. For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center.

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Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

On the one hand, new technologies have enabled neuroscience to discover that men and women tend to be wired differently in ways that incline men — can it be? But there are gender-based distinctions in how men and women were able to regulate and manage their emotional response to these stimuli. Men on the job must feel besieged.

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Bottom-up Metrics Construction Finance 13

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

But Rob Manning, the chief engineer on Pathfinder, and his small team of young, ambitious engineers managed to get a sign-off from NASA’s chief, with a chilling admonition to not fail. Two more rovers followed in 2004. Spirit and Opportunity both landed successfully using the same airbag technology as Pathfinder.

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Innovation Engineering Learning-by-Doing Creativity 226

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Rather, I think an approach which shows them how the social media technologies can be used to leverage their influence is more likely to get traction… and to some extent, this involves minimizing the ‘social’ in favor of the broadcasting/bully pulpit elements, especially initially. All the best to you all, Terry Kevin W.

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Media Blog Learning-by-Doing Influence 306

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At any given moment, about 5%–7% of companies either are in free fall or are about to be. And here’s a sobering fact: Only about 10%–15% of those companies will ever pull out of it. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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