Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. The short answer we find from our research is: No. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images. There are some clear lessons here for all economies, not just emerging ones.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Today, businesses often operate on short-term objectives of profit maximization and shareholder return. We get back to core stuff.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2018

In much the same way, IBM’s Watson project , which is helping the venerable company overcome the disruption of its traditional business, began in 2005. which led to the development of its current Watson business. In fact, it began in the early 2000s, but was little noticed until recently.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. Change Documentation Develop and implement a standard set of training modules on key skills-based aspects of the new way of working. Testing and Learning Identify—and actively communicate and learn from—short-term wins.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

I've taught a course about these questions for many years at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and this year I notice a shift in the answers my students are developing. As the term began in January, we were engulfed by news about how pictures and text messages transmitted by mobile phones stimulated the revolution in Tunisia.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The crisis exposed the fallacies of measuring success in monetary terms and left many leaders with a deep feeling of unease that they were being pulled away from what I call their True North. You're able to both observe and participate in each moment, while recognizing the implications of your actions for the longer term.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

It’s not enough to get people to do what you want, they also have to want what you want — or any change is bound to be short lived. In 2005, John Antioco was the eminently successful CEO of Blockbuster, the 800-pound gorilla of the video rental industry. That’s why change management efforts commonly fail.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Furthermore, these actions are taken seemingly without regard to the consequences for the community, the employees, the survival of the company as an institution, or the creation of long-term firm value. Investors favorably receive projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

At the same time, there are certain ways LBOs can actually make it easier for firms to invest in the long term. And it’s not as though public corporations are being praised for their long-termism—they’re also subject to shareholder pressure for short-term earnings. that didn’t undergo buyouts.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S. Amara’s law teaches us that we tend to overestimate the amount of change in the short term but under-estimate it in the long term. newspaper industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque. Fukuyama's would-be allies in the business world haven't developed what you could call a coherent plan of attack.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Relocating for a job can often be “great for your personal and professional development,” but it’s also “a risk and a leap into the unknown.” But this is an instance where Excel comes up short. “Ask: What is best for us in the long-term?” ” Consider your development.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Here's the bad news for Gen X: at each point thus far, you've drawn a pretty short straw. A Boomer who bought a home in 1991 has a house today that is worth less that it was five years ago — but is still ahead overall, while a Gen-X'er who bought in 2005 now has a home worth far less than what he paid.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

By contrast, since 2005, the importance of meaningfulness in driving job selection has grown steadily. In terms of sheer quantity of work hours, organizations will see more work time put in by employees who find greater meaning in that work. Current compensation levels show only a marginal relationship with job satisfaction.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

I had worked for over a decade to develop relationships with Latin American business leaders, several of whom were on Forbes' billionaire list. The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. These require different metrics of success.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. That’s because soccer players today work closer than ever before.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

Large, well-established companies in need of long-term growth often turn to M&A. In short, they lose their exploratory drive. In 2005, Disney was lagging in creative output and commercial traction. .” Still, Iger did not abandon shorter-term financial rewards. What needs to change?

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

In today’s competitive world, top executives increasingly understand that sustaining peak performance requires a commitment to developing leaders throughout the organization. Leaders need to develop other leaders. Habits that have taken 40 years to develop will not go away in a week.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Next week, my post on the topic will appear on her blog ) In the weeks leading up to the mid-term elections last month, the struggles and shortfalls of the Obama administration were analyzed by many. We work really hard on developing smart solutions, only to see them fail because we don’t have enough juice in the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

In 2005, Dimon hired Ina Drew to head the company's Chief Investment Office, the unit responsible for the bank's risk exposure. On April 4 of this year, Dimon read a short article in the Wall Street Journal about a JPMorgan trader in London, Bruno Iksil, who was making massive bets that exposed the bank to high levels of risk.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

The whole procedure can take up to 8 years and is full of obstacles — even though the EU is projected to be short of more than 200,000 physicians by 2020. Plan for long-term integration. In short, the Swedes have created a practical and effective integration process. Make it human.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us. Rich countries could simply reject the agenda, or they could co-opt a few key developing countries into the existing system.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The PC division was sold in 2005. Strengthen the board and develop a kitchen cabinet. Set short-term achievable goals, and keep your promises. HP is a decade behind IBM in business model change. Compared to HP's situation, IBM's transformation was a walk in the park. Get the best advisers.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 11, 2010

Set some specific short term goals for them, and better still, throw in an incentive or two (a really good one this time of year is a “free&# Friday or Monday off). Here are 5 easy ways that I have used throughout the years to keep that momentum going.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Its weaknesses, like short-termism, speculative trading, absentee ownership, profit- and shareholder-centric orientation, inability to account for non-monetary value, exploitation of labor, and extractive use of natural resources are creating too many disruptions across the globe for the model to survive. treating suppliers as partners).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Burned out from a merger in 2005, TMN launched a "work style reform" initiative which has grown progressively more autonomous, transparent, and Web-enabled. What if training and development programs unleashed human potential rather than packed people full of curricula, models, and competencies? Story by Tsukasa Makino.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

grew by nearly 80% between 2005 and 2012. This may work for a while, but you must develop a culture in order to foster engagement and sustain their performance over the long term. But affective trust (based on feeling) is trickier to build virtually — you may need to bring team members together for short periods of time.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. That’s because soccer players today work closer than ever before.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Bush, Chairman Amnon Rodan, and adviser Oran Arazi-Gamliel decided they had two choices for the firm’s sales strategy: They could juice the sales commission plan with temporary short-term bonuses, trying to motivate their consultants to work harder.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

For the decade 2005-2014, McDonald’s expended $29.4 Kroc developed relations with a relatively small but stable group of suppliers whose efficiencies in mass production and distribution were to some extent passed on to the franchisees. billion on buybacks, representing 67% of net income, and $22.1

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 7, 2010

Even the term “ success ” has a sense of finality to it that works against you. Once again, because of the effort necessary to achieve the milestone, there’s a strong temptation to ease off the accelerator (especially from the rank and file, who have toiled the most), at least for a short period. Leaders must resist that temptation.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Trust vs. Fear - Leading by instilling fear, while it can get things done in the short term, simply doesn’t work over the long haul. Short, to the point, and so important to be reminded of! Building trust is the much better approach, although it takes a heck of a lot more effort. Glad it was shared by a co-worker.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

It’s what we call “listening softer&# in asset-based thinking terms. However, I am extremely grateful for the knowledge I have gained in the short period of time. A leader seeks these opportunities out and capitalizes on them. Hank Wasiak January 4, 2010 at 12:34 pm Great advcie. Love the idea of the virtual Q-Tip.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

It’s also important that you leave on good terms with your company and indicate if you are open to occasional projects and assignments — which is a good way to keep your hand in your profession. After signing the main act she and her team developed to Interscope, she decided to “go back to what [she] does best.”

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

The manager needs to make sure that the company’s short and long-term objectives are always in the front of everyone’s mind, as well as make sure that every individual clearly understands what is expected of them on a day-to-day basis. “ Fc&# is Focus.

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