Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates.

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Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

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. More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15.

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Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

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. Google has created its own moonshot factory , to pursue game-changing technologies that may take years to pay off. We need to set our sights higher. Why We Need to Think Bigger.

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Agility Innovation Long-term Project 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models?

Business Model 15

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 15

Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

For a technology person to succeed, the coding skills are only a beginning. For long-term success, the person has to look “Beyond Code&# – mostly related to the people side of things. Here's a thing about life: Something that has been built over a long period of time can be destroyed almost instantly.

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Download Licensing Software Open-book 28

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. 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.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

I wanted to see if there was a method to that magic, since it’s so critical for organizations to keep innovating and reinventing if they want to survive over the long term. You describe your vision vividly and compellingly so that your fellow travelers long to see it become reality.

Succession 8

Succession Long-term Maturity Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In terms of speed of adoption, only Apple's iPad has rivaled the Kinect. Aside from some tough comments on my blog, the long-term repercussions were low. Back in 2005 I wrote a piece [ PDF ] looking at a new video recorder introduced by Pure Digital Technologies, the Flip. Life is tougher for the strategist.

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Press Release Strategy Long-term Video 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Or as thought leader Jennifer Sertl writes, "innovation ultimately begins on the inside.". The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. Hence, the Innovator's Dilemma: whether you innovate or not, you risk downward mobility. Be assured that you have no idea what will come next.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. Then it must pick the right areas to reinvest in, to fuel the company''s longer-term success.

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models?

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. Another ripe area for innovation is knowledge management and the impact of social media.

Globalization 14

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, New Orleans was a place where too many people accepted that the city’s zenith had passed over 150 years ago. Now, New Orleans is being recognized as a hub of innovation, with a rate of business startups 64% higher than the national average. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Transportation Price Education 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Fostering innovation. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Looking at the merger in terms of continued consolidation within the cable industry, however, misses the bigger picture.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In terms of the underlying psychological driver, leaders need to understand that Self-Starters fundamentally lack patience and are always thinking – in the shower, during a run or over their Saturday morning coffee. Engagement is concerned with the level of effort people put forth at work.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. And we received a flood of big ideas and game-changing initiatives and experiments from management innovators in all kinds of organizations around the world.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

-based telecoms, technology companies and internet platforms such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo and even Dropbox. based technology companies is at stake here, as is the future of U.S./EU would they rather be ''collateral damage'' now or take collective action to address potential long-term issues?

Globalization 8

Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 8

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. Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly.

Cooper 15

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) A study fielded by the Council on Foreign Relations, " Addressing the Special Needs of Girls ," underscores why missing school matters in a big, long-term way. I've found," says Scharpf, "that the common language is the one of emotion.". Emotion Attracts Good People.

Franchising 12

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. But rules affect profits and long-term sustainability. This convergence hypothesis is reassuring on many fronts.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

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. Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 26% (to 28% below its 2005 level) by 2025, the EU will cut emissions 40% by 2030 compared to 1990, and China will hit peak emissions by 2030 (or earlier), lower its emissions per unit of GDP by 65%, and increase use of renewables to 20% of energy consumption. For example, the U.S.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

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. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

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Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. So, to achieve higher performance, should company boards and investors choose CEOs with the expertise that would better qualify them to lead innovation? This work builds on earlier research into CEO qualifications.). Pharmaceuticals.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. The iPhone’s victorious attack followed — and required — a long arc of liberalization in airwaves, itself a stunning regulatory and marketplace triumph. The Radio Act of 1927.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

To address the realities of climate change and other ways in which we are increasingly overrunning planetary boundaries, we must now shift our mindsets, technologies, and business models from left to right, and from bottom to top. In 2005, I visited Wired magazine’s founding editor Kevin Kelly at his home in California.

Chemicals 9

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

public companies from the 1960s up to 2005 in HBR: “Since the mid-1990s, a new competitive dynamic has emerged — greater gaps between the leaders and laggards in an industry, more concentrated and winner-take-all markets, and more churn among rivals in a sector.” The competition story revolves around digital technology.

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McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Deep in the golden corn fields of Iowa, technology is transforming life on the farm. Farmers who used to trudge down long rows of cornstalk are now using FarmLogs’ satellite imagery and algorithms to turn raw agricultural data into powerful insights. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images. Nearly all of its customers are in the Midwest.

Policies 8

Policies Content Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

So while two of the three judges (the Clinton appointees) agreed that the FCC had the right to regulate broadband providers’ relationships with content providers (the FCC term is “edge providers”) even if it classified broadband as an information service, they didn’t think the agency had done it correctly up to now.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8