Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. BDAI (for short) is excellent at making sense out of the current state. He thought in broad terms about what human beings might do with powerful new tools, and went about creating them.

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CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Navy from 2000 until 2005. When Admiral Clark became the chief, first term re-enlistment didn’t meet the Navy’s goal of 38 percent. command and control of the Navy was quickly reestablished and planning for America’s response began while the embers of the fire from the terrorist attack still smoldered a short distance away.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The HR Digest: You’ve coined the term “20-first,” emphasizing the need for balance in leadership across genders, generations, and nationalities. Can you elaborate on the rationale behind this concept and its implications for organizational success?

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Mills Scofield

JULY 27, 2014

On 16 October 2005, an incredible feat was achieved sixteen miles West of Denver, Colorado. In tangible terms, a project initially forecast to span 70 years and cost taxpayers $36 billion was completed 60 years ahead of schedule and $29 billion dollars under budget.a It was nothing short of altering awful to astonishing.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

In reality though, some relationships have to end in the short-term. Let us look at one such situation: Yes, you want to build long-term relationships. Unless you want to be “taken advantage of&# , maintaining a long-term or very-long-term relationship with this person would be meaningless.

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Long-term Licensing Short-term Newsletter 29

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. By comparison, 62% of incumbents in high-income economies on average remained in the top quintile for the same decade.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. Connecting with core employees is essential to a leader’s long-term success.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

firms from 1980 to 2005 that voted to unionize, but where the vote was close. Economic theory suggests the answer may have to do with long-term incentives. If workers feel pressure to deliver results in the short-term, either for fear of being fired or in order to be promoted, they may be less likely to pursue riskier innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

A Short History of Dell. 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. The Case of IBM. Yet the improved financial position came at a cost.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2015

They measured all this for the Fortune 100 in 2005, and compared each measure to the firm’s return on assets over the subsequent three years. Companies that changed their values between 2005 and 2008 had higher return on assets than those that did not.

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Company Collins Short-term Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

What Greenberg hasn't been since 2005, though, is CEO of the company he ran for 37 years. It is the terms of that takeover that Greenberg is challenging with his lawsuit. True, AIG FP was already deep into the business of insuring subprime mortgage deals in 2005. government ended up taking control of the company.

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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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Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

In 2005, News Corp was lauded for its $850 million purchase of MySpace — later sold off for peanuts. There were many problems with Sprint's 2005 $36 billion deal with Nextel. But in innovation-based industries, chasing synergies and short-term numbers can derail innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. Testing and Learning Identify—and actively communicate and learn from—short-term wins. For those companies that navigate this transformation, the payoff will be substantial—not just in terms of new growth opportunities, but also in terms of new efficiencies.

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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

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

MAY 20, 2014

Hathaway and Litan stay close to the data in this work and stop short of speculating about causes of this trend. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. So allow me. Much of this is driven by the needs of the financial sector, which itself has consolidated massively.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Go through each of your options and imagine how you would justify choosing that option – in terms of the values and norms they really care about. In short, which option seems to be the right next paragraph in the ongoing story of your organization and what it stands for? What specifically would you say about each option?

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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. Why did they do this?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

In 2005, four dozen senior executives at Lehman Brothers took a decision-making course. Even the supposedly long-term compensation structure of banks – the annual bonus – leads salespeople and brokers to ignore future harm and focus too much on immediate consequences. To some extent, human beings can overcome their cognitive biases.

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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

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 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. ” No matter what form innovation takes — short, agile sprints or long-term, grand-challenge investments — innovation is fundamentally about solving problems.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Yet when China's consumer markets recently experienced short terms blips, several doubters promptly questioned the pace of their long term growth. In 2005, fewer than 50 million credit cards were issued. We would urge you not to be spooked by short term fluctuations in China's growth rate.

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Marketing Apparel Short-term Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

Learners are asked to: Formulate a project to conduct throughout the term that is central to their interests in the "real world" and that serves as an ongoing focus for analyzing and applying ideas from the readings. The educational design of the course is the same as it has been for years. So what's different now?

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

The eight steps are: 1) Create Urgency, 2) Form a Powerful Coalition, 3) Create a Vision for Change, 4) Communicate the Vision, 5) Remove Obstacles, 6) Create Short-term Wins, 7) Build on the Change. Drucker is considered the most influential management thinker ever, and the one who introduced the term “Knowledge Worker.”

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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.

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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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Education Price Crisis Short-term 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

This means CSR initiatives tend to be short-lived, dependent as they are on the whims of senior executives rather than the value they deliver. It measures the impact of these drivers across three horizons: the near-term financial impact, the long-term financial impact, and the impact on reputation. Engage radically.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

But this is an instance where Excel comes up short. “Ask: What is best for us in the long-term?” ” But you must recognize that the relocation poses “long- and short-term trade-offs” to your development. Consider how it will impact you, your partner, and your children in the long-term.

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How To Long-term Short-term Career 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In 2005, an investment banker was asked to lead a small team in (now) rapidly growing Latin America. Research shows (PDF) that regret can be a powerful catalyst for change, far outweighing the short-term emotional downsides. Sensing that the move might be an upward step, he still declined. It can even be an inspiring one.

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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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Film Merchandising Creativity Short-term 8

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

AUGUST 22, 2011

The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. For example: when I left Wall Street in 2005, I was writing a children's book and pitching a reality TV show about soccer in Latin America: neither transpired. These require different metrics of success.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 17

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

MAY 4, 2015

What are the growth opportunities that these new capabilities will enable in the short term and the long term? But today, multiple distant moves can be made faster and surer—and with better odds of success—than before. What’s going on? How are the Apples and Amazons beating the odds? What has changed?

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