Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

So the simplest answer is that you need to start by empowering the people already in your organization. Eventually, the operation was spun out and bought by Steve Jobs. That company, Pixar , was sold to Disney in 2006 for $7.4 Create diversity. Evidence suggests that diversity often reduces cohesion leads to discomfort.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a great deal since the late 1980s, when pioneers like City Year 's Alan Khazei and Teach for America 's Wendy Kopp took great risks to prove that innovative organizations could produce transformative social change. Take, for example, the issue of economic development.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The size and layout of a room, whether a bed sits in the middle or against a wall (even which wall), how much space is maintained for patients to walk versus how many beds or operating equipment can be accommodated, have not been considered predictors of health outcomes in the past. Previous studies looked only at room scale, not unit scale.)

Health Care 8

Health Care Long-term Mayo Construction 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Moreover, fixed assets are more difficult to leverage across diverse businesses than capabilities, and they tend to expire, become obsolete, or give way to related services. Organizations that are clear-minded about where and how they participate in a market spend less on those capabilities that are not competitively differentiating.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Long before "think global, act local" was the conventional wisdom for how corporations should operate in the international interconnected marketplace, we at Children's Television Workshop (CTW), as it was known then, pioneered the development of a flexible global brand. Being Willing To Try New Operating Models.

Globalization 8

Globalization Power Workshop Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

While on the surface revenues remained strong, its rapport with customers and physicians was rapidly eroding, and its reputation was being bludgeoned by lawsuits and a national backlash against health maintenance organizations and managed care (which Aetna had championed). Its operating income recovered from a $300 million loss to a $1.7

Health Care 14

Health Care Restructuring Resistance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

MasterCard IPO’d in 2006, and Visa followed two years later. Around the world, though, many countries still have domestic payment networks that operate as not-for-profit platforms. Many have supermajority voting that essentially requires their diverse members to reach consensus. Now they are very focused on making money.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

In 2006, when the company launched a new line of foundations intended to address a wider variety of skin tones, Atis saw that they still didn’t measure up. Atis is what I call a corporate hacker: an industrious intrapreneur working at the edges of organizations to solve persistent problems that customers care about.

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Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Almost every world-class, high-performance organization takes training and education seriously. ” When I see just how difficult and challenging it is for so many smart and talented organizations to innovate and adapt under pressure, I see people who are overeducated and undertrained. But Navy SEALs go uncomfortably beyond.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Culture defines the overall output of every organization. Through culture, organizations are able to establish and manage their sustainability goals such as social impact, environmental footprint, employee engagement, satisfaction, etc. Philip Morris International Operations Center Lausanne, Switzerland.

Globalization 40

Globalization Human Resources Long-term Diversity 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

When employees aren’t just engaged, but inspired , that’s when organizations see real breakthroughs. Just as leaders who deliver only performance may do so at a cost that the organization is unwilling to bear, those who focus only on inspiration may find that they motivate the troops but are undermined by mediocre outcomes.

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How To Video Motivation Survey 15

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The comparrisons you chose to use perfectly illustrate the diversity of styles/traits/characteristics representatitive of great leaders. "Be the change you want to see in the world" That in my humble opinion is leadership. link] mikemyatt Hi Dan: Thanks for sharing your insights. Thanks again for sharing Dan.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Organizations also have a measure of risk homeostasis, expressed through their culture. People who are naturally more risk-averse or more risk tolerant than the culture of their organizations find themselves pressured, often covertly, to "get in line" or "get packing.".

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Hedge System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

” PayPal canceled plans for an operations center in the state, and Deutsche Bank announced it would freeze the addition of 250 employees in the state because of the law. In 2006 55% of Americans opposed same-sex marriage and 35% supported it. But the reality is more nuanced.

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Supply Chain Morale Banking Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

When my organization, Education For Employment , began operations in 2006 as a demand-driven answer to Arab youth unemployment, I felt that creating a social franchise model was the best way to meaningfully address an issue of this scale. In Yemen, EFE's local board and staff give the organization credibility, and when the U.S.

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Franchising Uncertainty NGO Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

His wife, Sally, sometimes joked that the family should take advantage of still-high land prices, sell the whole operation, and move to a big compound in Seattle, where they’d never complain about lack of rain again. Organics were another option. ” Walker Farms hadn’t received 100% of its allocation since 2006.

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