Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

” Nonetheless, when the crisis hit in the Fall 2008, the financial world seemed to be blind-sided. “It’s a new financial world on the verge of a complete reorganization,” said Peter Kenny, managing director at Knight Equity Markets in Jersey City, New Jersey. But was it a new financial world?

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Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 51

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages. How Google innovates.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative.

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LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? I am not suggesting restructuring the entire brand management system. This top management ethic is essential to brand resilience. This company lost $5 billion in 2012 and hasn’t made a profit since 2008. The hemorrhaging is in electronics, and in late 2012, they shelled out $1.8

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Brand P&L Human Resources Brand Management 260

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies. And guess what?

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

But it will be important for managers to know when to use each of these types of deals. A decline in economic uncertainty in 2014 will now support bolder strategic moves by managers. Larry Lessig’s excellent 2008 book explains how this cultural remix creates new art. And therein lay serious challenges for managers.

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Restructuring Trends Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Each requires customized risk management processes. Many people, including quite a few U.S.

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Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

We stand today on July 27, one year away from the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. For the 2008 Games, China built a spectacle of unmatchable scale , with a budget of some $80 billion. Rather than panic, London's leaders have been both innovative and fearless in finding ways to "make more from less."

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). percentage points in 2003-2012. This was obvious during the financial crisis in 2008, when the government invested about 4 trillion RMB to enhance growth. It contributed 1.4

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

I have pushed the competencies approach into several new areas over the years, including parenting , stress management , and even love , but the area where this approach has had the greatest success has been creativity. million in innovative revenue reductions specifically to the training. HBR Must Reads on Innovation.

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Creativity Core Competence McClelland Team 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. In dollar terms, small players—defined as those with sales less than $1 billion—grabbed approximately $15 billion in sales from their larger peers between 2012 and 2017. Penney, and Barnes & Noble. Price competition hurts.

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Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Reading HBR's List of Audacious Ideas is the perfect way to start 2012. The sharp recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis and the uncertainty created by the 2011 debt crisis have fundamentally reset the world. The real magic is in process innovation. Which manager typically ends up getting it?

Company 12

Company Succession Constraint Sharpe 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

Lack of gender diversity in a company's management team, a recent Financial Times editorial emphasized, "now sends negative signals of a conservative mind-set, an inability to look beyond a tried circle of directors and a proneness to damaging group-think.". Call it "gender fatigue," the growing invisibility of bias in the business world.

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Starbucks launched MyStarbucksIdea.com , in 2008, to get ideas from consumers, and has so far received more than 100,000 submissions from consumers around the world. In 2012 the party decided that it would crowdsource its platform instead of determining it internally. Some organizations have successfully mined its potential.

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Politics Organization Learning-by-Doing Motivation 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". Start before you need to.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Despite secondary-school enrollment increasing by 48% from 2000 to 2008 , access to university education remains severely limited. With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012. Even at three times the U.S.

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Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

But The Washington Post , which billionaire Jeff Bezos agreed to buy yesterday , had been losing money since 2008. But when disruptive innovation threatens to breach a moat, high-margin companies usually find themselves especially ill-prepared to fight back. — dubbed a moat, which keeps competitors out and customers in.

Advertising 8

Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Like many of my classmates, shortly after college, I joined the ranks of a top strategy and management consulting firm. In fact, as recently as 2012, a Gallup poll revealed that 40% of U.S. Moment/Getty Images. My request was granted, sort of. Unfortunately, this story of impending burnout is not unusual.

Productivity 14

Productivity Products Metrics How To 14

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. We saw after the 2008 recession how men lost their jobs in greater numbers than women. In 2012, according to the State of Women-Owned Businesses Report from American Express Open, there are more than 8.3 In 2012, over 50% of dentists are women, as are 47% of medical students.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

How Employee Engagement Hits the Bottom Line Harvard Business Review, November 2012. North America Sees Lowest Levels of Employee Engagement since 2008 Canadian HR Reporter, May 2013. NEWS, January 2012. The Power of Empowerment TED Magazine, December, 2012. Your Company Needs a Purpose ERE.net, November 2012.

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Article CFO Magazine Library 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team.

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CEO Company Due Diligence Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Last year, for example, I was approached about a senior management role at a fast-growing Boston start-up, but ultimately they didn’t offer me the job. Pieri is the Co-founder and CEO of The Grommet, a retail site devoted to promoting innovative, undiscovered products and the stories behind their makers. Managing yourself'

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Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Retail Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It was called "Equal Opportunity for Women Is Smart Business" but it might just as easily have been called "Management Development for Women Is Just Management Development (but with women in it)." So many of the elements," she pointed out herself, "are simply good management procedures. What Your Stock Price Really Means.

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Restructuring Disruptive Innovation Health Care Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly. They have adopted a silo mentality of departmental self-interest, maintaining rigid, top-down hierarchies that act as a barrier to cooperative participation and promote a dependency on managers.

Cooper 15

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Fostering innovation. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We attracted many new doctors when we opened a replacement hospital in 2012, ultimately doubling the size of our medical staff. Many of them want to share responsibility in how the hospital is managed. For more about innovation in health care delivery, see NEJM Catalyst , a new resource from NEJM Group. With local businesses.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly. They have adopted a silo mentality of departmental self-interest, maintaining rigid, top-down hierarchies that act as a barrier to cooperative participation and promote a dependency on managers.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Quarterly profits have only increased 5% since 2012 , but investors’ valuations of those profits (as measured by earnings per share) has increased 59% over the same period. In contrast, companies with a long-term orientation are rewarded with a lower cost of capital, which allows them to afford more innovation—a virtuous cycle.

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Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Through culture, organizations are able to establish and manage their sustainability goals such as social impact, environmental footprint, employee engagement, satisfaction, etc. In 2012 he was named Vice President, Human Resources Asia, a position he held until December 2016, and then Senior Vice President, Human Resources.

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Globalization Human Resources Long-term Diversity 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

” But as Christensen observes, finding pockets of non consumption is a ripe opportunity for innovation. ” In 2012 ING Direct was sold to Capital One for $9 billion. SNHU president Paul Leblanc was charged with steering the university through the 2008 recession, when growth looked bleak.

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Productivity Products Christensen Power 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In 2012, the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) commissioned a foresight study into the future of R&D management called IRI2038. Ecuador and Bolivia passed such laws in 2008 and 2010 , respectively. Seem far-fetched? This gives impetus to a movement already gaining strength: 3-D printing.

Development 8

Development Decentralization Trends Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

But no less planned or executed than another viral blockbuster — the OMGPOP team's March 2012 breakout of Draw Something , a Pictionary-like game. The result : by late March 2012, Draw Something had 15 million daily players and was the Apple AppStore's #1 word game in 84 countries. Rapid Innovation/Move-to-Market Cycles.

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Team Self-aware Media Download 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

In more and more companies today, leaders manage their communication efforts in a way that calls to mind ordinary, person-to-person conversation. Yet the Obama campaign signaled the emergence of a novel framework for managing electoral communication at a national level.

Operations 15

Operations Media Long-term Open-book 15

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. And that’s only scratching the surface of everything we’re trying to manage in this brave new world. to prevent sloppy errors and wasted time.

How To 77

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 77

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Tellingly, only five of the 30 CEOs Barron's picked in 2008 as the world's best showed up on a similar list in 2012. Maybe that mattered less in a world where change was better behaved, but today, senior management's monopoly on "strategic leadership" can rapidly turn a leader into a laggard.

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P&L Supply Chain Bottom-up McKinsey 8