Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Now the best description might be, “giant bank account with a company attached.” It’s hard not to see this as a big step backwards, and to wonder whether the standard venture-capital-to-public-company trajectory is turning out to be entirely wrong for an enterprise like Twitter. It’s just a company, trying to make some money.

Marketing 9

Marketing IPO Venture Capitalist Fashion 9

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Move from the plant floor to the executive suite and we’re known as a company who has brought several unique and inventive products to the industry that has improved the efficient delivery of protein products to a demanding consumer. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. What did 2010 look like for you and your company? But there’s only one that really matters: Did your company effectively execute its plans and initiatives? Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

The group believes that just as more and more companies are disclosing their impact on the environment, companies should also disclose their impact on the health of their employees as well as other stakeholders. Several Harvard-affiliated economists argued in a 2010 Health Affairs article that wellness programs produce a 3.27-to-1

Company 8

Company Metrics Proposal Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2011

firms, the first battleground will be within China, where there is already significant competition between foreign and local companies for market share. A 2010 survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in China found that 38% of U.S. companies feel unwelcome in the Chinese market, up from 23% just two years earlier.

Technology 14

Technology Globalization Trends Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

If your company is like most, it tries to drive high performance by dangling money in front of employees’ noses. It’s well known that they reinforce hierarchy, undermine collegiality , work against cooperative problem solving, discourage straight talk, and too easily become politicized. What a terrible system. Wait wait wait, you say.

Performance Review 12

Performance Review Review Cooper System 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

But on the other hand, in order to safeguard the company’s future competitiveness, CEOs may have no other choice than to invest now. To escape this quandary, a number of companies are considering alternative asset ownership and operation models, whose objective is to reduce capital outlays, investment risk, or both.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Some of the most successful companies in business today are known for tackling difficult creative challenges by first asking, How might we improve X. Gradually, Basadur took the HMW approach beyond P&G to other companies, including the tech firm Scient. How do Google, Facebook and IDEO jumpstart the process that leads to innovation?

Innovation 18

Innovation Creativity Cooper Idea Generation 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Competition trumps cooperation, and distributed decision-making by individual business units trumps universal strategy. As the 2010 case describes: By his own admission, Ma was a fan of Jack Welch, so it was only natural that his organization came to resemble that of GE in some regards. The article, by J. Ramachandran, K.S.

IPO 12

IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

The parallels to business are likely obvious to you, but let's just complete the picture: Between the creation of a new idea and that idea becoming a new market reality, many different decisions and actions need to happen. Alignment is always behind a winning market situation. The magic window of opportunity begins to narrow.

Brand 14

Brand Energy Price Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

It increased R&D spending from 7-8% of revenue before 2009 to 11-12% of revenue starting in 2010, and maximized the return on that increased investment. The company combines this with an intense focus on execution and weekly course correction — but also uses innovation as a means to get the employees energized.

Technology 8

Technology Innovation Kaizen Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Looking forward toward the next decade and beyond, we are seeing countries increasingly prize sovereignty over multilateralism, national interests over international cooperation, and local constituencies over global populations. In short, the tide of globalization washing across boundaries for so long has reached a peak and is receding.

Globalization 14

Globalization Class Consensus Outsourcing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Investors also did well: A $100 investment in Ruger in late 2010 was worth $443 in late 2015, while the equivalent investment in the S&P 500 yielded only $163 over that time frame. In each case, the company uses this buffer of its distribution structure as a disclaimer of any responsibility for the ultimate use of their weapons.

Licensing 8

Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

In my last post , I argued that companies can't keep their costs in line by attacking them directly. Instead, companies must make fundamental changes to the way they work — how they market and sell, handle orders, bill for those orders, manufacture and distribute their goods, and serve customers after the sale.

Budgeting 11

Budgeting Chief Financial Officer Cost CFO 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

.” The stampede to connect anything and everything in the home to a mobile app – a stampede that I’d argue has been driven by grossly inflated numbers and speculation – has the potential to lure companies into unfamiliar territory, with no guarantee of a safe or profitable return. I know because I’ve been there.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Elite media companies confirm their firewalls have been breached by successful Chinese cyberattacks. Companies can't — and shouldn't — unilaterally wage cyberwar on countries. Such cooperation, collaboration and coordination won't come for "free." American banks reportedly come under hostile cyberattack from Iran.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

stock market to decline almost 1% before the news was revealed as a hoax. In 2010 the computer worm Stuxnet was discovered and implicated in the attack that caused physical damage to centrifuges at Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities. Is Anyone Really Responsible for Your Company''s Data Security?

Engineering 8

Engineering Software Wireless Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

Among the growing perplexed population is Mark Barnes (not his real name), vice president of a marketing company. And while Jennifer would be pleased with any women’s initiative her company organizes, some of her female colleagues may not be as engaged, or might even reject them. And how can they use that to improve engagement?

Globalization 8

Globalization Consultative Learning-by-Doing Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

It's a kind of Wikipedia, but built on a corporate, not a cooperative, model. Of the top five terms in 2010, two were "Facebook.com" and "Facebook Login." Three remarkable realities account for the logic (and irony) of Facebook's absence: First, Facebook is not really a website anymore. Rather, it's a vast, branded utility.

Media 15

Media Short-term Taylorism Taylor 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

According to a new book by Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. Most companies with an inside-out perspective become attached to what they produce and sell and to their own organizations.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. newspapers, the share of foreign stories has declined from 27% in 1987 to 11% in 2010. At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. distributors, retailers, and so on. Furthermore, U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8