Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. We have seen these forces at work in many different industries around the world, requiring a decidedly closer working relationship between the CEO and CMO. Who should lead our transformation?

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Steve Jobs landed the number one spot in our ranking of the best CEOs in the world, published in HBR in January 2010. Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. His tenure had not ended. companies is around six years.

CEO 13

CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Tim Cook took over as CEO in 2011. Jobs was an innovator at heart. Put two-and-two together, and you simply see less innovation with Cook at the top than with Jobs. Employees on the factory floor and in the retail stores are on the move, and it's not a completely positive journey. Neither bode well for the future.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail PR Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Penney''s CEO was a catastrophe — an assessment captured in the coverage of his ouster this week: "Former Apple Retail Guru Dumped;" "How Ron Johnson Made JCPenney Even Worse;" and my favorite: "I Am Become Ron Johnson, Destroyer of Worlds." Innovation Leadership Retail' Ron Johnson''s 17-month tenure as J.C.

Merchandising 9

Merchandising Retail Gordon Price 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. They had the epiphany that they could use cheap retail space – the carts that sit in the middle of shopping malls – to sell mobile phone accessories, mostly cases.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For 2011, it all added up to $4.8 According to chairman and CEO Timothy Smucker, 67, who is now stepping down to hand the jars to his younger brother Richard, 63, "Volume gains in the fruit spreads category were supported by investments in advertising and product innovation." billion in sales. That's a lot of PB&J.

Brand 13

Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

In your address last night, Mr. President, you correctly noted that, "The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation." Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. But Fortune 100 CEOs are exactly the wrong people to talk to about jobs.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies Offshoring 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. Dell returned as CEO in 2007. In a 2011 paper , researchers from HBS, Columbia, and the University of Chicago looked at the success of 472 tech buyouts based on a novel measure: patents. How do you get back on top?

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

As Chad Syverson at the University of Chicago wryly noted in his 2011 round-up of the evidence on what drives productivity : “…no potential driver of productivity differences has seen a higher ratio of speculation to actual empirical study” than management. And while this study focused on U.S.

Skills 12

Skills Management Succession Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

million in 2011. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6% companies have a woman CEO versus 9% globally. They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Sunil Mittal, founder and CEO of Bharti Airtel, the fourth largest telecom company in the world, began his work life doing the grunt work of sales and distribution as he tried to make a living selling crankshafts to bicycle manufacturers in Ludhiana, India. Improvising and working on very tight margins is second nature. They learn fast.

Globalization 15

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Big-box retailers, like Best Buy, now have large, fast growing e-commerce businesses. In recent years, incumbents have fought back.

Technology 14

Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

billion sale in his 16 years as CEO Beating the competition is never easy. Innovation. The boss must act as the ‘external force’ for continuous, systematic change and innovation in an organization. To achieve true innovation, you can’t lead like an iron-fisted dictator, where your word and only your word is final.

Innovation 50

Innovation How To Retail Motivation 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

With no official addresses, delivery of online purchases or local retail distribution near these people was almost impossible until the two companies entered into partnerships with local community groups to map these areas. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4% Innovative business models may be required. Take consumer credit.

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Sunil Mittal, founder and CEO of Bharti Airtel, the fourth largest telecom company in the world, began his work life doing the grunt work of sales and distribution as he tried to make a living selling crankshafts to bicycle manufacturers in Ludhiana, India. Improvising and working on very tight margins is second nature. They learn fast.

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. Once again, too many CEOs are hesitating. Though AllStays isn't connected to Wal-Mart, the app is probably good for the retailer: Think of all those early-morning shopping visits.). They're failing to take control and develop a plan.

Brand 11

Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change? Was a year like 2011 likely ?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. We decry CEOs for the same reasons that we formerly sainted and canonized them. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. Operational Statistics.

Ethics 58

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

DISH Networks, the owners since 2011 of video rental giant Blockbuster, announced Wednesday the shuttering of all remaining company-owned retail locations and of Blockbuster’s DVD-by-mail service. homes had a broadband connection , but CEO Reed Hastings clearly saw the writing on the flat screen.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

These tried-and-true tools of the retail trade might not be as sexy as other forms of marketing. These instruments share a common objective: to influence purchase decisions by equipping consumers with incremental spending power for specific brands and retailers. What does this mean for retailers and brands? Gift cards.

Brand 9

Brand Loyalty Retail Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Lululemon, the upscale retailer of yoga clothing, is doing great. Except when it''s not, which is becoming increasingly common — see the sheer pants crisis , the abrupt resignation of a CEO , a poorly-received job ad to replace said CEO, and a bit of media heat over a 2011 murder that occurred in a Bethesda store.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

I had been a member of the board since 2011 and loved the brand and everything it stood for. To give her a chance, I resigned from the board to become CEO in August 2013. Kindness enables innovation by creating a safe work environment and it serves as the foundation for our meritocratic, performance-based culture.

Fashion 8

Fashion Operations Brand Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

But some companies have what I call rural DNA – the ability to recognize the rural opportunity and to develop innovations to tap those markets along with their urban markets. Particularly in Asia, Unilever has pioneered a number of innovations that it has exported to other regions in its focus on addressing rural market opportunities.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Cost Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

First, they created a combination of breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation— the definition of category creation. Now, platforms like AngelList, WeFunder, and Republic enable ordinary retail investors to participate in this stage of a company’s growth.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Walmart went from a 3% share of the general merchandise retail market in 1982 to over 50% today. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8