Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains. So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. PL and CM: Coherent companies – those that possess a capabilities system that aligns their strategy with their product/service portfolio – generate superior performance over time, which is what we call the coherence premium.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Yes, a rifle or laser-sharp approach will take more planning and forethought, but in the end you’ll probably save time and resources. A laser-sharp strategy is much more practical, productive, and economical. In business, a shotgun approach gets the job done…but usually doesn’t yield outstanding results.

Bottom-up 50

Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

in September 2011, down slightly from the three-year peak of 6.5% in July 2011 — appears likely to remain a priority. in September 2011, the same as in August, though down from a July 2011 peak increase of 14.8% — staying so stubbornly high? For Beijing, tackling China's high inflation rate — 6.1%

Price 8

Price Sharpe Banking Class 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2014

businesses in 2011—up from 23 percent in 1992, for an increase of half in just under two decades. This is especially remarkable considering the volume of product innovations and household-name businesses that have emerged in the last two decades. Mature firms (those aged 16 years or more) comprised 34 percent of U.S.

Maturity 9

Maturity Forrester Document Sharpe 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

Their product, a program designed to combat procrastination, quickly became the best-selling productivity app on iTunes. Unfortunately, app development came at the expense of schoolwork, resulting in a sharp decline in one developer’s grades as the pair headed into the college application season. This is not uncommon.

Development 9

Development Levitt Real Estate IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The sharp recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis and the uncertainty created by the 2011 debt crisis have fundamentally reset the world. Aravind executed many of the best practices from world class manufacturing companies: standardization, specialization or labor, economies of scale, and assembly line production.

Company 12

Company Succession Constraint Sharpe 12

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

I'm looking forward to learning from you in 2011. I'm looking forward to 2011 and I appreciate your advice and friendship. May I take to heart these good words of advice in 2011 and the years ahead. Have a joy filled 2011. I wish you and family a blessed 2011 as well. Thanks for the great reminder.

Blog 387

Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

The discovery and systematic production of oil since the 1960s has changed this narrative fundamentally, as petrodollars have enabled the GCC to advance into one of the world’s wealthiest regions, stylized by the ultramodern skylines of cities such as Dubai, Riyadh, and Doha. in 2015 and 3.2% in 2016.

GDP 8

GDP Price Market Segmentation Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The Bad: The Local Coffee Shop In tough economic times, small business owners should have a laser-sharp focus on great customer service, doing everything they can to ensure their customers feel respected and loved. Read on for examples from my own experience and lessons on what can be learned from the good and bad sides of customer service.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 24, 2010

You need to set some ground rules and establish a usage policy, or perhaps end up scratching your head about the productivity declines. And be careful with the sharp end Maybe that falls under your second point. Ben, it is certainly a tool, and yes, it can have a sharp end! Bret bencurnett January 26, 2010 at 10:53 am Hi Terry.

Media 305

Media Sharpe Learning-by-Doing Blog 305

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

This kind of sharp price movement on seemingly modest news is not a new or isolated occurrence for Apple. Shiller and his allies posit that this excess volatility is the product of investor error, herd behavior, feedback loops and the like. (My As I write this, on Thursday morning, the loss for the week is nearing 10%.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

On September 17, 2011, Occupy Wall Street took over Zuccotti Park, in the heart of the financial district in Lower Manhattan. The contrast is sharp and it is no accident. Otpor might have been a protest group, but it operated as if it was a startup company marketing a product.

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue. Unfortunately, the wildcard is PEOPLE. We serve people, lead people, we relate to people, we encourage or discourage people, and we are people.

Blog 419

Blog Gordon Learning-by-Doing Open-book 419

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

New and superior ideas replace existing and inferior ones, while more productive firms usurp less productive ones. Research has firmly established that this process of “creative destruction” fuels productivity growth , making it indispensable to our sustained economic prosperity. That figure fell to 38% by 2011.

Sharpe 9

Sharpe Analysis Entrepreneur Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Leaders who succeed at the job usually do so by combing through the company in search of noncore assets to shed, businesses to sell, activities to stop, functions to eliminate, and product lines to simplify, as Steve Jobs did when he took back the reins at Apple in 1997, and as Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego, did in 2004.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011.

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

But, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average number of births per woman declined during each of the four years following 2007, dropping to 1.89 (preliminary estimate) — below replacement rate of 2.10 — in 2011. The decline we observed in the Wharton study was more pronounced.

Policies 10

Policies Health Care Education Career 10

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

here is what Taariq says about 1M/1M: “With Sramana, we sprinted from vague product concept to a customer-driven business with real, reference customers in just six months. Any startup that wants to fast-track to being ‘Silicon Valley VC ready’ should participate in this program.”.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A 2011 McKinsey study estimated that the internet accounted for 21% of GDP growth over the previous five years among the developed countries studied, a sharp increase over the 10% contribution over the 15 years prior. As most of us know by now, we have an increasingly internet-powered economy. digital industries.

Politics 9

Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 9