Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. Here are eight cross-cutting themes and stories from 2015 that are driving us toward a sustainable world (and two that are doing the opposite): 1. degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In a recently published paper in the Academy of Management Journal , we explore how major business corporations translate the grand challenge of climate change into strategies, policies, and practices over an extended period of time. Each of these five companies were at the leading edge of corporate engagement with this issue.

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

Diversity is complicated, and that’s why most companies fail to meet their Diversity, Equity & Inclusion goals. Most business owners think of diversity in the workplace in terms of the compliance regulations imposed by the federal government. Businesses tend to see diversity as a numbers issue.

Diversity 111

Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 Innovation at GE was on a roll.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The short answer is yes. An informative set of studies from 2015 finds that when male (but not female) leaders ask for help, they are viewed as less competent, capable, and confident. ” Gender policing means imposing normative gender expressions in terms of behavior or appearance. Does that same hold true for men?

Short-term 14

Short-term Self-aware Diversity Career 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Last year there was significant movement by the financial community to push companies to look harder at climate change in particular, but also at other factors that matter to long-term performance, such as LGBT rights, economic inequality, and boardroom diversity. But have the letters made much of a difference? It’s not clear.

Letter 9

Letter Long-term Short-term Diversity 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. Winning in the future will require a rigorous approach to accessing and managing independent workers.

Content 9

Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We wrote about our adventure nearly a year ago in The Atlantic, but as we thought more about our interaction with Tejon Ranch’s managers, we realized there were valuable lessons that we wanted to share with the corporate leaders who are likely to confront the risk of an activist campaign. The team was polite and respectful.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Most cities fall well short of that ideal. metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. Long-term thinking with short-term flexibility. A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C The UN then asked the IPCC to study what it would take to achieve that goal. Getting to 1.5

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

In short, companies have little idea whether they are spending too much or not enough. Launched in 2015, Generation works in five countries (India, Kenya, Mexico, Spain, and the United States). “Win-win” is an overused term in business, but in this case, the cliché fits neatly. But it is possible to do better.

Training 11

Training ROI Attrition Metrics 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. Most importantly, cutting across all these initiatives, we created the network of senior and mid-level managers to connect and inspire people to get engaged in innovation. Building an agile network.

Innovation 11

Innovation Company Agility Workshop 11

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Smart business then, is when all participants involved in achieving a common goal are coordinated in an online network and use machine-learning technology to efficiently leverage data in real time to generate relevant responses. In 2015, she prepared to sell a batch of 15 new clothing items at 3:00 p.m. Think enabling not managing.

Business Model 235

Business Model Technology Retail Short-term 235

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Our goal is to fuel your fire, but that''s only the beginning. CED fuels that fire by selling T-shirts, wristbands, shorts and other clothing featuring motivational and inspirational slogans. Jake : Learning to wear multiple hats while maintaining focus on the long-term. Every day," explains Jake, who also founded CED.

Entrepreneur 73

Entrepreneur Advice Apparel Audience 73

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2018

In 2015, UCAR appointed Brinkworth as the Director for Diversity, Education, and Outreach (DEO), (later called the Chief Diversity Officer), and was tasked with making UCAR more diverse and inclusive. Invite non-managers to foster communication across the organization. Many workplace diversity trainings tend to target only managers.

Diversity 10

Diversity Succession Participative Workshop 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

This strategy can also help retailers manage competitive and strategic challenges by strengthening retail partnerships with food suppliers and connecting with customers’ needs and wants in new ways. #1. Advancements in automation and software capabilities have made inventory management scalable across more SKUs and product types.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. ” In action, this three-portfolio strategy management system is decidedly organic, not mechanical.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Those sessions produced a highly sophisticated system that achieved the end goal: a wonderful end-to-end experience for consumers. CEOs cannot manage their silos via hub-and-spoke and expect digital expertise to be properly incorporated in key decisions. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

By making such a bet, IBM will face much greater resistance than Gerstner faced, both internally (business units protecting turf) and externally (investors decrying the poor short-term results and future risks). To address medium-term opportunities, IBM formed partnerships with hospitals (e.g., Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

When people who share the same ambitious goals come together, they can move mountains. Any company that wants to improve collaboration, break down so-called siloes, or live into its diversity goals will be well-served by pursuing a deeper understanding of each.

Innovation 8

Innovation Diversity Bond Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Our results were recently published in Management Science (link forthcoming). In one study, participants viewed a short 40-second Starbucks commercial that either praised a customer for making an ethical purchase (it used phrasing such as: “Everything we do, you do. Alongside corporate philanthropy which reached $18.5

Ethics 9

Ethics Licensing Self-aware Morale 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

In 2015, Russia’s government spending was still greater than India’s – at approximately $257 billion— despite the massive devaluation of the ruble. This worked, because both crises were short-lived (lasting approximately 1-1.5 years) and were followed by rapid recoveries. Demand quickly bounced back.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

A 2015 PwC study of 6,000 senior executives , conducted using a research methodology developed by David Rooke of Harthill Consulting and William Torbert of Boston University, revealed just how pervasive this shortfall is: Only 8 percent of the respondents turned out to be strategic leaders, or those effective at leading transformations.

Development 100

Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Attracting passionate joiners is fundamental to a company’s short- and long-term success – they are the advantage that sets you and your business ahead of the competition. Just imagine: a whole team of people passionate about the same vision, working towards the same goals without any dead weight dragging them down.

Leadership 50

Leadership Early Adopters Follow-up Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In a recent survey , 70% of respondents said that CEOs focus too much on short-term financial results, and nearly 60% said that they don’t focus enough on positive long-term impact. These findings mirror the growing chorus of voices in business and academia that point to short-termism as being a major threat to business.

CEO 9

CEO Short-term Long-term EPS 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Our goal, in a randomized controlled experiment at Gap, was to shift retail associates to more-stable schedules and study the business results. Once the full experiment was launched in November 2015, 28 stores in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago were randomly assigned to control and intervention groups.

Retail 8

Retail Productivity Products Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This is the exclusive, short story of how Diageo North America, with creativity and guts, both in operations and in the senior ranks, achieved the holy grail of carbon emissions reductions. until I spoke last fall to Roberta Barbieri, the global manager for environmental sustainability for Diageo, the $17 billion spirits company.

Globalization 8

Globalization Cost Bottom-up Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

We’ve found that companies have greater success getting people over that hurdle when they give people short, focused assignments, particularly those that capture moments of strong emotion. In both cases, the assignment was clear, the duration short but intense. “And what we learned was sobering. .”

Document 8

Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Catmull expands on his ideas about managing a creative company that he explored in his 2008 HBR article “How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity.” Pixar announced in September that the release of The Good Dinosaur , originally scheduled for 2014, would be postponed to 2015. In his new book Creativity, Inc. I spoke with him by phone.

Creativity 10

Creativity Film Management Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The Freedom to Marry campaign, for instance, which helped win the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage in 2015, has now become Freedom for All Americans, mobilizing to end all discrimination against gay and transgender citizens. In some cases, the result is a volunteer base so capable that it can be reused in perpetuity.

Management 8

Management Short-term Learning-by-Doing Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

This has spread advanced production techniques and management practices around the world, dramatically improving productivity. in 2015, while foreign direct investment from the United States fell from 2.9% Finally, the chance that an investment will go wrong because of unexpected political events is increasing. of GDP in 2007 to 3.3%

Politics 8

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In 2015, the world pivoted in a historic way toward sustainability. It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. Investors Focused on Climate, Sustainability, and Short-Termism. Debates about climate change melted away.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

To be sure, these roadblocks to further trade and investment will damage Mexico’s economy in the short and medium terms. However, I fear that Mexico continuing its existing trade-based economic strategy will not necessarily produce different results in the long term — as it wouldn’t for any other developing country.

Cooper 14

Cooper Long-term Industry Health Care 14