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. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. Innovation at GE was on a roll.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

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

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market. Demand quickly bounced back.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

And because the traditional supermarket industry is highly concentrated (for example, in the UK, the top seven food retailers account for 87% of the grocery market), retailers have considerable market power to make change. too short, long, big, small or uneven in shape, too red or not red enough, and so on).

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

” These customer-praising marketing messages are part of a broader trend in “corporate societal marketing,” which aim to emphasize companies’ social efforts to consumers. It is important to note that we only tested the immediate, short-term effects of these CSR messages; we do not know how long they persist.

Ethics 9

Ethics Licensing Self-aware Morale 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We still believe the executives at Tejon Ranch made some mistakes, as did we, but our biggest collective mistake was thinking in terms of threats rather than opportunities. One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

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

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. Those sessions produced a highly sophisticated system that achieved the end goal: a wonderful end-to-end experience for consumers. It may mean spending some time in Silicon Valley to learn.

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

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. In 2016, country and function heads were asked to identify innovation ambassadors for each of the markets we’re in: 80 people senior enough to connect innovation to strategy and make things happen.

Innovation 11

Innovation Company Agility Workshop 11

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Instead, Alibaba is what you get if you take every function associated with retail and coordinate them online into a sprawling, data-driven network of sellers, marketers, service providers, logistics companies, and manufacturers. In 2015, she prepared to sell a batch of 15 new clothing items at 3:00 p.m. It’s not planning at all.

Business Model 235

Business Model Technology Retail Short-term 235

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. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

The long story short is that I eventually came to grips with my problem, got off the drug, and found an antidote to my crippling self-doubt: meditation – particularly, mindfulness meditation (or Vipassana meditation). But should mindfulness really have a particular goal, especially such a concrete one?

Tools 8

Tools Productivity Products Self-aware 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2015

P odcasting was a massive trend in 2014, virtual summits are in 2015. The goal for the WP Summit was, to become the single best event, educating beginning WordPress users and online entrepreneurs on building powerful websites and scaling their businesses. Business is not about the business, but about the audience and target market.

Organization 120

Organization Leadership Engineering Entrepreneur 120

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

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

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

DECEMBER 6, 2016

In short, tax rates are lower for companies in practice than in theory, and the distinction between the U.S. After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. capital markets, and it increases the credit-worthiness of U.S.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Marketers and innovation specialists can immerse themselves in the sights, sounds, and emotions of consumers’ daily lives, surfacing opportunities to make their products and services more emotionally resonant and durable. In both cases, the assignment was clear, the duration short but intense.

Document 8

Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

This short paper outlines how climate is “already costing local economies billions” and describes how hundreds of billions of property are at risk. And China took serious action, setting a cap on coal emissions by 2020 , which will help it reach the goals of the carbon agreement with the U.S. (a In the U.S.,

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Shareholders have benefited greatly from bigger product markets, lower production costs, and the judicious use of head office domiciles to reduce tax bills. Since 1990, the market capitalization of multinational corporations has grown at more than three times the average rate of listed companies around the world, our research shows.

Politics 8

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

More than 365 companies and investors voiced their support for the US Clean Power Plan in 2015. Companies invested significant resources in pushing for high public policy ambition in agreeing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. Ultimately, long-term legitimacy, reputation, and license to operate are at stake.

Globalization 10

Globalization Policies Supply Chain CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Pixar announced in September that the release of The Good Dinosaur , originally scheduled for 2014, would be postponed to 2015. Our goal isn’t to prevent all the problems; our goal is making good movies. The reason it didn’t happen was that companies went for a more short-term gain, which was to go to lower-cost labor overseas.

Creativity 10

Creativity Film Management Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Crowdfunding has been growing explosively, with over $2 billion raised via equity and reward crowdfunding in the United States in 2015 alone. In connecting creators and entrepreneurs directly with customers and funders, it transforms the opaque and oligarchical market for early-stage fundraising into a more democratic, open one.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Project Diversity Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In 2015, the world pivoted in a historic way toward sustainability. In response to Trump’s election and his statements doubting climate change, many countries that signed the Paris climate accords in 2015 made it clear they would power on (China in particular — see story number three, below). Then came 2016.

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