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. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.” The innovation agenda.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? Fuse/Getty Images. These are rarely studied questions.

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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. Innovation at GE was on a roll. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. ” So while businesses are major contributors to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, they are also presented as offering innovative ways to decarbonize our economies. We get back to core stuff.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

They transfer money away from public treasuries and wage earners to provide a short-term incremental benefit that does nothing to improve the company’s long-term prospects. The $520 billion that companies spent on 2015 stock repurchases alone is enough to pay the average U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. Lobbying for policy reform isn’t much of an answer, because incumbents generally have the benefit of long-term relationships with government agencies built up over many years.

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Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 9

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. This type of approach has allowed the market to attract a diverse community that continues to inspire creativity and innovation.

Real Estate 12

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 12

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. The innovation portfolio. Sponsored by Accenture. Strategies for staying ahead.

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. It makes price movements less extreme but also more difficult to predict.

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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 Set science-based carbon reduction targets for operations. °C (3.8°F)

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Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Superior technical innovation is at the heart of its strategy and its organizational design.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

They have to integrate various perspectives and not give algorithms short shrift for lack of understanding them. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. ” GE adopted its FastWorks initiative, based on lean startup principles, to cut bureaucracy around innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

These types of cuts are applauded as canny, even heroic, by stock markets — despite their damage to the longer-term value-creating capacity of the enterprise. Share buybacks are preferred to investment in innovation, entrepreneurship, and value creation. This is a situation that cannot endure.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. Leaders were driven by short-term profits and rapid action to flip the organization. Though autonomous, they can improve their operating capabilities and speed up their time to reinvention by learning from each other.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

And despite their relatively short existences, digital platforms such as Uber, Airbnb, Pinterest, and Snapchat are wreaking havoc on traditional businesses. It recently rolled out a short-term car rental product called Express Driv, through which Lyft drivers can rent GM cars. Building in-house is not for the faint of heart.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

A short-lived economic revival followed, helped by international assistance from European countries and multilateral institutions, and high prices for Zimbabwe’s commodity exports. Without its own currency, Zimbabwe relies on USD for over 90% of transactions , but the collapse in exports means money is in short supply.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In 2015 U.S. The pay ratio is also a misleading statistic because CEOs and workers operate in very different markets, so there is no reason for their pay to be linked — just as a solo singer’s pay bears no relation to a bassist’s pay. The numbers are striking. CEOs earned 335 times the pay of the average worker.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Most companies have leaders with the strong operational skills needed to maintain the status quo. Systems and Structures The first three principles of strategic leadership involve nontraditional but highly effective approaches to decision making, transparency, and innovation. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.K.-based

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

General Motors, once the world’s largest car maker, has decided to stop selling vehicles in India by the end of 2017, since it considers its India operation to be not profitable. For a period of 14 years, General Electric had the same American expat running the India operation, Scott Bayman. Understanding it takes time and focus.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Yet for all its innovation, Amazon’s approach to managing its money has changed little in 20 years. It constantly plows capital into its long-term operations — often at the expense of short-term financial results. “It’s about helping customers avoid having to make yet another choice.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. While much has changed even since 2015, there are roadblocks on the journey that have remained surprisingly resilient. They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

India has added new customers at the fastest rate for Amazon in its history of operations across the world, including the U.S. Similarly, when Renault entered India and introduced Kwid in 2015, Maruti and Hyundai had almost 70% of India’s large and fast-growing sub-compact car market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

As an experienced manager, he knew that his manufacturing and operation division’s success depended on getting creative ideas from his employees. As a result, innovation can stall. In fact, the perceived fairness of the process is crucial for its long-term success. The results at Elop are nothing short of astonishing.

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Creativity How To System Motivation 10

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. Further, U.S. There is no doubt that U.S. member states.

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Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? When and how should you implement it? • Adaptive: Be fast. • Visionary: Be first.

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Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

On March 2, 2015, a line of people stretching around the block waited to get into the Rickshaw Stop on Fell Street in San Francisco. The SFO project began in January 2015. Although they were a bit embarrassed by the low-budget feeling of the prototype, they were surprised at the depth of the insights they gathered in such a short time.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

When it comes to discovering unmet customer needs and innovation opportunities, there’s no substitute for in-the-moment, in-context observation for making meaning out of the complex weave of emotion and rationality that drives consumer behavior. .” In both cases, the assignment was clear, the duration short but intense.

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. But the article aimed higher, arguing that when corporate leaders invest with short-term results in mind, they put long-term performance at risk. That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author. Sound familiar?

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 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.

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Globalization Policies Supply Chain CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. Strategy and mission start to gain the upper hand on short-termism. The good news — tackling climate change is getting much cheaper.

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. This failure to work together across a system continually exercises me.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

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. Crowdfunding acts as a platform, matching innovators with those who need innovation, and thus is reshaping which ideas come to market.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

But that will not in any way deter hedge-fund activists from demanding that companies do stock buybacks so that they can time their stock sales to take advantage of short-term, buyback-induced, stock-price boosts. Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For decades, the production of corn has been led by family-based businesses who operate their farms with a time-tested mix of traditional agriculture tools. As a result, in just a few short years, nearly one-third of all U.S. farms have signed up to use FarmLogs to manage their operations. In 2015, the FCC succeeded.

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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.

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Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The short answer is no. In short, Trump cannot stop all momentum on the clean economy. When Kellogg’s CEO, John Bryant, spoke at the Paris meeting, in December 2015, he told the assembled executives and diplomats that addressing climate change was “mission critical” for the company. (I government. government.

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Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

A new survey from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reveals that 60% of Americans support the negotiations for trans-Pacific trade , down slightly from 2015. Republican members supported and provided most of the votes for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) in 2015. If the president had acted just a year earlier, the U.S.

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