Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

Our study clearly shows that great leadership is a strong competitive advantage, with the top 20 BCL firms far outperforming the S&P 500 benchmark on shareholder returns. But some of the most interesting examples of innovation come from new additions to the BCL Top 20 list. Create a safe space for innovation.

Innovation 15

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

The CEO knew I was a fan of passion-fueled innovation and thought he had a story I’d find inspiring, hence the call. Having benchmarked other hospitals, Lakeland’s leaders knew that more favorably located hospitals typically achieved higher patient scores with similar service levels.

Innovation 8

Innovation CEO Benchmarking Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Resource-efficient companies also display high levels of innovation and entrepreneurship , pushing core value metrics above the average large cap global business. Just the kinds of companies a responsible investment manager would put clients' money into.

Company 16

Company Metrics Benchmarking Efficiency 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? For example, a company that sells housing components like kitchen counters and piping should look at the rate of new home construction or mortgage activity, while automotive companies should look at the percentage of young adults forgoing driver’s licenses.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

Back in 2011, crowdsourcing was fueling an explosion in open innovation. At that time, most Fortune 500 firms had launched crowdsourcing initiatives or partnered with startups in order to access outside innovators or co-create with customers. The providers of crowdsource solutions had their heyday. They produce too much social waste.

Participative 8

Participative Innovation Benchmarking Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

Feeling vulnerable as a small city-state, Singapore's leaders set high standards, benchmark against the best in the world, seek innovation, and invest in ideas of the future. Komatsu, a globally prominent construction equipment manufacturer, drove excellence by fearing Caterpillar, the U.S. The opposite is also true.

Benchmarking 15

Benchmarking Health Care Loyalty Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Cofounded by Michael Murphy, a Harvard-trained architect who has devoted himself to improving the social impact of built environments, MASS is changing the way hospitals are designed and constructed. Planning, especially facilities planning, almost inevitably stifles ongoing innovation. Experiment continually.

Health Care 8

Health Care Long-term Mayo Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Business growth can also depend on factors such as the availability of talent or scarce raw materials that influence, say, a company’s innovation capabilities or its ability to manufacture cost-effectively. We call that process the A-B-C (which stands for Analyze-Benchmark-Calibrate) of developing a globalization strategy.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Employees must buy into the process by offering constructive input. Faster innovation. Benchmark measurements of accomplishments. It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Even non-profit and public sector organizations must utilize quality approaches for staff and volunteer councils/boards. Higher sales.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The article draws from the work and writing of Ashish Rajpal, founder and CEO of iDiscoveri and its innovation thought leader.

Education 15

Education Benchmarking McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Or a benchmarking exercise might lead a functional leader to argue for new investment in distribution networks (‘Our competitors have them’ or ‘We must be great at this’) without recognizing that your existing distribution network, while it may not be the best, is more than adequate for your way to play, and the investment is better made elsewhere.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

On average, common ownership concentration has almost doubled in the last 20 years in the construction, manufacturing, finance, and services sectors. They may choose it for other reasons, for example, to encourage cooperation or innovation. Maybe it’s not a conscious choice at all.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

When functional boundaries prevail, there is no construct for managing capabilities. A growing number of long-standing innovation groups, for example, bring together disparate functional skills (typically R&D, marketing, customer insights, and IT) to facilitate the launch of new products or services.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Set career goals and understand salary benchmarks. Be able to receive and give constructive feedback. Continually assess how happy you are in your current role. Always keep up with emerging trends and technologies in your specific sector. This will keep you competitive and relevant. Are these in line with your expectations?

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

This new entity could bring together human talent, technology scale, and long-horizon venture and investment approaches to construct business models that could pose a formidable challenge to those designed and perfected in the industrial age. ” A longer time horizon. A talent magnet.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Some reform measures — such as mandatory disclosure of pay arrangements on an individualized basis and benchmarking pay against "peers" — have actually worsened the problem. Some countries have been highly innovative in this area. How Will Executives React?

Execution 10

Execution Committee Incentives Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” How to Brand a Next-Generation Product. And what are the benchmarks of success? Ultimate success cannot come without a supple organization that has fluid internal and external boundaries. A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections. Developing the Global Leader.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 10