Remove Book Value Remove Ethics Remove Execution Remove Innovation
article thumbnail

The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

At the start of the decade, many executives viewed the quality process with indifference or fear. In order to complete the chain, organizations must insist that suppliers, professional services counselors and vendors show demonstrated quality programs, as well as ethics statements. Faster innovation. Customer retention.

Quality 50
article thumbnail

Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business Review

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Big Picture of Business – Becoming a Legend

Strategy Driven

Professional innovation. Ethics and integrity. Hank’s latest book functions as a ‘PDR of business,’ a view of Big Picture strategies, methodologies and recommendations. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it.

article thumbnail

Research: CEOs with Diverse Networks Create Higher Firm Value

Harvard Business Review

Our study , published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, found that CEOs with strong connections to people of different demographic backgrounds and skill sets create higher firm value. We also found that this greater firm value comes from better corporate innovations and successful diversified M&As.