Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Aimee, a senior executive at a global financial services firm, had carefully cultivated her network of sponsors and supporters over 15 years, but recently, she watched helplessly as waves of market dislocation, structural reorganizations, and headcount reductions battered the industry and shredded her connections.

Mentor 8

Mentor Hedge Human Capital Career 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Eight years ago I published a book, The Medici Effect , that examines how and why groundbreaking ideas occur at the intersection of different cultures, industries, and disciplines. The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship.

Succession 15

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In my 36-year career, I haven’t met a single person truly at the top end of the talent distribution who is highly motivated by compensation. Over this combined quarter-century of experience, I developed three rules for managing top-end talent. There is a grain of truth to this — but only a grain.

Management 11

Management Class Talent Management Fashion 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

These “ superbosses ,” as I called them, spanned dozens of industries and included legendary figures such as fast casual restaurant magnate Norman Brinker, packaged foods titan Michael Miles, tech mogul Larry Ellison, hedge fund pioneer Julian Robertson, media icon Oprah Winfrey, and a host of others. Julian Robertson did.

Delegation 8

Delegation Real Estate Micromanagement Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

In school, being disruptive might get you sent to the principal's office, but in business, disruption is a proven path to success , describing innovations that take root at the low end of the market, or create a new market, and then eventually upend an industry. Welcome a less proscribed, full of surprise, career path.

Career 8

Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. Costs naturally drop as people gain experience collaborating and develop the trusted relationships that smooth the process, but you should take steps to lower those costs more quickly.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Former employees of the now defunct Lehman Brothers have talked about how voicing dissent there was considered a career-breaker. Whereas if it''s worse — i.e. if we''re told that rather than having a 10% chance of developing cancer, we actually have a 30% chance — we tend to ignore this new information ? They killed it!"

Consensus 8

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Former employees of the now defunct Lehman Brothers have talked about how voicing dissent there was considered a career-breaker. Whereas if it’s worse — i.e. if we’re told that rather than having a 10% chance of developing cancer, we actually have a 30% chance — we tend to ignore this new information ?

Consensus 8

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Global leaders pride themselves on having many connections across industries and sectors. Take Jim Owens, one of our interview subjects, who spent his entire career with Illinois-based Caterpillar. When pressed, Owens tried to hedge his answer, but the media portrayed him as calling the President a liar. Thriving at the Top.

Ethics 8

Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Dirk, who had spent his career in sales, started the business for that very reason. Rather than pestering prospective customers with pushy e-mails, he thought companies should use blogs and other social media to attract people who were already researching and shopping in the industry. Serge was their lead developer. Dirk asked.

Case Study 15

Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Dirk, who had spent his career in sales, started the business for that very reason. Rather than pestering prospective customers with pushy e-mails, he thought companies should use blogs and other social media to attract people who were already researching and shopping in the industry. Serge was their lead developer. Dirk asked.

Case Study 12

Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

We determined the weighting of each motive by conducting regressions between each motive and performance across industries, and then simplified to build a simple metric that ranges from -100 to 100. Take for example the airline industry. We saw this play out in retail, banking, telecommunications, and the fast food industry as well.

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Your relationships are also the best way to change with your environment and industry, even if your formal role or assignment has not changed. Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. It protects you from being clueless about the political dynamics that so often kill good ideas.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

That way, when the going is good, you can maximize your upside yield on assets like ticket sales and merchandise, and when the team isn’t performing quite as well, you have a hedge in place to protect your downside risk. Sports has been very good for the cable industry. We want to win. Learn how to run a regression analysis!

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8