Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Them” were the majority of managers who didn’t get what design was all about in the first place. And with good reason: From Target to Uber, business managers everywhere are starting to understand that the strategic use of design is making a difference in achieving outsized business results.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

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

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., In his tenure as McKinsey's worldwide managing director, Gupta displayed macher-like ambition not just for himself but even more so for his firm.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

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. To borrow a term from Wharton management professor Michael Useem, Owens is most definitely a member of the global elite’s “ inner circle.”.

Ethics 8

Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 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. From the 1990s onwards, Nokia dominated the mobile phone industry. As a former employee working in the development team at the time said of that decision , "Management did the usual. They killed it!"

Consensus 9

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

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. From the 1990s onwards, Nokia dominated the mobile phone industry. As a former employee working in the development team at the time said of that decision , “Management did the usual.

Consensus 9

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

So most executives manage it according to their intuition. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. 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.

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The other is medium-size businesses with 20 to about 100 employees; the purchaser at these places is a senior manager, not the owner.". "I Dirk, who had spent his career in sales, started the business for that very reason. It feels like we're hedging our bets rather than placing one.". Creative," Jane said. They want growth.

Case Study 15

Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The other is medium-size businesses with 20 to about 100 employees; the purchaser at these places is a senior manager, not the owner.". "I Dirk, who had spent his career in sales, started the business for that very reason. It feels like we're hedging our bets rather than placing one.". Creative," Jane said. They want growth.

Case Study 13

Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 13

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

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The general view in business is that top-end talent is highly sensitive to and motivated by compensation and that big monetary rewards are key to their management. 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. You’re a GAM.

Management 14

Management Class Talent Management Fashion 14

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

JANUARY 11, 2013

of middle managers in the U.S. 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. but only 4.2% of Fortune 500 CEO's.

Career 9

Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Class 9

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. Ask for the keys to career success and you'll get logical explanations, recommendations, pathways and approaches. Yahoo declined (as did others).

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We talk about things like yield management, demand curves, and perishable inventory — factors that dictate our pricing strategies. Sports has been very good for the cable industry. If you could give your younger self one piece of career advice, what would it be? We’re working with unprecedented levels of data.

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

That business, or any other institution, dictates life to you (Oh, wait, that's what they already do — just not in ways that benefit anyone who isn't already the Gangnam-Style scion of a mummified vampire hedge fund quadrillionaire). That the job of managers isn't just to "deliver product" — but to impact lives.

Media 8

Media Fashion IPO Brand 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

3) hedge bets by building products and services on multiple platforms in order to compete on the same terms as digital giants in ways that are least likely to get regulated. As humans, we often make a decision a second but re quire weeks, months, and maybe even years for management approval. What role do you see AI playing?

Disintermediation 131

Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 131