Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

How much do CEOs actually matter? Although such sentiments may not apply to most CEOs, even the anonymous CEO still benefits from the impulse: Most CEOs worldwide earn between 50 and 100 times more than the average worker. The CEO-to-worker pay ratio in America is even bigger, at 350:1.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

However when a situation can be seen through the lens of difference, and a position is simply a matter of opinion not a totalitarian statement of fact, then cooperation and compromise is possible. If you’re a CEO who doesn’t leverage conflict for team building and leadership development purposes you’re missing a great opportunity.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

If you are a CEO or entrepreneur and don’t see team building as a priority, then the text the follows is written for you. However CEOs that implement a well thought out and clearly articulated vision, create a sense of stability and a bond of trust amongst the ranks. They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Marketers are racing to create seamless customer experiences that make it easy for consumers to engage at every touchpoint as they navigate the “decision journey” and beyond. In addition, we took a fresh look at how our marketers are organized globally. And we set up new, regular sharing sessions to improve cooperation among regions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2018

M&A deals that are made for the purpose of acquiring new technology can make or break a company. On the flip side, a strategic transaction can catapult a company into first-mover position, give a speed to market advantage over rivals, and potentially let a larger company run away with a new market. In 2005, eBay spent $2.6

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2014

Last week Elon Musk, the iconoclastic CEO of Tesla Motors declared that Tesla would effectively allow any competitor to use its patents portfolio. Shortly after, BMW and Nissan announced that they wanted to cooperate with Tesla on technology and standards. It also hopes to market some of its technology to other players.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. This all presents CEOs with a tough dilemma. In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. There is no time for complacency.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Apple's Chiefs Discuss Strategy, Market Share — and the new iPhones Bloomberg Businessweek "Is taking the high road truly a sustainable strategy, or does it merely delay the inevitable?" Does a unit of market share matter if it''s not being used?" Still Delicious? But Cook and his team have no interest in a race to the bottom. "We''ve

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

Widespread use of antivirus, intrusion detection technologies, improved cryptography algorithms, and methods for blacklisting infected web sites are just a few examples of how technical advances have improved cyber defense. This approach has greatly enhanced our ability to defend information systems against attack.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. Cooperation – willingness to collaborate.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. The CEO as Lead Product Designer. This spirit is exemplified by executives like Akio Toyoda, the CEO of Toyota, who worked his way up the through the ranks from the assembly line. Some CEOs do get UX.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

But when it comes to little-known leaders in their market, Germany has 1,307 “hidden champions,” nine times as many as those two countries combined. These companies are dedicated to mutual technological leadership with their customers. Great Britain and France each have more. We sell shovels to gold seekers.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Bob Brennan is no household name, but the Iron Mountain CEO recently gave a remarkable CEO interview. That struggle will only get harder, not easier, because of the ongoing boom in CEO compensation - itself a telling sign of corporate priorities.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

On one hand, many noted that in the 1990s, following scandals in Indonesia and Vietnam, the shoe giant’s name had become, in the words of the company’s co-founder and former CEO Phil Knight, “synonymous with slave wages, forced overtime, and arbitrary abuse.” workers over those in poorer countries.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. The next question was where to establish the software center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer. Why Your CEO Is a Security Risk.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

During my time as CEO of TNT N.V. We will focus on both internal sustainability reporting for improved risk and performance management, as well as on external disclosure as a driver for more accurate valuation of companies and improved allocation of capital market investments. Using Technology and Data for Social Impact.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

It was a closed-door meeting of top digital CEOs from major media brands — not only old line players like Disney, BBC, and ESPN, but also new ones like Huffington Post, Gawker Media, and EverydayHealth. It's a kind of Wikipedia, but built on a corporate, not a cooperative, model. It was a star-studded event.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

A 2012 Pricewaterhouse Coopers survey found that 60% of CEOs did not believe they had the talent they needed to be successful, and one in four had to delay or forego market opportunities and strategic initiatives because they didn''t have the right talent. employers report having difficulty filling key roles.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Editor's note: This post was written with Christian Sarkar , a marketing consultant who also works on environmental issues. Bill Gross, the founder and CEO of Idealab, who described the design challenges faced by Worldhaus , a $1,000 house for the poor that his team has been working on. We also believe cooperation is necessary.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market. Easy familiarity helps conversations move quickly and allows trustworthy cooperation. Michael Fertik is a repeat Internet entrepreneur and CEO with experience in technology and law.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

According to Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman, “It’s not a business issue. Henry Ford understood this, paying the workers at Ford more than their counterparts at other industrial companies, reasoning that helping to expand the new middle class was a way to expand the market for Ford’s product. This is a moral and society issue.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Unilever’s CEO Paul Polman has said his company loses roughly €400 million annually from climate change and extreme weather. Leading CEOs are seeing the work to manage climate change as a strategic and human imperative. President Obama called for “a world marked not by conflict but by cooperation.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

Just before he stepped down as CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs tried to buy DropBox for Apple. Among those in the market, the stand-out alternative is SugarSync, a product I have used for many years, whose innovation was to allow multiple folder syncing directly from the user's own documents folder. The issue is: for how long?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

As the system ended, the most urgent imperative for CEO Anand Mahindra was to shake the entire company out of its complacency. CEO Mike Kneeland changed the incentive system for branch managers. Kneeland established a zero-tolerance policy for any failure to cooperate.). A big challenge for only part of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world — or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a recent survey by IBM. And yet federally funded research and development — creativity, institutionalized — is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Competition has become more complex too, with companies increasingly sourcing or manufacturing globally, facing technology-based rivals trying to disrupt incumbents, and taking on emerging giants with unexpected sources of competitive advantage. By contrast, there is little openness and cooperation in the corporate world.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

Microsoft might be cooperating with some governments to spy on Skype calls, but we don''t know which ones. This has become possible largely because of two technology trends: cloud computing and vendor-controlled platforms. Does Your CEO Really Get Data Security? Facebook regularly abuses the privacy of its users.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Competition has become more complex too, with companies increasingly sourcing or manufacturing globally, facing technology-based rivals trying to disrupt incumbents, and taking on emerging giants with unexpected sources of competitive advantage. By contrast, there is little openness and cooperation in the corporate world.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

Topics discussed include the society that produced business scandals, accountants and auditors, pedestals upon which CEOs are placed, spin doctoring, compensations and accountability issues with managers. That the CEO can make or break the company single-handedly. That all well-paid athletes are national heroes. Make them understand.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2019

New technologies and new leadership styles are needed to succeed and win. Drew Hiss launched his outsourced payroll and HR technology solutions company, Checkdate Solutions, in 1994. DAN COOPER. Dan Cooper co-founded ej4, a video-based online training company, in 2003, and was its CEO until selling in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Such cooperation, collaboration and coordination won't come for "free." Remember the May 2010 "flash crash" where the stock market plunged nearly 1000 points in a matter of moments? In another context, Intel co-founder and former CEO Andy Grove once observed, "Only the paranoid survive."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Every CEO or leader knows that strategy design, coupled with excellence in the implementation of that strategy, is central to an organization’s sustainable growth and prosperity. Practices can change, business models are disrupted, and technology evolves, but principles do not change. Don’t forget to look outside!

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Nugent, and Hoda Selim, explores the topic through the particular lens of the six Arab nations that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council. The centrepiece of the institute is the Qatar Science & Technology Park, which brings together applied research and technology innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

This democratization of technology impacts all races, incomes, cultures, and geographies. These can be used like any other debit card for food purchases at grocery stores, local farmers markets, and some restaurants. Does Your CEO Really Get Data Security? Customers Information & technology Social media'

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