Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 20

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Note especially the brave, innovative management reflected in social enterprises such as the Sampark Foundation , where Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL Technologies, is on a mission to inspire kids in rural India to learn how to think and invent like frugal innovators. ” Purpose, moreover, means for him social purpose.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation? The rest, of course, is history.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Levitt Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

But their way of thinking about prosperity also offers direction for any managers who want to work harder to make the world better off: your mission is to imagine, develop, and launch more life-improving solutions, especially the kinds of goods and services that improve ordinary people’s lives. Many minds make lighter work.

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Christensen Technology Drucker Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Both articles espoused slightly new definitions of disruption, expanding the categorization of the world that Clay Christensen introduced us to more than 20 years ago. It's the paradox that plagues managers of successful firms, tempted to make all the right decisions, right up until they're flung off a cliff.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Eight years on, the world is tentatively emerging from a financial crisis that almost broke the global economy. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. Financial capital is in the driving seat.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life? But then, Christensen says, they started making exceptions to the rules "just this once.". More recently, ALD has become a very popular course for executives of global companies.

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy.

Innovation 15

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

In an era of greater global trade, knowledge transfer and transparency, Prabhakar unsurprisingly reports DARPA''s core value proposition demands disproportionately greater imagination and ingenuity. After initially dismissing tablets as inferior to laptops, Microsoft surprised a number of its partners and developers by introducing Surface.

Innovation 8

Innovation Christensen Brand Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

That's one memorable piece of advice from a leader at a global innovation powerhouse. Managers working on ideas discover that detailed PowerPoint documents are their biggest enemy, because the details act as bait for nit-picking devil's advocates. "Make sure you ask the right questions at the right time." Then, the bar goes up.

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Stage-Gate Due Diligence Disruptive Innovation Document 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Some may have short onboarding programs for new employees; at best some multinational companies will budget similar training budgets as in their developed market businesses. By finding high potential candidates early, companies can develop them for many years before bringing them onboard. Global business Talent management'

Training 8

Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. global information solutions company. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ). Townes, and Henry L.

Six Sigma 9

Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s now a multi-billion-dollar global business. There is no central actor setting the rules such as having to manage artificial constraints like a fixed eight-hour workday. That’s a truly disruptive development and something that every organization, regardless of industry, should be paying attention to.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Firing hundreds of employees, upsetting your core business’ distribution partners, writing off billions of dollars of investment — these things are difficult for managers to even contemplate, and with good reason. Professor Clayton M.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

After 20 years of global negotiations that got us approximately nowhere near where the science tells us we need to be, this time looks different. These talks will reshape the global energy sector and every other industry that relies on energy — in other words, all of them. For example, the U.S.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation.

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Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Driven by the ever-lower costs of global communication and online collaboration tools, Henry Ford's vertically integrated organization is yielding to Procter & Gamble's network of external innovators. Apple gets mobile apps from independent software developers. Companies increasingly use outside specialists to do their work.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship. My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. The demand for my ideas surged and soon went global.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17