Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Note, for example, the spirited defense by Paul Polman of Unilever of his long-term, sustainable business philosophy in the wake of a takeover attempt. In it, he points to the growing threat posed by activist investors who push for short-term share-boosting tactics without regard for firms’ long-term viability.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The crisis exposed the fallacies of measuring success in monetary terms and left many leaders with a deep feeling of unease that they were being pulled away from what I call their True North. My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life?

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

I had worked for over a decade to develop relationships with Latin American business leaders, several of whom were on Forbes' billionaire list. The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. During this time, as I volunteered in public affairs for my church, I became acquainted with Professor Christensen.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

By contrast, disruption, and particularly demand-side disruption of the type put forward by Clay Christensen, is a force that relies on a steady process of picking off one customer at a time. Both companies, while under a corporate umbrella, operate as independent brands with largely independent development teams. Conceivably.

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Film Christensen Short-term Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Being a giant in today's industry doesn't guarantee even short-term success as industries collide and hungry startups from around the globe keep developing innovative ways to siphon profits from even the most seemingly staid of industries.

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Christensen Middle Management Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Recently though, some new companies have figured that, in today’s digital age, there are other and perhaps more efficient ways of matching clients with consultants: online, through search terms, and by building rich databases. Some started digital platforms where supply and demand could match themselves.

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McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Most large companies seem to have lost the taste for entrepreneurship, their CEOs preferring to focus on using technology to maximize profit from existing businesses, as Clayton Christensen and others have shown, or not to invest at all. This entrepreneurial success story has not happened overnight.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. One of Christensen’s favorite examples is steel minimills, whose electric arc furnaces used scrap steel as their feedstock. Paralleling Jim March’s classic analysis of “exploration vs. exploitation,” short term crowds out long term here as well.

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organizations still emphasize exploitation of existing advantages , driving a short-term orientation that many bemoan. By the early 1900’s, the term “management” was in wide use, and Adam Smith’s ideas came into their own. Others – such as Frederick Winslow Taylor, Frank and Lillian Galbreth, Herbert R. Townes, and Henry L.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

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. The inferior quality of many schools necessitates early access to youths through internships, short-term placements and even school-based training programs.

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Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Singapore is positioning itself as the global exchange, where West meets East and where India and China are both reachable via relatively short direct flights. We need to make sure we have systems that balance short and long term performance. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

But even though radial tires were far superior to bias tires in terms of durability, cost per mile, and safety – and could be sold for an attractively higher price — they presented a challenge to U.S. Long story short, Michelin took over 50% of the entire tire U.S. Digital photography is far more convenient than developing film.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Very importantly, they were able to avoid costly technology and implementation programs that would have surely fell short of usage and revenue expectations. Sometimes the revenue may be small in absolute terms, but the data capability may be complementary to your current, core business. Ask yourself how many of these are truly viable.

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Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Innovators lower the risks of moving beyond their comfort zones by breaking down new-product development into a series of small, low-risk, low-cost experiments designed to test the assumptions behind a new offering. Our favorite way to think of this is in terms of what Clay Christensen has famously called the “ job-to-be-done.

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Innovation Business Model Uncertainty Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

On Tuesday, Amazon.com reported third-quarter earnings that fell far short of Wall Street's expectations. Amazon, it appears, is willing to wait as long as it takes to develop a portfolio of disruptive-growth businesses. You have to be willing to think long-term. per share by nearly a dime. You have to be willing to fail.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

This doesn’t necessarily mean setting up a department, but at the very least develop a set of criteria by which to judge ideas and have suggestions for how the best ideas can be acted on. Otherwise, all you create is a long list of ideas that never go anywhere, and substantial organizational cynicism.

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Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

At least in the US, we seemed to have developed a sort of allergy to the idea of a CEO getting into policy-shaping. And he sees little reason to expect Congress to pass a long-term solution to the fiscal cliff; instead, he thinks an "irresponsible," short-term "band-aid" solution. Should business leaders be political?

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Politics CEO Health Care Short-term 8