Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. There are many reasons companies benefit from hiring an outsider, such as to effect change. Note the solution is not to avoid outside CEOs.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

On the consumer side, companies such as Circle and Abra are taking advantage of the lower costs offered by blockchain technology for cross-border payments, encroaching in the territory of players like Venmo (now part of PayPal), TransferWise, and traditional remittances providers.

Finance 8

Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Traditionally, companies target angel investors in the early stages of a new business, and later look to venture capitalists, eventually culminating in an initial public offering (IPO) on a stock exchange. These ICOs aren’t just new cryptocurrencies masquerading as companies. There is little to no regulatory oversight.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

To better understand the tension between control and freedom in new roles, we analyzed more than 4000 pages of interview data, company documents, and media reports from 21 organizations that recently established a “sustainability manager” position and appointed someone to the role. finance, mineral processing, geology).

Positioning 9

Positioning Company Succession Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

And recently, the head of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, called on all companies to explain how their businesses make “a positive contribution to society” beyond just financial performance. Manage people effectively through decentralized teams across organizations.

Company 8

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. Another CEO used prodigious management skills to successfully consolidate, grow, and dramatically increase the efficiency of a vertically integrated industrial company. This appears to explain events at the industrial company.

Company 8

Company CEO Finance System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported that companies waste 30% of the energy they consume. However, overspending is often the result of decentralized and siloed decision making over the utility budget. However, overspending is often the result of decentralized and siloed decision making over the utility budget.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

Business leaders know how to go about transforming their companies to seize opportunities or meet major challenges — even if that’s easier said than done. But they must also contend with threats that lie far beyond any company’s control and that require whole industries to be transformed.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Decentralization Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. As has been the case elsewhere in Asia, companies in China traditionally focused on asset-intensive industries and low-cost manufacturing and paid little attention to intangibles such as brands and human capital.

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

As Bitcoin entrepreneur and Circle founder Jeremy Allaire — whose company this morning announced another $17 million in venture capital financing — explained at a panel I moderated Monday at Harvard Business School, there is an appropriate role for regulators to play in ensuring consumer protection. When companies like Mt.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Decentralization Banking Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Each of the new companies offers the hope of transforming the performance of the U.S. Decentralized departmental budgets, therefore, lead to considerable under-investment in innovative technologies that create benefits across the entire cycle of care. Gillian Blease/Getty Images. health care system.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier Maes, the CEO of Contect, wrapped up his year-beginning speech to all the company’s employees. Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Such a move might create inertia for some companies and investors if they see it as evidence that “business as usual” is now the most likely climate scenario. Despite the company’s board recommendation that investors to vote against the proposal, a striking 62.2% withdrawal from the Paris climate accord.

Tips 8

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Low churn and high loyalty scores usually mean that customers feel good about your company. But the economic benefit comes only when customers act on those feelings—and companies can make it easier or harder for them to do so. Most companies work hard to determine the root causes of customer dissatisfaction.

Loyalty 8

Loyalty Decentralization Sample Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The term “company DNA” is sometimes used as a shorthand for an organization’s culture and strategy — a metaphor for what makes it unique. Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world.

How To 8

How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

These misunderstandings have allowed the wrong narratives to drive policy making, with individual entrepreneurs and companies as the central characters of the story. In Silicon Valley, what was critical was the decentralized network of intelligent public organizations that facilitated feedback loops throughout the whole innovation chain.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Cost-Benefit Analysis Policies Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Most companies, including the ones mentioned above, approach India as one market when they should be thinking of the different states as individual markets. However, companies in Himachal Pradesh report that it takes 28 days for them, while those in Chhattisgarh take 213 days.

Strategy 8

Strategy Operations Policies Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

If you want to understand the future of Tesla, and Elon Musk’s role in it — something many are keen to do, given the spate of negative headlines about the company — you should start with a bit of automotive history from the 20th century. The guy who replaced him invented the idea of the modern corporation.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

.” Now, this prediction about remote working has not only come to life; it’s proved to be more beneficial than the traditional office model for some companies. The advisory firm we work for is one such company. Since its inception, in 1995, ghSMART has been a firm with a completely remote team.

Team 8

Team Organization Management Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

Who, for instance, would have guessed that global NGOs spend nearly 80% more to track their finances and employ nearly twice as many finance staff as comparable for-profit multinationals? Decentralized, program-focused operations also squander precious dollars. Hence, the comparatively high cost of NGOs'' bookkeeping operations.

Globalization 8

Globalization NGO Benchmarking Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

In 1964 the biggest companies in the U.S. More than any other volume, My Years reveals what it takes to build a company around a compelling strategy. A central office kept track of finances and the allocation of resources. At General Motors, decision-rights were far more decentralized. Chevrolet sales soared.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Venture Capitalist Price Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

We asked them how many companies in Africa make over $100 million annually. They reflect a decentralized, de-institutionalized commercial structure that’s now clearly part of the US economy (think of food trucks or Uber). The focus is on smaller companies than in the ABF, but with comparable value for its participants.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

In HR (or finance or IT), 20% of the professionals are exceptional, adding value that helps organizations move forward, 20% of HR folks are locked into a fixed mindset and lack either competence or commitment to deliver real value, and 60% are in the middle. This is both unfair and simplistic. It ignores what I call the 20-60-20 rule.

Charan 8

Charan Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill.

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. A trip through the HBR archives shows just how cutting-edge the company has been in so many ways for so long.

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2013

But these decentralized households can easily travel to the major cities for unique shopping and restaurant options. There''s even more to the story for companies. In this new age of fiscal austerity, public finance arrangements for major urban infrastructure projects will become an important topic for debate.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Cost-Benefit Analysis Decentralization Training 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. At each point in the disruption, it makes economic sense for the big company to surrender that bit of the market to the disruptor, and so big companies logically put themselves out of business.

Christensen 15

Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

What does all this mean for countries and companies? It’s very competitive, very decentralized. economy, you’re talking about finance, you’re talking about IT — Apple and Facebook and others. They’ve been credited with boosting economies and stirring growth. How big is the risk?

Price 8

Price Energy Constraint Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

In Chicago , for example, predictive analytics is improving health inspections schedules in restaurants, while in Boston city officials are collaborating with Waze, the traffic navigation app company, combining its data with inputs from street cameras and sensors to improve road conditions across the city.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 8