Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Reeling from the growing pains of a $475 million merger with Nortel, the business communications company faced lingering customer disillusionment and falling profits. Most big companies are happy to bump their score up by just a few points in that amount of time. Avaya embraced innovation as a risk management exercise.

Agility 8

Agility Innovation Metrics Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

companies, the guidelines contain helpful (although not entirely novel or innovative) recommendations such as compensating outside directors with stock, giving non-executive directors unfettered access to management, and discouraging the practice of earnings guidance. Intended to strengthen corporate governance at U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Groupthink Sharpe Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

No one can say for sure how to get on a corporate board, but many people point to two routes: the first is to break into the "right" network and the second is to seek a progression of board seats that begins with, for example, a seat on a not-for-profit or community board and eventually results in appointment to a corporate board.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As one of the most serious industrial accidents in history, the Gulf explosion should be a great case study for corporate leaders across the globe who are trying to manage risk in hazardous activities involving complex technology. None examine in any detail how the local organization on the rig fit into complex global organizations.

Report 13

Report Policies Risk Management Analysis 13

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Examples: an accounting manager could shadow HR for a day or an person in operations could learn more about the sales process. If every leader made the effort to do what they said they would do, and only say what they commit to doing , every time, every company would be better run overnight. his/her face.

Leadership Development 283

Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Poor controls over risk and valuations. Deceptive communication within the company and to the board. CEO Jamie Dimon consistently espouses the virtues of size and diversity. And will the intensity and focus of top management remain in 12 or 18 months when the current crisis has passed? Manipulation of energy markets.

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

To counter those cohesion and performance risks, managing such a globally-dispersed team requires deliberate planning that helps bridge those boundaries. Typically people talk about the importance of stressing commonalities and similarities in the context of diversity of any sort. Stressing differences.

Globalization 13

Globalization Team Stress Types of Knowledge 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

One such skill is portfolio management , the application of systematic tools for reducing risks and maximizing the return on investments. You then manage the risk and return in the portfolio by adjusting the mix and amount of investments, since it is unlikely that all of them will rise or fall to the same degree simultaneously.

Management 8

Management Core Competence Project Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

So, for example, a principal investigator whose payload was allocated 10 pounds of mass on the spacecraft but only required one was free to trade the other nine pounds for other resources. Few companies, it would appear, pay enough attention to teaching people how to lead teams. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

Project 16

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

So, for example, a principal investigator whose payload was allocated 10 pounds of mass on the spacecraft but only required one was free to trade the other nine pounds for other resources. Few companies, it would appear, pay enough attention to teaching people how to lead teams. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

Project 14

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). by Hank Moore. Product Recall, Tylenol.

Crisis 72

Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

The question confronting Cisco and other companies is how to do that – how to speed the process of innovation, especially as technological change threatens to upend our current business models. Internal diversity. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Experts from outside industries.

Innovation 8

Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Further, some of the world’s biggest companies are family-owned—News Corp, Samsung, Tata Group, and Walmart to name but a few—and more than a third of Fortune 500 companies are family-owned. Strategic Challenges and Talent Management. Director Profiles.

FOB 8

FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s no secret that organizations have been increasingly turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision making across business processes—from research and design to supply chain and risk management. The Risks and Rewards of AI. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

In the business community, just as in a natural ecosystem, an individual organism (in this case a company) is vulnerable to changes in the availability of these systemic inputs. The risks are greater than we realize because the availability of any of these key resources deeply affects the availability of the others.

Energy 13

Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

As outsiders, shareholders often do not possess all of the information or be aware of all considerations that are relevant to devising robust executive pay packages at individual investee companies. One European fund manager, for example, seeks to meet every individual nominated for the board at their investee firms.

Execution 10

Execution Committee Incentives Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

And we don't just adjust perceptions of our own safety, but of others' as well: for example, motorists have been found to pass more closely to bicyclists wearing helmets than those that don't, betting (incorrectly) that helmets make cyclists safer than they actually do. One of the pioneers in this effort is, counterintuitively, the U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Hedge System 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

Safeguarding your company in a complex world. Add up all the different federal, state, and international agencies that claim a piece of the regulatory pie, and you get a mishmash of overlapping requirements that can confuse and constrain companies — but leave hackers plenty of room to maneuver. Insight Center.

Hotels 10

Hotels Company Technology Software 10