Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. Pulling off a core shift takes many years, if not a decade, as PPG and other companies have shown. Allow time and persevere. A core shift takes time for several reasons.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. At the storage and software company EMC Corp., In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in.

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Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

They are incredulous that an immensely successful company, in which many have invested their entire working lives, could have engaged in such large scale, systemic deceit. There are complex social, political, and technological reasons for this dramatic change. So why aren’t all companies more open in their communication?

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Parcell Public Relations Reputation Information 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. The philosophical divide is this: When VCs invest in an early-stage start-up, they recognize that odds are, the company will fail. All of this is right, as far as it goes.

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Venture Capitalist Discounted Cash Flow Parcell Project 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

And that is part and parcel of professional life. Damian Vaughn, head of programs at BetterUp, a San Francisco–based company that connects employees with executive-level coaching, believes that being good at sales means that you understand both the “political and personal element” behind every buying decision.

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Skills How To Brainstorming Case Study 21

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Back before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, MedStar’s leaders decided they needed a strategic plan to reimagine the company in 2020. MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs.

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Our bet is based on the fact that many companies in many industries are facing pivotal moments that absolutely demand a 2-in-1 mindset. Not to mention the companies' own lifecycles: Companies spend far less time today on the Fortune 500 and S&P 500 lists than was typical when these indices were formed.). Valuable enough?"

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Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address. Growing up, he’d constantly tailed Grant around the fields, watching him experiment with crops and technologies that would help the farm survive dry spells.

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Case Study Parcell Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Across the retail landscape, a war is going on, and the battles are being fought on multiple fronts: business models, channels, brands, customers, technologies, and more. Some of these are old scores reignited by new protagonists armed with new weapons, but quite a few are new clashes.

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Retail Technology Content Chief Technology Officer 8