Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

Here''s how the "jobs done" segmentation works: Step #1: Identify the contexts in which customers are using the company''s products. In one presentation, we were exuberant about Big Data and Little Data, and in the next, speaking what seemed to be 1960''s voodoo psychographic language.

Ramaswamy 8

Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

Many business leaders don't care why employees do anything as long as they follow the company's rules, processes, cultural norms and laws. Laddering mirrors the five whys, applying it to people's mindsets instead of operational problems. The operator thus moves the machine away from the wall before replacing the motor.

Banking 15

Banking Prahalad Hamel Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Although it is too early to tell if Tunisia and Egypt will prove the exceptions rather than the rule when it comes to dramatic political transitions in the Middle East, multinationals operating in the region have already faced significant losses. Next, firms would assess the likely impact of alternative scenarios on their operations.

Strategy 13

Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

This is because not only are most new jobs likely to come from new young companies, but startup jobs are also easier and cheaper to save via government support. We have already seen tremendous progress in a wide range of digital and technology products during the crisis, and these will continue to play a fundamental role in the recovery.

Innovation 82

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Crisis 82

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The ability to do that rose to a new level in 1917, when General Motors was in financial difficulty and DuPont took a major position in the company. (GM That only makes sense if you are operating in a state of equilibrium—which might have been close enough to the truth in some sepia-toned time. As the late C.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12