Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

With dark-green-tinted spectacles, many call for a return to only locally grown or manufactured products. But there is also evidence that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can actually help to spur adoption of cleaner production methods. For example, cooperation between the U.S. and Canada (most notably the 1991 U.S.-Canada

Globalization 12

Globalization Transportation Cooper Travel 12

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

These activities will bring your workers together, help them communicate better, build trust, resolve conflicts, and enhance cooperation in teamwork. Nowadays, it’s even easier, thanks to advanced technology. What’s more, you can have meetings and conferences online. This will make them less productive.

Efficiency 74

Efficiency Delegation Incentives Team Building 74

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Last month, I had the privilege of attending and speaking at a conference about innovation , and specifically, about how shared value can infuse new innovation into companies competing in the 21st century. If you're a healthcare technology provider like GE, you're worried about the healthcare sector at home and abroad.

Porter 14

Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Many consumers think of us as a vacuum cleaner company – and indeed our first product, in 1919, was a vacuum. As we were a product-centric organization, the shopping experience had played a supporting role, with individual elements of the experience managed by different organizational silos. Three finalists entered pilots this spring.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Globalization Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

It is not hard to see why the two sides find it challenging to confer about infrastructure needs – much less participate in each other’s planning processes. The product of an MIT CTL research initiative called Future Freight Flows, it is a method of convening conversations and achieving alignment, based on the practice of scenario planning.

Planning 8

Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

Yes, as a society, we do need to remake our educational systems to deliver more young people to what Steve Jobs called "the intersection of technology and the humanities" — to bring American students' globally below-average math and science fluency up to snuff and keep them immersed in the arts. Reduce stress, but don't relax too much.

Creativity 16

Creativity Groupthink Stress GDP 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Hiring policies influence morale, productivity and turnover, marketing efforts shape demand growth, and competitors fight back. From cooperation to competition, a game with multiplayer features taps into the rich culture of board games humans have been playing for centuries. Games can be rolled out easily to many managers.

Seminar 8

Seminar Learning Curve Strategy Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

Between ticket sales, sponsorships, merchandising, and media rights, Price Waterhouse Coopers estimates global sports revenues will grow to total roughly $145 billion. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations. Asset valuations in our league have really grown over the years.

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8