Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

After the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi , many companies had to urgently decide whether to attend Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative, a global business conference scheduled to take place just days after news of Khashoggi’s killing broke. The compass that was guiding the bank was a financial one.

Politics 13

Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

They are professional Predict, Plan & Execute (“PP&E”) machines, and as they have evolved over time, are carefully engineered to stamp out anything that induces uncertainty. There has been explosion in the past 10 years of conferences and popular and academic books, articles and blogs on the topic. That’s because you are!

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Innovation Operations Consultative 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Initially, we got the impression that gurus might have little in common other than a desire to get the HBR stamp of legitimacy conferred upon their latest notion. Read widely and systematically scan sources, from new consulting reports to business headlines, to discern the zeitgeist. It can even be quantified.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. The economics of operating large campuses, and big faculties and admin staff are inflating the costs of business education beyond reason.

Education 17

Education Drucker Globalization Trends 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The American climate activists who have flocked to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week tend to have one thing in common: many own the “it” car for their tribe, the VW Jetta Wagon TDI. Roughly half of the world’s hundred largest economic engines are corporations, not governments.

PPM 8

PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Consider the way we naturally gesture as we casually chat with colleagues, deliver presentations, or brainstorm with engineers. In what situations (one-on-ones, conferences, or team meetings) am I learning new and challenging things, according to the data? Gesture-based productivity apps.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing Software 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

Some are actual housework — getting the coffee for the morning stand-up, or cleaning up after a lunch meeting — and some are the unsung operational or administrative work that keeps the company rolling along. Procuring the conference room. Getting everyone on the conference line. We call them office housework.

Management 15

Management Committee Diversity Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Oil and Gas subsea operators across the world are adopting a GE Industrial Internet technology developed in Norway. Engineers designed the eardrum of the system from special crystals that respond to sound wave vibrations and convert them into electricity (Engineers call this effect ‘piezoelectricity’).

Industry 8

Industry Offshoring Engineering Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

True, Zappos’s recent experience with holacracy, as widely reported in the media, demonstrates that the transformation to distributed management is not easy. For engineers familiar with the concept of distributed intelligence in systems, this is an easily understandable, even obvious, form of structure. Don’t cringe.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

I captured some of these difference effects in a cartoon called A Tale of "O," about what happens when there are very few O's in a group of mostly X's, operating with X's as the mainstream standard; O's get stared at for the wrong reasons and find their effectiveness undermined.

Fashion 15

Fashion Conference Engineering Diversity 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” The engine may be otherwise well built, but without just one of these components, it will be essentially worthless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2018

Machine learning models used in a popular search engine struggle to differentiate human images from those of gorillas , and show female searchers ads for lower paying jobs relative to male users. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. So how can we mitigate bias in machine learning? Adopting AI.

Sample 10

Sample Project Self-aware Training 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

Moreover, Sloan did this by means of organizational mastery, without the major engineering breakthrough that other GM insiders believed was their only hope. Moreover, they operated on a scale that is unthinkable in a business climate that prizes “nimbleness”: in 1960, GM had 500,000 employees on its payroll.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Venture Capitalist Price Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. An advertising-based model.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11