Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

I worked with a software development company in which the CEO came up with a new product feature on a weekly basis. A well-intentioned inventor designed a product to address the fact that many poor Africans have to pump their water by hand, a strenuous and time-consuming process. Pay attention to warning signs.

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Team Metrics Project Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2012

To keep everyone up-to-date, particularly across departments and functions, employees use electronic tools (e-mail, voice mail, conference calls, instant messaging, and social media). Consider Constellation Energy, a $14 billion dollar provider of power, natural gas, and energy products and services based in Baltimore.

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Brainstorming CFO Innovation Energy 14

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 3, 2016

In 2007, while SVP of Operations for Bresnan Communications, a cable TV company with 300,000 customers in 4 Rocky Mountain states, I was searching for a solution to a problem that had been eluding me for many years – a simple way to connect the 1,100 employees I was responsible for around a higher cause that went beyond profit.

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Leadership Operations Policies Hotels 150

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

If they don’t like a company’s product, or an experience they had, the whole world will know about it. Making this connection can be more challenging for big established companies, whose primary success is built on products and value propositions from an earlier time. They already account for a third of the U.S.

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Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Called "Why US Productivity Can Grow Without Killing Jobs," it takes as a given that this would strike readers as counterintuitive. Could it really be that businesses could become more productive and yet not find themselves with excess workers standing around? What a conundrum! Well of course we know it is not one.

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McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Executives have conflicting incentives, the wrong investment metrics , and enormous margin pressure. Based on an annual survey conducted by the Conference Board, the average CEO departs her role with fewer than 9 years under her belt. Many of the reasons for this are well documented. Since 1999, HP has seen 6 CEOs and interim CEOs.

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Long-term Innovation Company IPO 11

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Day one of the conference was headlined by a highly esteemed group of speakers who didn’t give me nearly what I had hoped for – While there were a few shining stars, and some great sound bites, I wasn’t challenged nearly as much as I hoped to be. What really resonated with me was that Jim seems to walk the talk.

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Blog Brand Media Influence 306

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. Within this framework the purpose is to maximize or minimize, as appropriate, the performance metric in the objective by assigning values to the decision variables that satisfy the constraints. This article was republished with the permission of sas com Magazine.

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Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Terry Starbucker

MAY 1, 2011

The theme of this year’s conference was “ The New Leadership and Loyalty Business ”, and in my presentation and work session, I spoke about a leadership “model” that can be used by leaders in just about any situation – a model that, if it is applied correctly, will put a business, organization, or non-profit on the fast track to excellence.

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IRR Leadership Metrics Goal 295

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

While this seemed like a small bet for a $165 billion company built on the mass production of vehicles, the deal was scouted, in part, by Jim Hackett, then head of Ford Smart Mobility who has since been elevated to CEO. This van is currently being tested in London ahead of volume production in 2019.

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Business Model Transportation ROI Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The story of our decision to create and embrace a failure metric begins, as do many business advances, with desperation. By 2007, PBS.org audience growth had stalled and the product pipeline was dry. Television production works on a different cycle from digital, with programs often greenlit two to three years in advance.

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Team Metrics KPI Rogers 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

In B2B contexts, for example, rep performance in similar territories often varies by 300% between top and bottom quintiles, and in retail stores selling productivity typically varies by a factor of three to four. It’s also important to keep in mind that sales tasks typically change over the course of a product-market life cycle.

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CRM B2B Price Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. You can verbally communicate this with your team, role model it, and create organizational operating principles around it.

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Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. Executives read the same trade magazines, go to the same conferences, and talk to the same consultants. These efforts have paid huge dividends.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap. Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. Innovation in Cities.

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Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. Have you been in that quiet conference room, with a half-filled whiteboard, and an unmet business target? Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 369

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. But in the last two contests in which Hillary Clinton has participated, the 2008 primary and the 2016 election, she won on most of these metrics — and lost the elections. The implications are threefold: The best product doesn’t always win.

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