Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking. Examples: A CEO ignores market research that suggests a new product will not be well-received because he or she firmly believes it’s a good idea. Examples: A CEO assumes that their enthusiasm for a new corporate strategy is shared by all employees.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

But unlike most Japanese innovations, it did not come from a big established firm. Companies and venture capitalists chase hot markets. Entries into markets triggered more entries, and markets that saw companies fleeing went cold. The loners, those willing to go against the consensus, are anything but predictable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. So when Amazon reports below-consensus earnings, as it did Tuesday, and the share price jumps, as it did after-hours Tuesday and again Wednesday morning, the reaction isn't quite the puzzle it seems. billion in bonds the year before).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

This will shape agricultural markets in ways we have not seen before. There is strong academic consensus that climate change–driven water scarcity, rising global temperatures, and extreme weather will have severe long-term effects on crop yields. Food demand is expected to increase anywhere between 59% to 98% by 2050.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. Consider the differences in various shares of the top ten emerging markets in comparative perspective. But haven't we heard this before?

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Those of you familiar with this blog know that I’m generally a strong marketing advocate. That said, my typical pro-marketing position assumes that certain key fundamentals are in place to insure that the lunatics don’t somehow become in charge of the asylum.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Welch was convinced that the speed of globalization and technological innovation in the 21 st century would require companies to work very differently – with shorter decision cycles, more employee engagement, and stronger collaboration than had previously been required to compete. This was delaying product production.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Over the last few decades, innovation activity has become concentrated in clusters or ecosystems, where finance, academia, industry and entrepreneurs rub shoulders to allow the free flow of ideas. Innovating our response to Covid-19. In part these may be fed by the fact it is easy to find social consensus.”.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

These conversations highlighted some attitudes and values that seemed to go a long way toward explaining Silicon Valley’s innovation identity. The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. Here are the ones that struck us most: Lace audacity with grit. Build platforms, not products.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Its earnings were down 73% from the quarter a year earlier and it missed the analysts' consensus estimate of $0.24 Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. . You typically don't get misunderstood for sustaining innovation.".

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The international political consensus of the universal economic benefits of globalization that defined much of the 20th and early 21st centuries is breaking down. The positive consensus toward globalization that defined the U.S. Generational change is also playing a critical role in the expression of Chinese nationalism.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Alfred Rappaport's article, " Stock Market Signals to Managers ," in the November-December 1987 issue of the Harvard Business Review, provides managers with a clear method for understanding how price reflects the market's expectations about the company's future financial performance. But very few executives or investors do.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Shareholders have benefited greatly from bigger product markets, lower production costs, and the judicious use of head office domiciles to reduce tax bills. Since 1990, the market capitalization of multinational corporations has grown at more than three times the average rate of listed companies around the world, our research shows.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

company takes on the legal identity of foreign subsidiary, usually in order to reduce its taxes — has become about as controversial as corporate finance topics get. We have some of our largest and most innovative companies doing this. I actually am optimistic that we can get there; there’s a fair amount of consensus about that.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. After all, how do you cut cost from a business or market whose structure has fundamentally changed? The unstoppable force of blockchain technology is barreling down on the infrastructure of modern finance. Distributed Database.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The consensus is the challenges facing them will be daunting and organizations will be strained to finance and manage it. The transformation will necessitate substantial investments in finance, technology, human capital, operations, and infrastructure, and a substantial disinvestment of legacy resources in these areas.

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