Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. Unlike for a Procter & Gamble or Unilever, Morey muses, there is no "aging curve" for marketing prowess: "We can't say that, after 50, this guy won't have another good marketing idea again.". Future potential matters (much) more than past performance.

Loyalty 8

Loyalty Franchising Six Sigma Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

It was the summer of 2000 and the company had quickly lost $85 billion in market capitalization. Bossidy, former CEO at AlliedSignal, once said , “We need people who are better at persuading than at barking orders, who know how to coach and build consensus. Procter & Gamble provides another example. Newly minted CEO A.G.

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

From advertising products that get people to buy things they don't need, to social games that are designed to addict people to wasting their time, to "mobile-local-social" products that attempt to leverage the latest technological trends without giving much thought to the importance of the problem being solved.

Technology 16

Technology Entrepreneur Morale ROI 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Those attributes help us identify a set of likely trends on the horizon. Then, we put each trend through what we call The Five Questions: Where/how are people wasting their time?

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role. That’s how groups become mired in consensus, and after a while, everyone thinks and acts alike. The list goes on.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. Industry upheaval often calls for tough choices, and consensus will not be possible. A look at root causes of failed and successful efforts gives a clear view.

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 16, 2020

Despite the consensus that change is required, however, the lack of political cooperation on the matter results in little real progress being made. The belief is that by restricting the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, it will help American graduates in the job market that will be highly competitive post-covid.

Human Capital 82

Human Capital Crisis Politics Policies 82

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

Up until recently, there''s been a kind of consensus image of what action on climate might look like: a pastiche of wind turbines, electric cars, green shopping and LEED buildings. Rebuilding cities will cut auto emissions much faster than technological innovation in the auto industry. and internationally. Buildings, for instance.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Technology System Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

But there is now a growing trend of some CEOs actively lobbying for more ambitious government action and regulation on a whole range of social and environmental issues. A number of CEOs are realizing that such expectations cannot be met by innovation and voluntary actions alone.

Globalization 9

Globalization Policies Supply Chain CEO 9

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 29, 2014

The financial market already recognizes it: In an academic study of 30 public companies that announced co-CEO arrangements, the average stock return that could be attributed to the announcement was 2.58 This “bounded autonomy” is both the greatest weapon in the war for talent and the greatest accelerant of strategy and innovation.

Leadership 244

Leadership Globalization Maturity Agility 244

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

It's a truly open market of ideas. Consensus is the only authority. Serendipitous aside: I've discovered while writing this that Twitter's own head of corporate social innovation and philanthropy, Claire Diaz-Ortiz, is thinking along the same lines, and has published a book about it. Participation is easily justifiable.

Technology 14

Technology Media Open-book Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

In other words, business leaders have been dealing with the direct, market-based risks presented by major economic, technological, and demographic trends. But these trends, and the business responses to them, carry secondary, nonmarket risks — which may turn out to be even greater. Donald Trump won the U.S.

Politics 9

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The big trends didn’t disappear on election day and, more important, they do not depend on the U.S. He put it in simple, CEO-friendly terms: “I am accountable for enterprise risk,” he said, “and clearly there’s a strong scientific consensus that climate is a risk.” Will the seismic shift in U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Serious marketers, innovators and quants can't find a better — or more controversial — case study in the problems and pathologies of predictive analytics than America's down-to-the-wire presidential campaign. The politics of innovation can be every bit as biased and bitter as presidential politics.

Politics 15

Politics Sample Survey Benchmarking 15