Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. After looking hard at the numbers and algorithms, the smartest — and richest — general managers and franchises have made up their collective minds: They're not paying a premium for yesterday. Yesterday" is a sunk cost. But why not?

Loyalty 8

Loyalty Franchising Six Sigma Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

If you sift through recent employment figures in the United States, you'll find an intriguing trend: a steady uptick in the number of people leaving their jobs to go to work with new companies. That said, there are certainly times when you should explore the outside job market to increase the pace of your career advancement.

Career 15

Career Company Consensus Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Investors reward companies (such as Apple and Kimberly-Clark ) whose current performance or guidance for the future exceeds market expectations, and they punish companies (as they did Starbucks and Procter & Gamble ) whose performance or guidance fails to meet expectations.

CFO 10

CFO Metrics Price Depreciation 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

It is a trend that's slowly and silently killing them. What emerged was a consensus that t he most successful leaders in the future will be those who - like Nelson - can cut their distance to the front line through three key traits: the ability to be authentic, empathy with the customer and front line, and true self-awareness.

Self-aware 14

Self-aware Goleman Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

But their impact on sales has been underwhelming, primarily because they ignore the needs of one key constituent: the frontline employee working to make the best possible marketing decisions day by day. But managers in the trenches often describe the data in these reports as unhelpful, contradictory, and distracting. Insight Center.

Retail 8

Retail Banking Chief Information Officer Report 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

They must manage to both craft the new world with smart strategy, often in the wake of disruption, and cause the organization to embrace the required change. It was the summer of 2000 and the company had quickly lost $85 billion in market capitalization. In this gap between ordered worlds almost anything may happen.”. Lawrence A.

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2013

What are the most important topics for marketers? Last month, in an online vote with Incite Marketing and Communications, 579 marketers ranked the following as their top five topics: 1. Use what you learn to drive better marketing campaigns. Complexity is a huge concern for marketing executives. About the Author.

Marketing 58

Marketing Media ROI Consensus 58

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. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

Globalization 10

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Our B2B Sales Index contains data on the sales process activities and time signatures of more than 10,000 sales reps across all major geographic markets and industries. Surely our high performers are bucking this trend and finding a way to spend more time with customers than their lower-performing peers, right? Not exactly.

B2B 15

B2B Simon Consensus Planning 15

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

The trend towards more extreme weather appears to be continuing around the globe. New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. While the labor challenge is especially stark in the U.S., utility systems in most advanced economies are facing similar demographic dynamics.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

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

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

The process by which a network of nodes confirms the record of previously verified transactions, and by which it verifies new transactions, is known as a consensus protocol. Both of these trends have led to an increased interest in private blockchains, which could ultimately give businesses a greater degree of control.

Consensus 8

Consensus Decentralization System Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Trend lines, market sizing, and competitive benchmarks that served companies well during periods of gradual market evolution do little good in industries where new technologies create seismic shifts, demand is uncertain, and rivals emerge from left field. Yet in turbulent times this is dysfunctional.

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

While not all of those picks have worked out swimmingly for the teams in questions (see: JaMarcus Russell and the Oakland Raiders ) the trend speaks to the allure of the superstar QB. Because they have been trained and incented to care about the real game, the one happening on the field, and not about the associated betting market.

CEO 14

CEO Consensus Conference Rogers 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

” This is health care’s “ Triple Aim ” and it is definitely trending. No talk of profits, opening new markets, or any of the usual crowd pleasers. “If you want to understand how Alcoa is doing, you need to look at our workplace safety figures,” he argued. Everyone thought he was nuts.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Retail Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

This is the key finding of the Current Trends in Estimating and Applying the Cost of Capital research released this week by the Association for Financial Professionals, a trade group of 16,000 corporate treasury and finance practitioners. Book vs. Market Weighting Factors Used for Debt and Equity in Calculation of WACC. .

Cost of Capital 12

Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Petersburg, have been growing over the 20 years since multinational companies entered the Russian market. Our company Amrop and the ESCP-EAP European School of Management in Berlin conducted a survey on how these expatriates lead and it highlights two unexpected trends: Expatriates Help Companies Keep Local Employees.

Management 9

Management Leadership Styles Consensus Survey 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 In the era of big collaboration, the ethicization of business, and the complexity that comes with globalization 2.0,

Leadership 244

Leadership Globalization Maturity Agility 244

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

CEO activism, the growing trend of top executives speaking out on sensitive social and political issues, has been labeled the “ new normal.” The same dynamic may now complicate Google’s plans to re-enter China’s search market. fotog/Getty Images. ” But behind the scenes, executives do not feel in control.

CEO 9

CEO Politics Policies Survey 9

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