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 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 10

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 10

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

MARCH 7, 2017

Blockchain, the distributed ledger technology underlying bitcoin, may prove to be far more valuable than the currency it supports. As we begin to put distributed ledger technology into practice, it’s important to make sure that the initial conditions we’re setting up aren’t setting us up for security issues later on.

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

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. Climate action is the next great boom opportunity.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Technology System Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

It can be the technology that scales good deeds to the global level. The rate of committing acts of good is only bound by the speed of technology. It's a truly open market of ideas. Consensus is the only authority. It has already started. And it's not that close. Participation is easily justifiable. Brevity reigns.

Technology 14

Technology Media Open-book Globalization 14

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 29, 2014

the environmental crisis, increased individualism and value pluralism, digitization, demographic change and technological convergence. 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

Leadership 244

Leadership Globalization Maturity Agility 244

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Over the last two decades, business leaders in the West have been responding to risks posed by profound changes in the global economy, in technology, and in demographics. They have used advances in information technology, which might have destroyed their businesses, to improve their offerings and cut their cost of production.

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. Have polls truly oversampled Democrats relative to Republicans and independents?

Politics 15

Politics Sample Survey Benchmarking 15