Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

This instability meant that Japan was unable to iron out a national consensus on its reform plan, or implement reforms in the long run. Massive layoffs ensued, and the labor market turned flexible far too rapidly, with many formerly middle-class workers losing permanent contracts and reliable salaries. Economy Global business'

Consensus 8

Consensus Class Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Many of the hashtags even became trending topics, which garnered accelerated awareness for the innovative hashtag game and even more paramount, the show itself. It's traditionally believed that word of mouth is the most influential form of marketing. Consensus matters because it saves time and provides clarity.

Advertising 14

Advertising Consensus Media Audience 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Once a team has reached, or appears to have reached, a consensus, it can be very hard for any individual to challenge the group’s interpretation of reality or predictions about the future — or to push back on what the group plans to do (or not do) — without running the risk of being perceived as a heretic or becoming a scapegoat.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

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 11

CFO Metrics Price Depreciation 11

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

MAY 14, 2013

But in turbulent times, these approaches can lead companies to miss critical market inflection points. At the heart of the future-back process is a consensus view of your company''s desired future state.This isn''t scenario planning, where you consider a range of possibilities. Finally, it is imaginative.

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning Consensus Strategic Planning Innovation 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

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 15

Self-aware Goleman Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage 15

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 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 18

Technology Entrepreneur Morale ROI 18

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

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

65 Content Marketers List the 44 Content Marketing Agencies Crushing It (Plus 70 Tips & 78 Myths Dispelled) ​Digital marketing is becoming harder to ignore as we now live in a world of internet ubiquity. Click "READ MORE" to see the 44 content marketing agencies and 70 related tips from the experts!

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

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

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

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

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. Measuring Marketing Insights. Some just give up entirely and look for a different role. Insight Center. Turning data into action.

Retail 8

Retail Banking Chief Information Officer Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2015

The hottest trend right now in publishing is…things that were written more than a half-century ago. Though exact numbers are hard to come by, there’s a clear consensus that following the economic shocks of 2008, advances paid to writers are declining —in some cases precipitously. million copies in print.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Audience Brand 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

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 10

Consensus Decentralization System Operations 10

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 15

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

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 15

CEO Consensus Conference Rogers 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

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. Learn more about your market value.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 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 13

Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 13

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

JULY 23, 2013

One solution to this tension is to pursue what we call glocal advertising strategy — locally adapting a universally embraced core idea that will resonate in any market anywhere in the world.". The key question for global brands is, "How can marketers pull it off consistently?". Advertising Marketing'

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Advertising Storytelling 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

This updated chart of the total number of liberal democracies is from Robert Prechter''s book, The Wave Principle of Human Social Behavior , which observed that bull markets "tend to lead to political freedom, while retrenchments lead to political repression.". The reason is that social mood is in charge of both trends.

Marketing 90

Marketing Development Trends Open-book 90

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. Who thought fifteen years ago that urban multifamily would be the next boom housing market? Climate action is the next great boom opportunity.

Sharpe 9

Sharpe Technology System Business Model 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 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. Many businesses were actively involved in lobbying governments to make an ambitious agreement on climate in Paris in the first place. What’s going on?

Globalization 10

Globalization Policies Supply Chain CEO 10

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 10

CEO Politics Policies Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

It's a truly open market of ideas. Consensus is the only authority. To gain social authority, you must be kind because power is shifting to the hands of the masses and it's trending positive. Government agencies and media outlets use authority and gatekeeping functions, which are slow, and not always right. Brevity reigns.

Technology 14

Technology Media Open-book Globalization 14

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 10

Management Leadership Styles Consensus Survey 10

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 10

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10

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