Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

I have previously made the case that the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have the potential to provide, for the first time, a framework for mobilizing companies to invest in sustainable development in an ongoing and scalable way, while also pursuing their own business interests. Some goals may be too broad or too distant.

Development 9

Development Company Innovation Goal 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

As the tension built, the chance of working together positively and constructively to add value for the benefit of all shareholders slipped away. One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit. Think Positive: Where Does the Activist Fit as a Shareholder?

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

In CSR’s place, I propose a new model of engagement, which I call connected leadership. Each goal is tied to Unilever’s core business activity. The company had acquired a gas field in Tangguh and was seeking to construct a liquefaction plant to enable gas exports. These are not philanthropic ambitions.

Company 8

Company McKinsey Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Her peers complained bitterly about her "my way or the highway" approach and often felt blindsided when they heard her present a proposed plan of action to senior management without having solicited their input. However, it was an understatement to say that Carla did not "suffer fools gladly."

Proposal 11

Proposal Cialdini Execution Influence 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Your boss proposes a new initiative you think won’t work. Identify a shared goal. You’ll want to state it overtly, contextualizing your statements so that you’re seen not as a disagreeable underling but as a colleague who’s trying to advance a shared goal. And if you do, what exactly should you say?

Power 8

Power How To Proposal Case Study 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The goal is balance: A coherent company strikes a balance where the right product and service portfolio naturally thrives within a capabilities system consciously chosen and implemented to support a deliberate strategy or way to play. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence.

Resources 51

Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

Support and constructively challenge each other to learn. Propose a self-managed instructional course for your team or work group, and share responsibility for designing and leading the various elements of the course. Through regular, informal coaching sessions they were able to help each other reach their goals.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Quality Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Building on ideas from my colleague Ian MacMillan, I’d propose that we’ve seen three “ages” of management since the industrial revolution, with each putting the emphasis on a different theme: execution, expertise, and empathy. The goal was to optimize the outputs that could be generated from a specific set of inputs.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

If a user agreed to the noble goal of free connectivity for their fellow citizens, they were directed to tell their Member of Parliament to support Facebook’s developing world program: Internet.org seeks to connect billions of people in the developing world to the internet. The companies own the access to the channels of communication.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

The Keystone XL — a proposed addition to a network of pipelines running from the Canadian oil sands to refineries in Texas — has become the political football of the moment. These voices are not going unheeded: carbon taxes and trading systems are already in operation around the world, from British Columbia to China.

Energy 8

Energy Short-term Price Long-term 8

Mark Sanborn

DECEMBER 5, 2021

His wife, Erika, joined the team in 2013, and today Envisioning Green is a husband-and-wife-owned, boutique-style landscape construction and maintenance company being featured in a business book. . On one occasion, a couple made a $106,000 proposal after a single conversation with Peter at the Home Show.

Training 91

Training Mission Statement Open-book Positioning 91

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The Harvard researchers believed that their expertise in value-based health care delivery could help the physicians and the insurer construct a superior BP contract in which the insurer paid a lower price, providers preserved their financial margins, and patients enjoyed superior outcomes. The Motives of the Pilot’s Members.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care How To Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Competition drives us toward our goals and motivates us to improve our performance, while the prestige and power that come from winning can provide a powerful morale booster. According to the scenario, Sam was one of the key traders for his bank’s recently launched operations in Singapore. Andrew Olney/Getty Images.

Ethics 13

Ethics Comparison Participative Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

But what if the company’s goal was never to unleash the disrupter itself so much as to encourage incumbent broadband providers to do so, helping Google’s expansion in adjacent markets such as video and emerging markets including smart homes? continuing to rely almost entirely on private investment.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. For two years the subsidiary had recorded revenue from the proposed € 650 million mega-resort.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

And in 2011, Nathaniel Foote and Russ Eisenstat proposed a “better way to manage in the 21st century.” This year the issue of profit and propose came to the fore, echoing the earlier manifestos. It must be woven into a company’s operational fabric. “We talk purpose at the highest level strategy meetings.

Marketing 10

Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

But what happens when a brave employee decides to challenge organizational conformity and offer new ideas that she sincerely believes would improve operations, before the company has embraced the idea of rebel talent? In the pursuit of big goals, you may find times when you’re exhausted, single-minded, bitter, or angry.

Handbook 8

Handbook Construction Bottom-up Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

We propose combining geolocation data with social media data to create what we call vigilant marketing intelligence (VMI), a conceptual framework based on our prior academic research and observations. For example, feedback from a single customer about wait times may not be sufficient to generalize the operational efficiency of the staff.

Short-term 8

Short-term Brand Long-term Media 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

More than 20 years after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, cleanup teams operating in subarctic waters still struggled because oil became so viscous at low temperatures that it was difficult to pump from barges to onshore collection stations. The goal was to attract novel suggestions from many fields. The Subarctic Oil Problem.

Power 8

Power Proposal Innovation Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The Obama administration issued new standards to double the fuel economy of cars and trucks , and the National Resources Defense Council (an NGO) proposed using the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from power plants by 25%. Finally, how much will we challenge the nature of capitalism, and what will that mean for how companies operate?

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

A second difficult political balance involves using infrastructure spending to create temporary blue-collar jobs, boost construction-company profits, or stimulate the manufacturing of construction equipment. Using substantial debt but focusing on equity investors, the proposal suggests tax credits of about 80% of invested capital.

Banking 8

Banking Objective Finance Proposal 8