Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. — National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress, Technology and the American Economy, Volume 1, February 1966, pg. While technology and globalization have spurred competition, efficiency, and dynamism, the gains have not been shared by all.

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty. It measures and holds itself accountable for changes in the way that teachers use information and communications technology in the classroom.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

They must protect value by helping companies avoid unnecessary risks, and they must build value by ensuring that companies change quickly enough to address emerging competitive threats, evolving customer preferences, and disruptive technologies. But disruption is not always about technology.

Retail 8

Retail CEO Core Competence Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

It’s hard to say, since a lot of other things happened in those same decades: the decline of unions, an explosion of information technology, a new round of globalization, and the dramatic rise in CEO pay. As firms restructured around one or a few competencies or occupations, the thinking goes, wages converged toward the market rate.

Company 8

Company Core Competence Outsourcing Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

“Death of a B2B Salesman,” a new report from Forrester Research , lends urgency to the need for companies to rethink and radically transform their sales models by incorporating digital media into their processes. The moral: Do not act rashly. Reimagine, retrain, and redeploy your sales people. Each time, salespeople survived.

B2B 8

B2B Forrester Telemarketing Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

“Not only are profits rising,” write the authors of the McKinsey report, “but in some industries, the leading firms are winning bigger than ever before.” “This is not happening just in retail, or in IT-producing sectors,” said Chiara Criscuolo, an OECD economist and coauthor of the report.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Factors that lead to resilience include optimism; the ability to stay balanced and manage strong or difficult emotions; a sense of safety and a strong social support system. It’s important to understand and manage some of the factors that cause us to feel so overwhelmed and stressed at work. Sponsored by SoFi.

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Stress Agility Globalization Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Thoughtful, useful, and personal, her answer cut to the heart of the issue while presenting an effective approach for managing it. After another email exchange, the executive and her direct report recognized that, as useful as the message was, it could not be shared with other employees. The problem?

Efficiency 14

Efficiency Lean Manufacturing Core Competence Agility 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. From the perspective of the senior management at many companies, missing sales targets is a failure in the execution of an analytically sound strategy.). Insight center.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king.

Software 8

Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. Merck and Co.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

But it''s tough to do that, especially when most management systems are so focused on individual performance, undermining the very teamwork you''re hoping to encourage. As a team manager, you can support the right behaviors with things that are in your control. If you give yourselves an A, it''s something worth celebrating.".

Team 8

Team How To Case Study Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The relationship gave HPS the ability to reach more people, and Shell had a front-row seat to learn from HPS's many innovations, including bamboo-based power lines, pay-per-use tariffs, and ultra-low-cost, anti-theft smart meters, according to a recent report by the Monitor Group.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

All of the individuals were hand-picked to ensure highly divergent thinking, a desire to disrupt status quo, and comfort with ambiguity, among other core competencies. ” Some interview questions were used to test multiple competencies at once. Interview questions were designed to test applicants for these traits.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8