Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The arsonist's mode of operation is to first lure hundreds of young immigrant women and men into a multistory building by offering them $1 a day to sew clothing. Raw capitalism becomes brutal and wild when it escapes the taming confines that have been constructed by developed governments. Their failures become yours.

Wilde 8

Wilde Compliance Cost Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

Unlike the stiff, formalized approach to most director-executive interactions, Netflix encourages its board members to spend time watching the company operate “in the wild.” According to one director, “It’s hard to imagine we could have done it without the intimate knowledge of the operations and the people.”

Analysis 8

Analysis Document CEO Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For decades, the production of corn has been led by family-based businesses who operate their farms with a time-tested mix of traditional agriculture tools. farms have signed up to use FarmLogs to manage their operations. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images. Deep in the golden corn fields of Iowa, technology is transforming life on the farm.

Policies 8

Policies Content Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

As Quartz reported last year: Members of the Glass operations team have been on the road showing it off to companies and organizations, and they told Quartz that some of the most enthusiastic responses have come from manufacturers, teachers, medical companies, and hospitals. Glass may yet turn out to be a great consumer success.

Strategy 8

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In 2009, Congress charged the Federal Communications Commission with the development of a National Broadband Plan (NBP). Construction costs fell, and the speed of deployments increased. New technologies — including low-orbit satellites and “fixed wireless” — were developed for remote and rural locations.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Launch day was a wild success. With valuable learnings from the solar salesmen, we began the search to build our own dedicated team of salespeople to help us “open up shop” across each region of operation. Chai stands were built, graphics were printed, and the team was ready for launch. Photograph courtesy of BioLite.

Marketing 8

Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

. “Sometimes, when I sit in meetings, especially ones in which people don’t seem engaged, I calculate the cost in staff time. Develop empathy for them by asking three sets of questions: Who is going to be in the room and what are their needs?

Planning 8

Planning Participative Wilde Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

When an office bully starts running wild, there are often two employees to blame. Many of the best leaders and managers in the business world operate from the Pleaser power style. When they are operating from their strengths, Pleasers can become the glue that holds a positive corporate culture together. What's the holdup?

Rogers 14

Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

Hence much of the management world operates under the illusion that employees are generally ethical, and that bad apples are not only an exception but also easy to detect. Yet dishonest work behaviors, such as staff abuse, rule bending, and theft cost the economy billions. Take the Enron and WorldCom scandals, which cost the U.S.

Management 10

Management 360-Degree Feedback Ethics Morale 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

competitiveness and its position in technology development will likely be central to the lobbying that will surround any efforts to change laws or boost federal regulations. Some of Facebook’s biggest markets are in the developing world, and Facebook is experiencing its fastest growth in Asia and Africa. In the U.S., and the U.K.,

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Constraint Self-aware Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

India's leading IT companies, for instance, have developed their infrastructure themselves: They operate transportation systems round the clock, generate huge amounts of power, and run gigantic training operations to remain competitive. In India, that is impossibly hard.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Wilde Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation. traffic deaths.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As the new CEO of Google, he has been handed the keys to one of the world’s most valuable brands , the top website to open to get to other websites , the most popular operating system for smartphones , and the most desirable employer for engineering or business graduates. And third, his belief that technology is an equalizing force.

CEO 8

CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? And in the end, leadership development and character development are one. I’m not sure it can be an act of character unless it costs you something. And that’s what’s it all about. Are you raising your game?

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? And in the end, leadership development and character development are one. I’m not sure it can be an act of character unless it costs you something. And that’s what’s it all about. Are you raising your game?

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

But at The Energy Project , we have developed a way of making changes that has proved remarkably powerful and enduring, both in my own life and for the corporate clients to whom we teach it. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.". Change is hard.

Commitment 15

Commitment Resistance Wilde Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. Malthus strikes back: Coca-Cola takes an $800 million hit on commodity costs. The greening of the supply chain. business continuity"). Watch this space.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

An outsourced idea and creative team that could get the production done at a cost that was less than what it would cost the brand to have a permanent staff in place. Here are five new attributes that I think marketing agencies will need to develop to survive: 1. Over time, this role has changed. Models of leanness.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Advertorial Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Their IT and security teams are peripheral concerns, costs to be managed rather than centers of excellence that support the core business. vulnerability intelligence (what is being exploited in the wild?), Overall, they are reactive, rather than proactive, in their approach to security. Make security a part of your mission.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Tactics Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. Microsoft and Intel, as is well known, have long sought alternatives to their being fused at the hip — Microsoft seeking alternative chip platforms for its software, and Intel supporting additional operating systems. This is tricky.

Management 11

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. Can you improve profits by streamlining costs?

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

That’s because the digital revolution has now made it possible to develop, produce, and distribute information in regular waves of better and cheaper technologies—the pre-conditions for what Paul Nunes and I have called “ Big Bang Disruption.”. Beyond ESPN, Disney owns, well, pretty much everything.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8