Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

So it’s consistent with market forces. After the initial rush of enthusiasm and energy, established routines and networks can smother the drive for innovation. Yes there are exceptions — Steve Jobs and Jack Welch leap to mind. Angela Ahrendts’ move from Burberry to Apple is an example of what the wise ones do.

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CEO Long-term Welch Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Increasingly, I see people looking starry-eyed to business and markets to solve social problems. My view is that pretending companies and markets hold all the answers actually puts at risk our ability to deal with our most pressing societal problems — and to help our most vulnerable citizens. I have an M.B.A.

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Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

This includes having an in-house recruiting firm to locate the best engineering talent for the start-ups it funds, a huge boon in a wildly competitive job market. A big selling point, the start-up hopes, is the energy-saving potential: If you’re a facilities manager, you can lower the temperature by 1 degree and see whether anyone reacts.

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Engineering Welch Media Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Then I met three people — a Dutch CEO, a Welch education expert and a German scientist — who saw things in a very different way. The marketing model changes. So give me an example of how this would play out for, say, a car manufacturer. Energy costs are a huge concern for car manufacturers. It's fascinating.

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Company Apparel Engineering Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

If I recall correctly, Jack Welch wrote that you can only have one priority, you need to pick which it will be. From what I have observed with your son's they both seem to be winning the battle – of course it never hurts to have a great example to follow:). link] mikemyatt Thanks for stopping by Bert.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Rarely do people point to encouraging employees to disagree with their managers, as Amazon does, or firing top performers, as Jack Welch did at GE. For example, at a grocery store chain I worked with, employees were steeped in an operations culture that valued efficiency and productivity.

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