Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. In an age of awards overkill, it is tempting to see the ranking as just another example of hubris in the business world. Second, management matters.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. Similarly, Japan's automobile industry has been plagued by a series of embarrassing quality problems and recalls, and has lost market share to companies from South Korea and even (gasp!)

Six Sigma 16

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 16

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Grocery stores installing shields for checkout staff, for example, or restaurants pivoting to takeout services. A new report from EIT Health aims to uncover the state of the market across Europe, and especially the challenges startups still face in selling into the sector. Other sectors have seen more radical change.

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Innovation Govindarajan Short-term Banking 103

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Ziba''s service innovation and retail design work with Umpqua Bank , for example, continues to be relevant and productive years after it was completed, with the bank adding dozens of branches and tens of billions in holdings. Don''t expect that simply hiring a design partner will magically unlock new revenue streams and markets.

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Govindarajan Long-term Short-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. The picture reproduced below is one example of a completed development using this system. Let's start with affordable housing.

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Suri Construction Class EBITDA 14