Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them. companies had all-male boards.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Since reading that I've often pondered the subject and today, I find it helpful to look at my experience of how good designers think (and do) at each stage of the innovation process: insights, inspiration, and action. Good designers can act as a translator between functional silos as different as supply chain, marketing and R&D.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

But — especially in large, global, diverse organizations — what should it be replaced with? First, in a world in which labor markets are fluid, leaders must inspire and impart purpose. It’s cliché to say that “command and control” leadership is no longer relevant in most organizational contexts.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. Here is a simple explanation of it. How many new customers churn after just a few months?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Simons—after all, he’s been around for decades, earning and donating vast amounts of money, generally enjoying life (despite the accidental deaths of two of his five adult children), and giving Dos Equis’s “ most interesting man in the world ” a serious run for his money. “Jim,”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

At the top of the News Feed, users located in India saw a company-issued request to promote Internet.org, the company’s controversial global connectivity effort, to their elected leaders. This week, Facebook took advantage of this asset for political purposes. Rinse and repeat, over and over. Limited resources are valuable.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

On recent visits to India, we have found that "innovation" is the buzzword on everybody's lips. President Pratibha Patil has even declared 2010-2020 as India's " Decade of Innovation." Biocon is one Indian company that is adapting well to this new global reality by embracing a polycentric innovation model. Financiers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

When you look at the global economy today, here's what might strike you: Apple is an organization almost singularly unlike the massed hordes and would-be contenders to the throne that surround it. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament." Just do great work. Have taste. They have absolutely no taste."

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Bounded rationality The notion of bounded rationality, initially introduced by Nobel laureate Herbert Simon, highlights the inherent limitations individuals face when endeavoring to make rational choices, stemming from their constrained access to certain knowledge or their capacity to comprehend that information.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Think Outside the Building : How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (PublicAffairs, 2020) One of the leading business thinkers in the world offers a bold, new theory of advanced leadership for tackling the world’s complex, messy, and recalcitrant social and environmental problems.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

One thing we can say with confidence is that uncertainty will remain high for some time in politics, macroeconomics, and business, at both global and national levels. In malleable environments, such as in newly created or disrupted markets, they will need to envision and realize new possibilities. Invest in Resilience. Modularity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

But they can be usefully divided into three groups: technological progress, globalization, and economic policy. Globalization might have, by providing cheaper imports from China and allowing U.S. Globalization might have, by providing cheaper imports from China and allowing U.S. workers without a college degree.

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