Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

Tasking employees to keep executive egos in check is no longer practical or politically correct, but the need for such personal prompting and reminders undeniably remains. When I know I can't trust myself to be as sharp as I'd like, I need my devices to "step up" and make a difference. Why not have your smartphone do it ?

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Self-aware Management Sharpe Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

They are dealing with the environment; successfully making the shift from an infrastructure state to a consumer society; becoming an innovative economy; having a positive impact on the world order; and finally, and perhaps most importantly, making the transition from Xi Jinping’s “Seven No’s” to a more sustainable political model.

Education 8

Education Politics Globalization Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

Your options for funding a corporate idea are very narrow — basically, you have to go through the often bureaucratic and political process of getting a budget from the managers above you. Companies need a different process for funding innovative projects. Innovation capital markets are a huge category creation opportunity.

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Company Budgeting Entrepreneur Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

But in sharp contrast to the situation in Brazil, productivity has been rising faster than wages in the U.S. What they have in common is that their solutions are at least as much political as economic. Disruptive innovation Economy Productivity' Sure enough, it more or less is. The lines are flatter in the U.S., for decades.

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GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 11

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Those who place the care and regard of others above advancing their personal, positional, professional or political agendas will garner trust, respect and influence. “Those who place the care and regard of others above advancing their personal, positional, professional or political agendas will garner trust, respect and influence.”

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Blog Gordon Learning-by-Doing Open-book 419

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

Moreover, China itself is experiencing a sharp decline in labor’s share. Indeed, we show that the industries where concentration has risen the most are also those where there has been the fastest growth in productivity and innovation. In a recent paper , we put forward a different story based on the rise of superstar firms.

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GDP Video Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Not surprisingly, these so-called “narrow” networks have been met with sharp criticism from advocacy groups, reform skeptics, and providers. However, as is the case with political research, we found that it’s all about how you ask the question. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

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Insurance Health Care Retail Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Every few hundred years throughout Western history, a sharp transformation has occurred,” Peter Drucker observed in a 1992 e ssay for Harvard Business Review. “In In a matter of decades, society altogether rearranges itself – its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its arts, its key institutions.

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Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Office Politics. There were misunderstandings across the group about what one another did and sharp differences in how each subgroup defined a successfully commercialized product. Marketing and R&D’s combined value could be creating innovations that prioritize the customer. You and Your Team Series. Annie McKee.

How To 8

How To Sharpe Operations Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The answer is the sharp and unexpected rise of existential risk. Every half century or so, the risk assumptions underlying our economic, social and political foundations change dramatically. A former assistant managing editor for Business Week , he is professor of Innovation and Design at Parsons The New School for Design.

Uncertainty 13

Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 13

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

All the rest of this stuff is just politics and money." Now both my sons are doing the tough balancing act, but their priorities are keeping their leadership skills sharp – leading family and companies. " From a dear friend and colleague: "Family is the only thing that matters. link] Bert Decker Great post Mike.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

More of the same — a perma-crisis whose human toll on you and I seems to be a kind of crisis-malaise, a habituation to human heartache, the dulling of the once-razor-sharp edge of what could have been? The other day, I remarked on Twitter: American politics' biggest Achilles Heel is that it seems closed to fundamentally new Big Ideas.

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How To Sharpe Crisis Class 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Corporate procurement processes are opaque, secretive, and can be influenced by political pull as well as pure performance. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Cartoonists shift their gaze from politics to the budget circus and TV channels gather all the “experts” to pontificate. It is about making timely sharp turns, planned and executed with reason. Will doors open further to foreign investment or competition? This year was no different.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Cost Globalization Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

In my experience, even very sharp business leaders tend to misunderstand three facts when thinking about climate change. Given our current rate of emissions, we''ll need a sharp slope towards a "carbon zero" world in order to stay within that budget. The first is how much action we need to take. and internationally.

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Sharpe Technology System Business Model 9

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 30, 2020

This malaise is encapsulated in a recent report from Cambridge University, which highlights how dissatisfaction with democratic politics has leaped from a third of people to half of us over the last 25 years. A sharp fall. The data suggests the sharpest fall has been since 2005, during which 38.7%

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Report Crisis Sharpe Politics 69

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. As a result, the U.S. based, with the rest coming from China.

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Price How To Policies Report 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his Innovation doesn’t come from a sprint or a hackathon--it’s a result of maximizing ideaflow. Tracing the physical, political, and personal evolution of the iconic president, Becoming FDR shows how adversity can lead to greatness, and to the power to remake the world.

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 368

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

In his new book, Tyler Cowen argues that the problem is that that we've eaten all the "low-hanging fruit," — that there's not a great enough quantity of innovation. That's a sharp insight, but I'd argue (in my own new book ) that the problem's slightly different: not a high enough quality of innovation.

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Globalization Sharpe Transportation Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

But while it feels like a lot of our political conventional wisdom is getting turned on its head, one thing that hasn’t appeared to move forward is how we talk about the economy. Hillary Clinton has a tech and innovation agenda. based companies plan to innovate to meet the competitive challenges of tomorrow.

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