Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Commenting later on van Gennep’s work, anthropologist Victor Turner explained it as “a moment when those being moved in accordance with a cultural script were liberated from normative demands, when they were, indeed, betwixt and between successive lodgments in jural political systems. Business education Informal leadership Leadership'

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. Years of economic mismanagement.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Where was its leadership bench? Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? Why are so many companies struggling with a crisis of their leadership bench? What kind of signal did this choice send to P&G''s top managers? Succession planning'

Succession 8

Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Mixing and matching features, components, and sizes enabled the Finnish telecommunications giant to offer a vast array of choices to win over operators and, through them, consumers. It helped to establish the Symbian operating system in 1998 and spent a fortune trying to attract developers to the platform.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities.

Books 14

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Their founders — China's first generation of entrepreneurs — are nearing retirement, so these companies' futures hinges on how effectively the incumbents manage leadership transitions. Consider, for example, the Shenzhen-based Huawei , which has become the world's second largest telecommunications equipment-maker.

Succession 14

Succession Telecommunications Finance CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We had it all — strong capital markets, rich natural resources, unparalleled higher education, and geographic separation from two devastating wars. Although well-intentioned, these programs often have the unintended consequences of benefiting the wrong businesses, favoring sub-optimal technology, and creating market distortion.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Licensing Telecommunications Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

What they don't understand is that modern-day telecommunications, the hair-trigger requirements of financial markets, and the pace of global organizations create 24 x 7 work lives for most executives. Yet another would end a grueling day of work listening to jazz on a professional quality sound system installed in the basement.

Stress 15

Stress Telecommunications Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

industries: 35 advanced manufacturing industries such as automotive and aerospace manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors; three energy industries including electric power generation; and 12 service industries, from software design to telecommunications. Equally important are bold reforms in workforce education and training systems.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Too few businesses have sought to make a systemic approach to public policy an important dimension of their global posture. telecommunications or food safety or healthcare or aerospace or energy/environment). telecommunications or food safety or healthcare or aerospace or energy/environment). The stakes are very high.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

GE is headquartered in Fairfield, a small town in Connecticut, while its famous Leadership Development Center is located in Crotonville, New York. Microsoft, the biggest of them all by market cap, is based in Redmond, a city of 50,000 people and 16 km to the east of Seattle. What's more, the system isn't encouraging them to spread.

Real Estate 12

Real Estate Telecommunications Collins Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

While not as old and not yet as mature as cloud systems, it warrants a closer look. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems. Yet, the trend is not free from potential downsides as the case of a large multinational telecommunications company illustrates. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

And in business life, CEOs incentivize and promote those senior executives who can get new ideas to market more quickly than competitors. Or take Harris Corporation, an American telecommunications company founded in 1895. Companies that survive build structures and systems that allow them to waste resources.

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Airlines Telecommunications Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Heres how Antoin Murphy , one of the few scholars to have studied these strikes, which took place in the 1970s, describes it: "a highly personalized credit system without any definite time horizon for the eventual clearance of debits and credits substituted for the existing institutionalized banking system."

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

” Staton identified the challenge of managing a global brand: “We had the McDonald’s brand, and in each country our market share and the product life cycle were in different stages. So the challenge was to have the broad marketing strategies with local adaptations.” Leadership Competition'

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Not long ago, the chief executive of a global telecommunications firm shared with me his frustration that "even in a meeting with the CEO, most institutional investors seek only granular data points to plug into their models.

Long-term 12

Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Just as poison ivy does not directly cause irritation, but spoofs our immune system into thinking our own skin is the enemy, careless reporting can cause more harm than good. The tragedy here is that, as with poison ivy and the immune system, there really is no one to blame.

Airlines 14

Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

We focused on the generations in eight countries, including the four BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), some of the most important markets for talent over the next decade, as well as one country from the Middle East. In many cases, leadership demanded compliance, promoting risk-aversion and compliance, rather than respect.

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

As it is written, the legislation would essentially force companies to engineer defects into the their security systems. companies to reverse years of enhancements and innovations in secure online transactions and data storage that power the world’s largest retail e-commerce market , valued at $238 billion. trillion this year.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The horrible irony: The very detail-oriented systems (and people) Dimon had put in place had obscured rather than surfaced his bank's horrible hedge. There's a reason why great chefs visit the farms and markets that source their restaurants: The raw ingredients are critical to success. Is this micromanagement?

Micromanagement 17

Micromanagement Document Telecommunications Software 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Second, the new system depends on publishers playing ball using the metatags. Second, the new system depends on publishers playing ball using the metatags. Googles proposed metatags may not provide visibility in quite the way a publisher wants, as they assume a single originating source, not a formal syndication process.

Guidelines 15

Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 15

HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Automation in Maritime industry is turning crew members into system managers. Developments in telecommunications, computing technologies, and electronic sensors are inspiring less of human intervention in controlling some sensitive equipment including vehicles, planes, helicopters, trains, etc. Mining automation market will reach $3.29

Industry 87

Industry Operations Transportation Technology 87

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Huawei’s revenue from overseas markets exceeded that from the Chinese market for the first time in 2005. For example, when Huawei expanded their 3G market in Europe, they noticed that European carriers expected base stations to be more compact, easier to install, greener, and more energy efficient, while offering wider coverage.

Succession 8

Succession Golden Handcuff IPO Long-term 8