The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The researchers examined entrepreneurship data from Denmark between 2001 and 2016, which covered around 131,000 firms. It gives downside protection, and when you have downside protection, you’re going to take on riskier projects in starting your new firm.

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing Succession Project 87

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Once upon a time the portfolio career was seen as pretty sexy and came to typify the “free agent nation” spoken about by Dan Pink way back in 2001. It provides loans of up to €100 billion to member states. It’s by no means a silver bullet, but it is perhaps a start.

Career 107

Career Diversity Trends Long-term 107

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. ” Scrum methods enabled him to finish his seemingly impossible project on time, under budget, and with fewer bugs than any previous release. Of course, Sutherland and Schwaber weren’t alone in their search for innovative methods.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

What’s more critical to producing a breakthrough innovation – finding creative people or finding creative ideas? Bernard Arnault, for instance, the executive chairman of luxury goods maker LVMH, was clearly in the same frame of mind when we caught up with him in a 2001 HBR interview. This astonished Catmull.

Process 8

Process Innovation Brainstorming Creativity 8

Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Using the concept of controlled chaos it is possible to increase efficiency and innovation. It is at heart a new philosophical approach to project management. Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

Agility 71

Agility Project Software Short-term 71

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They had lots of these projects. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious resource or management attention. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Apple has autonomous car projects and AI-based speakers in the works.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets. It's not just standardizing and streamlining.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

innovation, engagement, creativity, and fulfillment. Collaboration of this sort can help an organization innovate — in large measure because it gives direction to people's creative energies — and it can help an organization adapt to changes in the world around it. So it goes with collaboration these days. Sound extreme?

Energy 15

Energy Performance Review Creativity Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001. Kodak wasn't blind to this shift.

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

In 2001, Turkey experienced a financial crisis in its banking sector. So, within our new talent management project, we instituted an internship program and developed a new program dubbed "Talent Camp" to communicate and promote Garanti's reputation as a premier employer. Group merged its three banks (Körfez, Osmanl?,

Banking 11

Banking Crisis Restructuring Reputation 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Looking at LVMH’s efforts, I’ll highlight three areas where I see great impact and innovation: managing carbon and energy, building a connection with customers around brand purpose, and working closely with suppliers. The most innovative part of LVMH’s carbon strategy is the use of an internal carbon fund.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Entrepreneurs and innovators are supposed to be happily self-directed. He now writes and speaks without waiting for the results of his pilot project. New Zealand's Fonterra, formed in 2001, is the world's largest dairy exporter, uniting over 10,000 small farmer-owners. This keeps an entrepreneur going during challenging times.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Cooper Apparel Bureaucracy 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

But by 2001, the once-dominant Buckeyes had slipped into mediocrity. In many organizations, the loyalty of employees lies with their department or project team, rather than the whole organization. The staff reasoned that rewarding stellar individual performances would provide the right incentive to excel.

Cooper 12

Cooper Sports Groupthink Construction 12

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Principle 7 — Generate High-Velocity Decisions) in the section titled Invention Machine he explains the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 decisions and why understanding the difference is crucial to business growth through invention and innovation.

Letter 85

Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 85

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Generally speaking, executives are compensated for things under their control: moving projects along, the stewardship of a P&L, and for the company hitting financial targets. Ideally, these R&D projects would have been selected and maintained for their maximum ability to produce outcomes. But that’s often not the case.

Incentives 8

Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

In my four decades as a senior manager, CEO, and corporate director of American high-tech companies, I have never seen the state of innovation in the U.S. Yet at no time in American history has it been so important to come up with innovative solutions. Innovation is the use of creativity to solve real customer problems.

Senge 8

Senge Engineering Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

It was interesting, therefore, to run across an analysis of Google's failed projects over time, together with a quote issued by the company regarding each failed venture. Google Catalogs (December 2001 to January 2009). In highly uncertain environments, failures are both useful and unavoidable.

Succession 15

Succession Advertising Business Model Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Over the next two days, we spoke with dozens of potential fellows — young social entrepreneurs putting their lives at risk to protect the human rights of the most vulnerable people, jumpstarting new philanthropy movements, and developing innovative solutions to chip away at the gap between the haves and have nots.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Self-aware Health Care Committee 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Jim Collins had a lot to say about CEOs he saw demonstrating modesty and leading quietly, not charismatically , in his 2001 bestseller Good to Great. Don''t kid yourself that they and their innovations aren''t a serious threat. He projected convincing self-confidence, authenticity, and wisdom.

Development 9

Development Self-aware Press Release Collins 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

“Succession between generations is a very risky project,” says Fernández-Aráoz, which is why it’s critical to talk early and openly about rules for advancement and what handing off power might look like. ” Toby did everything his father asked, joining The Bozzuto Group in 2001 as a development associate.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

When setting the ground rules for an innovation, you can describe it generally (find a game-changing way for people to clean their teeth) or in minute detail (create an abrasive cleanser that can be added to toothpaste to simulate that dentist-clean feeling after brushing at home). Abstract thinking is useful for early stages of innovation.

Word of Mouth Marketing 13

Word of Mouth Marketing Transportation Market Segmentation Advertising 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

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. The research firm IDC and trade association CompTIA project the worldwide information technology sector to reach $3.8 That was in 2001.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

Salvanes of the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration reported that the productivity gap between firms had risen in the UK between 1984 and 2001, and that this phenomenon was linked to income inequality. Some will succeed, and effective innovations will spread rapidly. Two things happened in the intervening years.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

It’s achieved impressive results since being founded in 2001, and is run by a committee of about ten people. All decision-making is done through self-managing teams of 8-12 people: hiring, pay, which projects to work on, everything. Your main point of differentiation is innovation. Innovation'

Case Study 13

Case Study Committee Software Hamel 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

economy will continue to profit from both a culture that begets innovators and entrepreneurs and a system that rewards them. In Brazil alone, 31 million people joined the middle class between 2001 and 2009. This trend is by no means a thing of the past.

Politics 8

Politics Marketing Class Globalization 8