Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. billion for 2000.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. That''s what activist hedge fund managers like Ackman do. Occasionally they get much more involved, as with Eddie Lampert''s seemingly permanent ( and not exactly successful ) takeover of Sears and Kmart. Boards Competition Finance'

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

And then we found Alibaba — and it found us — and that connection led to the partnership that ultimately proved to be remarkably successful. This success was built on what we learned from our prior efforts, as well as a resolve to take new risks to do what was necessary to succeed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

This idea has led to regulation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), as well as requirements by the NYSE and NASDAQ that boards have a majority of independent directors and that members on the audit committee have financial expertise. Boards can and do play an important role in the success of companies.

Company 8

Company Committee CEO Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward.

Execution 8

Execution P&L CEO COO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

The success of platform businesses like Alibaba, Airbnb, and Uber is so remarkable that discussion about them often misses just how hard they are to build. For every successful platform, there are many more that struggle or simply don’t make it. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

People who study successful corporations — I'm thinking of Jim Collins , Rosabeth Moss Kanter , Michael Beer , and many others — keep reporting that one important trait that most of them share is that they don't emphasize the maximization of shareholder value. They're a metric, not a goal.

Short-term 13

Short-term Collins Bottom-up Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The examples below seem to suggest that a company must stay true to its DNA, but has a lot of room to express that DNA in new ways whether in external strategy or internal management. One of its most successful marketing campaigns was “Let’s Build a Smarter Planet.” How do you discover your own company’s DNA?

How To 8

How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8