Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. A look at any performance measure shows that innovation can come from either size, and that both arguments are oversimplifications. And the CEO sees enabling a culture of collaborative innovation as key.

Operations 15

Operations Innovation Industry CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

When John Henry and Tom Werner led the purchase of the Red Sox in 2002, pundits believed they had to leave Fenway Park. Hosting parties in December is just one example of how the ownership team has found innovative ways to increase the revenues it derives from Fenway. The ownership has introduced other business model innovations.

Business Model 11

Business Model Innovation Maturity Franchising 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The concept of open innovation has moved from business phrase to business reality over the last ten years. When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood.

Innovation 8

Innovation Execution Net Present Value Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

In 2002 the company hired a chief diversity officer, Anand Rohini, to make diversity a priority. Many companies have developed friendship-based communities among employees, typically organizing activities such as weekends away, departmental Christmas parties, and so on, in a bid to create emotional ties between workers and the company.

Diversity 8

Diversity Human Resources Policies Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This requires applying different approaches to strategy and execution in different parts of their business, as well as constantly re-balancing exploitation (generating cash to support growth) and exploration (finding winning products and models). Adopt the right approach to strategy and execution in each part of the business.

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

It's rare to find a corporate human resources function that accelerates change by actively finding ways to help drive new strategies. HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. But not at IBM. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The term “company DNA” is sometimes used as a shorthand for an organization’s culture and strategy — a metaphor for what makes it unique. We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. Second, DNA does not change over the life of an organism.

How To 8

How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

The trick is, growth strategies have to fit the company’s current context, especially its brand promise and its target market. Once they have a strategy to fit the context, they can sequence out the various steps to implement it. The company had been a star of the dot-com boom, eventually selling to eBay in 2002 for $1.5

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. The first job of a leader is to enable an organization to survive without him or her.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 18, 2017

An abundance attitude creates a legacy of affirmation—it lives on in the language that associates and customers use to describe the leader as well as the organization the leader fronts. John Ellis, in an article entitled Strategy in the October 2002, issue of Fast Company wrote: “Here’s what real business leaders do.

Banking 150

Banking Bottom-up Charisma Open-book 150

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We studied Omada’s program as part of our Harvard Medical School initiative to identify and share knowledge about innovative approaches to major health challenges that primary care providers play the lead in treating. The course usually consists of weekly sessions during the initial four months.

Health Care 11

Health Care Participative Wireless Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Whether it is rivalry between people (Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs; Roger Federer versus Rafael Nadal), between organizations (e.g., We’ve spent the last few years studying what makes rivalry unique, how it affects our behavior, and how it impacts organizations. Ford versus GM), or between nations (e.g., should U.S.

Participative 8

Participative Rogers Influence Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But HP is no longer a values-driven, family-like, innovation-oriented company that inspires commitment. R&D has been starved at HP for years, and it will be hard to pull enough irons out of the fire to propel organic growth. You're saying you'll find financial fixes now, bold strategy in December. HP Invent is an empty slogan.

Tips 10

Tips CEO Software Drucker 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

The new conventional wisdom on corporate structure is that companies can do better by organizing themselves around customer groups. He also emphasized in a 1999 book that “the wrong structure can doom all other market-driven initiatives in the organization to failure.” Is there a flaw in the logic?

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% For example, Vox Capital — founded in Brazil in 2008 by three young social entrepreneurs — invests in innovative, high-potential businesses that serve low-income populations and contribute to the reduction of poverty. growth in GDP.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Drucker’s theory of the business was a set of assumptions about what a business will and won’t do, closer to Michael Porter’s definition of strategy. Writing in 2002, the depths of the dot.com bust, she says that business models are “at heart, stories — stories that explain how enterprises work.

Business Model 8

Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

While he was at Amazon from 1997-2002, Greg Linden prototyped a system for making personal recommendations for other products to customers as they checked out. Not all organizations can experiment with the ease of Amazon, but more and more employees can now conduct experiments effectively, and with their boss' approval.

Execution 14

Execution Education Long-term Guidelines 14

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization present the findings of an extensive research undertaking involving over 80,000 managers in over 400 companies – the most comprehensive analysis of employee engagement done in the world. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). By Patrick M.

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. But for the most part, the general strategy of the rich countries was to reject the NIEO broadly.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Any company or organization is like a tree. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. Without always noticing it, individuals and organizations change 71% per year.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. Yesterday’s strategies simply do not work anymore.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. It has now become the largest bank in the country. Importantly, profits kept pace. Resisting revenue temptations. .”

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

While you need no credentialing to be a coach, you will find no shortage of organizations willing to sell you their certifications. As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection. Here is my bottom line take.

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. What is your company’s strategy? Most product teams or strategy groups go through a process of defining market requirements and scoping out the competitive landscape. How can you tell if the product you are working on is likely to succeed or fail?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8