Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

In her new book, Unfinished Business , Anne-Marie Slaughter calls for a major mindset shift by business leaders and managers. Managers want superior results, but to get them, Slaughter writes, It’s a strange analogy, but I always think of my rice cooker. A way to understand this mindset is to think about a rice cooker.

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Commitment Quality Stress Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Money is left on the table because managers are unwilling or unable to cross-sell their products and services, cross-pollinate resources to create new products, or share best practices to improve efficiency. Cisco managers will no doubt let us know in due course. Massive failures abound in the business world. So what's the right way?

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CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

We also found that the professionals we spoke with at Accenture, in offices on three continents, consistently lauded the firm for its willingness to support innovations, from Accenture Development Partnerships to professional programs for First Peoples in Canada and support for call centers in native communities. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Successful computer hacks now more often than not involve “social engineering,” the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned con. But also it is about developing a capability for reacting publicly, quickly and rapidly. Someone gets talked into giving up info or doing something they should not.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

To understand how traditional software vendors can move to the SaaS model while managing the transformation’s challenges, we studied how the stock market reacted to publicly listed firms announcing they wanted to introduce a new SaaS offering from 2001 until the end of 2015. increase in stock price on the announcement day.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

In fact, veterans of some of the world’s most successful tech companies often look with skepticism, even disdain, on efforts to build strong management skills. But neglecting the art of people management has significant costs for any company that aspires to be around for a while. Rule 1: Know your audience. Rule 2: Simplify.

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Productivity Products Team Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way.

Innovation 15

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way.

Innovation 11

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Many large planes had to be landed at small airports that were equipped only with a few landing lights, controllers, and fire engines. Identifying the causes led to a better understanding of transmission modes and enabled the development of guidelines for managing the epidemic.

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Guidelines Goal Follow-up Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. In 2003, then-HBR-editor Nick Carr wrote an article (and later a book) titled “IT Doesn’t Matter.” Most industries in the U.S.

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