Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. He is currently conducting research with the Lean Enterprise Institute.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

There is another seemingly mundane but profoundly important application of this technology: to better managers ourselves and our time. In 2003, DARPA contracted SRI International to lead a reported $200 million, five-year project to build a virtual assistant. The company was registered as SIRI Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

times more R&D than small companies, but their R&D is 13% more productive — meaning large firms are the real engine of economic growth. Both of these lead to better management and higher RQ. In a 2003 survey of Inc 500 companies , only 21% were based on ideas the founders researched on their own.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

And if this second resolution is passed, all directors (except the managing director) must stand for re-election within 90 days. From 2003 to 2012, growth in CEO compensation was much lower (5.5%, on average) at firms that were subject to say-on-pay laws than at those that weren’t (8.1%). So, expect more laws.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Technology updates should be provided to the senior management team with the same frequency and rigor as financial statements and signed off on by the leadership team as part of the pay-for-performance framework. IT management' From a strategic standpoint, they became invisible; they no longer mattered.".

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

At the mine site, project leader André Sougarret sought assistance while managing the boundaries of the rescue effort to screen out contributors who lacked expertise or workable proposals. Together the officials and engineers overcame unprecedented technical challenges and brought about a rescue that most observers hardly thought possible.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

To start off the project, I asked senior managers to see some data and to speak to the employees getting the work done. Circular discussions with management on how to increase forecasts ensued. No response. Five days later a second email with the words " gentle nudge " in the subject line.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

It's been obvious since 2003, when LinkedIn was launched, that social networking could help job candidates and employers interact. Lots of recruiters, hiring managers and industry networkers are hanging out on Twitter, swapping job leads and industry updates. Last July, software engineer Daniel Doubrovkine of Art.sy

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In 2003, when Rámon de Mendiola took over as CEO of Florida Ice & Farm Company, Costa Rica’s leading beer and beverage producer, the firm was an old-fashioned and complacent incumbent facing imminent competition from world-class global competitors. Changing Your Company from the Inside Out. Add to Cart.

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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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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. And there’s an additional factor: the weakest link in our efforts to protect proprietary information is turning out to be not a technical factor but people.

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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? No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Both were offered free to consumers and merchants.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2003, then-HBR-editor Nick Carr wrote an article (and later a book) titled “IT Doesn’t Matter.” But Carr believed that by his writing in 2003 “the opportunities for gaining IT-based advantages are already dwindling” and that “Best practices are now quickly built into software or otherwise replicated.”

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