Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

Innovation can be stifled — even snuffed out — by normal business processes. 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. The numbers need to be checked (and rechecked).

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Innovation Budgeting Market Segmentation Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies. Still skeptical?

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

This Book Will Make You Money : How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue by Jim Kukral This book provides an educational and motivational guide to using social media to market your brand or business online. Think beyond the obvious connections to come up with something truly innovative.

Creativity 50

Creativity Bottom-up Newsletter Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

If everyone followed that logic, however, there’d be little innovation to walk out the door or to acquire! Small Firms Are Not More Innovative. The first problem with this view is that it ignores where most innovation comes from. For one thing, small-company innovation is often more visible.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

labor market of the 2000s coincided with a sharp deceleration in computer investment — a fact that appears first-order inconsistent with the onset of a new era of capital-labor substitution. job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had. job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

By embracing the fluidity of subjective understanding, organizations can tap into the collective intelligence of teams and foster innovation. As managers, embracing this fluidity within groups and moving within our teams is crucial. Establish channels for employees to share their thoughts, insights, and concerns.

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Open-book Shaw Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 78

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Them” were the majority of managers who didn’t get what design was all about in the first place. And with good reason: From Target to Uber, business managers everywhere are starting to understand that the strategic use of design is making a difference in achieving outsized business results.

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percentage points in 2003-2012. Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). China, too, needs more technological innovation. The ultimate goal is the ability to innovate independently. It contributed 1.4

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. We also shrank the corporate management team by half. Internal tribalism was hurting the company. This also means valuing integrity.

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Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Before addressing that question directly, let’s start with some basic premises: Consumers need an ample choice of innovative, well-priced insurance products. The pitch goes something like this: “Synergies will reduce overhead by eliminating duplicative management positions and spreading IT and marketing costs across more members.”

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Insurance Company Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

But it's this set of beliefs that explains why Western companies fail to succeed in emerging markets where middle class consumers demand good quality at low prices, and why these companies struggle to develop value-for-money products for their home markets during slow growth times like these. Why can't more companies do the same?

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Quality Working Capital Price Open-book 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

It's that time of year again , and many a manager's inbox has become flooded with the résumés of (very) soon-to-be college graduates. As proprietors of a college-focused recruiting firm since 2003, we've seen examples like this again and again.

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Class Process Information Environment 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

These days, the country is widely considered a role model for successful labor market reforms. The official answer is a series of labor market reforms initiated in 2003 under the " Agenda 2010 " framework. It has improved our economy's responsiveness to the vagaries and challenges of the global market.

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Policies Marketing Learning-by-Doing Cooper 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The pay of top managers has risen faster than those of other star earners. Top management compensation packages guarantee a high level of pay, but are often only weakly linked to the performance of the firm relative to its industry competitors. market capitalization ) and 500 additional public companies. public companies.

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CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

How has Apple managed to maintain its stock price and convince investors of its growth potential? Over the last fifteen years Apple has made a series of successful market-creating—or blue ocean—moves (think the iMac, iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, the App Store, and the iPad). And the company’s future hung in question.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Blue Ocean Strategy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. When Innovation Is Strategy. in Innovation. Innovation Strategy' An HBR Insight Center. Why Germany Dominates the U.S.

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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

We asked nearly 200 life sciences executives about long-term trends that posed fundamental threats to their businesses and how management was dealing with them. But a panel of outside experts that had been assembled to critique the strategy warned management about an emerging risk. Experience threats through war games.

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Industry Pharmaceuticals Disruptive Innovation Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Marketing professionals have learned the hard way that no matter what they do or do not plan to do with consumer information, privacy matters. In part, that''s because marketing has always been something of a black art. Legal solutions are by their nature blunt instruments for managing uncertainty. In the U.S.,

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Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

This practice leads highly cautious consumers to lump low-risk products in with mass-marketed products that actually merit such a warning and encourages many others to simply ignore warnings. A 2003 U.S. A few innovations impose major risks, or even worse.

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Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. In 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

I have worked for Visionary leaders (or were they just managers?) Covey “It’s not the will to win that matters…everyone has that. Communicating the reasons for the direction. Then leading down that road and following up to make sure everyone is present. The company pays dearly when this happens.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Competing for scarce labor in a tight market, they will have trouble continuing to shift medical bills onto employees as they have for several decades. To address these challenges, they will have to band together in purchasing coalitions that give them the local market power to force health systems to reform. Tim Robberts/Getty Images.

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Health Care Cost Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

In 2000-2003, the emphasis switches to employees and the struggle to get employees to buy into a new corporate culture. Our research also indicated that 2000-2003 seems to be a time when failure fatigue had set in. That culture is less product-focused, more service-focused, and hence more customer-focused.

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Analysis Sample Globalization Sports 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

This income volatility is the result of broad shifts in the labor market. The cost of a bachelor’s degree from a public college has risen by one-third from 2003 to 2014. She worked her way up to manage several locations of a quick-serve restaurant. In other words, incomes were far from average almost half of the time.

Health Care 13

Health Care Insurance Video Transportation 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

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Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Indeed, a 2003 Lancet study reported that 63% of child deaths in the 42 countries that account for 90% of global child mortality could be prevented each year through more effective primary care. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Market focus. Management and leadership skills.

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Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Monster is the most iconic of those that brought the service to market, and the first to do it at scale. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996. Careerbuilder was initially a service that helped companies launch job listings and then managed the inbound application volume.

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Price IPO Content Marketing 101

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. In response, the management team made a counterintuitive move: It outsourced network installation, maintenance, and service to Ericsson, Nokia, and Siemens, and chose IBM to build and manage its IT systems. In the U.S., The trend is spreading.

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Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Of the 39 companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1B by private or public market investors, almost half were started by founders who met at school. The founders in this category were intensely self-aware and looked for innovative ways to turn their work experience and hobbies into full-fledged businesses.

IPO 9

IPO Insurance Entrepreneur Self-aware 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Consider its decision to pursue the market for pharmaceutical distribution, or the recent announcement that it will be teaming up with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to create joint solutions for reducing the health care spending of more than 1 million employees and their families. .”

Health Care 10

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea. In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

At this point, the commercial viability of a market-based approach to providing good quality housing in urban areas at prices affordable to low income customers is beyond question. Innovative wastewater technologies will be used in several forms to create a fully recyclable, near zero water system at each development.

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Suri Construction Class EBITDA 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. “How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” Walmart went from a 3% share of the general merchandise retail market in 1982 to over 50% today. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

The gurus have written detailed descriptions of how companies should establish the process owners, process councils, and other pieces of a formal process governance structure to manage their six to 10 core, cross-functional processes. These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs. from 2004 to 2007.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

For those who believe in the promise of open innovation, the 2009 startup Quirky was an exceptionally exciting company. As proponents of open innovation, we have examined Quirky’s initial failure in great detail (the company relaunched earlier this year). Marrion Barraud for HBR. Yet, in September 2015, Quirky went bankrupt.

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