Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Integration and Innovation Abound – According to the report, 30% of the S&P 100 companies include some oversight of diversity issues at the board level and 34% of companies include diversity measures within their compensation plans. “We Calvert released the first edition of Examining the Cracks in the Ceiling in September 2008.

Diversity 50

Diversity Newsletter Long-term Execution 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Santander has also done a good job at leveraging its promising position, by embarking on a number of aggressive acquisitions since 2008. which resulted in an increase in brand awareness of 72 percent between 2004 and 2010. which resulted in an increase in brand awareness of 72 percent between 2004 and 2010. and Latin America.

Brand 64

Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 64

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 12, 2011

The Best Business Books Ever: The Most Influential Management Books You’ll Never Have Time to Read Basic Books (2011) Note: This review is of a book published earlier this year. What we have here is a series of brief discussions “the most influential management books you’ll [.]. It is a sequel to one published in 2003.

Books 85

Books Review Management Ansoff 85

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Product pioneers face more risk, but can reap big rewards when an innovation proves successful. Research I conducted together with John Joseph of Duke University shows that both approaches can be successful — what matters most is not simply timing but whether a company tailors its innovation strategy to whichever approach it adopts.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Incentives Innovation Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. Kearney as "the best-managed company in the world" — not so different from Apple today.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. In 2008, RIM tried to match the new competitor. When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Facebook’s focus on spreading the right mindset became clear to us when, in late 2007 and early 2008, researcher and consultant Beth Benjamin and I had a series of conversations with Chris Cox, then Facebook’s 25 year-old head of Human Resources.

Engineering 10

Engineering Class Software Mentor 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Fostering innovation. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. He had to sell the idea to both his family and the other managers at work. That was in 2008. “We all wanted to do work and life differently,” DeGroot told me.

Banking 15

Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software).

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

As a corporate leader, you have already contributed value by building successful businesses, bringing innovative and high-quality products and services to market, and creating jobs. What I heard surprised me, and may surprise you too: Fred Steingraber (Mayor of Kenilworth, IL and former CEO of management consultancy A.T. Regrets? "

Leadership 12

Leadership CIO Politics Career 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

In the few years since the financial crisis of 2008 hit us where it hurts, the calls for the "end of capitalism" have rung out from the streets and halls of power alike. We already know the answer: the kind of innovation that comes from collaboration, not competition. So what replaces competition, what drives growth today?

GDP 11

GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. In a 2008 New York Times interview , he said, "If I am going to be at the top of the car company, I want to be the owner-chef — with knowledge not just of its vehicles but their ingredients.

Leadership 9

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 9

Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

North America Sees Lowest Levels of Employee Engagement since 2008 Canadian HR Reporter, May 2013. The Innovation Catalysts Harvard Business Review, June 2011. Employee Engagement in Tough Times Management Issues, October 2009. The Things They Do For Love Harvard Business Review, 2004.

Article 100

Article CFO Magazine Library 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

In 2004, Bharti Airtel , the Indian telecomm company, had outsourced its vast network and IT operations—a move that Ranjay Gulati saw as indicating “ more progressive and forward-looking ” thinking than was evident in many Western corporations. Virtually everything except customer management and building the brand was left to partners.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

In more and more companies today, leaders manage their communication efforts in a way that calls to mind ordinary, person-to-person conversation. Yet the Obama campaign signaled the emergence of a novel framework for managing electoral communication at a national level.

Operations 15

Operations Media Long-term Open-book 15