Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. A few years later, Iger made another successful deal to buy Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion in 2009. True, you want to build successful franchises into sequels.

Creativity 8

Creativity Franchising Succession Film 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

And a 2013 study by Xueming Luo, Vamsi K. Their work concurs with previous studies on the importance of CEO succession and how new CEOs are more open, inclusive, and search for new solutions ( Miller, 1993 ). A look at the more successful CEOs shows that they do quit while they’re ahead. Succession planning'

CEO 13

CEO Long-term Welch Pharmaceuticals 13

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

Thankfully, some organizations are learning that “Lean Design” (or “3P”) and similar methods (like Design Thinking) can help design better systems that help people be successful. He is the founder and lead blogger and podcaster at LeanBlog.org , started in January 2005. A system doesn’t design itself and a system doesn’t manage itself.

Deming 28

Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Or they could analyze the behaviors of the most successful consultants and train others on their methods. By mid-2013, the company was chugging along at a $200 million annual revenue rate. Tinkering can kill midsize companies.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

In 2005, Amazon introduced its Prime service, which provides members with unlimited “free” two-day delivery (as well as discounted overnight delivery) on eligible products for $79 a year. Amazon claims it has at least 20 million Prime members, having signed up 1 million new subscribers in the third week of December 2013 alone.

Library 9

Library Price Forrester Wilde 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Thousands of very lucky individuals are seated in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center are at TED 2013. In the spirit of TED 2013, here are 10 amazing TED Talks that have helped me think differently about what business can be, how to be a better leader, and how to become a better global citizen. It's happening right now.

Godin 8

Godin Open-book Mass Marketing Creativity 8

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Wells saw lynching as a violent form of subjugation — “an excuse to get rid of Negroes who were acquiring wealth and property and thus keep the race terrorized and ‘the n *r down,'” Wells also organized economic boycotts long before the tactic was popularized by other civil rights activists, who are often credited with its success.

Open-book 52

Open-book Career Learning-by-Doing Licensing 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

In July 2013, I wrote a piece and launched an assessment on HBR.org meant to help readers take a clear view of what they want from — and can contribute to — each domain of their lives. People are afraid of change, don’t know how to go about it, and feel guilty even trying because they worry it will negatively impact others.

Metrics 8

Metrics Learning-by-Doing Productivity Products 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company. Even though I had been working with entrepreneurs since 2005, and I had created my own Company in 2011, I was still afraid of being totally free to work on my dream. In any case, this is an indicator of wasted resources, and wasted dreams.

Deming 28

Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Successful innovations emerged, such as an Easy Lister feature, and separate registration processes for private and business sellers. Later, Justus shared the successes with then CEO Meg Whitman, which led to a global micro-projects strategy. “That (assumption) made him crazy,” Hill says.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Successful innovations emerged, such as an Easy Lister feature, and separate registration processes for private and business sellers. Later, Justus shared the successes with then CEO Meg Whitman, which led to a global micro-projects strategy. “That (assumption) made him crazy,” Hill says.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The CMS monthly status reports leading up to October 1 (especially the report for August, 2013 ) reveal increasingly desperate language and blame shifting. But under the surface, health reform is starting to look like a bigger success than even its most ardent advocates expected.”. Playing the blame game.

Company 8

Company Telecommunications CIO Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Today’s successful companies close the strategy-to-performance gap with a new strategy approach best described as “Decide-Do/Refine-Do” This agile, test-and-learn approach is better suited to today’s tumultuous environment. The Plan-then-Do approach is obsolete – even dangerous. Take Google.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Consider the harrowing events after the crash-landing of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 last July 6th 2013. Just one in three diagnostic mistakes result from physicians’ mental mistakes, according to a 2005 analysis by the Archives of Internal Medicine. In medicine, timing is everything. Four things. Cutting costs Health Innovation'

Cost 8

Cost Health Care System Software 8

Lead on Purpose

JULY 13, 2013

According to Barbara Kellerman of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, putting aside the notion of type (democratic or despotic) and effectiveness (successful or unsuccessful) of a particular leader, our collective fascination with and pursuit of a champion on a white horse are part of who we are.

Ethics 155

Ethics Politics Morale Books 155

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Nike did this successfully for its own target demographic in its 2005 print campaign that empowered women who workout to celebrate their natural curves by reclaiming and redefining phrases like "thunder thighs.". Tide found these voices and their 2013 "The Princess Dress" commercial aired to rave reviews.

Market Segmentation 8

Market Segmentation Advertising Marketing Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

This led to a zillion lawsuits from phone companies and other non-cable ISPs, but in 2005 the Supreme Court decided that the FCC was within its rights to make that call. The 2005 Supreme Court dissent arguing that of course cable broadband was a common-carrier telecommunications service was the work of arch-conservative Antonin Scalia.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8