Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The HR discipline is evolving into a strategic voice because its sphere of influence — talent attraction, engagement and retention — is now recognized as the foundation to organizational success. But the pervasive influence of social media on the work world demands change in the way employers motivate and communicate with talent.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Benchmarking Marketing Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

To gain advantage on this leveled playing field, there’s one powerful branding tool that has been generally overlooked — or perhaps undervalued — by most marketers: sound. They launched an audio branding initiative in 2005 for two key reasons. SNCF Audio DNA, 2005. SNCF’s Audio Logo, 2005.

Brand 10

Brand Advertising B2C B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

I had worked for over a decade to develop relationships with Latin American business leaders, several of whom were on Forbes' billionaire list. These influencers were now reading my research, meeting with me, quoting me, and even occasionally quaking when I'd downgrade their stock. Be assured that you have no idea what will come next.

Disruptive Innovation 16

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 17, 2010

But what I tend to see in a lot of places is a real reluctance to go as far as they should for this very fear. What leaders need to keep in mind in their messaging are concepts that are very similar to marketers and their messaging. There’s certainly an “open rate” involved, to use a marketing term. Seriously, though, I agree.

Self-aware 409

Self-aware Blog Media Learning-by-Doing 409

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Investors favorably receive projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development. At that time, we had major drugs about to go off patent, which would lead to a rapid decline in revenue, and we also had lost drugs in late stages of development that we were counting on for future growth.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example.

CEO 12

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) Lack of childcare? Minimal professional training? Insufficient infrastructure?

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 21, 2010

It is part of the overall marketing and advertising plan. One of the first things I did when coming on board was develop a Social Media Roadmap. It is the way people are now communicating with eachother and the way business’ are marketing. I refer them to “How to Win Friends and Influence People.&#

Media 289

Media Tactics Strategy Open-book 289

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 27, 2009

But nothing continues in a market over time without continued demand. In fact, I think that the quality of the customer service probably influences the decision of WHERE I buy something more than anything else. Then theres all those other fun things like developing a culture that represents the owner’s values and beliefs, etc.

Open-book 311

Open-book Price Blog Learning-by-Doing 311

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

For more than 10 years now I have been helping people to develop their own Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME). The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions.

Deming 28

Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2015

Using data from the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook from 2001, 2005, and 2009 for 54 countries, he also configured a model featuring power structures he expected to influence compensation, based on prior research of determinants of executive pay. 2) The development of equity markets. 7) Employment market forces.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Analysis Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The political interest in influencing public opinion and the incumbents’ desire to silence competitive threats had merged. Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result. Armstrong returned to service, developing FM radios for the Army, and was promoted to the rank of Colonel.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

This idea of prospect theory, developed by Tversky and Kahneman and reported in a classic 1979 article (for which the Nobel prize was awarded) demonstrated that individuals do not make decisions rationally by selecting options with the highest expected value, because they are risk-averse and 'losses loom larger than gains.'.

Kahneman 14

Kahneman Tversky Company Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Does unemployment threaten young adults’ developing confidence? We drew on a unique data archive, the Youth Development Study (YDS), which has monitored the employment status (employed, unemployed, out of the labor force) of a cohort of more than 1,000 youth in St. Paul, Minnesota as they moved from adolescence to adulthood.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Social Capital Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

After all, people are only going to spend so many hours of the day online, and in 2005, people were starting to make choices about where to spend that time. You may choose to include emergent tools (like FourSquare or Groupon) in your marketing plans, but there probably won't be another must-use social network like Facebook or Twitter.

Media 15

Media Creativity Bottom-up Tools 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

Over the years, the phrase "emerging market" has become all but meaningless. But all these constructions include a dizzyingly diverse set of economies that don't have much in common, and in any case the market conditions inside these countries tell only part of the story. Not all pivot states are developing countries.

Tourism 15

Tourism Crisis Globalization Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Are they fighting to change the current leadership, or simply to influence the leaders' decisions and actions? In 2005, a single post by blogger Jeff Jarvis led to a customer uprising now known as "Dell Hell." The second step is to understand the objectives of the insurgents. It is an act of advocacy rather than destruction.

Brand 15

Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The researchers found that after examining 70 countries between 2005 and 2015, there is a clear link between the quality of institutions in a country and both the quality and quantity of entrepreneurship. Indeed, the Global Entrepreneurship Development Institute ranks the country a lowly 122nd out of 137 countries. Rules of the game.

Succession 82

Succession Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 82

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This development may seem small, but if the trend grows, it will drive improvements in the quality of care. Even if providers and policymakers resist the trend, the market is making it happen. To envision that potential transformation, you first have to understand some of the origins of physician and hospital ratings.

Health Care 8

Health Care Trends Report Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Improving value can only happen when providers align the focus of their clinical teams and their market strategy on achieving excellent outcomes, and in turn invest the resources to measure and report them. In 2005, when Prof. Outcomes highlight value-enhancing cost reduction.

Health Care 8

Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

But we have to realize that while we can influence a decision in a business, it’s not going to be decided by a majority vote. You could even go one step further and explain why you’ve made the decision you have, helping your colleagues’ professional development and improving the chances of them sitting in that chair one day.

Active Listening 323

Active Listening Learning-by-Doing Blog Consensus 323