Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. As a group, the largest U.S. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

women make up nearly 40% of MBA graduates and 40% of managers. In many countries they make up an equal or greater share of tertiary graduates and the professional and technical labor force. And worldwide they are catching up to men in levels of education and workforce participation. Yet in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

When resources are allocated from the bottom up instead of from the top down, they get out of sync with what the senior team is trying to accomplish. It reflected the reality that a lot of GE’s growth will be coming from the developing world, and the leaders have to be there. We are shifting our center of gravity.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Drawing on lessons from the auto industry, banking and beyond, he offered provocative prescriptions for coping in a world in which “the real challenge is to decide what you are doing” in the face of tremendous “technological change or market change.”. But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers. What should it be?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. This is why innovation is so important and takes up so much room in press and annual reports. Such propositions come from innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

October 2013) The Dark Side of Generic Drugs Dirty Medicine Fortune Generic drugs can be inexpensive and effective alternatives to their branded counterparts. February 2013) By the People, Not For the People Maximizing Shareholder Value: The Goal That Changed Corporate America The Washington Post In 1963, IBM CEO Thomas J. Gerstner Jr.

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Armstrong Long-term Short-term CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation. So we started digging. We pored over the surveys and documentation.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Listening to the breathless commentary surrounding technologies such as AI and robotics and one could be minded to believe that technology is transforming life as we know it on a scale never seen before. in 2013, compared to 2.5% in 2013, compared to 2.5% The need to disseminate technology. in 1992.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

So what’s the solution for these companies, who have stocked themselves with entrepreneurial employees and VC-minded execs but still can’t seem to round the corner and start innovating and growing at a pace that keeps up with the outside world? Open the doors. Let the light stream in. Get out of the building.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

What’s more, those that take this initial step are getting a leg up on AI’s future, since that step is going to be a prerequisite for everything that follows. Enter ABIe (shorthand for the Allstate Business Insurance Expert), which my firm helped develop. Roll up your sleeves. First, let’s get our bearings.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

of private-sector workers were union members in 2013. With Labor Day coming up, I figured I should just go ahead and read it. Not only are unions a much weaker political force than they used to be, they also no longer really represent those at the bottom of the economic ladder. Now union membership is down to 11.2% of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

While our competitors catch up, we have to get into the mindset of already moving onto the next thing. McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Apple fuses technology with design. That passion has continued and Google invests billions of dollars every year on research and development. Innovating from the bottom up. “We could advance the core technology without being tied to a particular product. Yet even that doesn’t tell the whole story.

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Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

In 2013, for instance, Buttigieg called for staffers in just 1,000 days to address, through rehabilitation or demolition, 1,000 vacant and abandoned properties blighting the city. That a place like South Bend has been able to cultivate this kind of bottom-up innovation makes sense. It’s hardly an isolated example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

doubled from 20% to 40% between July and December 2013, and has stayed at that level since. In those cases, mid-level managers weren’t merely managing incremental change; they were leading it by working levers of power up, across and down in their organizations. Embrace speed at every possible juncture.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

The point is that when things like this go wrong, there is no nincompoop problem; instead, there’s almost always a much larger Nincompoopery problem, in the way that a company has failed to understand, design, and deliver customer value in ways that satisfy customers and boost the bottom line. What Leaders May Get Wrong.

How To 76

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

As a 2013 HBR article explained, “Conglomerates may be regarded as dinosaurs in the developed world, but in emerging markets, diversified business groups continue to thrive.”. Rather than dictating decisions from the top down, Alibaba lets them roll up from the individual businesses. The article, by J. Ramachandran, K.S.

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