Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. Recently, a “white space” brainstorm yielded a clever new idea for marketing, to cobble together a system that could combine customer-behavior insights gained through email, social media, pay-per-click marketing, and other sources.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. They play well as a team.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Despite flouting straightforward, widely applicable law in most jurisdictions, Uber usually managed to slow or stop enforcement, in due course changing the law to allow its approach. At normal companies, managers look to their attorneys to advise them on how to keep their business within the law. A Race to the Bottom.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

But new strategies and structures are squarely in the board’s domain, and we have seen any number of governing boards innovating with, not just monitoring, management. To that end, Diebold recruited a new CEO in 2013, Andy W. Diebold’s innovation committee members are on call for everything from brainstorming to networking.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

That sounds easy, but the bigger you get, the harder that is to manage. I''d need a standing army of translators to manage now, and my plan involves adding many more countries. Now picture this group engaged in brainstorming, negotiations, or expansion planning. out of a possible 990 in February 2013. What do you do?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% James Mwangi, CEO and managing director of the Equity Bank and chairman of the Equity Group Foundation, is focused on driving African development and creating opportunities for prosperity. growth in GDP.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

A 2013 study from the University of Sydney found that a lack of sound privacy was far and away the biggest drain on employee morale : Further, a 2014 study by Steelcase and Ipsos found that workers lost as much as 86 minutes per day due to noise distractions. Form a coalition with other employees to help brainstorm solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

And as a management professor (Scott speaking here) this inevitably has led me to wonder how team dynamics will play out on the mountain — as my life may depend on it. Everest on Twitter ( @scottderue ), and at the Alpine Ascents Everest 2013 blog. I am about to climb Mount Everest. Follow Scott's journey on Mt.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. By 2013, we had honored Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Garrett Camp of Uber, famed choreographer Twyla Tharp, and Gangnam style pop artist Psy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

In 2012 and 2013, not only did our speaker rosters comprise more than 50% women and people of color, but the number of conference attendees doubled each year. Our conference in December 2013 had roughly 43% as many speakers as Davos does this month, but these ideas apply to events of any size. Have a farm system.

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