Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. This helped ensure that the experiments had clear measures of success or failure.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Will badges require successful course completion? What policies and programs is your organization developing around badges? While recommendation engines have been fantastically successful for the Amazons and Netflixes, they remain relative underachievers given their technical and algorithmic potential. But is it enough?

Innovation 17

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Here, some of our favorite lessons from the class of 2013: Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on having long-term colleagues: “Treat people well. Try to cooperate.” Don’t mislead them. Don’t be prickly. Don’t say things that are aggravating. Try to be as agreeable as you can be. Try to be helpful rather than harmful.

Succession 15

Succession Learning-by-Doing Cooper Career 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Developing political skill reduces stress and enhances performance, reputation, promotability, and career progression at work. While the link between political skill and career success is firmly established, there is a problem: Office politics doesn’t work for everyone in the same way. Recent research does not support this idea.

Politics 8

Politics Cooper Mentor Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Competition trumps cooperation, and distributed decision-making by individual business units trumps universal strategy. With its success, Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma are making the case for a strategy approach that has fallen out of favor in the U.S. The article, by J. Ramachandran, K.S. “Ma

IPO 12

IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

What makes such a transformation successful? From our analysis of a number of core shifts and conversations with the CEOs who have undertaken them, we have drawn five keys to success: 1. vehicles decreasing from 40% of total in 2000 to 17% in 2013), by destination (e.g., Allow time and persevere.

Company 11

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

In fact, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates that almost a quarter (24.2%) of all New Zealanders with university-level educations have emigrated. developing talent. Among OECD nations, only Ireland has suffered as much brain drain. hiring top talent. assessing talent. rewarding talent.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Analysis Globalization Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

As Johnson had described it in much more depth in a Time cover story a few months before, what made Twitter so promising and interesting and important was “the fact that many of its core features and applications have been developed by people who are not on the Twitter payroll.” billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it.

Marketing 10

Marketing IPO Venture Capitalist Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. GE and GE Ventures, for example, actively seek and develop channels rather than simply looking for budding new companies to invest in.

Organization 8

Organization Incubator Reputation Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. Dynatrace, a leader in application performance management software, has shown the importance of developing SaaS products from scratch, in isolation of existing product lines.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

It comes about as fields of knowledge are segmented into multiple domains, and each domain develops deep algorithmic knowledge and specialized tools that work by ignoring many of the variables actually in play. This is why management continues to advocate diversity as integral part of any successful organization.

Senge 8

Senge Education Rogers Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Here’s a brief account of how GE quickly scaled up a sizable software start-up within a big, successful conglomerate. Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. Getting Started.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. But companies in this space can benefit from being more cooperative with regulators. chain restaurant industry.

Business Model 10

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

They also contribute significantly to the success of major U.S. innovation system, we ran an exercise matching Arabic first names with international patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S. In 2013 there were approximately 1.02

Innovation 15

Innovation Analysis Technology Efficiency 15