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. Reversing this means that companies start at the end — with results.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 26, 2012

‘Tis the season for futurists, forecasters, and analysts to line up with seers, fortune tellers, and prophets to earnestly foretell what 2013 has in store for us. And only one of the sixteen — short-term weather forecasts — has any scientific foundation.”

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Heskett Collins Uncertainty Short-term 45

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. I’ve really enjoyed that for this book.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Hiring managers often view newcomers to their organizations as not only long-term assets but also short-term burdens: people who need to be inducted, trained, and given lighter loads as they get up to speed, inevitably slowing everyone else down. But that doesn’t have to be the case.

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Team Learning Curve Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Were you misled by the data?

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Case in point, rather than keep Watson locked up in their research labs, they decided to release it to the world as a platform, to run experiments with a variety of organizations to accelerate development of natural language applications and services. I have to balance between strategic intent and tactical, short-term decision-making.

Venture Funding 13

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Such communities are particularly useful in recruitment, hiring, talent development, or in defining employee retention policies. This can be top down, (the company set up a particular challenge or new product) or bottom up (the company allows employees to develop their own creative ideas, and then choose the most convenient ones).

Innovation 8

Innovation Diversity Bond Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Earlier this week, China's National Energy Administration announced its intention to add 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 , more than twice its current level. China has also begun offering subsidies for rooftop solar projects. China is projected to spend $113 billion per year on trains and railway infrastructure.

Industry 8

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise. Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent).

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. The AfDB has the strongest credit rating of any organization in Africa and in 2008, it surpassed the World Bank in lending to Africa , a signal of Africa’s growing agency in its own development.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. In short, you wouldn’t have needed big data at all to do better than Google Flu Trends. Unfortunately, no.

Trends 8

Trends Short-term Analysis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2016

When I work with employers to develop return-to-work programs for professionals re-entering the workforce after a career break, one key question always arises: “Where do we find these returning professionals?” as of 2013, there were 2.6 million women in the U.S.

Career 8

Career Short-term Follow-up Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

Whichever way you look at it, the countries producing the majority of the next generation of workers are still the ones least able to help them develop. Collectively, the UN projects, the less developed regions of the world “will grow 58% over 50 years, as opposed to 2% for more developed regions.

GDP 8

GDP Education Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, we have tapped our front lines – our 1,500 physicians and thousands more nurses, PA’s, pharmacists and other clinicians – for ways to improve care and reduce costs, using an innovation incubator model that adapts venture capital investment approaches to find and scale the best ideas. Here’s how we did it.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

The World Bank puts the figure at 38% in Nigeria , while the Economist projects 55% for young black South Africans. In June 2013, some Harvard Business School classmates and I launched a social enterprise ( WAVE: West Africa Vocational Education ) targeted at the youth unemployment issue. Align Culture and Incentives.

Training 8

Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Are you stalled in a project at work, waiting on someone else to take initiative to get things moving? According to Ben-Shaher, Branden believed that taking responsibility was the first step to developing a healthy sense of self and that we internalize the idea of taking responsibility when we realize, "no one is coming.".

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Short-term Case Study Learning-by-Doing Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. But because midsize companies lack the resources of big companies, which can experiment with multiple new strategies and launch pilot projects, midsize firms are at risk when they divert scarce resources from their core business. The results were remarkable.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. External agile talent is hired for expediency, for the short term, to fill a specific need. Adapted from.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

These companies spent millions to develop digital products, infrastructures, and brand accompaniments, and got tremendous media and investor attention, only to encounter significant performance challenges, and often shareholder dissent. Of course, not all companies with short-term digital indigestion are making bad decisions.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

This is the time to “think small”— both in terms of the number of objectives and the timeframe in which you plan to accomplish them, according to Weintraub. While at least one of your goals ought to involve developing an area of weakness, Weintraub cautions against getting hung up on self-improvement. Be realistic.

Goal 11

Goal CAGR Career Open-book 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. 2 is this distinction between short-term vs. long-term predictability.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. The book cites short-term innovation, in the decision to borrow the computers, and the team’s ability to creatively resolve conflict, as marks of innovative leadership.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. The book cites short-term innovation, in the decision to borrow the computers, and the team’s ability to creatively resolve conflict, as marks of innovative leadership.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

TPP’s high quality rules and new competition will also help economic reformers across the Pacific, from an aging Japan that needs structural changes for its economy to grow, to a rising Vietnam that needs an international legal framework to develop further. Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. enacts it. . About 60% of U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8