Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

” The morning prayers of the local population could be heard echoing through the loudspeakers outside the large 25-foot concrete T-walls topped with barbed wire that surround our compound, a Forward Operating Base within an Afghan Air Force base. As such, 75% of Americans seek the opportunity for service opportunities in other ways.

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Emotional Intelligence Participative Short-term Letter 150

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

In 2013 Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, urged the U.S. He argued that it would not only protect the rights of a diverse workforce but also foster innovation: “Embracing people’s individuality is a matter of basic human dignity and civil rights. state-level ENDAs on corporate patent-based innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. This has led to a deep political crisis and the country was at the brink of a civil war.

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Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Talent : Zimbabwe has one of Africa’s strongest education systems , and consequently boasts an abundance of high-caliber talent, which means it is relatively easy for companies to find locals to run their operations.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber built up staff, procedures, and software systems whose purpose was to enable and mobilize passengers and drivers to lobby regulators and legislators — creating political disaster for anyone who questioned Uber’s approach. ” Respect for the law barely merits a footnote. But there’s strong evidence to the contrary.

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Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Witness the grassroots political movements that are increasingly shaking up "stable" political regimes around the world. Drucker didn''t quite frame it in these terms, but perhaps we need to expand our focus on innovation beyond the narrow frame of technology and product innovation.

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Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 9

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. Isaacson makes the point that innovation happens in the real world by teams and not lone geniuses. Blog Post ).

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Books Wiseman Kotter Leadership 285

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The decline of manufacturing has dominated the political narrative in the United States, but there are dual plotlines within this well-known story. manufacturing depends in no small part on whether its largest firms help to breathe new life into the broader ecosystem in which they operate. kevin phillips/Getty Images.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to innovation in cities, people often think of building clusters and innovation districts to attract new businesses and shift policies to favor entrepreneurship. Innovation in this case, and many others, requires invention. City innovators have to move fast before it does. Let me explain. But that took time.

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Bureaucracy Banking Chief Operating Officer Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013. Finally, operating conditions differ significantly within the country groups.

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Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924. He predicts that Sears will be a big loser.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Innovation and change.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Let’s borrow some language from political philosophy and think in terms of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. network operators invested $600 per household compared to $389 in the EU.

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Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. Garvin stresses the importance of rigorous experiments (years before experimentation became the rallying cry for a new generation of innovators); thoughtful problem definition; and smart, well-designed metrics.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Choosing weaker environmental regulations actually makes our country less competitive and shows amazingly little faith in our business community to innovate. Of course politicos are fighting those as well, even though the fact that they truly drive innovation and save everyone money has already been demonstrated repeatedly).

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Cost Industry Constraint Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

A prime example is Carl Icahn, who began to accumulate his multibillion-dollar stake in Apple in August 2013. Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity. That is how any nation gets a rising and prosperous middle class.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

In a mini political tipping point, six Republican senators publicly supported an extension to the wind production tax credit in the U.S. It was by no means a hiccup-free year on sustainability issues for Walmart, with deep concerns about corruption in its Mexican operations. The share of U.S.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Despite the negative political climate, many polls show voters support trade. This uncertainty calls for political leadership. The political currents are threatening to sink the TPP. political system’s ability to act in America’s self-interest. Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8