Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

While my colleagues and I vehemently agree that HR’s status quo is an inhibitor to growth, it is with the same fervor that we disagree with Ram’s proposed solution. Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door?

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

More than 200 activist-investor initiatives hit companies in 2013, a seven-fold increase over a decade earlier. Contrary to the adverse experience of some governing boards, activist investors can actually prove to be a leadership asset on the board rather than a disruptive force—providing the boardroom is well-managed and led.

Hostile Takeover 8

Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Coaching Tip

AUGUST 31, 2015

Modern culture, with all of our technology and time-saving gadgets, has left us with a distorted view of productivity. It doesn't matter if you're working on the most important proposal of your life or an email to your manager. . Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. Tosi on April 1, 2013. ebook at $.99).

eBook 70

eBook Efficiency Open-book Quality 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. I''ll propose a few (and invite your additions in the comments): Communicate goals and let those doing the work self-organize.

Management 9

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. Two personal stories illustrate these points. They had incentives to do so, but they could easily refuse.

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

By 2013, we had honored Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Garrett Camp of Uber, famed choreographer Twyla Tharp, and Gangnam style pop artist Psy. Rarely have I had that kind of immediate trust and social currency when proposing something new. Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

To address the combined challenge of increased dynamism and diversity of business environments as well as the proliferation of approaches, we propose a unifying choice framework: the strategy palette. A firm can be the first to apply a new technology or to identify and address a major source of customer dissatisfaction or a latent need.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Chamber of Commerce and the Republican Congressional leadership quickly declared this a major victory for "job creators" and business in general. This law established the first major "cap and trade" system; it didn't restrict carbon dioxide as current iterations propose, but mandated reductions in acid-rain-causing sulfur dioxide.

Cost 10

Cost Industry Constraint Innovation 10