Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

They break under stress. Why do relatively few companies prove resilient and withstand stress? And why are even fewer "anti-fragile" — that is, they get stronger when stressed? Anti-fragile systems love randomness and uncertainty; going beyond resilience or robustness, they get stronger with stress and volatility.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Customers will go to great lengths to reduce the stress of buying. In almost every interview, salespeople also lamented the lack of leads being generated by their marketing department as well. Finally, I believe these challenges have also directly influenced the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013. No Decision.

Telecommunications 16

Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. Among them will be a common sense that complexity is dropping, not rising.

Finance 8

Finance Education Drucker Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The conversation turned to the growing complexity of the business environment, and the question was inevitably posed: What had I, as a business professor, managed to figure out about what it takes to succeed under such conditions? Leadership Managing uncertainty'

Drucker 8

Drucker Diversity Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player. He will always know how he performs.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

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. Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? out of a possible 990 in February 2013.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Customers will go to great lengths to reduce the stress of buying. In almost every interview, salespeople also lamented the lack of leads being generated by their marketing department as well. Finally, I believe these challenges have also directly influenced the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013. No Decision.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 9

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. Know your team's goals and stress points. More information helps the team feel engaged in the process, and reduces anxiety and stress.

Team 8

Team Uncertainty Stress Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

Even though the tasks mount up, you have a knack for performing magnificently under deadline, stress and high expectations. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Before you know it, you’re on deadline again.

Energy 56

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 56

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This happiness is due to the fact that Haier [has] created a platform for everyone to fully exploit their potential and realize their value, rather than taking orders passively or bearing huge stress. To quote Peter Drucker, “The purpose of an organization is to make ordinary people do extraordinary things.”

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

As a marketer, I work to engage women online with brands and causes. of emails to my all-female marketing database are opened on iPhones, likely because many on my mailing list are busy moms who often aren''t in front of a computer. And these messages use strong market segmentation. How do women in that market get information?

Strategy 8

Strategy Marketing Market Segmentation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. You’d have this beta with the market, so you have the riskless rate plus beta times the equity premium.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

market has witnessed a substantial rise of activist investors. According to Schulte, Roth & Zabel’s Activist Investing 2015 Annual Review, a total of 344 companies worldwide were subjected to activist demands in 2014, up 18% from the 291 recorded in 2013. Over the last three years the U.S. Example: Jolly Inc.

How To 8

How To Due Diligence Strategy Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The number of companies targeted by activist hedge funds has increased dramatically since then, to more than 200 in 2013. “I certainly wouldn’t want to somehow block the effects of improved productivity and more efficient management because workers aren’t benefiting,” said Bernstein. eBay is a recent example.

Hedge 8

Hedge Finance Short-term Document 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

But Nincompoopery is something different: it’s the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy, and keeps everyone—customers, employees, managers and business owners—from getting what they want. And that’s only scratching the surface of everything we’re trying to manage in this brave new world.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

On one hand, there are wars, terror, market crashes, bailouts, budget crises, cliffs, and sequesters. This is part of the reason that the stock market, which used to move a fraction of a percent each day, now shifts in record swings with increasing volume. On a smaller scale, the brain treats any kind of volatility as stress.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Long-term Dunning Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. Why does all this matter for the purposes of anger management? At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. On the front pages of major U.S. Furthermore, U.S. in the U.S.,

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8