Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

As managers we cycle between these modes constantly. It''s the mark of a great manager to be able to judge, in a complex situation, when and how to use each of them. Detached observation requires a certain maturity. In the middle of this spectrum are the liberal arts and the mongrel discipline that we call "management".

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2013

If the product itself is mature, salespeople have to continue to reinvent themselves and their tactics. A veteran sales representative and manager with experience that spans more than twenty-five years and multiple industries, he is currently senior vice president of business services for State Bank and Trust Company in Mississippi.

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Sports Open-book Follow-up Career 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

For instance, a 2013 Gartner survey found that 64% of enterprises were deploying or planning big data projects, up from 58% the year before. They’re at the low end of what Schmarzo calls the big-data “maturity” spectrum. The capabilities of companies on the mature end of Schmarzo’s spectrum are downright scary.

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ROI Maturity How To CRM 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people. When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it. billion in revenue in 2013.

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Team Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

The idea of boomerang employees — workers who voluntarily leave a job at an organization and then rejoin that same organization at a later date — is gaining more and more acceptance from hiring managers and in the labor force. The experience has also had a positive impact on how she manages. ” Onboard.

Company 13

Company PR Learning-by-Doing Maturity 13

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Katarina Berg: [ I actually introduced Walk & Talk some 18 years ago on Leadership programs to improve lateral thinking, exercise and getting a better understanding for whats on the managers mind ] HR walks are a chance for meaningful conversation paired with a walk for a boost of creativity and focus.

Development 59

Development Globalization Diversity Maturity 59

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

What's striking about Fast Company's 2013 list of the world's 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. So why doesn't innovation thrive in mature organizations? The main exceptions are Target, Coca Cola, Corning, Ford, and Nike (the company that topped the list).

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Innovation Company Business Model Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Sometimes, they also hope to develop a content management system that other publishers can license and use to distribute their content. As more platishers mature, they may find themselves facing similar conundrums. Those two are just completely different world views. It’s hard to create clarity for an organization.

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Business Model Content Incentives Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Nearly every market today has matured to the point where there is very little difference between the features, functions, and specifications of the competitive products. Finally, I believe these challenges have also directly influenced the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013. Product Commoditization. Price versus Value.

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CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. For example, I once helped survey US global money managers. Spending time early in your career in a frontier market has a lasting impact on all your subsequent management decisions.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

With maturity, however, it can become rigid and fragile. The danger is that their management approaches cannot sense or respond to shocks. Organizational managers and leaders should be worrying about fragility in the face of such shocks. As Taleb points out, managers should not be learning from today''s fashionable role models.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. In many cases, the change-management challenges of incorporating AI into employee processes and decision making far outweigh technical AI implementation challenges.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

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. Having said that, it is also true that executives need help managing their globalization gambits. Thus, most groupings may be valid only in the short run.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

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. Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years. In part, he wrote: In other cosmopolitan cities, the lower part of society keep to themselves.

Organization 8

Organization Incubator Reputation Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Still, millions of dollars are being poured into this quickly-maturing advertising opportunity, and nobody doubts the future potential that is upon us in terms of delivering measurable advertising without much human (or creative) intervention. Our thinking as marketers needs to shift from "Mad Men" to "math men."

Marketing 12

Marketing Advertising Chief Information Officer Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Nearly every market today has matured to the point where there is very little difference between the features, functions, and specifications of the competitive products. Finally, I believe these challenges have also directly influenced the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013. Product Commoditization. Price versus Value.

CRM 9

CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

However, with China’s growth slowing over the past two years, costs shooting up, the government making life difficult for multinational companies, and confusion following the reforms emanating from the Third Plenum in November 2013, some companies are heading in the opposite direction.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Please note that titles used here reflect the positions the individuals held in 2013, when we conducted the interviews for a separate article ). Talent Management. You had some countries in which we were mature or very, very strong and very, very good, like Brazil. Operating in a Global Marketplace.

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CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2014

Daniels was a Major in the US Army , has an MBA from the Bloch School of Management at University of Missouri-Kansas City ( UMKC) , and moved into his VP role at U.S. Engineering in November 2013. Daniels : Several project management skills translate to skills indicative of a Vice President. Daniels : U.S.

Engineering 56

Engineering Servant Leader Learning-by-Doing Skills 56

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The rise of Tata in India, Koç Holding in Turkey, and Grupo Carso in Mexico have some management thinkers contending that the conglomerate is back at the expense of the focused firm. In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

If you're looking for marketing jargon in 2013, look no further than "native advertising." In 1996, the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) was founded with a core belief that if media and advertising standards were not put in place, the online advertising medium could never mature and capture a brand's advertising spend.

Advertising 8

Advertising Definition Advertorial Media 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At eBay Germany, the authors found examples of how a maturing company like eBay can retain its innovative spirit. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A. Join the Conversation.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. At eBay Germany, the authors found examples of how a maturing company like eBay can retain its innovative spirit. Join the conversation.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Ten years after the start of the Iraq War, we're all familiar with the case for hiring veterans: they're mature, responsible, have significant managerial experience, and are used to chaotic, ambiguous environments. Where I was unable to spell my own name or barely speak in 2008, I am now projecting revenue growth and cash flows in 2013."

EBITDA 10

EBITDA Human Resources McKinsey Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. billion in 2013. To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. But is all of that changing?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 29, 2014

It’s not just co-CEO structures like those at Whole Foods and Chipotle that are getting attention: In late 2013, Zappos announced that it was abandoning hierarchy for “holacracy,” a flat structure without titles where leadership responsibilities ebb and flow among employees. Reach her at Yvonne.Sell@haygroup.com.

Leadership 244

Leadership Globalization Maturity Agility 244

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

To find out which school of thought is more accurate, we looked at the value of brands and customer relationships as revealed by M&A data covering over 6,000 mergers and acquisitions worldwide between 2003 and 2013.

Brand 8

Brand Brand Valuation Power Brand Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

When the pseudonymous Robert Galbraith published A Cuckoo’s Calling in 2013, the novel sold about 1,500 copies in the first month. Canonical examples are cigarette smoking or pollution, or a store manager in a large retail chain pursuing actions that benefit his individual store but damage the parent company’s brand.)

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11