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. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. LARRY: Sure.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. It is as plain as day that women are equally qualified to lead in terms of skill and talent, yet we capture far fewer job slots at the top. The Promotion Paradox.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

I remember well when the idea of applying complexity science to management was first being eagerly discussed in the 1990s. Gallen had developed a management model based on systems thinking. Managers'' eyes were opened to the reality that organizations are not just complicated but complex.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. Not by gathering waves of data and solving successive equations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Yet our research also found that, in the shorter term, these fears may be overblown. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

The former states that digital technology and robotics are advancing at such a pace that: “Professions of all kinds — from lawyers to truck drivers — will be forever upended. Shifting work to places where labor is cheaper is one way to improve this in the short term. Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. Innovation Strategy Technology' So how does it work?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

We see this in nature (ant colonies, for example, only grow to a certain point before retreating), in the brain (neurons multiply exponentially in a child''s brain but shrink down to a fraction of their maximum level by adulthood), and in technological networks ( remember MySpace? ). The stock market was meant to work as a long-term system.

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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. Take Jeff, an IT manager at the financial services firm Vanguard.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

What if your ideas, your thoughts and even your experience as a trained marketing professional didn''t amount to a hill of beans in terms of the brand''s actual advertising performance? What if, in short, what your company really needs is not a marketer, but a data scientist ? Let''s take a step back. It is art for money''s sake.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

We turn to productivity tools or apps that promise to help us manage mounting pressures or we look for ways to alleviate our discomfort: find a different job, hire a new employee to take on an increased workload, or switch careers. But these solutions are often temporary and ineffective.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Better Place''s most visible and best-publicized innovation was its switchable battery technology, a novel way to overcome the short-range limits and long recharge times dictated by existing battery technology. EV advocates are quick to note that technology improvements in batteries will one day eliminate the range problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? But managers make it harder when they think about it only as radical industry reinvention. Many customers asked for insurance not on a yearly basis but for very short periods for very specific activities.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

in 2013 to 3.7 In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team. While Welch bequeathed a strong pension plan to GE, he also left the company with a dubious legacy of what is now called earnings management. The average size of U.S.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. Now, management needs focus on enabling and optimizing the connection, communication and collaboration between employees, customers, and partners. But CIOs also need to not get caught up in the technology trap.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

A short-lived economic revival followed, helped by international assistance from European countries and multilateral institutions, and high prices for Zimbabwe’s commodity exports. After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S.

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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. In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. billion in 2013. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The penalty for falling short isn’t insignificant. In 2013, about 96% of eligible heart attack Medicare patients received this basic medication, which means 5,761 patients admitted for heart attack did not. In 2013, only 71% of the patients surveyed highly rated their recent hospital experience. Hospitals risk losing 1.5%

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In 1981, Peter Drucker delivered a lecture at New York University titled “ Managing the Increasing Complexity of Large Organizations.” What is value to the customer,” Drucker wrote in his 1999 book Management Challenges for the 21st Century , “is always something quite different from what is value or quality to the supplier.”.

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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. Activists target firms that have invested less in IT than their peers, but three years after the intervention the affected plants have “caught up” in terms of tech investment. eBay is a recent example.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Goodwin was notoriously combative, with a “Fred says” autocratic management style.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In 2006, they hired an experienced president to manage their rapidly growing business. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board.

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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.

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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. That''s fine for short bursts of communication, but would you trust a more complex discussion to the software? out of a possible 990 in February 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The challenge is obvious: the quickening pace of technological change has shrunk the shelf life of skills acquired by today’s university graduates to just a few years. In a 2013 Deloitte survey of executives at large companies, 39% said they were either “barely able” or “unable” to meet their needs for talent.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Google and Intel rely on experts in social science and biomechanics to develop transformative products by better understanding how people think about and use technology. In 2013, Accenture suggested that 20 to 30 percent of the total workforce falls outside the organization’s traditional full-time, permanent employment relationship.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

The English grandmaster Nigel Short recently declared that computers are stripping chess of its mystery; by crunching reams of data, computers can deconstruct once-obscure board positions in a matter of seconds and reveal the optimal move. Something similar is just starting to happen in health care. Take my company, athenahealth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. Improving the transition to long-term acute care rehab. But it needn’t always be. Here’s how we did it. 2) What is their proposed solution?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

Research by Alison Konrad and Yang Yang, published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior and honored with the 2013 Kanter Award , finds that people who use flexible work options are promoted more than others. There’s good news, though, on this front. This result surprised even the authors, given prior research.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The result was this : Using the search terms “ad blocker” and “Do Not Track,” we see that interest in Do Not Track trailed off while interest in ad blockers hockey-sticked. See PageFair’s 2013 and 2014 reports). In the past we had to accept the one-sided terms provided by websites and services.

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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?

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Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 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. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. So that’s problem No. Problem No.

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