Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. As part of this research, we conducted 120 interviews, including nine with board members and 19 with top managers. Practice #1: Increase trust by defining new conversational norms.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. ” That statement seems surprising coming from the CEO of a technology company employing over 70,000 people in more than forty offices around the world. percent to 7.5

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Last year Feld, who is managing director at Foundry Group and co-founder of TechStars, announced he would no longer travel for business. He equipped his Boulder offices with state-of-the-art video conferencing systems, and now holds meetings using this technology or asks business partners to travel to see him. But no business travel.

Travel 10

Travel Execution Venture Capitalist Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Not just conceptually in terms of work-life balance, but also physically, with the introduction of wearables and other employee-tracking technologies. Tesco, the UK-based retailer, uses wearable technology on many of the people working in their warehouses to keep track of product orders and help boost efficiency. In 2013, at the U.S.

Company 8

Company Long-term Bureaucracy Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. Customers will go to great lengths to reduce the stress of buying. No Decision. Administrivia.

Telecommunications 16

Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 16

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'

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Drucker Diversity Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2017

No surprise, then, that it poses serious challenges for the health care systems, pension schemes, and public debt management of modern societies. Japan adopted its Comprehensive Strategy on Science, Technology, and Innovation in 2013. Population aging of this dimension is possibly unique in world history.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

As economists who’ve been using lots of government data for a long time, we’ve always been delighted that the federal government had systematic, professionally managed programs for collecting data and publishing important information. These days, for studying anything related to online, 2013 is ancient history.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail GDP Report 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. The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. What do you do?

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Coaching Tip

AUGUST 31, 2015

A typical manager is interrupted approximately seven times an hour, which adds up to 56 interruptions a day, 80% of which are considered trivial, according to time management experts. Modern culture, with all of our technology and time-saving gadgets, has left us with a distorted view of productivity. Tosi on April 1, 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. Customers will go to great lengths to reduce the stress of buying. No Decision. Administrivia.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

This helped squelch rumors of impending layoffs and reduce the stress and fear that inevitably accompany cost cutting. With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed.

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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

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

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

Even though the tasks mount up, you have a knack for performing magnificently under deadline, stress and high expectations. Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. Before you know it, you’re on deadline again.

Energy 56

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 56

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.

Bond 8

Bond Long-term Health Care Organizational Behavior 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

According to a 2013 survey by Nielsen, "Nearly 60% of women use Facebook/access Facebook multiple times a day on their device/computer compared to approximately 45% of men." Our program addresses local myths, stresses the foods they should eat, and helps provide vital health information. It''s a delicate push.".

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. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. Lars is famous for that.

CAPM 8

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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. “According to this paper [the hedge funds are] not just asset stripping, they are investing in productive technologies,” said McAfee. eBay is a recent example. which refunds money to low-income workers.

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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

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? A 2013 Pew Research survey found that business executives ranked ninth out of 10 professions in terms of social contribution, only placing ahead of lawyers.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8