Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. There are signs that this is very much today’s state of management, as managers face the digitization of business. How to start?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. Even more important, local firms can become global competitors. Mahindra & Mahindra , a local Indian firm, has risen to challenge John Deere in the worldwide agricultural tractor business. Understanding it takes time and focus.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 A New Name and a Unique Brand Identity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. A Race to the Bottom. But Archive.org kept a copy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Today’s Digital Landscape.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

The World Health Organization describes stress as the “ global health epidemic of the 21st century.” Our current work culture is a direct reflection of the increasing complexity and demands faced by businesses globally. The Global Corporate Challenge study of over 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Imagine the global potential if these local pockets of excellence could be harnessed for the benefit of whole populations. A collaboration of the editors of Harvard Business Review and NEJM Group, exploring how pioneering providers are making change happen. Insight Center. Leading Change in Health Care. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

has taken in the fight against global climate change: The S&P 500 and Dow Jones stock indexes rose to record highs. Low-carbon leadership isn’t just confined to the coasts. I’ll take that as a sign investors aren’t buying the old scare tactic that federal climate action is bad for the economy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The Global Digital Economy. The new game is to think about the business model and strategy for not just the company but the entire ecosystem. Change the dialogue in the senior leadership team to focus on the end-to-end customer experience. Radically cut costs in the old business to fund the new game.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Tumbling transaction costs are altering the economics of organizations and, at a stroke, invalidating old business models. As Drucker put it: “Managers are society’s major leadership group … They command the resources of society.” In other words, it depends on visionary management.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

For example, Brian McNamee of CSL Ltd made a series of global acquisitions to turn Australia’s small Commonwealth Serum Laboratories into the global leader in plasma products. But what made the company’s performance soar under CEO Pablo Alvarez de Tejera was its rapid global expansion between 2005 and 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Large food retailers such as Kroger, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Carrefour, and Wal-Mart stand in a unique position to address this global food issue. However, their high volume–low margin business model also makes them vulnerable to threats such as competition, increasing wholesale prices, and changing consumer demands.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? Visionary firms win by being the first to introduce a revolutionary new product or business model.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

See if you can determine where the team went wrong: Ana is the experienced, 39-year-old project manager of a global semiconductor company’s strategically important effort to create an innovative driver-interface system for the 2017 model of a European automaker’s most popular passenger car. Innovation Project management'

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