Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Through his academic research and teaching at HBS, Jensen promulgated a new financial orthodoxy that corporate managers should avoid diversification and instead focus on the firm’s core competencies. corporations from 1985 to 2015. To test our argument, we collected data on 2,031 CEOs who ran 640 large U.S.

Influence 12

Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

” Is management research a folly? There can be little doubt that a lot of activity goes into management research: according to the Web of Knowledge, over 8,000 articles are published every year in the 170+ journals in the field of “Management,” adding more and more new rooms.

Management 8

Management Retail Construction Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

Managers generally view activists antagonistically, as bullies who publicly express dissatisfaction with management and demand changes in the firm. Activists are prohibited by law to group together against management without publicly disclosing their efforts. Shareholder activism is on the rise in American financial markets.

CEO 8

CEO Sample Influence Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

This line of thinking represents a significant shift, from viewing work-life issues as private concerns to recognizing that managers play a critical role. A mounting body of research shows just how much influence managers have. The boss’s influence. Seemed convinced of family-friendly HR practices’ value to employees.

Middle Management 8

Middle Management Influence Report Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The Perkins Fund has also had numerous successful businesses that are not gender-related, like 1 Mainstream, a cloud-based video service that was acquired by Cisco in 2015. of VC funding in 2015 went to firms founded by women of color. VC funding tends to go to male founders. had a female CEO.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Sample Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2017

These stores were selected as a representative sample of different geographic locations (Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmo) across Sweden. For the remainder of the stores, a daily quota (more temporally frequent) plan was implemented for the entire month of May 2015.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail Bottom-up Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

In our research on how middle managers sell their ideas up the chain of command ( which we describe in the January-February 2015 issue of HBR ), we’ve found that those who do so most successfully are the ones who manage emotions on both sides. Managing Up. ” Managing the decision maker’s emotions.

Engineering 11

Engineering Tactics Influence Middle Management 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Increasingly, tax preparation is being automated, and even auditing is going the way of algorithmic review and big data “sweeps” instead of sampling. The theme: Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age.

Drucker 8

Drucker Core Competence Engineering Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

from March 2015 to April 2016. Our sample of tweets was comprehensive, including complaints, questions, and comments. Or in management parlance, when a brand provides better customer service, will customers reward that brand with greater loyalty or pay a price premium? Is the interaction praise or scorn?

Wireless 11

Wireless Airlines Brand Loyalty 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

In fact, the spillover effects across our sample evidenced a drop in stock price that averaged more than $8 million in losses for rival firms where no such data breach occurred. Consider the massive Anthem data breach in February 2015, which affected as many as 80 million customers.

Policies 10

Policies Company Sample Price 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Harnessing Big Potential While Minimizing Risk.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

This “pivoting” among stakeholders is what our 2015 study of leaders and rising talent in 11 markets (Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, and the U.S.) reveals to be a core competency of global executives. .

Core Competence 8

Core Competence Emotional Intelligence Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

According to a 2015 report by the Pew Research Center, working while pregnant is becoming increasingly common. While it is difficult to estimate how many women might leave work because of this, prior research suggests that women are more inclined to quit when they feel unable to manage competing demands.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Survey Career Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

We spoke with Mike Moorman, a senior leader in ZS Associates'' B2B sales and marketing practice and a leading authority on sales management, about how inside sales (which refers to sales positions done remotely from headquarters, without face-to-face meetings with clients) is transforming the way that B2B companies interact with their customers.

B2B 8

B2B Power Market Segmentation Customer Intimacy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

Different surveys show that in 2014, 36% of global employers reported talent shortages , the highest percentage since 2007, and in a more recent 2015 survey, 73% of CEOs reported being concerned about the availability of key skills. Our sample included CEOs and heads of HR and recruiting, employer branding, and marketing, in 18 countries.

Brand 8

Brand CEO Reputation Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Among the largest 250 companies in the world, 92% produced a CSR report in 2015, informing shareholders and the public about the firm’s activities. Managers need to genuinely care about the social impact of their CSR actions — only then will workers reward it with higher productivity. Taira Kurihara/Getty Images.

Incentives 8

Incentives Motivation Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

We conducted six studies on diverse samples with over 450 participants, from undergraduate students to working adults. Our results were recently published in Management Science (link forthcoming). billion in 2015 , companies have been spending more on cause-related marketing—it reached about $2 billion dollars in 2016.

Ethics 9

Ethics Licensing Self-aware Morale 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Virtual Visits: Improving Access and Population Health in Chronic Disease Management. In 2015 we started to engage those clinical departments whose providers saw patients with conditions requiring frequent follow-up visits and infrequent physical exams, and who lived in Massachusetts but had difficulty coming into the office.

Health Care 8

Health Care Consultative Video Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. Collectively, our sample accounts for about 60%–65% of total U.S. This has long seemed intuitively true to us.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

For example, in 2015, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh launched a five-year partnership with the American Association of University Women (AAUW) to offer free salary negotiation workshops to women in the city of Boston. It has an appealing logic. If we can get women to negotiate more like men, then the gap will shrink.

Globalization 8

Globalization Participative Long-term Education 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Men highly self-rate their own leadership skills and their ability to tackle management and business challenges. Give managers who fail to develop their leaders a negative consequence. Provide time for leaders to practice key skills with their managers and receive feedback. It is about becoming a best-ever version of yourself.”

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

In September 2015 the Environmental Protection Agency found that many Volkswagen cars sold in the United States were equipped with software that could falsely improve the performance of diesel engines on emissions tests. Our analysis of the Volkswagen scandal offers useful insights regarding the management of a crisis incident.

Crisis 10

Crisis Brand Analysis Media 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. The other CEOs in our sample didn’t directly oversee breakthrough innovation.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, IoT is at the peak of Gartner’s 2015 hype cycle, which suggests the next phase will be disillusionment, and it will be years before we see real productivity gains. But to get beyond the hype, managers need to understand some underlying challenges and paradigm shifts.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

They have given their social media staff a clear mission and a great deal of autonomy; the account’s managers chat with customers, offer up front to solve problems, and empathize with frustrated travelers. After all, management exists to transform corporations into more efficient machines. This shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Meerkat, which was the darling of SXSW 2015, allows people to experience anything virtually through live video streaming on their smartphones. Here are some tips brand and marketing managers can use to leverage converged media to their advantage: 1. More apps of this nature are surfacing every day.

Media 8

Media Tactics Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

Today, armed with an MBA from the Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management—which he’d earned while working as a cashier, cook, restaurant manager, supplier liaison, and, finally, COO—he was a full-grown man and a fully-fledged partner in the business. People loved them—couldn’t get enough.

Case Study 8

Case Study Survey Course Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Last year, Jimmy Wales, the founder of the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the site, said that the organization failed to meet its goal of increasing women’s participation to 25% by 2015 , despite launching several initiatives. Bear and Collier’s sample spanned 1,589 occasional U.S. contributors (17.5%

Survey 8

Survey Diversity Participative Report 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Same-sex couples throughout the country can now get legally married after the 2015 Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. LGBTQ people are highly visible in the media, on television, in the movies, and in the C-suites of major companies like Apple, Google, and IBM.

Education 8

Education Document Survey Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

I help the University of Utah hospital system manage its drug budgets and medication use policies, and in 2015 I got sticker shock. Another way pharmaceutical firms are thwarting generics is by restricting access to samples for testing. In 2015, there were 267 recalls of generic drug products—more than one every other day.

System 13

System Pharmaceuticals Company Sample 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

But affiliation doesn’t guarantee enthusiasm, as this sample of survey comments reveals: “On sabbatical from the Democratic party”; “Republican, unless they keep acting like goofballs”; and “Independent (especially this year!).

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8