Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

An engineer with a diemaker father who worked in a Pontiac plant, Barra is a 33-year company veteran. Barra began her career at the old GM as a young student engineer. Mary Barra is good for GM first and foremost because she’s an engineer who cares about cars. This is a new GM. This situation was untenable.

Engineering 11

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

That was certainly true for Jane Harper, who spent a nearly 30-year career at IBM asking the kinds of questions most people don't want to touch. Share it here and join the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge to share your stories, ideas, and practices about what it takes to make our organizations more inspiring, open and free.

Organization 15

Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

3M and Google, among others, have given "innovation time off" to their scientists and engineers. There is also a "sweat the small stuff" day, once a quarter, for getting on top of the creeping bureaucracy and niggling problems that accumulate over time. So a more focused approach may be more worthwhile. Loosely defined roles.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

So when staying that extra hour at work at the end of an exhausting day is thought of as "helping my career" rather than "answering emails for 60 more minutes," you'll be much more likely to want to stay put and work hard. Rely on routines. You can't be going through the day distracted by trivia. –President Obama, Vanity Fair.

Stress 8

Stress Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

They loathe bureaucracy that traps resources and slows decision making. ” Bureaucracy sets in, and bureaucrats don’t feel the insurgent mission. His budget reduction isn’t an insult, it’s a career-building opportunity. But those instincts tend to fade as companies grow into large, complex incumbents.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Short-term Budgeting Long-term 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Research from the University of Oslo suggests the quality of Norway’s political institutions is a major factor, with strong protection of property rights, reliable public bureaucracy and minimal corruption all contributing to robust economic growth.

Resources 78

Resources Innovation GDP Education 78