Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

The other half might have been open to the idea that law firms needed a strategy, but completely opposed to having anything other than a consensus-built, senior partner-friendly mechanism for making strategic choices, which almost by definition is doomed to fail. Just keep billing those hours! Well, we did warn them.

Creativity 8

Creativity Consensus Business Model Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

What emerged was a consensus that t he most successful leaders in the future will be those who - like Nelson - can cut their distance to the front line through three key traits: the ability to be authentic, empathy with the customer and front line, and true self-awareness.

Self-aware 15

Self-aware Goleman Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

On the other hand, the consensus was strong among market observers that Apple should not be concerned at all and that it should keep on doing exactly what it's doing — making more powerful tablets. What's more, the Fire has a business model advantage too — Amazon is using content to subsidize the hardware.

Disruptive Innovation 15

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Price Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

This is achieved through a clever combination of economic incentives and cryptography, and ensures that at any point in time, digital records reflect the true “consensus” among the key stakeholders involved. However, when assessing blockchain business models, it is useful to understand what blockchain can’t do.

Advertising 8

Advertising Technology Consensus Content 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

Companies fall into the Jordan fallacy when they ask their very best operators, who are skilled at executing a known business model, to transform overnight into entrepreneurs who are skilled at searching for an unknown business model. Be prepared for lean''s consequences.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

In the age of rapid advances in data science and artificial intelligence, many organizations still struggle to incorporate advanced analytics capabilities into their business models. True incorporation requires bold decisions about reorganizing the business to make analytics a key component of strategy. David Malan/Getty Images.

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Incentives Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

The organizations that have the greatest impact have scalable business models that produce products and services millions of people are willing to pay for. Where a business falls along the spectrum of long-term societal impact depends on what it is doing to solve one of the world's biggest problems. (A

Technology 16

Technology Entrepreneur Morale ROI 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Business models that can prosper at structurally lower price points are the engines that power true market disruption.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

A consensus is building that continued growth of the macro-economy risks pushing us into unstoppable climate change and the peaking of many of the finite resources our way of life depend on.

Company 13

Company Kahneman Long-term Brand 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

There is a general consensus that U.S. In poor countries, the innovation paradigm is just the opposite: spend less and innovate new business models. In poor countries, the innovation paradigm is just the opposite: spend less and innovate new business models. healthcare needs major reform. Most definitely.

Health Care 14

Health Care Cost Constraint Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Priorities develop to reflect a company’s business model and over time become enshrined in the company’s culture. This will likely create tension and frustration as both sides of the innovation team grapple with a lack of consensus that accomplishes neither company’s objective. Processes aren’t designed to change.

Industry 8

Industry Disruptive Innovation Innovation Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle. “I’m so glad we read that case — I’m NEVER going to start a company.”. Equity — When given the chance, take some money off the table.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Their lobbying and advertising have made it practically impossible to form political consensus. American politicians (at the behest of big content businesses) have tied federal funding of universities to anti-piracy efforts on campus.

Politics 14

Politics Innovation Engineering Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Usually when people talk of DNA they're raising questions of corporate culture: Does the company rely on consensus among managers or are strategies and tactics directed from the top? In a company setting, that would be the economics of its business model. How does the company deal with dramatic change?

Software 13

Software Intellectual Capital Maturity Customer Loyalty 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

That's become a common label , especially in an era when so many traditional business models need rethinking, but run a Google search on it and you will begin to appreciate the special challenges it creates. From this perspective, it's clear how the work of anyone fighting the status quo is fraught with the potential to be misread.

Emotional Intelligence 15

Emotional Intelligence Short-term Long-term Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

Given that energized innovators like these are disrupting many existing products, and the business models behind them, you can feel threatened by them. Leadership skills focus on community building, consensus building, mediation, commitment, and humility.". Socialize your underused assets.

Mission Statement 8

Mission Statement Class Learning-by-Doing Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Fast forward to today's generation of business leaders and you hear a very different attitude being expressed: that it is essential for senior executives both to have a nuanced understanding of the major societal forces shaping our world, and to know where and how to respond for the good of their organization and for society as a whole.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

“We had the brand and the audience, and were then able to build an online dating business that was far more powerful as a business model than our core content execution.” “It’s very hard to make money on… consensus. You are investing in things that look like they are just nuts.”

Consensus 10

Consensus Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Video 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

It involves too many people When a strategic plan needs to finely calibrate the moves of loosely controlled business units and achieve consensus, then it often makes sense to include a wide range of stakeholders in the discussions. Industry upheaval often calls for tough choices, and consensus will not be possible.

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business. Part of the problem is there isn't a clear consensus on what marks an innovative company. This simple formula provides rich insight into a company's business model, and can quickly diagnose a company's strengths or opportunity areas.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Artificial constraints, such as formal organizational hierarchies and belabored consensus-building processes, create waste and dampen motivation. In many cases elements of the acquired business’ culture can become a model for the acquiring company.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. Can you run fast and go deep at the same time? We then collectively developed and presented three competing visions in the form of storylines.

Agility 8

Agility Strategy Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business. Part of the problem is there isn't a clear consensus on what marks an innovative company. This simple formula provides rich insight into a company's business model, and can quickly diagnose a company's strengths or opportunity areas.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Its earnings were down 73% from the quarter a year earlier and it missed the analysts' consensus estimate of $0.24 Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. On Tuesday, Amazon.com reported third-quarter earnings that fell far short of Wall Street's expectations.

Christensen 12

Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Blockchain is a cryptographically secure, shared data layer that enterprises can use to digitally track the ownership of assets across trust boundaries, opening up new opportunities for cross-organizational collaboration and imaginative new business models. Third, the spreadsheet is shared among multiple parties.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content Power Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

Up until recently, there''s been a kind of consensus image of what action on climate might look like: a pastiche of wind turbines, electric cars, green shopping and LEED buildings. All of these changes undermine business models we''re long assumed were stable — and give rise to lucrative new business models.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Technology System Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. Lauri Rotko/Folio Images/Getty Images. The United States spends 40% more per patient than other developed countries but suffers the worse overall health outcomes.

Health Care 9

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 9

Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

While business leaders say they want higher employee engagement, the traditional models have stumbled. With more than one way to organize a business, why don’t we see other models used more? Other business models exist. Let’s review a snapshot of some of these organizational and business models.

Organization 62

Organization ESOP Cooper Reis 62

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

“In Japan, one shift by one employee checking parts is approximately $50,000 per year, and our business model is simple, ” SixAI founder and chairman Ran Poliakine told me recently. “For $50,000 per year, you can have a robot that can work two shifts, and all of the servicing and maintenance of that robot is included.”

TCO 80

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 80

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Multinational banks are in retreat, and even digital businesses such as Uber and Airbnb have found their business models undermined in several countries by regulations introduced to protect the domestic suppliers they compete with. A third threat comes from increased demands for accountability.

Politics 8

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

A thorough, respectful process for building scientific and stakeholder consensus around measures has been orchestrated by leaders like the National Quality Forum (NQF) and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Report System 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

So finally, real bipartisan pressure and consensus are building. What does that mean for business? But we’re going to have to redefine “business as usual,” a shift I’ve called the big pivot. But the real message of the report is that there are serious economic impacts today.

Crisis 8

Crisis Report Consensus Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The consensus is the challenges facing them will be daunting and organizations will be strained to finance and manage it. One noteworthy finding was the need for additional investment in information technology to support the new business model. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality.

Health Care 8

Health Care Industry Business Model Finance 8