Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Here’s a conundrum: On the one hand, there’s a consensus among thoughtful business leaders that too many companies are sacrificing long-term growth on the altar of smooth, reliable short-term earnings. Meanwhile, I had a lot friends and colleagues saying, “The capital markets are a huge problem.” Insight Center.

Short-term 8

Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Katzenberg recently hired Meg Whitman, the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. It has to find product-market fit before running out of cash. And it may work.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Jobs announced yesterday that he would step down as CEO, effecting a smooth transition to known successor Tim Cook. Jobs is surely not just any retiring CEO. Like many entrepreneurial founders, he did it by force of personality and personal vision, without much concern for consensus or committees. History shows it isn't easy.

Licensing 10

Licensing Entrepreneur Consensus CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

The ABU was set up as a centralized profit center with ambitious targets and with direct reporting to the chief operations officer; most often, similar units are organized as cost centers with no specific targets. The value generated by risk- and operational cost-abating analytics initiatives is measured by their impact on the bottom line.

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Incentives Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. In some rare cases, individuals are able to push back against team consensus and help organizations recognize and proactively respond to changes in the competitive landscape.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

On November 10, 2010, Cisco's stock price dropped 16%, erasing roughly $20 billion of market value in a matter of hours. In fact, this stock market bellwether had just beat earnings estimates by 6%. for the quarter, just barely clearing the consensus estimates of $0.40. Had something catastrophic happened? The problem?

Proposal 16

Proposal Benchmarking Consensus Morale 16

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. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. “I’m so glad we read that case — I’m NEVER going to start a company.”.

Career 10

Career Company IPO Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

CEO Marissa Mayer said her company''s moonshot is to be "on every smartphone, every tablet, every day, for every Internet user.". But in turbulent times, these approaches can lead companies to miss critical market inflection points. In response to a reporter''s question, last week Yahoo! Organizations should have their moonshots.

Scenario Planning 9

Scenario Planning Consensus Strategic Planning Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus. Consider the story of Bud Frankel, the founder of Frankel , a firm that created the marketing services industry (where both of us eventually worked) that gained a national reputation and attracted clients across both the consumer and healthcare areas.

Open-book 8

Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

operations compete more effectively. The great majority of business leaders understand that what is necessary is investments in the business environment and efforts to reach consensus on issues such as health care costs, balancing the budget, and tort reform. operations compete more effectively.

Short-term 12

Short-term Survey Consensus Health Care 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. Hansen, Herminia Ibarra, and Urs Peyer latest ranking of long-run CEO performance in HBR , Amazon's Jeff Bezos now ranks No. In Morten T.

Training 13

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Instead, the decision to fire (or hire or promote) someone is based on group consensus. burden of running their companies’ day-to-day operations. Why Lululemon''s "CEO Wanted" Ad Is Bad for the Brand Fast Company. And the decision to post a “CEO Wanted” sign on the home page was timed terribly.

Advertising 8

Advertising Video Ethics PR 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Andy O''Connell Justin Bieber's Involved, of Course The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry: An Oral History Businessweek For years, every CEO had a BlackBerry. Oh, and an offer from then-up-and-coming star Justin Bieber to rep BlackBerry, an offer that was rebuffed by the marketing department. They said, ''This kid is a fad.

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

Because they have been trained and incented to care about the real game, the one happening on the field, and not about the associated betting market. But in the business world, their precise equivalents are standard operating procedure. We've never seen an apology from a QB for winning a game, but by less than the point spread.

CEO 15

CEO Consensus Conference Rogers 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. The company’s swift recall of product from the shelves and the timely response of the company CEO were part of the crisis plan that was in place well ahead of the tragedy. There is an art to Crisis Preparedness. by Hank Moore.

Crisis 71

Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 71

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Heins, the new CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), has been plucked from the company's relatively obscure COO position to fill the giant shoes of two longtime co-CEOs as they depart at the behest of angry investors. Industry upheaval often calls for tough choices, and consensus will not be possible.

Strategy 15

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Those of you familiar with this blog know that I’m generally a strong marketing advocate. That said, my typical pro-marketing position assumes that certain key fundamentals are in place to insure that the lunatics don’t somehow become in charge of the asylum.

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Blog Marketing Succession Brand 303

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Imagine you’re the CEO of a casual dining chain. One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. Paul Garbett for HBR.

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Working across organizational boundaries was a new way of thinking 25 years ago —one that was largely championed by Jack Welch, then CEO of GE. The main goal was that these cross-functional teams had to reach consensus on a solution in two days—and devise a plan for executing it. This was delaying product production.

Welch 8

Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

But he could not shake his newfound awareness of the amount of money Egan was losing with Westmid — the account's ratio of operating income to sales was a negative 28%. And they were shocking: Just 1% of Egan's SKUs accounted for 100% of its operating profits. It should be to win in every one of our chosen markets.

Case Study 14

Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Despite our best efforts, most organizations operate disjointedly. It may be possible to create alignment among the leadership team, but that consensus will break down once the individual members return to their working groups. Apple and Google, of course, have been successful across a variety of market contexts.

Organization 9

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Despite our best efforts, most organizations operate disjointedly. It may be possible to create alignment among the leadership team, but that consensus will break down once the individual members return to their working groups. Apple and Google, of course, have been successful across a variety of market contexts.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

This reflects the Umpqua team''s investment during the design process, as well as CEO Ray Davis''s continued efforts to champion its results. Once you''ve reached consensus on which idea to activate, it is critical to push the pause button and honestly assess whether your organization is able to execute the chosen solution.

Govindarajan 10

Govindarajan Long-term Short-term Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

CEO activism, the growing trend of top executives speaking out on sensitive social and political issues, has been labeled the “ new normal.” There are conflicting views of how CEOs should proceed. The same dynamic may now complicate Google’s plans to re-enter China’s search market. fotog/Getty Images.

CEO 13

CEO Politics Policies Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

For example, many American CEOs spent considerable energy in the weeks building up to Trump’s Paris announcement lobbying the President not to withdraw. But there is now a growing trend of some CEOs actively lobbying for more ambitious government action and regulation on a whole range of social and environmental issues.

Globalization 14

Globalization Policies Supply Chain CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

When Kellogg’s CEO, John Bryant, spoke at the Paris meeting, in December 2015, he told the assembled executives and diplomats that addressing climate change was “mission critical” for the company. A week before the election, the CEO of General Mills, Ken Powell, spoke about his commitment to acting on climate.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8