Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

A CEO succession presents a time of enormous corporate uncertainty — and thus a time when investors may become especially skittish. But our research shows that new CEOs can allay investors’ fears by talking about their strategic plans for the company. billion gain in market value. on presentation day, or around $2.4

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CEO Strategy Price Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Shortly thereafter he was forced to retire, due to GE’s mandatory retirement policy for CEOs turning 65. More than a third of S&P 500 firms have a mandatory retirement policy for their CEO. ​​ The background here is that firms with older CEOs tend to perform worse than those with younger ones.

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CEO Policies Welch Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Lafley was, my jaw still dropped reading the retired CEO's description of one of his favorite "gifts.". As Lafley recalled, P&G had planned to quietly test market Vibrant — their bleach offering to rival Clorox — in out-of-the-way Portland, Maine. We'd spent most of the launch money on sampling and couponing.

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Innovation Franchising Ethics Disruptive Innovation 14

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

You can spend all the time in the world on strategy sessions, competitive plans, innovation , and product development, but it all falls apart if you don’t have the right talent. Atta is the CEO of Ex-Consultants Agency where he leads the private equity and venture capital practice. They therefore go back to The Karate Kid approach.

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Sports Definition Long-term Quality 104

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Executive compensation packages have long been known to influence CEO behavior. Many have studied, for example, how different forms of compensation affect business outcomes from increased risk-taking and innovation to greater acquisitions and divestitures. I found that a CEO with P=1 (i.e., I analyzed the top 1,500 U.S.

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CEO Incentives Short-term Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

This ability to tweak offerings is a skill that most organizations need to have, according to our recent analysis of data from 180 CEOs. But unlike Apple, most companies don't rely on the CEO to do the tweaking. Specifically, CEOs report that they identify two types of "tweaker talent" within their organizations.

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Productivity Products Market Segmentation Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine.

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Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.” For example, high purpose companies experience: 14.1%

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.” For example, high purpose companies experience: 14.1%

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

To a prospective student (or parent), the value lies in assuming these signals will be accepted in employment markets and other times of social evaluation. It is, to use the language of innovation theorists and practitioners, being unbundled. MBAs have an even more challenged reputation in the innovation economy.

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Education Disruptive Innovation Software Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

To borrow an analogy from our Harvard Business School colleague Shikhar Ghosh, their firms aren’t murdered by the market; they commit suicide because the founders can’t or won’t adapt to the organizations’ changing needs. Often, our research shows, the biggest obstacles are the entrepreneurs themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Experimentation-oriented organizations, one-quarter of our survey sample, are more than 4 times as likely to have achieved greater than 20% growth over the past year compared to others in the sample. We successfully reduced the top line losses of millions of dollars," the CEO observed. Where are the project delays?

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Sample Benchmarking Software Marketing Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

This post is adapted from the Jan/Feb HBR article, " The Best-Performing CEOs in the World.". You can see this clearly in the graphic blow, which maps the long-term financial performance of some 1,100 CEOs against their companies' social and environmental performance for their last two years in office (click for a larger view).

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Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

They will invent innovative ways to explain away poor performance ("Oh, problems with our vendors affected our customers and depressed our scores," "The market was down," or "The weather was bad."). The creativity that should be going toward finding innovative ways to wow customers often finds a different and more dangerous outlet.

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Incentives Metrics Sample Survey 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

We can't resist including another 11 posts, a hard-to-agree-upon sampling of the ideas we were proudest to publish and discussions we most enjoyed hosting this year. Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma. What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well.

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Blog Silverman Govindarajan Letter 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

For the go-to-market segment, representing employees in sales and marketing functions, we found that top performers spent an average of 25 hours in their email and calendar per week, nearly 14 hours a week in internal collaboration, and about 12 hours a week in external collaboration.

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Influence Market Segmentation Software Comparison 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Over the past two years, we’ve convened health care leaders at roundtables and other events to discuss the challenges and opportunities they face, both inside their organization and from the external market. More than three-quarters said they are on a good path to successfully compete in their local markets.

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Health Care Management Disruptive Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

” Purpose is on the agenda of the World Economic Forum in Davos, and discussed by celebrity CEOs like Richard Branson of Virgin Group, who has said , “It’s always been my objective to create businesses with a defined Purpose beyond just making money.” We hear more and more that organizations must have a “purpose.”

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Company Middle Management Survey Analysis 8

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

Corporate Culture ‘The single greatest tool in any leader’s toolkit is culture,” Mike Harper, former chairman and CEO of ConAgra, explained to me during an interview at his home. The culture can also take shape around how the organization differentiates itself from others or how it innovates. If so, how?

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Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 78

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

To find out if this is the case, a good place to start is with what I call the True Value Test : Take a representative sample of your organization''s priority target customers. Such organizations send mixed messages to the market, muddying their value proposition. Communication Marketing Strategy' Lead with Issues.

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Bottom-up Press Release Sample Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

On the other hand, most large sample studies in the accounting literature show something different: firms that manage their earnings perform better than firms that don’t (and not just in the short term). Meanwhile, I had a lot friends and colleagues saying, “The capital markets are a huge problem.” A couple of things.

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Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

While I’m a big proponent of innovating with social media strategies, the days of the Wild West are – in a word -- over. 28% of CEOs say social business is vital to their organizations. – During the next five years, CEOs expect social media to rise to the second-most important way businesses connect with customers. – About Mark.

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Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. We wanted to explore whether the diversity of CEOs’ networks might affect their firms. These connections had to be at least senior managers or higher positions to be considered.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

‘The single greatest tool in any leader’s toolkit is culture,” Mike Harper, former chairman and CEO of ConAgra, explained to me during an interview at his home. The culture can also take shape around how the organization differentiates itself from others or how it innovates. Leadership Innovation (Work different).

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Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

If you want to remain relevant and advance your career in today's global marketplace, you need to serve as an enabler of business growth and innovation. Their stories are just some of the many examples of immigrants who've seized opportunities and brought them to market. Anticipate the Unexpected. Born to Greek parents, Peter M.

Career 15

Career GDP Crisis Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

innovation system. This is despite the fact that many well-known CEOs of American companies are immigrants, such as Elon Musk (Tesla), Sergey Brin (Google), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), and Dara Khosrowshahi (Expedia and Uber). jennifer maravillas for hbr. The remaining were 139,748 were from other ethnicities.

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Execution Training Education Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This work builds on earlier research into CEO qualifications.).

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Behavioral science research tell us that households, small business owners, and CEOs of multinationals alike are prone to overweight recent adverse events, follow the decisions of their peers , compartmentalize risks , and engage in many other behaviors that economists have traditionally considered peculiar.

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Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

We all know the stereotypes: Great CEOs are extroverted. Which traits actually differentiate CEOs from other executives? And, most important, which attributes separate successful CEOs from other CEOs? There is a great deal of conjecture and mythology about CEOs and the attributes that define their success.

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CEO Retail Class Charan 8

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.

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Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2018

Machine learning is increasingly being used to predict individuals’ attitudes, behaviors, and preferences across an array of applications — from personalized marketing to precision medicine. Sampling bias may produce models trained on data that is not fully representative of future cases. This is generally a good practice.

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Sample Project Self-aware Training 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Data science can enable wholly new and innovative capabilities that can completely differentiate a company. But those innovative capabilities aren’t so much designed or envisioned as they are discovered and revealed through curiosity-driven tinkering by the data scientists. ” a marketer might ask.

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Learning-by-Doing Engineering Metrics Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

To set about answering that question, we ran a semantic clustering analysis on a sample of articles from HBR's archives over the course of several periods between 1990 and 2010 (the time period when the HBR online archive is the most complete). It is much more dominated by the CEO, the board, the senior executives.

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Analysis Sample Globalization Sports 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Just 41% of FOB directors said their boards had an effective CEO succession planning process (vs. Perhaps the most telling finding, however, was that 63% of FOB directors said CEO succession was not discussed regularly at the board level. Succession. 56% of non-FOB directors). The good news is this can be fixed. Methodology.

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FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Instead, according to new research from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI), the fundamental issue is the health care industry’s failure to develop a nuanced understanding of, and commitment to, women as consumers and decision makers. Women account for a significant chunk of the market.

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Health Care Industry First-mover Advantage Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

Recruiters say that today’s job market is increasingly candidate-driven, for one thing. Executives all the way up to CEO Chuck Robbins participated; Robbins posed in a photo with a young employee holding a sign that reads, “#IChoseCisco because…the CEO supports innovative ideas — even from interns!”

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