Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

and respond to chemical signals allows these relatively simple creatures to form such complex units. This is the basis behind Intuit’s practice of putting new product ideas on the Internet before they are developed, as a way to test whether there is a market. Organizations, of course, are not composed of ants.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Adaptable systems make multiple copies of everything and modify the copies to hedge against uncertainty. He has turned commodity parts into a proprietary service, just as nature turns the massive redundancy of just four DNA bases into a dazzling array of unique ways to deal with risk and uncertainty. Redundancy.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

It’s a cliché to say that the world is more uncertain than ever before, but few realize just how much uncertainty has increased over the past 50 years. Although uncertainty is accelerating, it isn’t affecting all industries the same way. The more unknowns there are about customer preferences, the greater the demand uncertainty.

Uncertainty 22

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Faced with this uncertainty, most investors have chosen one of three options. Investors might have a geographic focus: they may care more about developed or developing economies, or a particular country or community. Ultimately, asset managers can develop a matrix with financial asset classes (e.g., Type of impact.

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Adjusting to new economic realities as well as political and economic uncertainties will require making their supply chains much more resilient. All this adds up to an unprecedented level of uncertainty about trade policies and their effect. It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies. presidential election.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

However, the region has long been volatile and unpredictable (from coups and sharp changes in government policies, to currency shortages, to terrorism and large-scale population displacements), so operating under uncertainty is not new. Many companies are assessing their exposure to specific policy decisions (e.g., if the U.S.

Depreciation 9

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

With the support of chemical companies , more than 170 countries also agreed to phase out HFCs , the high global-warming-potential chemicals used in air-conditioners and refrigerators everywhere. and the world, or what the corporate sustainability agenda will look like with so much uncertainty?

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8