Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

Retooling HR makes organization leaders smarter by applying their existing sophistication about finance, engineering, operations and marketing to HR and talent decisions. The right question is not whether its time to split HR, but rather why are leaders so much less sophisticated about talent than about financial capital?

Charan 13

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Corporations commit the LeBron-on-ice fallacy all the time. But a range of research has shown how successful entrepreneurs generally act differently from successful operators.*. But he wouldn't necessarily be world-class. It starts innocently. But I urge companies to consider three things. Look for the aliens.

Sports 13

Sports Christensen Innovation Class 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

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. They wind up maintaining course without appropriately considering emerging risks, debating alternative scenarios, or exploring new courses of action.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Alternatively, if you’re committed to founding a company immediately, pick an area of specialization up front and craft your job to emphasize that domain.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You could tell by the language he used: "So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very different cost structures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.". The answer to both questions is yes.

Strategy 10

Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate. No longer is the organization relying on gut instinct and a shared sense of purpose around delivering product value; instead, most large organizations rely on process controls to standardize operations.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. Today AWS accounts for just 10% of Amazon’s $150 billion in revenue, but generates close to $1 billion in quarterly operating profit. The Transformation 10 Judges Chris Chadwick , former CEO of Boeing Defense.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15