Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

It’s a risky strategy that can leave startup CEOs in mis-aligned partnerships with unrealistic expectations. They can also run into trouble syndicating later rounds of financing if other VC firms see that they are losing partners, or suspect that they are a “zombie” firm, unable to raise a subsequent fund.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Entrepreneur Rate of Return Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. Top management told store managers and staff to honor requests and obey directives from their new “colleagues”; the resentment and resistance were palpable.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

It’s tempting, therefore, to view the CEO as primarily a thinker ; someone who mulls and shapes strategy. But the best CEOs know that strategy is just theory unless it’s actually translated into frontline routines―unless the rest of the company actually is executing the strategy.

CEO 8

CEO Class Chief Executive Officer Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I'm so curious it's embarrassing, when I visit a house and I pass a bookcase in the hall I cannot resist scanning their shelves to the point of rudeness to see if there's a good book in there which I haven't read yet. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? Thanks for stopping by Slava.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. is reinforcing its defensive strategy by pursuing the Trans-Pacific Partnership , a 12-nation trade pact, without China. resistance to the AIIB is founded on rational principles. And once again, the U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Organizations have a strong sense of their own value and an unswerving commitment to high quality care but little appreciation of others’ worth in their local, regional, or national systems. Health care is not the only industry that is resistant to change. This failure to work together across a system continually exercises me.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The finance sector has also been active in responding on all five occasions. The amicus brief signed by nearly 100 companies submitted in the court battle over President Trump’s travel ban set in motion what has become a safety-in-numbers strategy. But tech isn’t the only sector speaking out.

CEO 8

CEO Travel Letter Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Millennial men are often portrayed as more enlightened, but data complicates this picture: Surveys have shown that younger men may be even less committed to equality than their elders. Even for couples who are committed to equality, it takes two exceptional people to navigate tricky dual-career waters. Sound artificial?

Career 7

Career Long-term Resistance Survey 7