Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. This is purely about executing within an existing and stable operating model.

Budgeting 12

Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital. At the other end of the size spectrum, Walmart has committed to investing $2.7

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

In phase three, PE firms are not simply holding companies waiting to dispose of the property, nor are they operating companies seeking to integrate their acquisitions into an existing business. Though autonomous, they can improve their operating capabilities and speed up their time to reinvention by learning from each other.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. When the U.S.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

After repurposing many of the original structures and facades, the district is now evolving into a retail, restaurant, arts, and culture destination, a forum for local events, a flexible work space for businesses, and a residential area, all while evolving its manufacturing with 21 st century operations.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

In the decades that followed Kodak established a dominant position in the lucrative film business, with its "you push a button, we do the rest" slogan demonstrating its commitment to making photography accessible to the masses. Its rise to prominence began when it launched its affordable Brownie camera in 1900. Don't go it alone.

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 12, 2020

Employees operating at moderate to high levels of Performance Readiness ® for most of the tasks that constitute their contribution “move to the right.” For example, there can be any number of things that happen in an employee’s personal life that adversely impacts their work-related confidence, commitment or motivation.

Incubator 64

Incubator Situational Leadership Uncertainty Energy 64

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Leadership Early Adopters Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

The major benefit of slow innovation is prescience; if you’re patient and committed, slow-innovation projects could alert you to an idea, trend, or gap in the market that would have otherwise appeared to “happen overnight.” You’re there to be a catalyst. Start small.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Teach For America (TFA), founded in 1989 with the goal to eliminate educational inequity in the United States, has placed more than 24,000 high-achieving college graduates in some of America's neediest schools, building a cadre of young, committed, and enthusiastic classroom teachers.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. This framework has the potential to reverse the typical role of CSR, currently viewed as a way to "give back" to communities that a business operates in.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Second, we are incubating new software talent and [creating] software DNA. An ingrained industrial mindset keeps things “within the yellow lines,” focused on controlling operations or managing safety. To get these two cultures to work together, first we had a strong commitment from the top, from CEO Jeff Immelt.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. If you remove the barriers, then you don''t need to incentivize entrepreneurs to commit their natural act. Even better. Not" is not a typo.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

Companies need to institutionalize innovation rather than expect it to simply flow forth from intrapreneurs operating within existing structures. To start, innovation must be recognized as a permanent function of a successful company, just like other business functions such as accounting, operations, sales, and finance.

Incubator 8

Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

In essence, OneLeap runs something like an accelerated competition and incubator inside the company. The prototype was very light, but explained the concept using a mockup of the fully functional product, and tested varying levels of commitment through signups, a basic diagnostic, and social shares.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

The company is, of course, a massive enterprise, with $75 billion in revenues, over 60,000 employees, and a dizzying array of products, from the core search business to the android operating system to nascent businesses like autonomous cars. A fierce commitment to research. A fierce commitment to research. An internal incubator.

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8