HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

A conversation with Peter Fasolo about the value of transformational growth and innovation – and how to help it unfold. Such a degree of corporate socialization can also stifle innovation and overall cognitive diversity. How do you keep your people open to transformational growth and innovation?

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Innovation Diversity Human Resources Committee 96

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. Not so fast. The case of Apple is an instructive, if extreme, example.

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Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Your energy and track record of successfully launching high-impact initiatives scored you a plum role heading up innovation. Expectations are high, but some skeptics in the organization feel that innovation is an overhyped buzzword that doesn’t justify being a separate function. Congratulations!

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Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

So, during GE’s long and steep decline, where was the company’s board of directors? The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. These are the types of mistakes that an effective finance committee should have been able to prevent.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

A conversation with Peter Fasolo about the value of transformational growth and innovation – and how to help it unfold. Such a degree of corporate socialization can also stifle innovation and overall cognitive diversity. How do you keep your people open to transformational growth and innovation?

Innovation 40

Innovation Diversity Human Resources Committee 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. As I said earlier, measuring a company’s short-term orientation is incredibly tricky. What would better measures be?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. Most plans have fewer than six: one or two financial metrics, such as sales growth or earnings per share, and two or three nonfinancial metrics, in areas such as quality or innovation.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

But from an economic perspective, that cost is being born almost entirely by the one bright spot in the American economy: the technology sector. But underlying this revolution is something else, which is just as critical as the technology itself: trust. technology firms. technology firms? and the EU.

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Safe Harbor Industry Committee Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Every company needs infrastructure – roads, bridges, ports – and every company benefits from the new technologies made possible by basic scientific research. Starting around 1980, however, shifts in technology, geopolitics, and governance changed the game. Every company benefits from an educated populace.

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Resources Company Rivkin Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The core project team, which meets bimonthly, comprises clinical (RN, PA, physician), administrative, research, and quality representatives from plastic and oral surgery, as well as representatives from otolaryngology, and information technology. Invest time and resources. To date, that investment has largely been in IT development.

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Health Care Mayo Long-term Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee. Patience and a long-term view. Palmisano warned against prioritizing shareholders or other constituents, calling this "a false choice," and explaining that "Long-term management is a serious challenge in a world driven by short-term thinking.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey.

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Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Do any of us really believe that changing the composition of a few board committees, or recruiting a few more independent directors, would have allowed HP to maintain its status as one of the most prosperous organizations ever to rise from Silicon Valley? Which leads to my second big thought about the current HP news.

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Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

So the chiefs of strategy and technology formed a unique circle of peers — 18 diverse members from across the organization whose task over the next six months was to ask and answer what they felt were the most pressing strategic questions facing the company.

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Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. The bigger the playing field, the more trust, familiarity, and rapport count.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Bank of America convenes a local committee of bank leaders in each of its 45 Neighborhood Builders markets then uses a short application and lots of on-the-ground research to select two awardees per community per year. It focuses on both long-term investment and continuous improvement. It is both local and national.

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Case Study Banking Participative Training 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

I’d like to share the features of our innovative planning process, with an eye toward helping other institutions adopt the elements that will work for them. Because the technology specs and operational logistics were finalized collaboratively early on, change orders were about half the typical number for a project of this size.

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Health Care Construction Planning Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

It has sophisticated functions that together manage user-generated content, the in-depth tracking of consumer buying behavior, and the innovation of new features based on the resulting insights. Similarly, Amazon doesn't succeed because its people apply broad marketing expertise. They therefore have little incentive to overcome these hurdles.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

If we're thinking about our country and society, what kind of outcomes are we comfortable with, in terms of wealth and income distribution? As I said in my original post, the great sweep of business and innovation has increased the power of the individual and the small team over the lumbering her. It's great stuff.

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IPO Engineering Taylorism Taylor 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Long-awaited bulk shipments of medical gloves can arrive full of holes, unusable. To help understand a woman’s preferences and challenges, Merck for Mothers has begun to incorporate focus groups and community advisory committees in our work. Pursue scientific innovation. What has been achieved?

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Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals). A few examples: Dow put forth 2025 targets “to help redefine the role of business in society,” which aim to deliver breakthrough innovations and help build the circular economy. In the U.S., in the first six months of 2015, 70% was renewable.

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

All too soon, however, the demands of managing the near-term business take over. He pared back the product portfolio to those that fit with P&G's well-established capabilities system: world-class branding, global sales and merchandising, and rapid technological innovation, all for particular types of life-enhancing consumer products.

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Merchandising Budgeting Pharmaceuticals CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Here''s a very strange thing: Europe''s decades-long effort to reduce carbon emissions has been thrown into a shambles because utilities and manufacturers are exceeding their carbon-reduction targets. Markets fundamentally don''t work when they are "long" — that is, flooded with things no one wants. That''s right. Exceeding them.

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Price Energy Politics Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

In terms of the capability to listen to, watch and keep tabs on what its citizens are doing, the East German government could not possibly have dreamed of achieving what the United States government has managed to put in place today. Technology, on the other hand, makes it much easier. But the technology alone isn''t the problem.

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Film Information Technology Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

In the long-version explanation of the prizes published by the Nobel committee last fall, Campbell was cited more often than anybody else, apart from the three winners. 2 is this distinction between short-term vs. long-term predictability. So that’s problem No. Problem No. He didn’t want a behavioral explanation.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Before I go any further, today’s rant should not be construed as a call for elitism, but rather a call for authenticity, innovation and professionalism. As leadership advisors and coaches we counsel our clients on the need for change and innovation, but have we become the proverbial shoe maker without shoes?

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