Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

General Electric and HCL Technologies provide a good counter example. GE is known for its diversity and ability to function competitively in many markets. At HCL Technologies, and India-based IT company, the corporate culture springs at least partly from a broader Asian idea of cooperative action. Many-market organization.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

.” – Marketing staff, technology/telecom company. ” – Marketing manager, technology/telecom company. ” – Marketing manager, technology/telecom company. Trying to make every player happy results in an end product… that is watered down and less effective.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment. And they count on well-intentioned, smart people sitting in a committee to decide which ideas are worth pursuing. As the head of the U.S.

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Process Innovation Incubator Committee 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Robert Pozen knows a little something about thriving at the top — he’s the former chairman of MFS Investment Management, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, and the author of the book Extreme Productivity. What are the most pressing productivity issues executives are facing today, and how can they tackle them?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

New products are, of course, the province of R&D teams or research partners. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee. Mattes, who had previously led major divisions at Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, and other technology-laden companies.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

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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? to answer that question.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Traditionally, antitrust regulation has looked for whether a merger increased or decreased competition in a particular market. In the case of Baker Hughes and Halliburton’s planned merger a few years ago, the Justice Department detailed how it thought the amount of competition would rise or fall (mostly fall) in 30 market segments.

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Company Supply Chain Cooper Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

report that the Republican National Committee released last week. It could well be that a charismatic candidate who appealed to minorities, made better use of campaign technology, and embraced some modest policy changes (mainly on immigration and gay marriage) could sweep Republicans back into the White House. Lafley and Roger L.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. But what about the more strategic risk areas, such as those related to emerging market entry or acquisition growth strategies? Most have done a great job of containing their financial reporting and compliance risks.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

As a tax counsel for the Senate Finance Committee, I (Dean) listened to many speeches from members on both sides of the aisle in praise of the R&D tax credit, because it would help grow and support those two entrepreneurs in a garage with the new idea.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

While security executives have a reputation for stymieing operations and product development with the burdens of technical operations, their role is actually to enable business. Make sure that security is included in discussions on new products and services. Focus as much on culture as technology.

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CAPEX Chief Financial Officer How To Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Over ensuing decades, the company expanded into an ever-more-bewildering array of product categories. Often entering new categories through acquisition, at one point it made rubber boots and tires; telephone and power cables; even household products like toilet paper (I’ve seen them myself).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

A large part of NAF’s effort with farmers is to help break their initial emotional barriers to new technologies. The success of these measures has had a demonstrative impact on the farmers’ willingness to adopt and internalize new technologies. This has provided the platform to launch into other initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

The rationale is simple and elegant: A company with experience selling pharmaceutical products should be able to successfully and profitably sell its large customers (health plans, delivery systems, and governments) other health care offerings. Regulatory environment. In addition, many top pharma customers (payers, etc.) Revise regulations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Firms who buy up vast swaths of dubious patents and then use them to squeeze settlements out of deep-pocketed (or not) technology companies and their customers troll the federal courtrooms of the Eastern District of Texas, notorious for its excessive jury awards to plaintiffs. That’s an increasingly serious problem.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

In the case of a retailer we studied, data and analytics were part of a difficult battle for market share. This information on product returns, warranties, and customer complaints contained a wealth of information on consumer habits and preferences. Ignore Costly Market Data and Rely on Google Instead? BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Establish Benchmarks Make it a point to define industry and market benchmarks to compare your organization’s compensation practices. If our equitable compensation program guide is to be trusted, you need to identify relevant external benchmarks to understand prevailing salary ranges for similar roles in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products. Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. So for a compensation committee to justify a new metric, it needs to have a strong business case.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Apple's Chiefs Discuss Strategy, Market Share — and the new iPhones Bloomberg Businessweek "Is taking the high road truly a sustainable strategy, or does it merely delay the inevitable?" Does a unit of market share matter if it''s not being used?" Still Delicious? But Cook and his team have no interest in a race to the bottom. "We''ve

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

It is usually technical or sales/marketing in nature. Outside of 'think tanks' for company executive committees, full-scope education does not occur. Generally, they are vendors who sell 'off the shelf' products that target small niches within the organization. They embrace technology, rather than ideas and concepts.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. These ethical questions arise in the whole range of corporate activity from technology and manufacturing to marketing and sales. This is the essence of corporate citizenship.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

But when product markets are big and the rate of change in the industry is high, capital markets are unforgiving. James Stewart reports the astonishing news that no one on the board beyond the 4-person CEO search committee even interviewed Apotheker before hiring him. So HP's share price tanked and Apotheker was let go.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

The company was led — as it had been for decades — by a corporate executive committee (CEC) of the top 11 officers of the company who ran the businesses and the corporate functions. That council of barons was replaced by teams for strategy, technology, and operations whose members included the next generation of operating leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

If you can reinforce that focus in every decision you make — from mergers & acquisitions to new product launch to budgeting or cutting costs — it can help you win market share, generate sustainable growth, or even turn around a decline. Are we focused strategically on markets where we can compete effectively?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

As a tax counsel for the Senate Finance Committee, I (Dean) listened to many speeches from members on both sides of the aisle in praise of the R&D tax credit, because it would help grow and support those two entrepreneurs in a garage with the new idea.

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Stage-Gate Committee Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The result is a lot of innovation programs that can build fantastic concept cars, but have a tough time getting production vehicles onto the road. What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? Here are six ways to change that.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

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. Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

While it’s common in most for-profit and nonprofit businesses for centers of revenue generation to fluctuate in their productivity, a shift of this scale represents a sea change for the health care sector that it must face head-on. This means that to a significant degree historic areas of revenue generation will become generators of losses.

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Health Care Committee Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Imports among the world’s 20 largest economies have fallen as a share of their gross domestic product for four consecutive years. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988. at the forefront.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. IT isn''t somebody else''s job, it''s ultimately theirs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

The world is full of examples: "At IBM , we strive to lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, storage systems and microelectronics. Is it any wonder Apple's market cap has left IBM's in the dust? Cancel my Ambien prescription.

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Mission Statement Public Relations Commitment Committee 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

Urban physics has the power to transform workspaces to reflect companies’ true ethos and values, to instill a sense of belonging in employees, and to encourage productivity, engagement, and overall happiness. Consider these ways to think more like an urban physicist in your next office steering committee meeting: Generate more data.

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Conference CRM Creativity Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. Similarly, Amazon doesn't succeed because its people apply broad marketing expertise. Imagine trying to use the objective of being "innovative" as a criterion for the multitude of investments a company must make around product launches and R&D.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

While business markets are obviously different from societies in many ways, they share more things in common, especially in today's networked world. Many companies, dipping their toes into social media and Web marketing, try to engage with bloggers who've built up audiences and exert influence over their buying decisions.

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How To Chief Technology Officer Audience Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

What if concentrated market power of a few companies in an industry has made these companies more profitable than usual? I have worked on research that has found that a strong company culture is associated with lower levels of myopic decision making, better productivity, and innovation. Are all share repurchases myopic?

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