Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Every person in the company matters to its success. Bandleaders on the late-night are vital #3 characters on the show, including Doc Severinsen, Skitch Henderson, Paul Shaffer and The Roots band. Therefore, our loyalty to the company rises, and we are more productive. Further, they transform the company to greater plateaus.

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Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2020

A conversation with Harvard Business School professor Rebecca Henderson on how companies and governments need to work together to fix what they’ve broken.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 22, 2013

This free webinar from the Rocket Company will help. Jeff Henderson will talk about his actual sermon prep routine. It’s called How to Rapidly Grow Your Church this year and it’s happening this Thursday, January 24 at 1pm EST. Here are nine quick reasons you should sign up now.

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Henderson Webinar Finance Conference 36

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger. The people lucky enough to work at these companies are doing relatively well. But the rise of big companies — and the resulting concentration of industries, profits, and wages — goes well beyond tech firms and is about far more than antitrust policy.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Roundtable Talk

MARCH 10, 2011

Guest panellists David Anderson (The Anderson Governance Group), Sharon Ranson (The Ranson Group) and Holly Henderson (Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation) shared their best tips and here’s a roundup for those who weren’t able to snag one of our limited seats. . And fees for directorships in smaller corporations in quite nominal.

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Henderson How To Committee Tactics 40

Roundtable Talk

MAY 12, 2010

One of the highlights came from keynote speaker, Harvard Business School professor Rebecca Henderson, who spoke to us on the subject of organizations being stuck , and how they can get un-stuck. She told of company after company where the list of active projects outnumbered people to lead them. This really rang so true to me.

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Project Henderson Blog Godin 31

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

The new conventional wisdom on corporate structure is that companies can do better by organizing themselves around customer groups. The logic sounds compelling: A customer-centric structure , as the approach is known, can help a company understand its customers better, develop deeper relationships with them, and improve customer satisfaction.

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Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Here’s a conundrum: On the one hand, there’s a consensus among thoughtful business leaders that too many companies are sacrificing long-term growth on the altar of smooth, reliable short-term earnings. I spoke with Professor Henderson about their research. And in the case of a company on the edge, that might be all right.

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Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The discussion with Michael Toffel and Rebecca Henderson of Harvard Business School, Tensie Whelan of NYU’s Stern School of Business, and Andrew Winston of Winston Eco-Strategies has been condensed and edited for clarity. I think most executives have no idea of the impact — for good or ill — of their companies.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Many companies, big and small, are examining their own commitments to sustainability in light of America’s shift. Short-term rewards too often take precedence over the longer-term interests and viability of a company. They will help us answer questions like: How does sustainability fit into a company’s strategy?

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2009, for instance, GM removed its CEO , Fritz Henderson, because he was not enough of a change agent. According to one study , the median tenure for CEOs at large-cap companies is five years. ” More often, leaders are too slow to act or unwilling to get on board as a change effort gets underway.

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Henderson Career CEO Execution 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Christensen’s initial work was done during the 1990s when a group of scholars, many at Harvard Business School, were studying why established companies, like Polaroid or DEC, struggled to adapt to technological change despite ample resources, talented engineers, and admired leaders.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

It’s the fourth-most valuable M&A deal of a venture backed e-commerce company. So why did a traditional consumer products company do a deal that feels more like it belongs in the tech sector than the consumer product industry? At the very minimum, the company would be sending a confusing signal to its shareholders.

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Business Model Retail Brand Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

At least this is the argument put forth by Heidi Moore, who supports it with an HBS working paper by Susan Helper and Rebecca Henderson. GM play-acted, magnificently, at resilience," Moore writes, with the government and the public complicit, all while the company continued to make cars that killed people. "GM

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Henderson Armstrong Industry Media 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

Back in the early 1960s, the great Boston Consulting Group founder and strategy theorist Bruce Henderson asserted that there was only one way to successfully compete: gain a relative market share advantage over all competitors so as to have lower costs than all of them. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. Theoretical Appeal.

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Competitive Advantage Porter Henderson Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

When these forces are weak, as in software and soft drinks, many companies are profitable. When they are strong, as in the airline and hotel industries, almost no company earns an attractive return on investment. ” So too would transformation strategies based on reconsidering your company or your industry’s value chain.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

The bottom line, of course, is that the companies merged in an attempt to solve a couple of major problems: the growth of digital advertising that bypasses agencies’ traditional role in placing content and, secondarily, an ongoing succession conundrum at Publicis (Maurice Lévy, who heads the company, is 71).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2012

So you have to be creative about demonstrating the value you'll bring to the company," she says. Anastasia Henderson* had a year left on her contract with a San Francisco-based tech company when her manager asked if she would consider a salaried job. Then she sought the advice of the company's CIO, Ted*. "I

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COO How To Proposal Henderson 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

We’ve spoken to leaders who express such a vision — and companies such as Amazon and Alibaba are already beginning to make it a reality. As BCG’s founder, Bruce Henderson, once stated , “The first definition of a problem is inescapably intuitive. The initial set of questions must always come from human beings.

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Back to Hirschman: When the management of a corporation deteriorates, the first reaction of the best-informed stockholders is to look around for the stock of better-managed companies. And with a massive new biography of Hirschman coming out this spring, maybe we're due for a think-for-ourselves Hirschman revival. (By Book report to come.).

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