Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

These ICOs are nearly always held when a project is at an immature stage of development akin to a seed stage startup — when it is testing hypotheses around its consumer value proposition and forming a founding team. This focused attention from developers has the added benefit of crowdsourcing feedback on the beta version of the project.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

While there is universal agreement that (1) it exists, and (2) that it plays a crucial role in shaping behavior in organizations, there is little consensus on what organizational culture actually is, never mind how it influences behavior and whether it is something leaders can change. Culture is powerfully shaped by incentives.

Incentives 8

Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

This is achieved through a clever combination of economic incentives and cryptography, and ensures that at any point in time, digital records reflect the true “consensus” among the key stakeholders involved. There are other parallel examples. And blockchain is perfectly positioned to define them.

Advertising 8

Advertising Technology Consensus Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

Setting aside social, political, and moral reasons for encouraging a more diverse workplace, there is arguably no better incentive for promoting diversity than the premise that diverse teams and organizations are more creative. Jennifer Maravillas for HBR. But is there actually any evidence in support of this idea?

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Diversity Creativity Analysis Consensus 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. A pioneer in health IT developed his innovation, later sold to Microsoft, as an emergency department physician, going around the hospital's IT department to produce technology so useful that it spread throughout the hospital and beyond.

Health Care 15

Health Care Innovation Pharmaceuticals Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Does being a physician inform leadership through a shared understanding about the motivations and incentives of other clinicians? In-house programs have been developed in many healthcare institutions (including Virginia Mason, Hartford Healthcare, the University of Kentucky, etc.), Taheri sends around 40 medical faculty annually.

Management 14

Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

If body weight were truly a major productivity or cost issue for working-age people, thinner developed countries would be enjoying greater economic growth than more obese countries (it’s actually the other way around), and foreign employers would not be locating plants in states with the highest obesity rates.

Human Resources 9

Human Resources Guidelines Morale Insurance 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Fostering entrepreneurship has become a core component of economic development in cities and countries around the world. The predominant metaphor for fostering entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy is the “entrepreneurship ecosystem.” Offering financial incentives (e.g.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

But what this conclusion neglects entirely is the incentive value of profit. Smart businesspeople are well aware that a deceptive firm will quickly develop a bad reputation and lose repeat and future business. What processes led to the development and delivery of a given product or service?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

And, if a company with both products and services is developing a solution, the product groups may believe they need to be completely agnostic about what products to recommend – if another company’s product is a better fit for the client, so be it. You recommend developing a common process for resolving these conflicts.

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Project Consensus Learning-by-Doing Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. Effective risk management requires business leaders to attend to these nonmarket threats and to develop nonmarket strategies.

Politics 9

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Microsoft, according to a former company executive , had developed a viable tablet computer more than a decade ago but failed to pre-empt Apple's smash hit because competing Microsoft divisions had conspired to kill the project. The alternative problem is that collaboration sometimes goes too far. The result is slow and poor execution.

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CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Companies invested significant resources in pushing for high public policy ambition in agreeing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. The aim should be to reach solutions that address the problem and have consensus backing, rather than making sure your own interests prevail regardless of the impact on others.

Globalization 9

Globalization Policies Supply Chain CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

There is a growing sense that so-called lean start-up techniques — developing a minimal viable product, learning in the marketplace, and pivoting based on market feedback — can help to unleash this potential. That''s not right.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Develop an inclusive vision of high growth entrepreneurship. Boston's Mayor Menino and his staff developed and have repeated hundreds of times the mantra of the Innovation District: "Live, work, play." We'll give architects and developers the challenge to experiment with new designs, new floor plans, and new materials.

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Innovation Real Estate Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Aspiring leaders of professional service firms must build and sustain consensus among their colleagues, make trade-offs between competing interest groups, and offer incentives to individuals to lend their support. Consulting Leadership Leadership development' There is much talk of “the electorate,” “constituents,” and “mandates.”

Politics 8

Politics Pharmaceuticals Consultative Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

But here's the bottom line: there is little oversight or quality control even with webinars that count toward professional development requirements, or ones for which the participant or his organization have paid a fee. How can webinar developers engage viewers? Provide incentives for participants to demonstrate their mastery.

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Webinar Participative Content Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

A further sign of disempowerment: more than three quarters of respondents indicated that front-line employees were either “never” or only “occasionally” involved in the design and development of major change initiatives. As you ponder that question, we should note that there was one area of consensus.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Survey Politics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Consider that when there are 500 of us in some setting all pursuing our own agendas, it's very difficult to get a consensus on anything. Oligopoly permits mutual understanding to develop, and then, because that understanding supports premium profits, the players have an incentive to maintain the oligopoly. except sometimes).

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A 2015 Institute of Medicine report, “Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress,” demonstrates broad consensus that measuring the quality of people’s health and the care they receive is critical to improving performance of the health care system and patients’ health outcomes.

Health Care 8

Health Care Report Sports Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Now consider a host of other conflicts: from interdepartmental turf wars, to poorly designed agreements between hospital systems and insurance providers, to the difficulties encountered in aligning hospital goals and incentives with those of contracted physician groups. What role might they play in the plan’s implementation?

Strategy 8

Strategy Health Care Compliance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

And finally, the blockchain spreadsheet has a mechanism—referred to as a consensus algorithm—that determines what is placed in the spreadsheet by mutual agreement among its users. This provides a high level of confidence that the data hasn’t been tampered with. Third, the spreadsheet is shared among multiple parties.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content Power Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

If you can make the downsides of his conflict-avoidant behavior evident, he may be incented to change. But Fred was also indecisive and often looked to the team to make key decisions by consensus. Step into his shoes and try to understand what he really cares about. Point to direct evidence, such as a team member’s disengagement. “He

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Case Study Resources Long-term CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

There is sort of a consensus that what we need to do is lower the corporate tax rate. Ideally, with a lower marginal rate, companies would have more incentive to bring it home, but you need to have some kind of program in place as well. That will make a contribution marginally, in my view. trade policy. Where do they sit now?

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Price Aggregate Demand Proposal Policies 8

Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 9, 2016

And after all that research and with all the different clashing views, the general consensus to this finding is that this generation of young people is unlike anything we’ve seen before. You’ll walk away with: What you really need to know to develop your millennial talent. Team Dynamics. Step 2: Providing A Clear Purpose.

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