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. HBR: What got you interested in what impact short-term earnings management has on long-term performance?

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Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. These issues are referred to as strategic alignment and employee engagement.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

We are often asked whether the best way to structure for innovation is top-down or bottom-up. Bottom-up approaches work well for incremental (keeps you in the game) innovations. Breakthrough (changes the game) innovations, contrary to popular belief, need a top-down approach. The answer is both, but it depends.

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Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Your organization won't innovate productively unless some underlying factors are in good shape. A compelling case for innovation. Unless people understand why innovation is necessary, it always loses to core business or the performance engine in the battle for resources.

Critical Success Factor 15

Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Remember just a decade ago when the term "inner city" basically meant "dead city," conjuring up images of destruction, dereliction and despair? Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection. Develop an inclusive vision of high growth entrepreneurship.

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Innovation Real Estate Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. One came from a Bell Labs article on the Borland Quattro Pro team , suggesting that short daily team meetings increased group productivity dramatically. Of course, Sutherland and Schwaber weren’t alone in their search for innovative methods.

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Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

Through a decade of innovation-training work with global leaders (and in researching my new book, Why Simple Wins ), I’ve identified the unique mindset possessed by leaders who succeed in simplification. Leaders who are driving simplification must lay aside the need to seek consensus.

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Short-term Efficiency Brand System 260

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Once a team has reached, or appears to have reached, a consensus, it can be very hard for any individual to challenge the group’s interpretation of reality or predictions about the future — or to push back on what the group plans to do (or not do) — without running the risk of being perceived as a heretic or becoming a scapegoat.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2016

Research we conducted at the Center for Talent Innovation reveals a remarkable correlation between inclusive leadership, innovative output, and market growth. At Standard Chartered, for example, the insights of one Indian female banker translated into innovation that boosted net sales at two branches by 127% and 75% within two years.

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Diversity Globalization Case Study Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Paul, a diverse set of stakeholders from economic development, philanthropy, business, government, and community development came together to reach consensus on more than 50 indicators of economic, social, and environmental progress that will guide their regional strategy.

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Industry Policies Consensus Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

There was a consensus that CSR focuses more on boosting employee morale than addressing the way a company engages with society’s concerns. This means CSR initiatives tend to be short-lived, dependent as they are on the whims of senior executives rather than the value they deliver. Engage radically.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

The hybrid Prius was a legitimate business home run (2 million sold), and it helped both differentiate Toyota's brand as the market innovator and propel Toyota to unprecedented profits. It tackles both long-term and short-term sustainability challenges. For years, Toyota has been the darling of the green business world.

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Strategy PPM Long-term Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

They will fail not because AI is all hype, but because companies are approaching AI-driven innovation incorrectly. So creating organizational learning in the new platform is far more important than seeing a big impact in the short run. They will not be transformational, but they will help build consensus on the potential of AI.

Insurance 9

Insurance Video Project Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

Furthermore, the delivery of extraordinary short-term results provided credibility to the ABU, giving it legitimacy and encouraging other business lines to explore the analytics potential to deliver profits and overcome hurdles.

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Incentives Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

In terms of sales volume, product line diversity, operating system flexibility, R&D spending, and even customer loyalty , Samsung has emerged as a fierce competitor that has bested former industry champions like Nokia and Apple. How then can a new front-runner better manage market expectations and also strive to be more innovative?

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Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2016

This is called soapboxing , a term stemming from an era when a person would literally stand on a soapbox crate as a stage and scream to the world that he or she knew the right way — the only way — to do anything. A question is an invitation for consensus. How about the bullhorn-blaring corner preacher?

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How To Proposal Consensus Self-aware 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

The HERO report is a self-described “consensus” document, representing “countless hours of research and discussions by more than 60 members of both organizations and many outside experts.” We previously wrote a detailed critique of the report.). Other recent data points are consistent with these case studies.

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Health Care ROI Case Study Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us. All this represents a considerable turn away from anything resembling a Washington Consensus and towards a more highly managed system favoring preferential terms for developing countries and redistribution over competition and efficiency.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

It’s what we call “listening softer&# in asset-based thinking terms. However, I am extremely grateful for the knowledge I have gained in the short period of time. In situations where consensus cannot be reached, they have an uncanny ability to cut to the chase and make informed decisions. Happy New Year.

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In short, they provide little insight into the task of value creation. But anti-profit beliefs are short-sighted. Doing so entails operating more efficiently or innovating to create products that consumers value more. What does this mean to people running businesses?

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. The questions represent a short version of the survey I use with my students. Sociologists use the term density to describe this property of networks: it quantifies the percentage of people who know each other in a network. Find out how he thinks about leadership and innovation. The list goes on.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

These conversations highlighted some attitudes and values that seemed to go a long way toward explaining Silicon Valley’s innovation identity. The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. Here are the ones that struck us most: Lace audacity with grit. Build platforms, not products.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. Vision incorporates the long-term, if not permanent, purpose and principles of an organization, which serve as the north star for all its actions.

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Agility Strategy Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

However, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , Christopher Meyer and Julia Kirby , and other thoughtful commentators have noted that the intent to maximize shareholder value has resulted in myopic management overly obsessed with short-term financial returns. Short-term profits. Customer satisfaction. Environmental impact.

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Christensen Company Consensus Gilbert 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2012

In The Innovator's Guide to Growth we suggested that companies should create one-page "Idea Resumes" that capture the essence of an idea on a single PowerPoint slide. If you don't have an innovation strategy , go and create one.). A small decision-making team can come to consensus about the right plans to take forward.

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Company Net Present Value How To Proposal 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Once a transaction is entered in the database and the accounts are updated, the records cannot be altered, because they’re linked to every transaction record that came before them (hence the term “chain”). The blockchain is truly an innovative approach to governance for networks and machines.

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Decentralization Consensus Resistance Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

On Tuesday, Amazon.com reported third-quarter earnings that fell far short of Wall Street's expectations. Its earnings were down 73% from the quarter a year earlier and it missed the analysts' consensus estimate of $0.24 Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The international political consensus of the universal economic benefits of globalization that defined much of the 20th and early 21st centuries is breaking down. In short, the tide of globalization washing across boundaries for so long has reached a peak and is receding. Now, who would have guessed that would be the case in 1999?

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Globalization Class Consensus Outsourcing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

There is strong bipartisan consensus that our current level of health care spending does not deliver sufficient value in terms of individual or population health. This lack of clinical nuance in cost sharing levels may reduce short-term medical expenditures through reduced utilization. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Cost Health Care Insurance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

The outcomes will only work in the long term if both sides combine their expertise into a rich body of shared experience and understanding. Once you''ve reached consensus on which idea to activate, it is critical to push the pause button and honestly assess whether your organization is able to execute the chosen solution.

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Govindarajan Long-term Short-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2018

To be fair, agreeing is usually easier than confronting someone, at least in the short run. “Conflict allows the team to come to terms with difficult situations, to synthesize diverse perspectives, and to make sure solutions are well thought-out,” says Liane Davey, cofounder of 3COze Inc.

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Diversity Learning-by-Doing Project Team 14

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It has a lower cost-per-lead-acquisition than paid traffic when viewed over the long-term (2+ years). Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. In short, everything that can make you the most helpful and inviting business partner possible! It grows sales. There's that q-word again.) (3)

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

It should come as no surprise, however, that as any innovative idea spreads, so do the misconceptions and mythology. If we’re to prevent the enthusiasm for entrepreneurial ecosystems from also fizzling out, we need to get a better grip on what the term really means. Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation'

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Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

However, beyond the strategic goal of becoming an industry leader in terms of cost structure, there was no “story” for how this effort would complement the business’s broader ambitions. The company defined a new growth strategy that would require a significant improvement in its ability to innovate rapidly.

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Execution Strategy Decentralization Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

If you’re among this group of more traditional leaders – or know someone who is – how do you rewrite the rulebook to get exceptional long-term performance from teams without feeling as though collaboration means conceding the reins? Tip #2: Engage Peripheral Talent. Tip #3: Lead from the Front. Ready to give it a go?

Short-term 8

Short-term Diversity Tips Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

The story suggests Amazon places immense importance on defining team players not as people who go along with the group’s consensus, or who support the status quo, but instead as those who add new ideas and perspectives. In short, Amazon discourages conformity and combats groupthink. Disruptive thinking is welcome.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Consensus Short-term Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Part of what’s been driving more ambitious corporate action on innovation to address social and environment challenges is increased pressure and higher expectations from the rest of society that business should play a role in helping sort out contemporary global challenges.

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Globalization Policies Supply Chain CEO 9