Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

The book traces back to Christensen's 2010 Harvard Business Review article , which was based on a speech he gave to that year's graduating Harvard Business School class. These concepts will be explained in more detail in a fall Harvard Business Review article written by my colleagues Matt Eyring, Clark Gilbert, and Dick Foster.).

Christensen 12

Christensen Company Consensus Gilbert 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Leaders of public companies often cite the pressure to meet or beat consensus earnings estimates as justification for a focus on the short term. Technology Review). But McKinsey's analysis of hundreds of large U.S. companies over the last seven years shows those fears are unfounded. "In in the ensuing five days.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Consensus Management Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

When you join an organization, you have a short window of time to adapt to its culture. For example, a decision to invest in a new product might ultimately rest in the hands of two pivotal individuals even when there is an entire senior leadership team reviewing the decision. Luciano Lozano/Getty Images. It’s the old 90-day rule.

Company 12

Company Consensus Influence Information 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

To hear long-term investors tell it, company executives have embraced short-term thinking like never before. Two obvious pieces of evidence: The use of earnings for share buybacks that cost more than they’re worth, and dividend increases that divert cash from long-term investment.

Long-term 8

Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

About three-fourths of short-term acute-care hospitals lost money treating Medicare patients in 2016, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent agency established to advise the U.S. Kaiser Permanente has been a leader in this evidence-based technology-review process for more than two decades.

Cost 8

Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions.

Process 15

Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

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. This expert consensus is incompatible with our subjects’ view of profit as almost necessarily coming at the expense of others. What does this mean to people running businesses?

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The European Central Bank (ECB) is probably the only institution that has the power to do so in the short term. Draghi needs to create consensus among the German "hawks" who worry about the inflationary risks of debt monetization and the moral hazards of letting profligate governments off the hook.

Crisis 14

Crisis Consensus Banking Short-term 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”). Any change to the network rules requires coordination and consensus among all of the stakeholders.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Consensus Resistance Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

The situation improved recently with the accounting recognition of a stock option expense, which clarified to directors that options are not costless, and with the general lengthening of the options' vesting period (incenting long-term orientation). enhance long term growth and at the same time meet quarterly expectations.

Short-term 11

Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 11

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

MARCH 7, 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”). Consensus Protocols and Access Permissions in Public vs. Private Blockchains.

Consensus 8

Consensus Decentralization System Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Vision incorporates the long-term, if not permanent, purpose and principles of an organization, which serve as the north star for all its actions. As strategy is becoming more fluid — more like software that needs constant upgrading — two alternative concepts are emerging: vision and improvisation.

Agility 8

Agility Strategy Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

A CEO we’ve worked with – let’s call him “Gary” – prides himself on being a collaborative leader who invests in consensus and builds relationships. ” Initially, team members may enjoy feeling included, heard, and valued, boosting morale in the short term.

CEO 8

CEO Consensus Kaplan Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2017

We found that directors are 15% more likely to leave boards (by avoiding reelection after the typical three-year board term) when those firms are downgraded by influential equity analysts, and they are 29% more likely to leave when they are criticized in the media. The results from our paper suggest two areas for further investigation.

Reputation 8

Reputation Media Consensus Long-term 8

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 team tasked with overseeing the effort designed an aggressive implementation plan that tied targets to manager compensation.

Execution 10

Execution Strategy Decentralization Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Going forward, I hope that the current experiment in consensus building among the two major parties will succeed and will serve as a prototype for coalition governments in Greece in the future. Second, by the end of January 2012, it must obtain further installments of the remaining 120 billion Euros of the bailout packages.

Crisis 13

Crisis GDP Consensus Politics 13

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. Rigorous assessment of results.

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Incentives Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

AGI has found that an effective way to force tough tradeoff decisions is to focus on an urgent and defined timeline—one that is long enough to get something meaningful done but short enough to demand disciplined attention. The AGI team focused Johnson-Sirleaf’s Cabinet on developing a 150-day plan.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy GDP Short-term Long-term 8

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.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Despite a Broadway-styled launch held in Radio City Music Hall , the new product received somewhat mixed reviews. 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.

Brand 8

Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 8

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 #4: Maintain a Firm Hand.

Short-term 8

Short-term Diversity Tips Long-term 8

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.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Insurance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Yet having the two teams work in perfect harmony and reach an easy consensus on every decision is a pipedream, and in fact, is not the best answer either. Marketers think in terms of aggregate customer segments; sellers think in terms of individual customers. Some tension between sales and marketing is healthy and productive.

Marketing 8

Marketing Market Segmentation Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

The performance engine is bigger, is the center of power, and can justify resources based on short term financial results. Autocratic decision-making fails to engage all of the critical stakeholders, while consensus sinks every decision to its lowest possible common denominator. An inspiring, shared vision of the future.

Critical Success Factor 15

Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2015

This blast of nostalgia, while great in the short term, illuminates a problematic phenomenon. What they’re often missing these days is a partnership with less prominent authors they cultivate over the long term, enabling them to be far more successful than they could on their own. Become a full partner with authors.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Audience Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

When Alan Greenspan , Paul Krugman , and Niall Ferguson all agree on something, it’s a sign that the consensus is either very right — or very wrong. The consensus view seems to be that the UK is now more likely to stay in the European Union. The UK’s future in the EU is uncertain. I hope that this is right.

Consensus 8

Consensus Globalization Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Ultimately, long-term legitimacy, reputation, and license to operate are at stake. 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 8

Globalization Policies Supply Chain CEO 8

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.

Globalization 14

Globalization Class Consensus Outsourcing 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Evaluative terms like these serve as the bases for some consensus about what constitutes greatness. Corporate managers will always worry about results—and especially short-term results. Alternatively, leadership may be perceived as unpleasant, phony, inept, unfocused, and pedestrian.

Short-term 15

Short-term Wilde Consensus Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

As we saw again this quarter, earnings announcements can have significant impacts on stock valuations—at least over the short term. It's a question that has defied consensus, with valid arguments on both sides of the issue. First, let's review the case for guidance.

CFO 10

CFO Metrics Price Depreciation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

So creating organizational learning in the new platform is far more important than seeing a big impact in the short run. See More Videos > See More Videos > We suggest taking a portfolio approach to AI projects: a mix of projects that might generate quick wins and long-term projects focused on transforming end-to-end workflow.

Insurance 8

Insurance Video Project Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

Leadership is often defined in terms of opposites — autocratic vs. democratic, task-oriented vs. people-oriented, short-term vs. long-term. Let''s take Thatcher''s story as a case study: Margaret Thatcher was, as HBR senior editor David Champion put it , a fighter.

Short-term 8

Short-term Politics Long-term Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

The first major adaptation is the adoption of corporate goals that go beyond short-term gain for shareholders and attend to the longer-term interests of all stakeholders. In particular, we see two major adaptations that are needed — and one enduring advantage that will become even more important.

Politics 8

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

It tackles both long-term and short-term sustainability challenges. Given those science-based plans, Ford is investing in the long-term — the sexy, new EV market that everyone is going after — and rolling out a series of efficiency technologies in the existing, combustion-engine fleet.

Strategy 15

Strategy PPM Long-term Short-term 15

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.

Company 8

Company McKinsey Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

In 1986, one of us (Takeuchi) and coauthor Ikujiro Nonaka published an article in Harvard Business Review called “The New New Product Development Game.” One came from a Bell Labs article on the Borland Quattro Pro team , suggesting that short daily team meetings increased group productivity dramatically.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8