Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Developing a culture of caring within your organization to engage your employees is vital to the strategy to drive success to your business. But what they don’t realize is that they are damaging the business by failing to develop staff. Now she writes about business and finance and finds her work-life balance far more enjoyable.

Motivation 59

Motivation Environment Servant Leader Competitive Advantage 59

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The controversial action — Britain's Institute of Directors warned of " anti-business hysteria " while Prime Minister David Cameron declared it "the right decision" — invites exactly the sort of "best practice" debate serious business leaders should have about honest compensation and perverse incentives.

Incentives 14

Incentives Committee Banking Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Over the last thirty years, the lean approach — developed by Japanese automakers — has permeated the manufacturing sector in developed countries, but is much less commonly used in the developing world. Locke of Brown University.

Lean Manufacturing 8

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

And yet from a review of the research on incentives and motivation, it is wholly unclear why such a large proportion of these executives’ compensation packages would need to be variable. Most top managers need to be innovative and creative, open to learning about change, and developing new solutions for non-routine problems.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

We believe that CEOs need a partner for innovation inside their companies, someone who will create and defend processes, incentives, and metrics that encourage radical ideas and find new areas for growth. The CE is responsible for developing new business models and value propositions for the company’s future growth.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. It also called on investors to work to better align investor and venture capitalist incentives. Much of the venture capital industry seems stuck in the feathers-and-wings stage of theory development.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. A focus on the huge need for additional investment and potential difficulties in financing it dominate the debate. There is every incentive to be smarter about tackling our infrastructure problems.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Until some dramatic development galvanizes people to act, they sit on the shelf. A very different result may be possible, however, as more states and localities authorize the construction of roads that are privately owned and financed, or even sell off existing roads and other infrastructure in order to relieve their own budgetary pressures.

Politics 8

Politics Health Care Budgeting Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Such performance-insensitive pay packages seem to defy both common sense and established economic theory on optimal incentives. This sweeping development known as “common ownership” – the same firms owning the competing firms in the same industry – is relatively new. It’s not just the incentive package.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

If it’s expensive to insure a house on the coast, individuals will have an incentive to live elsewhere. If insurers offer a discount for climate-proofing homes, homeowners will likewise have an incentive to make that investment. with the construction of flood walls around Hoboken, New Jersey, and Norfolk, Virginia.

Insurance 9

Insurance Real Estate Industry Bond 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. It also called on investors to work to better align investor and venture capitalist incentives. Much of the venture capital industry seems stuck in the feathers-and-wings stage of theory development.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example.

CEO 11

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao Paolo, Lagos, New Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta, and many others. As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This has always been accomplished best through community activism, social norms, private enterprise, proper incentives aligned to reinforce the correct behavior, and the like. " even though the private sector's construction efforts are light years ahead of the government's ideas.

Politics 77

Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The group of companies held intensive discussions with stakeholders and experts to develop a collective understanding of the challenge and potential solutions. The vision resonated with government leaders, who were seeking a constructive way to work with the private sector to attract new investment and technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Decentralization Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

That should help more tightly align incentives to provide original content with more returns in visibility and money. Thus, the whole mechanism depends on the development of a norm of cooperation among publishers, just as similar norms have developed in academia. Thats the theory, but there are some issues with Googles plan.

Guidelines 15

Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

But while measuring the increase in short-term pressures and identifying perverse incentives is fairly straightforward, assessing the ultimate impact of corporate short-termism on company performance and macroeconomic growth is highly complex. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. rate for other companies.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. They therefore have little incentive to overcome these hurdles. We've recently seen a more robust cross-functional construct emerge, one with an overarching organizational structure, based on building and maintaining a distinctive capability.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8