Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. Research & development Financial management' So what was going on?

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Managers clearly have to respond to regain investors' trust. In the final analysis, managers can't shun corporate owners. BL: A misconception: Dealing with funds providers is part and parcel of running the company. As I show in my book, successful managers, like those engineering the turnarounds at IBM and Deere and Co.,

Short-term 12

Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. Rising demand will lead young people to enter the field and the ensuing investment in new skills and human capital will lower the cost of future adaptation efforts. What will this adaptation look like? I trust the invisible hand.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. And yet no provision was made to cover the cost of the inevitable failures. Innovation Project management' All of this is right, as far as it goes. That’s how you invest in growth.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Discounted Cash Flow Parcell Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Yet, according to Donald Sull’s research in the March issue of HBR, almost half of top executives cannot connect the dots between their company’s strategic priorities; and two out of three middle managers say they simply do not understand their strategic direction. You can accomplish the same thing with waitlists.

Strategy 8

Strategy Balanced Scorecard Sull Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." The truth is that Gradgrind would make a terrible manager. How do we put the right number of people in the right roles without reducing headcount to reduce costs? Take Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times. He's "[a] man of facts and calculations.

Metrics 13

Metrics Parcell Call Center Productivity 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

” According to Der Standard , an Austrian newspaper , mailing a parcel from Munich to Salzburg (distance: 145km; 90 miles) costs many times more than mailing it from Munich to Berlin (distance: 585km; 364 miles). If things look bad for goods moving across borders electronically, they look even worse for transporting content.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

Growing up, he’d constantly tailed Grant around the fields, watching him experiment with crops and technologies that would help the farm survive dry spells. A 25-year lease to put solar panels on a parcel of land would generate the same returns as growing tomatoes—without any irrigation headaches. Pete looked at his watch.

Case Study 8

Case Study Parcell Price Cost 8