Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

I know firsthand how challenging it can be to take a holistic approach, especially when your organization is in crisis. When Paul Polman became the CEO of Unilever, for example, he stopped giving analysts earnings guidance, dispensed with quarterly profit reports, and said there’d be no special treatment for hedge funds.

Metrics 8

Metrics Long-term Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Her team had found ingenious ways to shave costs and innovative ways to add value for the client. Failure is sometimes lauded as a key to successful innovation, but it takes a psychic toll on the manager. A major contract, one that her firm had spent months preparing for, had gone to a competitor. She had worked hard on it.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Hedge Video Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. ” Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits, and raise the dividend. Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Yet if we want to understand and fix the Greek crisis, we must look at its structural causes, not just its symptoms. For all the party’s talk of “social justice” and “solidarity,” only €200 million has been granted to cope with Greece’s human crisis, and it has still not been fully disbursed.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

In times of change, businesses have to adapt and innovate. This was apparent in the role the big investment banks played in bringing on the 2007/2008 financial crisis: were they advisers? hedge funds? This fluidity isn't a bad thing. And vampire squid are by all appearances harmless little beasts , unless you're a prawn.).

PR 9

PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

But must employees, investors, and other constituents accept harmful employment cultures in fast-growth organizations until a crisis occurs? But this focus on a single element of the HR value proposition can perpetuate a crisis. This is a laudable response. Are these acceptable growing pains? In one word: No.

Compliance 12

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

While the global financial meltdown and its aftershocks have unleashed a flood of indignation, condemnation, and protest upon Wall Street, the crisis has exposed a deeper distrust and implacable resentment of capitalism itself. How could we embed social goals into an organization's innovation agenda and processes?

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term Ethics Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

I see, instead of food and education "industries," an obesity epidemic and a debt-driven education crisis. Yesterday, pundits and talking heads believed this crisis was just a garden-variety, workaday crash. See the difference? Opulence is Donald Trump. Eudaimonia is the Declaration of Independence. Becoming, not just being.

GDP 21

GDP Hamel Industry Construction 21