Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Beijing-based telecom security company NQ Mobile has gone so far as to create a separate headquarters in Texas for its developed-market business, managed by an American co-CEO and entirely comprised of American employees.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Does your organization have a data analytics manager yet? A sustainability manager? In the absence of formal structures, managers in the new roles scout for social and environmental initiatives that enhance the organization’s reputation, but they can put forward only a very limited range of sustainability initiatives.

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Positioning Company Succession Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Similarly, directors of power companies need to understand how advances in energy storage and information technology will accelerate development of micro-grids and the decentralization of the electric grid. Boards are not the only ones under pressure.

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Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. Another CEO used prodigious management skills to successfully consolidate, grow, and dramatically increase the efficiency of a vertically integrated industrial company. I have seen this manifest itself three ways.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Insightfully, the United Nations is aiming to change this, with UN Sustainable Development Goal #16 , Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions, aiming to “provide legal identity to all, including birth registration, by 2030.” They are more exposed to corruption and crime, including people trafficking and slavery. Related Video.

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Document Decentralization Banking Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

He argues that it’s the rare CHRO who can serve as a strategic leader for the CEO and also manage the internal concerns of the organization. When HR professionals bring unique insights about talent, leadership, and capability to the senior management dialogue, they add enormous value. This is both unfair and simplistic.

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Charan Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Banks have developed smartphone apps to enable instant deposits and other forms of self-service—both delighting customers and also allowing branch staff to concentrate less on routine transactions and more on providing the higher-touch personal services their best customers value. Those stories might come from mundane, everyday service.

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Loyalty Decentralization Sample Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. When Satoshi later developed an interest in video games, he saw a way to recreate his childhood experience of catching and collecting elusive creatures. It is formed at conception and does not change.

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How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.”

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Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Other than the well-documented differences in language and development, demographic differences are also significant. Policies relating to infrastructure development, land and labor, healthcare, and transport fall under the purview of the states—as do most licensing and permitting. Cultural variations are important.

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Strategy Operations Policies Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Though not yet confirmed, Zika is suspected of causing microcephaly — babies born with small heads and abnormal brain development — and paralysis in adults. This approach would benefit from the accelerated development of easy-to-use, point-of-care diagnostics for Zika.

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Crisis Decentralization System Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. To help develop a cleantech industry, the government should spend its money on fully incubated business models that have proven the ability to create a profit and that have demonstrated sustainable competitive advantage.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

Finally, in 1954, Kenneth Arrow, at Stanford, and Gerard Debreu, at the Cowles Commission at Yale, developed the canonical "general-equilibrium" model , for which they later won the Nobel Prize. General-equilibrium theory, as it developed in the 1960s and 1970s, suggests that economies are more like fighter jets.

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Crisis Decentralization Marketing Engineering 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. While management often espouses the notion that good ideas can come from everywhere, in practice there are "thinkers" who create strategies and designated "doers" who execute those strategies. What could you do together?

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. In the last few years especially we have seen this through our Talent Pipeline Management (TPM) initiative.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

with the only outcomes being failed initiatives and splintered management teams. Lastly, don’t decentralize marketing…consistent messaging across markets, mediums and constituencies is critical. Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion.

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