Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The realities of globalization, with increasing emphasis on emerging markets, present corporate leaders with enormous challenges in developing the leaders required to run global organizations. They hire technical specialists, local experts, and country managers from emerging markets but rarely promote them to corporate positions.

Globalization 15

Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

At the same time, we’re also seeing the decentralization of power production. While regulatory policy, implementation, and rollout may differ from country to country, decentralization typically encompasses three phases. During this second phase, grid operators frequently have to intervene to keep the electricity grid in balance.

Energy 10

Energy Decentralization Industry Power 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. For our study, we collected data on 512 strategic initiatives, both centralized and decentralized, launched by 48 leading U.S.

Company 8

Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, this technology is designed to be decentralized, with “layers,” where each layer is defined by an interoperable open protocol on top of which companies, as well as individuals, can build products and services. Unfortunately, the exuberance of fintech investors is way ahead of the development of the technology.

Banking 20

Banking Media Decentralization Technology 20

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. But after the Great Recession of 2007-2009, when developed economies effectively froze in place, their appetites only sharpened. Of course, everyone knows that conducting business in some of these markets can be risky. Crime exacts a toll.

Marketing 8

Marketing Company Compliance Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” This initiative will soon connect all 1.3

Company 11

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Already a large domestic market, Frontier Strategy Group’s estimates suggest the country will average growth rates between 7.4% However, India remains a difficult market for multinational firms to enter. India is a large, fragmented, and heterogeneous market. over the next three years. Cultural variations are important.

Strategy 8

Strategy Operations Policies Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations. The firm’s leaders, convinced the U.S.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? Would Gerber own today's V8?

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. According to Amazon’s leadership principles, leaders are instructed to “ hire and develop the best ” and “insist on the highest standards.”

Price 13

Price Decentralization Long-term Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. Decentralize and empower global R&D units. in close partnership with the University of Warwick.

Globalization 10

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 10

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. Leading organizations and teams to respond using the best tactical approach will determine if the organization can really deploy the needed projected force with the ability to move freely by means of sufficient sustainability for prolonged operations. By Damian D. shifting results.

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CEO Succession Tips How To 340

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Drawing on our findings, we have developed a framework that breaks the Corporate Innovation Unit’s (CIU) role into seven distinct tasks. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level. How centralized is the Innovation Unit? Let’s examine each archetype separately.

Innovation 10

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.” Each of these GM divisions focused on its own day-to-day operations with each division general manager responsible for the division’s profit and loss. auto market.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

Organizations I work with increasingly struggle to straddle two painfully polarizing operating principles. This conflict uncomfortably transcends traditional “centralization/decentralization” debates. But the managerial and operational ability to act on that data-driven information may not.

RACI 8

RACI Agility Brand Management Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. These companies can’t ignore sustainability. ” The Challenges.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

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. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Charan has turned his attention to these organization dynamics in response to CEOs recognizing that technology, operations, access to financial capital, and even strategic positioning statements are less differentiating than their organization’s ability to respond to opportunities. that enable organizations to win over time.

Charan 10

Charan Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Decentralization 10

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes, those concrete instructions and processes will not work. When your culture is strong, people seem to genuinely enjoy their work and the people they work with; they tend to do their work well and on time.

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Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 78

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

The simple digitization of existing insurance processes (allowing quotes to go straight through processing, for example, and rapid product configuration) could yield strong improvement to operating profit margins. Their operating model and governance are suited to the organization’s digital maturity, size and capability levels.

Insurance 8

Insurance Company Maturity Decentralization 8

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes those concrete instructions and processes will not work. When your culture is strong, people seem to genuinely enjoy their work and the people they work with; they tend to do their work well and on time.

Positioning 60

Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 60

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. Leading energy companies are investing in decentralized energy grids, demonstrating the broad feasibility of such approaches.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

As the two markets homogenized into a general mass American market, focused mail-order retailers like Sears and Montgomery Ward saw sales and profits drop. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. Instead of decentralizing R&D, recentralize it. One of the changes we learned outside CEOs make is decentralizing R&D. Thus the further out the fruits of R&D, the less likely operating divisions are to conduct it. MirageC/Getty Images.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

We argue that, like previous revolutionary ideas, blockchain has the potential to help developing nations leapfrog more-developed economies. This in turn boosted development by allowing relatively poor farmers to reliably send and receive payments at affordable rates, fostering economic growth by lowering transaction costs.

Marketing 8

Marketing Technology Banking Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

This decentralization and relative freedom of access has led to some unexpected consequences: Because anyone can read and write transactions, bitcoin transactions have fueled black market trading. Likewise, nodes may be required to maintain a certain number of connections to be considered active.

Consensus 10

Consensus Decentralization System Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position? This is a book for the times we live in—and one that for many companies could mean the difference between success and failure.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Those of you familiar with this blog know that I’m generally a strong marketing advocate. That said, my typical pro-marketing position assumes that certain key fundamentals are in place to insure that the lunatics don’t somehow become in charge of the asylum.

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Blog Marketing Succession Brand 286

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.

Document 11

Document Decentralization Banking Insurance 11

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2023

” The Matthew Effect Indeed, far from technology being found to disrupt incumbent operators, the data suggests that investments in digital technology are largely ensuring that dominant incumbents can entrench their strong market position and fight off any upstarts. first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

Creativity 110

Creativity Innovation Trends Information Technology 110

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. The case of Svenska Handelsbanken is illustrative. Its return on equity has surpassed that of its European peers every year since 1971. In the organization of 12,000 associates, there are only three levels.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The old cliché in marketing is true: Customers don’t want a quarter-inch drill. They’ve developed a system of military leadership called mission command , an alternative to rigid systems of leadership that specify in great detail what troops should do in battle. This was a hugely important marketing and sales goal.

Project 8

Project Management Uncertainty Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Palma Cay is Alegre's newest flagship hotel, and I think I can make it work with lower prices to the key travel agencies, tour operators, and online portals. In fact, we barely have a marketing budget at the corporate level. He smiled, extended a hand, and kissed both her cheeks. Palma Cay's first month," he said. How is it going?".

Case Study 10

Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Tech experts' sage predictions had convinced me that the Mac would never make a dent in the PC market. Decentralization. Identifying even small successes out of a larger operational failure can be the most important way to improve performance in the future. Remember when Apple's stock traded at $7 a share?

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

of the votes were in favor, providing a strong signal that climate change is an important financial risk and that shareholders want to know more about what companies are doing to transform their operations and products to remain competitive in a low-carbon world.

Tips 8

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization 8

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

Certainly, these folks have the skill to develop a major corporation, after all that is precisely how we came to know their names. One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. GE is known for its diversity and ability to function competitively in many markets. Single market.

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Succession Welch Leadership Diversity 113