Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. In fact, bad breaks and bad feelings create the most powerful incentives to become smarter and stronger. Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. It is made possible with a quality that we spend a lifetime acquiring: self-awareness. There's a better way.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 24, 2020

Because there’s a rush to find the unique, disruptive, unheard of technology before somebody else does, some innovators dive headfirst into an idea, planning to take on the large corporations in their marketplace without a clear path to success. Secure financing. We also knew from this experience that there was room for something more.

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HR Digest

MARCH 9, 2020

Kaplan Professionals, an HR firm that assesses, designs and implements innovative learning solutions, conducted a three-year extended Situational Judgement Assessments of 4,500 employees at global tech firms and identified five key workplace findings. Teams that have interdepartmental interactions do better. “In

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

There is a tremendous amount of conflicting data as to whether or not incentive compensation in any form is an effective motivation tool. In today’s post I’ll take a look at the well intentioned but often misguided practice of year-end bonuses… Here’s a question – do bonuses work? I Think Not.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 20, 2019

As the terrible devastation of the Amazon rainforest has once again taken center stage, discussions have focused on how such important areas of biodiversity can be preserved, while at the same time local communities supported in their economic development. An anthropocentric model whereby population density is also added to the mix.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Whether paid work or a volunteer role within a church, placing people in positions where they can maximize their strengths, know that they are truly valued and that they play a significant role in fulfilling the vision will go a long way towards preventing burn out and loosing incentive. Great interview Mike! I Think Not.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Development of core business supplier relationships. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Business development.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. After extensive assessment, they settled on two initiatives: realigning incentives for employees and systematically introducing outside talent and practices. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Solyndra's example has been particularly stark: it raised over $1 billion in equity finance in addition to receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, all prior to a cancelled IPO and the recent FBI investigation upon its bankruptcy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Banks have developed fortress balance sheets, improving credit quality by 54 percent, increasing net income and, restoring aggregate lending to pre-crisis levels of nearly $7 trillion. But, to follow Swensen's reasoning, the incentives are all wrong. It drives hard work, innovation, and the success of the capitalist system.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise. Then came sales forces, finance departments, and R&D labs—including the original labs of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. jennifer maravillas for hbr.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. While lean production has almost nothing to do with video production, the clear message was that genuinely lean enterprise craved innovation that made their suppliers more innovative.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. It is this type of issue that pollutes our culture, stifles innovation, undermines our productivity, and sentences those who embrace politically correct thinking to mediocrity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Some companies could get a jumpstart in their industry in organizing partnerships and even positioning themselves as leaders in sustainable development using the goals as a branding anchor. Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals will improve the environment for doing business and building markets. The case is clear.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Initially when the start-up''s founder, serial entrepreneur Elon Musk, looked at the space industry, he faced a quandary about where to innovate, given the restrictions and mandatory performance criteria for space travel. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction. They think big.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Because patients regularly change insurers, any individual insurer has less incentive to commit to investing in an expensive, high-value treatment if the return on investment could end up accruing to a competitor. In the last half decade, however, several new HCV treatments have been developed with cure rates exceeding 90%.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

In order to support corporate hackers like Atis and Windham and foster internal innovation, companies need to identify these individuals and understand what makes them tick. She found partners, attracted financing, and cultivated a community of internal supporters. Atis created a rich ecosystem around her idea. The prize?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Several trends should be disturbing to hospital administrators, including the development of free standing, low-cost “neighborhood” hospitals. Developed by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health, Hospital at Home has been tested in multiple markets throughout the United States and is working.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

We should not take our eye off the really important ball: economic growth and the innovation process that underpins it. A significant part of innovation and almost all of commercialization is driven by profit incentives and relies on a system of protection for the intellectual property rights of innovators and entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Case in point is Wal-Mart CEO, Lee Scott, who is so concerned with diversity mandates that Wal-Mart officers are held financially accountable by tying officer incentive bonuses to achieving diversity goals. This is a leadership issue in which diversity, and the awareness of it, will play a key role in the development of future leaders.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The UK’s Department for International Development uses “results-based” aid to improve the educational outcomes of young girls in Africa and Asia. And providers want the flexibility to deliver outcomes in the best, most innovative, and most efficient way possible without being micromanaged by the customer.

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Health Care Incentives Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

In our recent HBR article " The Performance Frontier: Innovating for a Sustainable Strategy ," we argue that typically there are tradeoffs between financial and nonfinancial (e.g., This is in direct contrast to "financial innovation" that focuses on only one dimension of performance, putting the others at risk.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

But the emerging challenge of reducing risk exposure for coastal residents creates new opportunities for firms that can innovate and provide new solutions. If it’s expensive to insure a house on the coast, individuals will have an incentive to live elsewhere. Where Would You Rather Live?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The time changed, markets evolved, competition became even harsh, and marketplaces required more innovative ways to make money than the mere commissions. From entertainment to finance, grocery, vegetables, electronics, home furnishing, and cloud services, Amazon is the best example to understand the rapidly evolving face of the Retail 4.0

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

This becomes more likely as the organization takes on strategic risk — through innovation, mergers and acquisitions, or because its environment is becoming more volatile. To support a change in strategy from efficiency-driven to innovation-driven growth, the company acquired another company to be its innovation engine.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. Top-tier thinkers from data science, business, finance, and the digital world are coming together to find new solutions. Entrepreneurship Health Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. Innovation Leadership Strategy' And short-term numbers at that.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Startup accelerators support early-stage, growth-driven companies through education, mentorship, and financing. The accelerator experience is a process of intense, rapid, and immersive education aimed at accelerating the life cycle of young innovative companies, compressing years’ worth of learning-by-doing into just a few months.

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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.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. Equally troublesome, almost all policies focus exclusively on payments and finances but ignore the powerful influence of careerism and other non-financial motives that may compromise objectivity far more than financial incentives. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. of what George Mason University’s Adam Thierer calls “ permissionless innovation.” Pending agency action, commercial uses for drones were effectively banned.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Because it is extremely difficult to define a priori what an entrepreneur is and is not, pro-entrepreneur incentives will inevitably create a direct or indirect cost for those entrepreneurs who don''t happen to fall into government''s typically limiting definition. Taxes per se do not hinder entrepreneurship. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

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