Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Despite studies showing that succession is an essential part of strategic planning, many companies ignore leadership development to focus on more immediate challenges. But your organization’s future success depends on identifying and developing the next generation of its leaders. For example, when a U.S. For example, when a U.S.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

One of Rochet’s first tasks was to create a leadership development program that equipped executives with the knowledge, mindset, and ways of working the company would need to grow in the digital age. “Personal experience makes me a more effective marketer.” ” Give Employees Direct Access to Consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Based on this research, I have developed a three-phase model that shows how companies can move beyond rhetoric and take ownership of sustainability. Psychological ownership refers to feelings of possessiveness and connection that we develop toward an appealing object such as a person, company, or even an idea.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Fostering entrepreneurship has become a core component of economic development in cities and countries around the world. The predominant metaphor for fostering entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy is the “entrepreneurship ecosystem.” Offering financial incentives (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Manufacturers are frustrated by the need for large, complex, and lengthy clinical-development programs that often hinge on meeting a single endpoint in one pivotal clinical trial. As a result, the cost to bring a drug to market has been estimated to be well over $1 billion — and it may be much higher.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

Just as professional development doesn't inherently require pain, pain's presence doesn't necessarily signal personal progress. Industrial designers at one global consumer electronics giant, for example, were in agony because a new marketing leadership demanded they spend more time listening to and observing customers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

Consider the following situations: A large insurance company developed a new suite of products to meet unique customer needs. But as the products were rolled out, it became clear that the product development and marketing teams had not worked closely enough with the IT and customer service teams that were supposed to support these products.

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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. At an entrepreneurship ecosystems workshop I ran in St.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

” Consider these examples: During a workshop organized by Omidyar Network and Legatum for finalists of Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship a few years ago, an eastern African founder explained how losing staff after training has become so cyclical that he decided to hold off expansion plans. I observed their interests.

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