The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Pre-covid, innovation folk would talk about the value a “burning platform” plays in driving lasting change, and for many businesses, this has been just such a burning platform. Tuck Business School’s Vijay Govindarajan underlines how important our ability to forget is to innovation. Unnecessary hurdles.

Innovation 97

Innovation Govindarajan Short-term Banking 97

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. Yet they have already generated tens of millions of dollars in value for Roivant.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. Not so fast. The case of Apple is an instructive, if extreme, example.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

In terms of the real world of building businesses and creating value, basically, HFTs don’t matter. Clayton Christensen and Derek van Bever dig in on this topic , and they identify a number of reasons companies are being pressured to act with an increasing short-term focus. Economy Finance' The final destination?

Finance 10

Finance Short-term Long-term Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

These entrepreneurs typically have an engineering background, and schools that support this approach have strong engineering departments. The bricoleur is a French term for the person who employs such construction methods—in short, a handyman or jack-of-all-trades. How Digital Business Models Are Changing.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. IBM has 15 enterprise processes that cut across business units and geographies in such areas as sales, marketing, software development, procurement, HR, finance, client-facing IT services, and internal IT support.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Managers often think about their careers in terms of winning and losing. Or those who find themselves on the short end in the latest reorganization or merger selection? With a background in both strategy and finance, Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known consumer products company. Here’s a case example.

Career 10

Career Examples Supply Chain CFO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

But like the terms "strategy" and "business model," the word "entrepreneurship" is elastic. Entrepreneurs often perceive a short window of opportunity. For example, a new venture might employ a new business model for an innovative product. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms.

Definition 10

Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 10

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. A good pitcher can describe an idea enthusiastically in three sentences.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

A lot of research has already been done on the significant contribution of immigrant scientists and engineers to the U.S. innovation system. In short, we need to better understand the contributions immigrants make as leaders in corporate America, as well as the paths they take to get there. jennifer maravillas for hbr.

Execution 9

Execution Training Education Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game. This philosophy has started to take its toll.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

That''s fine for short bursts of communication, but would you trust a more complex discussion to the software? The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. Try thinking about this in terms of your own global business efforts. Translation software?

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method. .”

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

We may be able to in the short run, but not when our final stories are written. One way I have thought about these issues is in terms of one's calling. Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. I don't think we can separate the two. I Think Not.

Blog 387

Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow.

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Data science can enable wholly new and innovative capabilities that can completely differentiate a company. But those innovative capabilities aren’t so much designed or envisioned as they are discovered and revealed through curiosity-driven tinkering by the data scientists. Sounds great, right? – in order to get more focus.

Learning-by-Doing 10

Learning-by-Doing Engineering Metrics Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. See More Videos > See More Videos > To elaborate, a company’s intrinsic equity value reflects the long-term cash flows that shareholders expect to receive over time, discounted at the appropriate risk-adjusted cost of equity capital.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. And maybe its too busy. Lets face it. So throw Frederick W. So heres how to craft your own reflection items.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. 2 is this distinction between short-term vs. long-term predictability.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

On Tuesday, Amazon.com reported third-quarter earnings that fell far short of Wall Street's expectations. Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. . You have to be willing to think long-term. per share by nearly a dime.

Christensen 12

Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

These conversations highlighted some attitudes and values that seemed to go a long way toward explaining Silicon Valley’s innovation identity. The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. Think like engineers and customers. Here are the ones that struck us most: Lace audacity with grit.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But let’s change what we’re asking: Which has the better potential to scale up and create long term value for customers, owners, investors, and employees? Innovate and invest, even when it hurts. .” This story leads us to a question: Which sounds sexier: sassy Silicon Valley startup or nose-to-the-grindstone supplier?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. Innovation and change. They are leaders in driving innovation, building on their existing advantages in efficient and effective ways.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

But organizations themselves can rarely, if ever, pursue the long-term approach to talent development described in the latest reportage on Seal Team 6. Rather than creating a long development arc for talent, organizations educate people in short and often unconnected bursts.

Team 13

Team Short-term Proposal Uncertainty 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. It has sophisticated functions that together manage user-generated content, the in-depth tracking of consumer buying behavior, and the innovation of new features based on the resulting insights.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. Financed by VC firms. billion in a single round of equity financing, the largest private fundraising round for a VC-backed startup ever.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. This point was underscored by Unilever CEO Paul Polman when he courageously told short-term investors who did not support sustainability efforts not to buy his company’s shares.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

There are two stories you can tell about finance in America. Managers and boards now actively look to “outsmart” the activists in order to maintain control, and critics have alleged that activist hedge funds contribute to the economy’s bias toward short-term thinking. “And that’s a positive thing.”

Hedge 8

Hedge Finance Short-term Document 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It leads to a higher search engine visibility through stronger online authority (links and social shares). It has a lower cost-per-lead-acquisition than paid traffic when viewed over the long-term (2+ years). Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. It grows sales.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Don’t let your intellect stand in your way, but rather use it as an asset to develop those around you to their full potential thereby increasing your chances for long-term success. It is not an excuse to be lazy, arrogant, mean-spirited or delusional. Is your experience similar to, or different than what I’ve shared above?

Blog 420

Blog Engineering Brand Learning-by-Doing 420

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Most companies, whether start-ups or long-time players live in a world shaped by the laws of demand where low pricing can trump quality, and where targeted marketing, carefully crafted keywords, and social media engineering can build awareness, influence opinion, and generate sales. We need to go no further than the Pet Rock for an example.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

However, it is imperative we question the confidence placed in the new generation of quantitative models, innovations which could, as William Dudley warned, “lead to excess and put the [financial] system at risk.” Many modeling assumptions, such as correlations between asset prices, were shown to be badly flawed.

Crisis 10

Crisis Uncertainty Finance Price 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

While every other player in the electric car space was focused on innovating individual pieces — vehicles, batteries, charge spots — Better Place''s strategy was unique in innovating the larger puzzle to deliver an affordable drive-anywhere, anytime solution. Innovation Strategy Transportation'

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The revolution ran on equity capital, which was in short supply. DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. Similarly, production engineers treated their factories royally and their labor as expendable, until unions and labor laws intervened.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

And the cost in terms of lost output, lost jobs, lost houses, lost opportunities, as well as political repercussions, was so enormous that it seemed to mandate a very big rethinking of the financial system. The flip side of the stress test, though, is that there is some possibility for the banks to reverse-engineer and game the results.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis System Compliance 8