Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

The initial investors (and their terms). In technology companies, engineering talent needs the balance of a business and operations team. Engineering departments fetishize the theory that if you build a better mousetrap, the rest takes care of itself. The core values. Where the company is located.

Company 16

Company Short-term Engineering PR 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Yet our research also found that, in the shorter term, these fears may be overblown. Sponsored by Accenture.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Similarly, some retailers have begun experimenting with Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology, which allows customers to collect and pay for items without requiring a checkout service. The study focused specifically on the impact the Great Depression had on innovation in the United States, both in the short and long-term.

Innovation 97

Innovation Govindarajan Short-term Banking 97

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. The situation improved recently with the accounting recognition of a stock option expense, which clarified to directors that options are not costless, and with the general lengthening of the options' vesting period (incenting long-term orientation).

Short-term 11

Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 11

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. Microsoft, IBM, and Google offer similar services.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Not only has business investment in R&D been outpacing economic growth in recent years (2012 is the most recent year available), but it’s also outpacing longer term trends. And it’s not just short-term investors that like buybacks and dividends. The case of Apple is an instructive, if extreme, example.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Companies can be divided into two types , in terms of how they approach hiring and compensation: organizational oriented and market oriented. The shorter-term orientation discourages employers from bearing risks on behalf of their workers and encourages them to use employment practices that lower direct costs and increase flexibility.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

In stark contrast, at a disruptive organization like Google, innovation is built into jobs through " 20% time " projects — engineers are expected to spend 20% of their time on projects that are creating and testing new ideas. No company is immune; no market niche is safe.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

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. Technology risk is high when engineering or scientific breakthroughs are required to bring a solution to fruition. As a professor, I suppose I am guilty of mincing words.

Definition 10

Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 10

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

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Google’s “20% time” acts as a human-powered search engine for new problems.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

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

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income. Much of our corporate strategy is geared towards the long term, and this is where I believe lies the strength of private companies.

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.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 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.

Blog 387

Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

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. annual trade deficit in advanced technology products alone stands around $100 billion. It’s that the U.S. based companies. America’s problem?

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This will almost surely go beyond what can be considered “side work” and they’ll need to collaborate with others for engineering and process changes. Don’t bury it under another department like marketing, product, finance, etc. They saw an unexplained phenomenon, had a hunch, and started tinkering.

Learning-by-Doing 10

Learning-by-Doing Engineering Metrics Cost 10

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

APRIL 26, 2016

We spent time with established digital players, midsize companies (including Box and Palantir), and startups, particularly those focused on FinTech and technology services. Valley companies think in terms of ecosystems, networks, and sharable services — elements that are crucial to scaling very quickly.

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? Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

His horizon was exceedingly long-term. The late 1940s were a tough time for the fledgling electronic equipment maker that would eventually become one of the America’s best-known technology companies. The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. But we barely downsized.

Management 8

Management Uncertainty Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. While much has changed even since 2015, there are roadblocks on the journey that have remained surprisingly resilient.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 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. Challenges of this frame: It is tempting to imagine that such technology will solve all our resource problems, but shoehorning billions of extra people onto the planet must have consequences.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

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. Pharmaceuticals. tax jurisdiction.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. These functional teams struggle to meet the short-term needs of all their constituents, juggling an endless (and often conflicting) list of demands from line units.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 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.

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). In short, everything that can make you the most helpful and inviting business partner possible! 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. And launch. About the Author.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. If everyone were wholly rational in their long-term self-interest, there would be no political biases. They are not.

Long-term 11

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Today, we face the risk that investors, traders, and regulators are failing to understand the extent to which technological progress is — or more precisely is not — reducing financial uncertainty. Machine learning can be very effective at short-term prediction, using the data and markets we have encountered.

Crisis 10

Crisis Uncertainty Finance Price 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There are many explanations for growing inequality and stagnant wages, but studies have found that so-called “skills premiums” — higher wages for more-skilled workers — have been a significant factor in growing income inequality, and technology is the reason why that premium has risen.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Better Place''s most visible and best-publicized innovation was its switchable battery technology, a novel way to overcome the short-range limits and long recharge times dictated by existing battery technology. EV advocates are quick to note that technology improvements in batteries will one day eliminate the range problem.

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