Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

He talked with HBR about why a company’s culture is more important than its strategy — and some of the innovative tactics that CEOs have used to help create a high-performing culture. A lot of managers just let culture happen — it becomes the sum of the personalities, good and bad, that work in an organization.

CEO 12

CEO FAQ Restructuring Performance Review 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

My last post talked about how a little-known company , Grace Manufacturing, took a flexible and opportunistic approach to its strategy when its core business faltered. As it turns out, even Honda's larger bikes were not robust enough for American riders and they started having engine failures. continued to hit the streets.

Strategy 15

Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

One of your better managers comes to you with the idea of setting up an internet bank. Or you are a supervisory board member of Mannesmann, a solid German engineering company, and your executive team suggests that the company bid for a mobile telephone license. When Innovation Is Strategy.

Licensing 8

Licensing Competitive Advantage Proposal Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

No Hierarchy, No Management, No Nothing. How Medium is Building a New Kind of Company with No Managers First Round Capital. Medium isn''t merely a digital publishing platform; it''s also a fierce adopter of Holacracy, a style of management that is entirely management-free. So does it work? Stirman says yes.

Report 8

Report Film Loyalty Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

For starters, he will be running a $75 billion+ enterprise with some 100,000 employees, an army of software engineers and many moving parts. For finishers, he will have to change its treads—redirect its strategy—while barreling down a highway with no map for what lies ahead. His challenges will be enormous.

CEO 8

CEO Bottom-up Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

Jim, a brilliant professor of engineering, came on as the new Chief Knowledge Officer and John, an experienced petroleum executive identified by a major shareholder, became Vice President of Technology, Products, and Services. Coaching Managing people'

360-Degree Feedback 10

360-Degree Feedback Offshoring Construction Execution 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

Services, strengthened by the acquisition of EDS several years ago, are both a blessing and a curse: While EDS has many lucrative deals, it also has time-intensive and costly outsourcing deals to manage. While there are many strong managers in place, they not only have different goals but different ways of pursuing them.

Software 12

Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Yet, its strategy for almost three decades has largely been that of a sustainer, not a disruptor. EMI invented the CAT scanner but was crushed by GE, which brought to bear its superior engineering experience and distribution in diagnostic imagining. But management, unlike academic research, is not practiced with 20-20 hindsight.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The key, of course, is managing when rivalry is appropriate — and when it's dangerous for both your employees and your company. "I came in one day and there were clowns that were passing out balloons," said the current Zynga principal engineer. And competition on routine office tasks can improve worker performance.

Class 8

Class Health Care Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Skeptics initially doubted the engineering feasibility of fast battery switches, the ability to roll out infrastructure on a national basis, and the willingness of carmakers to come on board. When Better Place was founded, its strategy called for initial rollouts in Israel and Denmark. The clock, which started ticking in 2007, ran out.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8