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. And short-term numbers at that.

Levitt 11

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Back in 2008, Steve Strogatz and I were interested in sports, not the world of finance. What's more, those streaks were still made by the skillful, such giants as Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby. But to really understand the nature of success, we have to look at the overall statistics of the system. You can read the paper here.).

Management 13

Management Fashion Long-term Sports 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Last month, Fox News agreed to pay Gretchen Carlson $20 million to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the network’s former Chairman and CEO, who resigned in the summer. Develop clearer HR and reporting systems.

Report 11

Report Long-term Training Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. Rich countries could simply reject the agenda, or they could co-opt a few key developing countries into the existing system.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

Hence, here are six lessons on crisis that help explain why we're still in one: When you don't reinvent institutions at a time of systemic failure, the problems they're creating don't just magically disappear. When you prop up (read: bail out) the institutions causing the crisis, instead of reinventing them, the crisis will deepen.

Crisis 15

Crisis Marketing Banking Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Obama also mentioned Donald Kohn (PhD, Michigan, and a career at the Fed) as a possibility, and the name of Roger Ferguson (PhD, Harvard, and a private sector career plus a past stint as Fed vice chairman) came up a few times in journalists’ speculations. pretty much ever since. That Fed staff is loaded with economics PhDs.

Banking 9

Banking Rogers Career Education 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 1979, Betsy Rogers became the first Central Park Administrator and set out to save park operations from a shrunken staff and dismal resources. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale. Collaborative leadership was critical for the revitalization of Central Park in New York City.

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

The most basic function of a financial system is to price money. Now, let me couch this for you in the human terms of political economy — the terms in which you and I should rightly conceive of an "economy" as the sum of the enduring human good; not merely as a set of pipes for the grease of finance to be injected into.

Price 14

Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts, also at last night's event, talked with Rotman Dean Roger Martin about the necessity to have an evolving digital strategy in the face of what she called a "mobile metamorphosis." When has more participation in our political system ever been a bad thing? We absolutely know it.

Politics 8

Politics CEO Health Care Short-term 8