Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Once wholly in the hands of managers (the "visible hands" chronicled by industrial age historian Alfred Chandler), technology innovation used to begin with a company's commitment of resources to R&D and patent protection. After all, if you want to enter every room of the house, what better vehicle than a Roomba?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. That vision prompted Danone to divest product lines such as biscuits and beer while broadening its core dairy franchise.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

To financially-oriented top management, such cuts are prudent. Professional sports franchises that have deteriorated have begun their comeback with better player training facilities and new or improved stadiums. The BBC example is particularly interesting because its product is virtual; customers were never meant to see the facilities.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

That’s the “franchise of the future” challenge haunting sports’ brightest minds and biggest wallets. George Karl, the 7th coach in NBA history to reach 1000 wins, similarly stressed the need for serious coaches and general managers to quantify “teamness.” Information & technology Managing people Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

Specifically, he saw that the advent of digital technologies was going to fundamentally alter the way people conduct commerce, pay for things, and manage and move their money. It was a technology-driven form factor. One way we tried to address this is with a product called Bluebird that we launched in partnership with Walmart.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

In a perfect world you would build relationships with the largest possible universe of targeted constituents where you can productively engage and contribute. Commitment - While technology is a natural accelerant helping to catalyze new opportunities and extend relationships, creating trust and influence will still take time.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

To financially-oriented top management, such cuts are prudent. Professional sports franchises that have deteriorated have begun their comeback with better player training facilities and new or improved stadiums. The BBC example is particularly interesting because its product is virtual; customers were never meant to see the facilities.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

More and more business customers have quit buying stand-alone products and have started buying integrated solutions. Many technologies, such as computers, copiers, fax machines, and other office equipment are rapidly converging. People throughout the organization will be expected to routinely make decisions once reserved for managers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

When a company, product, or service is ahead of the competition, speed is high. And while every company, product, or service strives to be a jaguar, even a jaguar has some steps to take. Under such conditions, it is critical for companies to manage their innovation portfolios proactively. Competition Innovation Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Sesame Street , in fact, is a great case study of a brand that has managed to remain powerful over decades and across cultures. In the 1980s, I was part of the team that sold Sesame Street around the world — either licensed and broadcast in English or in locally adapted indigenous-language co-productions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

At the top of the company, managing this crucial integration, and reporting directly to the CEO, should be a senior leader with a background in business, law, and government who has oversight of all the company’s public policy issues — whether a Senior Vice President-Public Affairs or a Senior Vice President-General Counsel.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

V changed the face of eye care on the planet, and he did it by owning the entire problem — providing community outreach, eye care, training, eye banks, research and the production of inexpensive but high-quality eye care supplies. If McDonald's can do it for hamburgers, why can't we do it for eye care?"

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That sort of money should allow you to open 10 new centers next year, not through franchising as you'd planned, but under your direct ownership and control. The director wasn't expecting her, but Gloria liked popping into the franchises unannounced to get an unvarnished view. Three million euros.". Hours were flexible.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

” But if you are the Ford Motor Company and face the prospect of investing billions in new technology while your century-old business model is overturned, you might first have a few questions. This van is currently being tested in London ahead of volume production in 2019. How are consumers going to react to all of this?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. Real Madrid is one of the most recognized soccer franchises in the world. Real Madrid: winning the hearts and minds of 500 million dedicated fans. In sports, every second matters.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

If you want to see how mobile technology can disrupt the very basics of business models and habits established over hundreds if not thousands of years, look at what’s happening in India. By July 2016, virtually every Indian had a mobile telephone and access to text messaging, primarily using 2G technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. Serendipity into Performance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We’ve hit a point of acceleration in video and wearable technologies that provide us with information that we’ve never had in the past about how to optimize player performance. We talk about things like yield management, demand curves, and perishable inventory — factors that dictate our pricing strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

We were eager to take this product to the disadvantaged communities who desperately needed it. Little did we know the time and capital it would require for us to get from a concept to a manufactured and clinically tested product — not to mention what it would take to build a distribution channel to sell our product.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

But for every Habitat for Humanity , Mothers Against Drunk Driving , and Teach for America that has managed to scale, there are thousands that have stagnated or failed. It has figured out how to keep growing a staff of great "coaches" to supervise and manage recess in schools all over the USA. Communicating. Earnings Generation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

These concerns get polite nods here and there but, mostly, serious Africans ignore them and firmly redirect the conversation back to private equity, or franchise deals, or something along those lines. The technology systems that undergird this effort are far-flung. Bottom line: Are you game or are you out?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Its fortunes have been built upon its successes in pushing the technological frontier of the microprocessor. But its essential value proposition — a higher-performing, high-margin product — has not changed. It has built and defended its competitive position by reinforcing its Windows/Office franchise. None as far as I can tell.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. Management and leadership skills. The program conducts regular field visits and testing to monitor quality.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. The implications are threefold: The best product doesn’t always win.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

These facts raise some profound questions about personnel management of a great power. Now we're over 300 million. No one could credibly argue that our political leadership is anywhere near the same class as the Founders' era. link] mikemyatt Hi Mark: Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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