Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets. output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy. It makes price movements less extreme but also more difficult to predict. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The reason we wanted to do it separate is because, you have to realize that we needed to give them the flexibility and the operating structure to be able to be competitive with other technology and mobility services companies that move really fast. They are supply-side architectural innovations. You want it separate but connected.

Christensen 8

Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

It both funds day-to-day operations and generates profits for the future. But as anyone who has ever tried to lead innovation knows, the challenge goes beyond being ambidextrous enough to manage today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. Excerpted from. The Three-Box Solution.

Innovation 8

Innovation Hedge Management Govindarajan 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. How can RIM (and other companies in the same boat) chart effective strategy in uncertainty? A look at root causes of failed and successful efforts gives a clear view.

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. These “bitcoin whales” are currently the ones who make or break many of the ICOs.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

These aren’t mom and pop operations anymore. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations. We have a global audience that has an unending thirst for mobile content, and a sophisticated CRM database that allows us to be a state-of-the-art marketing operation.

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The book did quite well — it has been translated into 18 languages at this point, become part of the ongoing innovation dialogue, allowed me to present ideas to executives across the world, and to build a unique consulting firm with clients on six continents. So, not surprisingly, I frequently get asked just how I did it.

Succession 16

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

While there's much chatter in the management world about the need to be adaptable, only a few creative companies and innovative managers have probed the natural world for its adaptability secrets. Adaptable systems make multiple copies of everything and modify the copies to hedge against uncertainty. Redundancy.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

One thing we can say with confidence is that uncertainty will remain high for some time in politics, macroeconomics, and business, at both global and national levels. To respond to this challenge, companies will need to become more sophisticated about strategy during uncertainty in five ways. Match Your Strategy to the Environment.

Strategy 9

Strategy Uncertainty Long-term Politics 9