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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Professor Rebecca Henderson , an esteemed professor of management at Harvard Business School and a world-leading expert in reimagining capitalism, was interested in the Bank’s trajectory and purpose. Should Southern Bancorp consider a public offering in the red-hot IPO NYSE market? Yet, he could no longer fly under the radar.

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World Innovation Forum - The Pressure to be Insightful

CEO Blog

I am spending the day in NYC at World Innovation Forum. Michael Martin- Marketing and Strategy (a high interest topic for me) Rebecca Henderson - ( Co-director of the Business and Environment Initiative at Harvard) Building sustainable Organizations Daniel Pink (one of my favorite authors/thinkers) And lots more.'

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A Partial Defense of Our Obsession with Short-Term Earnings

Harvard Business Review

HBS professor Rebecca Henderson , along with Hazhir Rahmandad of Virginia Tech and Nelson Repenning of MIT, set out to explore that apparent contradiction. I spoke with Professor Henderson about their research. Henderson: To answer that, I need to tell you about two different research interests. Do the firms do better?

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

The discussion with Michael Toffel and Rebecca Henderson of Harvard Business School, Tensie Whelan of NYU’s Stern School of Business, and Andrew Winston of Winston Eco-Strategies has been condensed and edited for clarity. Henderson : I’ve seen the same effect in my own work. HBR: Of the interviews, what jumped out at you?

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Twelve Ways to Create Barriers to Competitors

Harvard Business Review

The only real way to grow sales and profits is to create innovative offerings with some "must haves" that define new categories or subcategories for which competitors are not relevant. Ongoing innovation. Exemplar status. As a result, they may be weak players for a long time. It really is a different way to look at strategy.

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Customer-Centric Org Charts Aren’t Right for Every Company

Harvard Business Review

He also emphasized in a 1999 book that “the wrong structure can doom all other market-driven initiatives in the organization to failure.” ” A good example of customer-centricity is Tumi , the innovative U.S.-based Henderson of the University of Oregon and Irina V. In his 2006 survey of U.S.

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Where Disruptive Innovation Came From

Harvard Business Review

After a long and successful run, the theory of disruptive innovation has come under attack of late. In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? Disruptive innovation is a parsimonious theory that explains many business failures.