Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

opened the first leg of their 2012/13 M-Prize challenge: " Innovating Innovation." This particular challenge — where I'm serving as a judge — seeks "real-world case studies and bold ideas that demonstrate how every element of a company's management model can be retooled to make it innovation-friendly.".

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Case Study Uncertainty McKinsey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This kind of uncertainty is a fact of life for many drivers. But Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is using the Internet of Things to resolve the uncertainty. It brings certainty to a situation where uncertainty can drive tension into the driver/manufacturer relationship. You should be in and out in two hours.”.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This kind of uncertainty is a fact of life for many drivers. But Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is using the Internet of Things to resolve the uncertainty. It brings certainty to a situation where uncertainty can drive tension into the driver/manufacturer relationship. You should be in and out in two hours.”.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” The uncertainty that increasingly characterizes our world means that companies need to attract, retain, and develop motivated innovators who can help to imagine and realize new growth opportunities.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

So it is with most breakthrough innovations and banner financial years. There is no line on the balance sheet for "ability to innovate" or "skill at managing brand." And even if there were, it would have to be expressed as a probability statement: How likely is Apple to innovate or out-innovate its peers?

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Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Secrecy creates an incentive to invest in assets, especially intellectual ones. Unpredictability bluffs, postures, and palters to gain advantage through uncertainty and misdirection. The company wanted to test an innovative, reve­nue-neutral plan to simplify industry pricing. ” (“I’m with you!

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Strategy Price Competitive Advantage Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

” Dell was responding to a 2015 PwC survey of more than a thousand CEOs, a number of whom cited “curiosity” and “open-mindedness” as leadership traits that are becoming increasingly critical in challenging times. replied , “I would place my bet on curiosity.” ”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2014

At the company I co-founded, where several members of our leadership team have special ops and intelligence backgrounds, we’ve adopted a military phrase to describe the behavior we want to see from employees when it comes to decision-making: “Get off the X.” We also use incentives to promote quick thinking and flexibility.

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Agility Uncertainty Policies Training 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Some of the nation’s most innovative, high-performing non-profit health care organizations use this formula. The answer is far from certain, and the uncertainties differ for the two mergers. But uncertainties remain. Both CVS’s planned $69 billion acquisition of Aetna and UnitedHealth’s $4.9

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Health Care System Insurance Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

You may think that the interim role is putting you in a Catch-22-like situation: You have to prove that you can be successful in order to get the actual job, but uncertainty undermines your status and challenges your ability to succeed. Will you get the support you need to succeed? Focus on learning.

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How To Mentor Learning-by-Doing Executive Coaching 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

That way, they have the maximum incentives to ensure that revenue stream remains as high as possible. There is, however, a flip side to the "match control with incentives" theory. That's a given, not an uncertainty. But in most cases, CEOs don't own such a claim and yet still have quite a lot of control.

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IPO Incentives Entrepreneur Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative. And often that strategy works.

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Health Care Document System Education 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Stock-based incentive compensation aligns the self-interest of management with shareholders, and a performance-based pay system increases employee motivation. The fundamental challenges that CEOs of drug companies face are similar to those of any CEO: innovate, manage risk and uncertainty, and create long-term firm value.

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CEO Short-term Long-term Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Hierarchical command-and-control is slow and operates less on incentives for solutions than on avoiding criticism or mistakes. Relying on the crowd and building more networks among those pulled into the Ebola crisis will add more flexibility and innovation to the existing bureaucratic response. We shouldn’t be surprised.

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Crisis Crisis Management Uncertainty Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

During this period of uncertainty, there is a real risk that health care companies and provider institutions will respond by pursuing mergers and acquisitions, bulking up so as to be able to sustain profits in the wake of whatever comes — or to ensure they are too big to fail and can dictate the policies that will govern their industries.

Health Care 12

Health Care Insurance Policies Tactics 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The loss of American trade leadership could hardly come at a worse time. This uncertainty calls for political leadership. Moreover, the Senate Republican leadership will have little incentive to push the TPP if a newly-elected President Clinton opposes it, especially if Republicans lose their majority in the Senate.

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Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8