Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. A Short History of Dell. As Lerner summed it up for me in an interview, "There seemed to be a pretty positive track record in terms of technology companies after buyouts.". How do you get back on top?

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Musk himself is ambivalent about the term. Investors and lenders are betting on the company’s long-term potential to dominate a future that may feature autonomous vehicles, sustainable energy consumption, and the ability to upgrade easily as both hardware and software evolve. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 10

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Adapt ideas from other industries. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries. Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. And maybe its too busy.

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Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

As the term, and the legend of Narcissus, suggests, narcissistic individuals are so self-indulged that they may end up drowning in their own self-love – this makes it harder for them to focus on others. In evolutionary terms, dark triad personality characteristics constitute the essence of the freeriding.

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Short-term Self-aware Long-term Absenteeism 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In 2010, Google rocked the $60 billion broadband industry by announcing plans to deploy fiber-based home internet service, offering connections up to a gigabit per second — 100 times faster than average speeds at the time. In short, Google wanted partners, not antagonists. PM Images/Getty Images. Consumers got new services.

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Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Every week I interview a top leaders in our world and do a secondary, short interview to discuss their challenges and healthy habits in these seven areas; 1) Physical, 2) Family, 3) Mental, 4) Financial, 5) Spiritual, 6) Career, 7) Personal – derived from Zig Ziglar’s “Wheel of Life”. Kevin Miller , host of the Zig Ziglar Podcast.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

There are many reasons that founder-led companies are so good at disrupting industries and making life miserable for slow-moving incumbents. They ignore established industry rules and boundaries. From top to bottom, they are at war against the industry leaders on behalf of underserved customers. They embrace change and chaos.

Engineering 8

Engineering Long-term Short-term Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. If you're here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick. Business is, above all, busy.

Short-term 15

Short-term Mass Marketing Marketing Mix Taylorism 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

But talents can be notoriously hard to judge, particularly in short-term interactions with other such as job interviews: there is only a 4% overlap between interview ratings and subsequent job performance ratings. We are living in an age of short attention spans. That said, it is essential that you keep it brief.

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Self-aware How To Reputation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

In terms of sales volume, product line diversity, operating system flexibility, R&D spending, and even customer loyalty , Samsung has emerged as a fierce competitor that has bested former industry champions like Nokia and Apple. In short, it is an Android phone that wants to stand out more as a Samsung made and operated phone.

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Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

The digital industry is riding an important—and turbulent—wave of change right now. Such regulations would impose costs on the mostly small businesses that operate in these regions and there is a sense that imposing a heavy burden on fledgling local data industries could stifle the chance for those companies to grow and compete.

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Bottom-up Constraint Self-aware Technology 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). Unfortunately, one can get caught in a trap of being on the short end of the equation. These people couch their requests in terms of your benefit. Adopt My Interests.

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Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

Leading the crusade, we have the diversity industry, that unstoppable army of consultants, books, and workshops that has spent decades trying to sell business on what it calls the “business case” for workplace diversity and inclusion. In short, we’re seeing the evidence that we’re being allowed to see.

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Diversity Innovation Bottom-up Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

We typically define disruption as a low-end product or service that eventually upends an industry. The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. If, for example, after leaving Wall Street in 2005, I had continued to gauge my success based on money earned, I was nothing short of a failure.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Deservedly vaunted venture capitalist Tom Perkins’ callous, arrogant and elitist recent comments should not serve as an expedient excuse to overlook an important “dirty little secret” about entrepreneurship, the acknowledged engine of economic growth: successful entrepreneurship always exacerbates local inequality , at least in the short run.

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Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. Value chain and transparency partnerships growing: The apparel industry bands together. China, China, and China. The greening of the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a result, in just a few short years, nearly one-third of all U.S. Today, examples of online companies disrupting major industries abound. farms have signed up to use FarmLogs to manage their operations. It helps make their businesses more efficient and more profitable.

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Policies Content Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals). Sectors calling for action included banking (Bank of America, Citi, Goldman, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo), the apparel industry (including Levi, Gap, Adidas, VF), and the World Economic Forum, which brought 79 CEOs together to urge action. Wall Street wakes up.

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Let''s think about the travel industry. Let''s be really optimistic and suppose that $100 billion survives, at least in the short term, out of inertia, and because there will always be moments when McKinsey must meet with clients face to face. Let''s say the Apple innovation merely takes $50 billion out of the industry.

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Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

So we’ve teamed up with Wildes & Weinberg P.C. , a leading immigration law firm, to come up with a short primer for employees on technical visas. TN visa status is only available to citizens of Canada and Mexico, under the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). What are the chances of approval?

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Process Outsourcing Long-term Public Relations 8