Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Business growth can also depend on factors such as the availability of talent or scarce raw materials that influence, say, a company’s innovation capabilities or its ability to manufacture cost-effectively. We call that process the A-B-C (which stands for Analyze-Benchmark-Calibrate) of developing a globalization strategy.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

We’ll focus on how the software helps to clarify three situations: design of the sales coverage model, alignment of sales resources to market opportunity, and identification and widespread adoption of the behaviors with the strongest positive influence on sales performance. Refining Sales Team Structure and Roles.

Software 10

Software Metrics CRM B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In its strategy to help employees with disabilities build long-term careers, Unilever partnered with Connecticut’s Department of Rehabilitation Services and Southeastern Employment Services to launch a training and placement program.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Ideal zero-gravity thinkers, she explains, have "psychological distance" from the setting in which they work, "renaissance tendencies" that draw on a range of interests and influences, and "related expertise" that allows them to find the points where blue-sky ideas intersect with real-world opportunities.

Banking 18

Banking Retail Open-book Creativity 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Fit is particularly important for senior executives since the research on this topic shows a direct link between an organization’s performance and the level of alignment between its strategy and the profile of top managers. The better a CEO fits with the company’s strategy and change needs, the more successful that CEO should be.

Strategic Fit 8

Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

There''s much more in this article, from how the Medium team built its strategy from the ground up to how it established key management tenets that revolve around what the company needs to accomplish in order to serve its core purpose. So does it work? But keep in mind: Either value can be changed by whatever narrative you apply to it.

Report 8

Report Film Loyalty Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

In “View Through A Window May Influence Recovery From Surgery,” he famously compared two sets of patients—one with “tree views” and one with “wall views.” In 1984, he wrote a seminal paper that significantly affected how hospitals are designed today.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Hotels Health Care Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2018

This powerful data system creates a rich social system that influences the movies and shows members see, based in part on which shows they’ve liked in the past what other subscribers see and like. Strategy is culture, culture is strategy. Here’s how Reed Hastings explained it in 2005, when the company had just 3.5

Technology 15

Technology Sharpe Strategy Content 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Here are just a few communications approaches that will help you effectively reach your employees and encourage behaviors that advance your strategy and improve your results. This tends to influence strategy, decision-making and behaviors at executive levels, but often isn't well articulated for employees.

Strategy 15

Strategy Education Content Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

And adverse living conditions and poverty are perhaps the most pervasive negative influences on adult health , leading to 20% to 50% higher adult mortality even when, in adulthood, individuals are no longer living in poverty or in polluted or unsafe environments. So-called adverse childhood experiences (e.g.,

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Its mission drove its strategy , not the other way around. Its determination to create a better world necessitated a commitment to nonviolence. That same commitment to nonviolence inspired supporters and diminished opponents. Today we remember the movement for what it built, not for what it set out to destroy.

Brand 8

Brand Marketing Sharpe Learning-by-Doing 8