Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar. A company is only as good as its people.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar. A company is only as good as its people.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Under his leadership, Ghosn said, the struggling automaker would return to profitability in a year and halve its debt a year later. Fifteen years later, Nissan under Ghosn’s strategy and leadership was indeed back on its feet. Nissan’s experience reminds us that firms with good strategy but weak leadership can remain rudderless.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Nardelli’s background and personality were a perfect fit for that challenge and he delivered some of the company’s most profitable years. But with the infrastructure and discipline in place, the company needed a leader who could drive innovation-based growth. Boards Leadership Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The vital—though not-soon-to-be answered—question is whether Mr. Nadella brings the right leadership talents not only to run the show but also to grow the enterprise at the center of one of most turbulent and competitive frays on earth. Leadership Microsoft Succession planning'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Situation Three: It Does Not Have Good Strategic Fit. In the meantime, the competition is managing their own innovation and coming up with similar or better improvements to their own products. No innovation remains innovative for long. How can you tell if the product you are working on is likely to succeed or fail?

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