Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Once every job in a company is defined in terms of the changes to be made (both large and small), constant improvement can become the routine. More companies need to describe their work in terms of where they are trying to go in the next month or next quarter or next year. Each innovation brings lessons that inform ongoing operations.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

If you know that the person you’re presenting to has a short attention span, you want to get to your point as soon as possible. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc., Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. a K-12 education publisher focusing on mathematics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

It's when it becomes an obsession that it's a problem," says Robert Steven Kaplan, a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and author of What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential. No one loves to do things just adequately," says Kaplan.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

The term may be new, but "lattice" is something that many of us have been living for quite some time: Through the rear-view mirror I can see that I've been partnering with my employer all along to create my own lattice. I'll bet many of you are living the lattice too. So how about you? What does your perfect day look like?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Professors Steve Kaplan at the University of Chicago and Morten Sorensen at Copenhagen Business School have analyzed over 2,600 ghSMART assessments of candidates for C-suite positions and concluded that boards often overweight amicability in their hiring decisions. Why were the normal barriers to this behavior not there?

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Some of the remaining time was spent traveling, in personal activity, such as exercise or lunches with spouses, or in short activities, such as quick calls, that weren't recorded by CEOs' assistants. However, true opportunities need to be the right fit in terms of our personal visions and goals. . You can have it all.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2017

The idea that companies face enormous pressure to deliver short-term results at the expense of long-term health is widespread among executives. Politicians like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden have warned against short-termism, as have scholars at Brookings and the American Enterprise Institute. But not everyone agrees.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. But the article aimed higher, arguing that when corporate leaders invest with short-term results in mind, they put long-term performance at risk. That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author. Sound familiar?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

While it’s the level of pay that captures politicians’ (and the public’s) attention, it’s the structure of pay which matters more for firm value – for example, whether it vests in the short-term or long-term. A cap could also lead boards to focus on the “optics” of pay (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2011

Like a person living in denial, however, the government "shut down" when it failed to do these things in a fashion that would positively impact the country's medium- and long-term future. Kaplan is a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and co-chairman of Draper, Richards and Kaplan, a global venture philanthropy firm.

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