Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Thus, as the McKinsey Global Institute team states, and its analysis of 80 years of data shows, "over the long term. Many business people, especially if they have been trained in microeconomics, think in terms of "comparative statics" rather than dynamics. The extra dimension in a dynamic analysis is, of course, time.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains. Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

For each investment category, the generic critical success factors of time , cost , and quality will be different, requiring trade-offs to be made. Over time, investments that were once sources of competitive differentiation move into the key operational quadrant, becoming part of the organization’s core systems.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains. Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Biologists use the term "runaway" to describe what happens when a single criterion dominates the mating choices of a species to the exclusion of other valuable traits. So it's time to address our measurement system seriously at the firm level. Looking at Apple, you'd conclude it had been using this equation for a long time.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Pro: Engineering can focus on coding without a lot of distraction; this tends to work well for Waterfall development shops with long lifecycles. And if the product has market fit, there is an established customer base and performance baseline to work from vs. guessing until you get it right.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Long gone are the days of vertical integration when a manufacturer could make everything itself. You have to understand these fundamentals to craft trade-policy prescriptions — which, by the way, I think the free trade agreements largely do: A thick supplier market. A big reason is technological complexity.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In Rich’s old, functional “silo-based” process, a marketing person with a new customer opportunity would contact their favorite R&D associate, the regulatory and quality assurance departments, packaging, and the plant. The schedule is visible and there is clear communication about what they’re working on.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8