Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player. He will always know how he performs.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

There’s that one person on your team — the bad apple who has nothing positive to say, riles up other team members, and makes work life miserable. The whole team suffers because of it.” Separate the toxic person from other team members. Don’t: Bring the situation up with your other team members.

Management 14

Management How To Document Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Think back to the last team project you participated in at work. When a company has a clear strategy for a new product launch, for example, a leader needs to provide firm directives to get the marketing, distribution, and sales people working together and moving in one direction. How did the person running the project lead the group?

Leadership Styles 8

Leadership Styles Leadership Peer Review Influence 8

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 20, 2020

The team were striving to understand the best way to keep people, and the economy, safe until a vaccine is developed, which the team assumed was 76 weeks. Data was sourced from a wide range of peer-reviewed sources, to give them a full picture of the pandemic. Until a vaccine.

Short-term 81

Short-term Peer Review Long-term Sharpe 81

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

This is because promotions and salary increases at most business schools are primarily based on professors’ number of peer-reviewed, “A” journal publications (or those appearing in journals with the highest impact factor, or frequency of citation-counts). Where has this stuff been hiding?” But we should be.

Metrics 11

Metrics Ethics Incentives Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

More work is needed to achieve the drastic change in market forces that is necessary to create a sustainable health care system. Through this commitment, Mayo Clinic physicians and scientists have contributed more than 400 peer-reviewed papers on quality improvement in the last five years.

Health Care 8

Health Care Mayo Insurance Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

True, both companies were manipulating users’ emotions, but people don’t seem to mind the daily emotional manipulation that companies engage in every day through marketing and product design. So the studies don’t go through the valuable peer-review process, and the findings don’t see the light of day.

Ethics 8

Ethics Participative Peer Review Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

When it comes to choosing media to support a new product launch, consider the target market. Millennials are turning to Facebook and Twitter, while GenZ, or the iGeneration, is skeptical of brands and places more value on peer-to-peer reviews–even from strangers. Marketing' Why did the Fire phone fizzle?

Media 8

Media Tactics Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

There are real benefits to this real-time business capability: getting to market faster, capturing value quicker, more immediate responsiveness to customer needs. It’s cheaper because of automation and because small development teams need less coordination and oversight. HubSpot’s Small Development Teams and “Feature Gates”.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Development Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. Moreover, these leaders remain open to learning through feedback and reflection. Given this challenge, what can business schools do?

360-Degree Feedback 14

360-Degree Feedback Ethics Education Human Resources 14