The Practical Leader

JANUARY 23, 2012

. “When we compared pairs of Fortune 100 companies within the same industry, we found that those with higher scores on the Good Company Index outperformed their peers in the stock market over periods of one, three, and five years.” And everyone else is worse off. And then they must back up those good intentions with actions.

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Company Parcell Books Review 53

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

So foreign operations need to contribute meaningfully over the long term to shareholders’ 20 times expectations. The way to do that is to build market share in international markets at a level of profitability that is higher than the cost of capital. In most cases, this is a long-term value destroyer.

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EPS Short-term Cost of Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. A Short History of Dell. Dell''s fortunes have not reversed over the past six years, owing in part to the recession, but more fundamentally to the decline of the PC market. Dell returned as CEO in 2007.

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 14

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Don’t be timid.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

The past year or so of Euro-crisis has turned me into a fan of the currency markets. Currency markets impose a fair amount of transaction costs on individuals and businesses, which is of course why people were so enthusiastic about the Euro. The best way to really get a handle on the choice you make is to look at the currency markets.

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Short-term Wilde Crisis Bond 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

But just because it helps us to reason about how individuals will or should behave in circumstances with which we ourselves are familiar doesn't mean it's good for reasoning about abstract collectives like "the government," or "the market," or even "taxpayers.".

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Short-term Long-term Politics Wilde 12

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. Over the years, as I’ve tried to patiently persist and actively trust, I’ve found that God’s plan always unfolds for my long-term benefit, even if things get rough in the moment. John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing. Keep moving!

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. If youre here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick. And maybe its too busy. Lets face it.

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Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Google Fiber, as the effort was named, entered the access market intending to prove the business case for ultra-high-speed internet. In the Big Bang Disruption model, where innovations take off suddenly when markets are ready for them, Google Fiber could be seen as a failed early market experiment in gigabit internet access.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Musk himself is ambivalent about the term. Investors and lenders are betting on the company’s long-term potential to dominate a future that may feature autonomous vehicles, sustainable energy consumption, and the ability to upgrade easily as both hardware and software evolve. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 9

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Unfortunately, one can get caught in a trap of being on the short end of the equation. The longer they network, the better they get at niche marketing. ” Sizing you in terms of immediate benefit to them, they either probe further or move on. These people couch their requests in terms of your benefit.

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Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. If you're here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick. Business is, above all, busy.

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Short-term Mass Marketing Marketing Mix Taylorism 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Success begets not only further success but also harder-to-meet market expectations. In terms of sales volume, product line diversity, operating system flexibility, R&D spending, and even customer loyalty , Samsung has emerged as a fierce competitor that has bested former industry champions like Nokia and Apple. Brand confidently.

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Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Evaluative terms like these serve as the bases for some consensus about what constitutes greatness. Corporate managers will always worry about results—and especially short-term results. The market doesn't care how leaders get results as long as they are achieved legally. Great leaders are immensely more complex.

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Short-term Wilde Consensus Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

The painful truth is: attention itself isn’t worth as much as today’s marketers, boardrooms, and beancounters think. Institutions and leaders, obedient students of modern marketing, obsessively ask, “How do we get people to be loyal to us?” Make the terms and conditions impossible to understand!

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Strategy Porter Marketing Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Deservedly vaunted venture capitalist Tom Perkins’ callous, arrogant and elitist recent comments should not serve as an expedient excuse to overlook an important “dirty little secret” about entrepreneurship, the acknowledged engine of economic growth: successful entrepreneurship always exacerbates local inequality , at least in the short run.

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Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Recently I''ve advised entrepreneurs and innovators about a different, seemingly better, dilemma: pop-up opportunities that look like short cuts to success. In its first year, the venture landed two almost-committed pilot sites and a prospect pipeline for a multi-billion-dollar market. professional organizations. Control your identity.

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Innovation Porter Merchandising Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Our research on what we call the “founder’s mentality” shows that maintaining a strong insurgent mission is critical to long-term, sustainable growth. But to compete long term, insurgent companies also need to develop scale and scope, which very often dulls their insurgent’s zeal.

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Engineering Long-term Short-term Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. Greenspan was never a hardline believer in the rationality of financial markets. It’s true of all commodity markets. Almost everybody is bullish, expects the market to go up, and is fully committed.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. We all want to start a disruptive company or invest in disruptive ventures, but in reality an innovation that takes place at the low-end of the market or where there is no market (yet) is just not that sexy. Be assured that you have no idea what will come next.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

A similar if less-stark dynamic could play out on the monetary-policy Federal Open Market Committee, where inflation hawks with Republican leanings would discover they weren't so hawkish after all. And for whatever it's worth, the stock market usually does better under Democrats than Republicans. What is one to make of all this?

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Ryan Insurance Policies Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

And the things of interest to managers, such as the size of a market, the effects of an advertising campaign, and the true costs associated with a poor quality product, are far more complex than time, weight, and distance. Too many managers give this step short shrift. It should be trustworthy, right? Clarify what you want to know.

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Advertising Collins Wilde Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

While "running out" isn't really the right phrase, it's clear that delivering many commodities to market is getting harder and more expensive (we don't dig for oil a mile under the ocean for the heck of it). Markets have a remarkable way of sorting the wheat from the chaff. trillion market for clothes and shoes.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

A Dell-EMC study reveals significant differences in terms of willingness to trade privacy for services across countries and across different uses of digital applications; of 15 countries studied, Germans were most concerned about privacy and the Indians were the least. There are no short cuts.

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Bottom-up Constraint Self-aware Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a result, in just a few short years, nearly one-third of all U.S. Since its inception, the growth of the internet has been guided by a foundational principle: your broadband provider should not get to pick winners and losers in terms of how quickly or easily you can access things online.

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Policies Content Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals). Besides possibly saving humanity, the deal has another big upside — it signals to financial markets and businesses that the low carbon economy is worth investing in. Multi-trillion-dollar markets are in play and there will be many more winners than losers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Product and package designers can see how people open, store, and use their purchases “in the wild.” Marketers and innovation specialists can immerse themselves in the sights, sounds, and emotions of consumers’ daily lives, surfacing opportunities to make their products and services more emotionally resonant and durable.

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In a tight labor market, it’s imperative that a hiring manager understand the immigration issues that affect who they can hire and how. So we’ve teamed up with Wildes & Weinberg P.C. , a leading immigration law firm, to come up with a short primer for employees on technical visas. Not all visas are created equal.

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Process Outsourcing Long-term Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Let''s be really optimistic and suppose that $100 billion survives, at least in the short term, out of inertia, and because there will always be moments when McKinsey must meet with clients face to face. But this is not a " wild card " — something too large to ignore but so improbable that it is not worth thinking about.

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