The Practical Leader
JANUARY 23, 2012
The two companies in the “highest” category were United Parcel Service and Walt Disney. In order to do so, they must combine competitive savvy with a genuine desire to do more than maximize short-term profits or enrich a narrow circle of stakeholders. About 25 companies were rated “high.”
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 24, 2012
BL: A misconception: Dealing with funds providers is part and parcel of running the company. The situation improved recently with the accounting recognition of a stock option expense, which clarified to directors that options are not costless, and with the general lengthening of the options' vesting period (incenting long-term orientation).
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 22, 2015
” Many organizations construct short-term projects by simply carving off the first few months of a multi-year implementation plan, and then the next few, and so on. The severances team aimed to increase the number of land parcels processed per day by 50% in one field office in 100 days. Both teams exceeded their targets.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 15, 2014
Accordingly, it has systematically published figures about the evolution of its business portfolio in terms of sales by segment (e.g., Acquisitions are part and parcel of a transformation. Safeguard the short-term performance of the ongoing business. Go for the occasional mega-acquisition.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 28, 2017
First, individuals focus on short time horizons and thus underprepare for future threats. In short, the insurance industry is adapting in order to profit from climate risk, and in doing so it will help society adapt as well. But we now see insurers exploiting geographically refined data to more precisely estimate land parcel risk.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 8, 2015
The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on?
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 29, 2015
From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios.
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