Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs. labor market over the past 30 years.

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

In fact, long-term business viability depends on it. As a leader in your organization, it’s up to you to determine whether your company’s legacy and corporate culture will be positively driven by a corporate purpose or negatively driven by a short-sighted focus on profit alone. Every company needs a corporate purpose.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

In fact, long-term business viability depends on it. As a leader in your organization, it’s up to you to determine whether your company’s legacy and corporate culture will be positively driven by a corporate purpose or negatively driven by a short-sighted focus on profit alone. . Every company needs a corporate purpose.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. Getting the measurement right is central to providing convincing evidence on the debate over short-termism.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

Some sample jobs included in the study were: retail cashier, customer service representative, registered nurse, sales professional, accountant, software developer, academic faculty, HR director, and physician. This feedback yielded a sample of data from 10,000 managers and 10,000 coworkers. Handling stress. Perfectionist. Experience.

Reference 9

Reference Sample Retail Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

Many of these effects may have long-term consequences, like reduced innovation, that are not captured in short-term financial metrics. These firms spanned 83 different industries, including the service, high technology, and manufacturing industries.

Company 8

Company Short-term Altman Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Scientists are still trying to determine the long-term effects of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. For example, the mean score of the economic policies variable in our sample is 47 (on our 1-100 scale). However, little systematic research has explored the underlying causes of such accidents.

Globalization 8

Globalization Industry Cost Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

It a powerful tool for identifying innovations, especially with the opportunities for data gathering afforded by smart technologies and social media. Over relatively short time periods, these customer interactions create a massive database, in which customer profiles, transactions, and inquiries are all associated.

Marketing 15

Marketing Restructuring Brand Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

It was hardly what you’d call an “adequate sample size” for market research, but the results were nevertheless eye-opening for the maker of a pain-relief ointment: A single consumer posted an online photo showing how he placed foil over the ointment to prevent it from staining his pants.

Sample 8

Sample Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

To answer this question, we evaluated a sample of 55 different heads of strategy and looked more closely at 11 who were particularly successful and 10 who were at the other end of the spectrum. A senior executive described to us what he termed the “rules of engagement.” Here’s what we learned.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Today, we face the risk that investors, traders, and regulators are failing to understand the extent to which technological progress is — or more precisely is not — reducing financial uncertainty. Machine learning can be very effective at short-term prediction, using the data and markets we have encountered.

Crisis 8

Crisis Uncertainty Finance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Companies can be divided into two types , in terms of how they approach hiring and compensation: organizational oriented and market oriented. The shorter-term orientation discourages employers from bearing risks on behalf of their workers and encourages them to use employment practices that lower direct costs and increase flexibility.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

My Bain colleagues and I estimated the odds of success of investments in major adjacency moves using a sample of nearly 200 companies’ experiences including “close-in moves” like expansion into a neighboring country and “distant” moves like a new business to new customers using new technologies.

Sample 8

Sample Long-term Short-term Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. A specialist background to lead innovation is worth a 4% better shareholder return every year for 20 years, compared to other pharma CEOs in our sample. The other CEOs in our sample didn’t directly oversee breakthrough innovation.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque. They're in well-appointed offices at business schools and management consulting firms.

Consultative 13

Consultative Porter Management Press Release 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

The response to Ebola has largely relied on public health strategies established over a century ago and technology that has been around for decades. Indeed, fresh thinking and new technologies could potentially address many challenges. The possible innovations are not limited to technologies alone.

Transportation 8

Transportation Innovation Sample Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

Theory testing uses auto-analytics tools as a way to quantify happiness in terms of an established model. Researcher and statistician Konstanin Augemberg decided to test Ryff''s theory in this short case study. Experience sampling gently nudges users at random intervals throughout the day to log how they''re feeling.

Sample 8

Sample Analysis Short-term Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

Widespread use of antivirus, intrusion detection technologies, improved cryptography algorithms, and methods for blacklisting infected web sites are just a few examples of how technical advances have improved cyber defense. In such systems, real-world experiments with limited sample sizes are often misleading and can misdirect policymakers.

Game Theory 8

Game Theory Incentives Diversity System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

In a recent study , the Bureau of Labor statistics found that the average person in their sample held eleven jobs between the ages of 18 and 46 — meaning a job-switch once every 2.5 In the broader world, economic, demographic, and technological changes are forcing us all to cope with change whether we want to or not.

Ethics 15

Ethics Reputation Trends Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As University of Toronto professor Ayelet Shachar explained in a Yale Law Journal article : “Countries seeking to attract Nobel Prize contenders, gifted technology wizards, acclaimed artists, promising Olympians, and other high-demand migrants have come to realize the attractive power of citizenship.

Globalization 8

Globalization Loyalty Short-term Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Following the global economic crisis of 2008, large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies. Although all studies have methodological shortcomings, the consistency of the results across so many studies, samples, and methodologies is noteworthy.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

The researchers interviewed three former interim CEOs and conclude that they focus their “attention on short-term, tactical crisis management.” In the researchers’ sample, interims were more likely to be older than the executives they replaced. Dorsey is 13 years Costolo’s junior.

CEO 8

CEO Tactics Short-term Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

We found that among a sample of 1.2 For example, the system would let a doctor see if a patient was obtaining prescriptions from multiple physicians within a short time span. For example, much routine opioid prescribing can be clinically inappropriate and lead to long-term opioid dependence, but it wouldn’t be flagged by a PDMP.

Health Care 8

Health Care Comparison Crisis Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

I have a clock in my office that synchronizes itself at 1:00 am every day using a signal sent out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Fort Collins, Colorado, which has an advertised precision in the fraction-of-a-second range. Too many managers give this step short shrift. It should be trustworthy, right?

Advertising 8

Advertising Collins Wilde Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Crowdfunding of charitable donations, artistic projects, or cool product development in exchange for samples or royalties, can work and has worked. Venture capitalists rightfully play the unpopular role of aligning those long term interests and maintaining as many short term protections for the investor as possible.

Due Diligence 12

Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

They want to see how their new algorithm performs in real life, so they expose it to a small sample of clients in an experiment. This way the data scientist focuses more on driving business value through testing and learning, and less on technology. If the experiment yields a big enough gain, they’ll roll it out to all clients.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Engineering Metrics Cost 8

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. Good useful original gifts are best if they can contain a mini-version of your product or service for sampling. Don’t be timid.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

Firms value accurate demand forecasts because inventory is expensive to keep on shelves and stockouts are detrimental to both short-term revenue and long-term customer engagement. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Price Airlines Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. First, we analyzed the effects of short-term cross-cultural experiences in a longitudinal field experiment. In the U.S., immigrants are almost twice as likely to become entrepreneurs as native-born U.S. Immigrants represent 27.5%

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Employee and customer satisfaction are the casualties of the race for short-term profits that is endemic in that sector. The only shock there was that the technology retailer, Carphone Warehouse, did even worse. The top places were not all taken up by trendy tech brands, and the bottom was not dominated by multinational banks.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Media Sample Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

Thanks to online tracking technology , marketers no longer have to rely on assumptions about consumer behavior. A sample of online adult consumers received either accurately or inaccurately targeted ads for hot chocolate positioned as good for the outdoors. Our final study tested the role of targeting accuracy.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Advertising Participative Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Like leading the way in cup technology with the first U.S. We conducted six studies on diverse samples with over 450 participants, from undergraduate students to working adults. It is important to note that we only tested the immediate, short-term effects of these CSR messages; we do not know how long they persist.

Ethics 8

Ethics Licensing Self-aware Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

In a cross-industry survey of 8 firms, we asked over 200 innovation-focused practitioners to review a list of established and emerging technologies (a list that included Apple products, Netflix, eBay and several others) and then tell us why any item on the list eventually became successful. Or do they tend to fall short?

Innovation 15

Innovation Construction Engineering Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

However, new unreleased research from Spencer Stuart , a global executive search firm, suggests that we’re giving this sector short shift: There may be specific cases when a consulting background can actually boost company performance, even more so than a more traditional candidate. No, probably not.

Consultative 8

Consultative CEO Management Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

These are just a sample of thoughts from clients in recent months who were excited about the prospect of creating new businesses and new sources of revenue in what seems to be a lucrative new area. Sometimes the revenue may be small in absolute terms, but the data capability may be complementary to your current, core business.

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

We found leaders who talk a good game, but have no impact; leaders who make everything look great while they’re there, but everything falls apart after they leave; and leaders who improve the schools’ long-term financial performance, but exam results stay the same. Architects redesign and transform, focusing on long-term impact.

Long-term 8

Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In the domain of retirement savings, Nobel laureate Richard Thaler and I devised a program called Save More Tomorrow back in the mid-1990s that used nudges to help people make better decisions about their long-term financial future. Digital and mobile technology makes this process feasible on a mass scale.

Tools 8

Tools Participative Planning Education 8