Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2023

That’s up from zero in 2014, when Apple’s Tim Cook came out. He was president of Disney Store Worldwide; president of consumer products and innovation at 20th Century Fox; global head for consumer products and retail development at Dreamworks Animation; and CEO of the Clare’s Stores chain. Is there a glass ceiling for gay executives?

Execution 16

Execution Open-book Retail Finance 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. consumers and certainly fueled some of the frustration that drives the current political climate in America. Nor does political rebellion serve companies or their shareholders well.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. Yet they have already generated tens of millions of dollars in value for Roivant.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 10

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

14) Create a structure in top management that will push every day on the above 13 points. 6) Promote a sharing culture though HR politics (Share: passion, reward, purpose, tasks and ideas). Procedures Poka-yoke , visual management , SMED and 5S. Improvement and Innovation. 19) Celebrate innovation. Leadership.

Deming 28

Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2014

In 2006, a database was created that measured the economic and political power of women in 162 countries. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Diversity & Inclusion business management California Women’s Conference diversity and inclusion Michelle Patterson strategydriven Women Network'

Diversity 63

Diversity Conference Mentor Entrepreneur 63

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It’s so unusual that customers will set the meeting, and then talk about how innovative it was. NO NEWS, NO WEATHER, NO POLITICS, NO RELIGION, or anything negative about people or things. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Send Starbucks gift cards via aceofsales.com. Talk family. Talk hobbies. Talk sports.

Customer Loyalty 51

Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Travel Seminar 51

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. Isaacson makes the point that innovation happens in the real world by teams and not lone geniuses. Isaacson examines too the role of the organizational forms within which innovation takes place—like Bell Labs.

Books 285

Books Wiseman Kotter Leadership 285

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Entrepreneurship aids economic vitality by getting rid of complacent incumbents, accelerating innovation, and creating jobs. For example, one celebrated software company had managed to accumulate 600 vice presidents by the time it reached $4 billion in revenues. ” “Great,” you might say. Considering the following.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

Would-be owners required both political and financial capital, which few had in equal measure. “It’s a new financial world on the verge of a complete reorganization,” said Peter Kenny, managing director at Knight Equity Markets in Jersey City, New Jersey. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Insurance 51

Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 51

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

As the President sets out on a post-speech tour to sell his policies, here are management experts’ perspectives on some of those proposals: Minimum Wage. Vivek Wadhwa of Stanford and Duke argues that this issue must go beyond talk of talent shortages and gluts to focus on innovation and a growing economic pie. Politics'

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Health Care Proposal Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

In a matter of decades, society altogether rearranges itself – its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its arts, its key institutions. How should managers alter their approaches to fit the times? A 2014 McKinsey & Co. Virtually every executive is eager to see his or her organization innovate.

Drucker 14

Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Rogers 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. So what should managers, especially leaders, do? There were several huge snowstorms last year, so 2014 was an anomaly.”

Tacit Knowledge 11

Tacit Knowledge Information Technology Crisis Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Commenting later on van Gennep’s work, anthropologist Victor Turner explained it as “a moment when those being moved in accordance with a cultural script were liberated from normative demands, when they were, indeed, betwixt and between successive lodgments in jural political systems. Lawrence A. billion, and its revenues increased from $6.4

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. So what should managers, especially leaders, do? There were several huge snowstorms last year, so 2014 was an anomaly.”

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Crisis Trends Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

We couldn’t agree more about the need for innovation. Highly mobile populations, the spread of Ebola into densely populated cities, and the need to simultaneously manage multiple outbreaks across disparate localities have made this “epidemic of many outbreaks” difficult to control. In September 2014, the U.S.

Transportation 8

Transportation Innovation Sample Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Managers assess performance. To manage” is “to control.”. Strategy gets set at the top.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Managers assess performance. To manage” is “to control.”. Strategy gets set at the top.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Of course, people do use existing comms and social software to manage quality information and close relationships — the beloved chat app Slack is widely used by couples and families, for example. Both launched in 2014.). But Slack is generally aimed at the enterprise market and doesn’t specialize in intimate relationships.

Media 10

Media Quality Metrics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Politics, perhaps — but the Obama administration has not been any more active in stopping mergers than previous administrations. A careful look at what happened to these deals leads to three lessons for managers contemplating mergers in the future. And several have been stopped dead in their tracks. And they knew it.

Guidelines 8

Guidelines Long-term Short-term Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

With policy makers distracted by political polarization and limited fiscal and monetary room to maneuver in, one thing seems certain: Global businesses must advance a new, credible narrative for globalization, technology, and the role of corporations — and support it with purposeful action.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

For example, after opening its first store in 2014, fast-food chain KFC recently opened its fifth branch in the country. Zimbabwe’s largest telecommunication company Econet Wireless has found success with its online payment platform that helps Zimbabweans manage the challenges of its multi-currency system.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

the approach to digital privacy has been more piecemeal: in effect, it is predicated in part on the idea that the ability of companies to collect, analyze, sell and monetize user data with minimal restrictions is the basis for an innovative digital industry; new users are drawn by free services and companies make money from the data collected.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Constraint Self-aware Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Of all the generations alive today, millennials are the most willing to trade financial return for greater social impact, according to “ Millennials and Money ,” a 2014 study from Merrill Lynch’s Private Banking and Investment Group. According to another study, U.S. As recent events show, they are beginning to act on these principles.

Banking 9

Banking Commitment Class Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Business growth can also depend on factors such as the availability of talent or scarce raw materials that influence, say, a company’s innovation capabilities or its ability to manufacture cost-effectively. Having said that, it is also true that executives need help managing their globalization gambits.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

New energy management software can also help identify consumption inefficiency and automate electricity usage when necessary by collecting site-specific energy data. But before distributed energy can make a greater impact, more comprehensive energy management platforms must be developed. from 2012 through 2014.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

This has certainly been the picture painted by Syriza, the left-wing political party of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and by many friends of Greece and progressive economists. Besides the short-term costs of such a move, history shows us that Greece has never managed to benefit from currency devaluations.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

From the Pope to global CEOs to almost all the world’s political leaders, the most powerful people got on board. A few examples: Dow put forth 2025 targets “to help redefine the role of business in society,” which aim to deliver breakthrough innovations and help build the circular economy. Wall Street wakes up.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. That works out to one manager and administrator for every 4.7 of the U.S.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

But few governments appear to have the money or the political will to foot the up-front costs to prevent or fight fragmentation. The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

Our 2015 trends offer great opportunity – along with some unusual new challenges – for managers in all industries. Toward the end of 2014, Google researchers unveiled a new project that uses neural networks and deep learning to identify multiple elements of a scene without human assistance. Innovation Internet'

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? Many have tried but few have succeeded in developing substantial innovation hubs. counterpart, Match.com.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

I asked, “How will we manage the transition to new types of work and a new knowledge base for the economy?” The same software combined with robotics, 3D printing, and myriad other innovations will continue to eliminate jobs throughout the workforce. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy. Sponsored by Accenture.

Open-book 8

Open-book Technology Offshoring Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

In April, its board increased the amount that could be used for buybacks by the end of March 2017 — to $140 billion from the $90 billion it had authorized in 2014. Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity.

Proposal 8

Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. While 44% of EU residents shopped online in 2014, a paltry 15% bought from another member state; barely up by six and a half percentage points since 2010, according to the European Commission’s (EC) “Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015.” Investing in innovation capacity.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. His pick for Labor Secretary is staunchly opposed to covering overtime pay or increasing minimum wages (something many leading companies have been doing on their own since 2014.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8