Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Welch was convinced that the speed of globalization and technological innovation in the 21 st century would require companies to work very differently – with shorter decision cycles, more employee engagement, and stronger collaboration than had previously been required to compete. This was delaying product production.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs. And sameness blocks performance and innovation. Diversity, on the other hand, spurs innovation. ” The Power of Additive Contribution.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Its earnings were down 73% from the quarter a year earlier and it missed the analysts' consensus estimate of $0.24 Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. . You typically don't get misunderstood for sustaining innovation.".

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

There is a general consensus among economic analysts and commentators that the changes are merely cosmetic — they certainly do not affect the daily lives of most average Nigerians, and their timing might be politically motivated given the upcoming 2015 elections which are expected to be highly contested.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

These conversations highlighted some attitudes and values that seemed to go a long way toward explaining Silicon Valley’s innovation identity. The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. Here are the ones that struck us most: Lace audacity with grit. Build platforms, not products.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The international political consensus of the universal economic benefits of globalization that defined much of the 20th and early 21st centuries is breaking down. The positive consensus toward globalization that defined the U.S. This rising generation reflects and reinforces China's growing nationalism. The young in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

You start by using analysts' reports and other sources to gauge the consensus expectations for value drivers — sales growth, operating profit margins, cost of capital and other factors that determine cash flows. Disruptive Innovation Comes to Health Care. Rappaport's article was published shortly after I graduated from college.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. million Health Care Innovation Award and several other pediatric ACOs have also been formed with the assistance of Medicaid funding. Lauri Rotko/Folio Images/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Interestingly, individuals working in customer service, sales, production, logistics and R&D were more likely to feel that bureaucracy was growing than those working in functions like HR, finance, planning, purchasing, and administration. Bureaucracy frustrates innovation. Not so for most of the organizations in our survey.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

But unlike most Japanese innovations, it did not come from a big established firm. Organizations that entered when VC fundings were booming were increasingly likely to fail, and those financed in a VC funding boom were unlikely to make it to an IPO. The loners, those willing to go against the consensus, are anything but predictable.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

Determined to get closer to their customers and become more agile and innovative, global organizations like IBM and GE are embracing the matrix organizational model. Influence and conflict management capabilities help leaders to build consensus around a common purpose and deliver the collaborative solutions that the matrix requires.

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Management Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Influence 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

So when Amazon reports below-consensus earnings, as it did Tuesday, and the share price jumps, as it did after-hours Tuesday and again Wednesday morning, the reaction isn't quite the puzzle it seems. Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

There is strong bipartisan consensus that our current level of health care spending does not deliver sufficient value in terms of individual or population health. These efforts have addressed the infrastructure, processes, and financing (e.g., Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

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Cost Health Care Insurance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. But where's the evidence for convergence?

Globalization 14

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 14

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

In a business, entitlement inhibits innovation. And without innovation, we have sluggish economic growth. As can becoming a benevolent dictator to my staff, deciding that seeking consensus is no longer required. It's no wonder then that the emerging markets are a seedbed of innovation. They are our birthright.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Over the last few decades, innovation activity has become concentrated in clusters or ecosystems, where finance, academia, industry and entrepreneurs rub shoulders to allow the free flow of ideas. Innovating our response to Covid-19. In part these may be fed by the fact it is easy to find social consensus.”.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

There is strong academic consensus that climate change–driven water scarcity, rising global temperatures, and extreme weather will have severe long-term effects on crop yields. To attract more financing and investment in agriculture, the risks need to be reduced by governments.

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Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. The unstoppable force of blockchain technology is barreling down on the infrastructure of modern finance. Third, it’s exclusionary, denying billions of people access to basic financial tools. Distributed Database.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Lean cost models that make use of globally centralized control functions (finance, compliance, legal, risk) will no longer be deemed sufficient. They must now pay far more attention to innovation and politics. Fourth are the broader demands for corporations to be socially responsible. ”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

company takes on the legal identity of foreign subsidiary, usually in order to reduce its taxes — has become about as controversial as corporate finance topics get. We have some of our largest and most innovative companies doing this. I actually am optimistic that we can get there; there’s a fair amount of consensus about that.

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Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The consensus is the challenges facing them will be daunting and organizations will be strained to finance and manage it. The transformation will necessitate substantial investments in finance, technology, human capital, operations, and infrastructure, and a substantial disinvestment of legacy resources in these areas.

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