Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2014

And since study after study tells us that the most important driver to employee satisfaction is the manager-employee relationship, it only stands to reason that companies should be placing their bets on middle managers to hold the ship together. Use a management cascade so that information goes to them before employees.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

After a long and successful run, the theory of disruptive innovation has come under attack of late. In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? Disruptive innovation is a parsimonious theory that explains many business failures.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

On the other hand, most large sample studies in the accounting literature show something different: firms that manage their earnings perform better than firms that don’t (and not just in the short term). I spoke with Professor Henderson about their research. Managers may think that the capital markets are the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The discussion with Michael Toffel and Rebecca Henderson of Harvard Business School, Tensie Whelan of NYU’s Stern School of Business, and Andrew Winston of Winston Eco-Strategies has been condensed and edited for clarity. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. That model still exists, including in online publishing where companies like Automattic, maker of the open source content management system WordPress, sell hosting and related services to publishers. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Co. Our advisers: Rebecca Henderson. Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Short-term rewards too often take precedence over the longer-term interests and viability of a company. Climate Change on HBR.org. by Forest L.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

managers , he said the proportion of U.S. ” A good example of customer-centricity is Tumi , the innovative U.S.-based Henderson of the University of Oregon and Irina V. The idea that companies should adopt customer-centric structures has been around in both academia and practice for a while, but it was George S.

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Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

But as a strategy professor, I wondered which tools from the study of management could help. Clay Christensen associates these events with innovations that change what customers demand. Others, such as Rebecca Henderson, point to innovations that change what it takes organizationally to deliver what customers want.

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