Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

By adopting an open strategy, leadership teams can access diverse external knowledge sources and become aware of their biases, while also building buy-in to accelerate execution. Christian reports that corporates with open-minded leadership have over 50% of all strategic initiatives open. Are You Ready To Open Up Your Strategy?

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Adam Hartung

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Leadership touted a higher same store sales number, but that is completely misleading. McDonald’s leadership has undertaken a back to basics program. As customer counts are declining, leadership is trying to pull more money out of its declining “core.” McDonald’s profits rose 23%.

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Adam Hartung

AUGUST 2, 2015

in 2002 , in order to grease the wheels for faster ecommerce growth. Based on its current market leadership and position as likely game changer for the banking sector, Paypall is selling for about 8 times revenue. But leadership became complacent, and now it is very likely overvalued. So eBay bought fledgling PayPal for $1.5B

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Michael Roberto

AUGUST 29, 2019

They studied 2,356 companies between 2002 and 2013. Here's their description of the research : We culled transcripts of conference calls between 2002 and 2013 involving both the CEOs and CFOs, and measured the executives’ optimism and pessimism by analysing their use of positive and negative words.

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Mills-Scofield

OCTOBER 23, 2016

2002: AT&T sells AT&T Broadband to Comcast for $47.5B I saw this and worked on this firsthand. It wasn’t pretty. It led to a lot of spending with little success: 1999: AT&T pays $44B to buy the cable company TCI, creating AT&T Broadband. after having invested about $58B more for a total of $102B in AT&T Broadband.

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Training How To Design Culture 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. In addition to leadership development programs being used to help leaders “go digital,” these programs need to reflect the new realities of the digital and democratized workplace. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

In their unceasing quest for market leadership, these firms have embraced the constant and relentless hunt for "what's next"⃜ for the next innovation that will advance their markets to the next stage.

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The BMI Lab Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The growing percentage of funds allocated to technology innovation clearly shows China's ambition on innovation leadership (source: Prof. BYD became the second largest battery company in 2002. Maritime engineering. Biomedical and advanced medical equipment.

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Adam Hartung

AUGUST 16, 2015

As a result Congress passed the Sarbanes Oxley act in 2002 (SOX,) which greatly increased the duties of Board Directors – as well as penalties if they failed to meet their duties. Some companies went so far as to lie to investors and regulators about their business, until their companies failed from the risks and unlawful activities.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. The change to an emphasis on analytics will require strong leadership. Analytics alone can't carry the day.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

It was also a leadership clash between two political figures with different proposals for the country, and with their own vanities. While he was in office, from 2002–2010, he promoted a hard-line policy with the FARC. This was not just a dispute about whether to live at peace.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. In other words, what if cultivating a successful inner life was front and center on the leadership agenda?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

The days of the ‘Great Man’ theory of Leadership – where one sole leader rules over the masses from their ivory tower, are long gone. A study by Pearce and Sims (2002), published in Group Dynamics, found that shared leadership is a useful predictor of team effectiveness. This isn’t a one-off conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

A recent paper from UCSB found that the return on being good at math has gone up over the last few decades, as has the return on having high social skills (some combination of leadership, communication, and other interpersonal skills). But, the paper argues, the return on the two skills together has risen even faster.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

Here at Harvard Business School, Dean Nitin Nohria has revamped HBS's MBA curriculum to emphasize practical leadership and global experiences. American companies send their most promising leaders abroad for global leadership assignments. In 2011, 71% of HBS's new cases were written about foreign companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it. Yet stories like the one above about Steve Jobs made us wonder: might there be some hidden benefits to overconfidence in the context of corporate leadership? Most of us think of overconfidence as a bad thing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

In 2002 and 2003, partnering with Catalyst , we took a hard look at ourselves. I began every staff and global leadership meeting with the topics of diversity and inclusion. Here are some of the things that we did to improve diversity and inclusion in our workforce. Perhaps these steps can be helpful to your company, too. ?1.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Norway has had a quota since 2002, and women now make up more than 40% of board members. But when the leadership of teams is homogenous — read: dominated by white males — the risk of trouble soars. Both presidential candidates portray the U.S. as a land of opportunity and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

This post is part of an HBR Spotlight examining leadership lessons from the military. When I arrived at the PHC in 2002, it was in financial distress. In reality, there are far more similarities than differences between military and non-profit leadership. They wanted to know what someone coming from the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? Randy MacDonald: "We observed that 80% of leadership development is based on work experience. Fostered global teamwork.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. His windmill made him famous, and he has since traveled all over the world speaking at leadership conferences.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Cathleen Black's appointment raises, first, the perennial question: Is leadership a highly contextual capability? In his 2002 book Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs , the Harvard Business School professor shows how the norm of CEO succession has changed over time. How portable are leaders?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Back in 2002 , when Sam Palmisano took over, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services,such as back-office outsourcing, and personal computers. IBM has gone through its own turmoil.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

For their sample, they utilized 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey of Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESRAC), and narrowed that down to a set of 21,859 full-time employees. Leadership and Managing People Book. The researchers examined more than 20,000 full-time workers across a variety of roles. Further Reading. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

He spent two years as the CFO of power and automation company ABB, from 2002 to 2004, before returning to Shell as CFO. Of course, people are not the same as financial assets, but can you afford to ignore the potential value in cross-boundary leadership development, simply because it is rare?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Visionary leadership is also about helping the company overcome inertia so that it can shift effectively from one frame of mind to another when the time comes. It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why. Take Cisco, for example. Drawing on data from the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

When Palmisano took over in early 2002, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services (such as back-office outsourcing), and personal computers (PCs). Palmisano became leader of a great company that had stumbled badly in the 1980s and had been returned to health in the 1990's by Lou Gerstner.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

There were a lot of things we changed, from the leadership team to package design — you've read about those. Gallup, the polling and research firm, studied the engagement levels of Campbell's managers back in 2002 and found that for every 2 people actively engaged in the business, 1 was actively disengaged.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 2002, unsure of what to do with his life, he takes off to surf in Indonesia and Australia. What’s the connection between poetry and great leadership? He wants to capture live-action shots from his surfboard. The only cost-effective way to do this is by strapping a disposable camera to his wrist with rubber bands.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. It is logically impossible to maximize in more than one dimension at the same time.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

It was an incredible leadership school for me. Following the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was passed in 2002 and created a number of new governance rules for firms as well as stricter penalties for governance misconduct, the number of current CEOs willing to serve on outside boards has dwindled. ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Ma and the Alibaba leadership team would retain management control.

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Software Review Technical Review Marketing Leadership 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Fired from that firm in 2002, he now runs a nonprofit and two biotech companies. We asked him how he sees leadership: “You’ve got to understand an issue very well and be able to simplify it and make people understand it and believe in it the way you do. ” Leadership Career planning'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Outsiders, in effect, have become more of an intentional leadership choice than a stereotypical hire in a turnaround or crisis situation. Last year 7% of incoming CEOs hired held the joint title of chair, a record low in the study — that’s down from 48% in 2002. That’s nearly double the rate from 2004 to 2007.

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