Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The Avon Products Foundation — the charitable arm of the Fortune 500 cosmetics company, illegally appropriated our Breast Cancer 3-Day concept, and on August 11th, 2002, announced their plans for a multi-day walk for breast cancer with full-page ads in major papers across the country. million in 2002 with us, to $11.1

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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. But there was more to the challenge.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. Training and development programs almost universally focus factory-like on inputs and outputs — absorb curriculum, check a box; learn a skill, advance a rung; submit to assessment, fix a problem.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. Knowing and respecting one’s limits is essential, something that El Hage has learned to do. Andy Molinsky.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

Serendipitously, the day after I learned of his condition, a member of Campbell's OPEN network (our human resources network — a.k.a 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.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

This post is part of an HBR Spotlight examining leadership lessons from the military. I told them that the skills I learned in the military would be directly transferable. When I arrived at the PHC in 2002, it was in financial distress. It just takes leadership to point the way, and keep everyone moving in the right direction.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Gardner, who died in 2002 at the age of 89, was a legendary public intellectual and civic reformer — a celebrated Stanford professor, an architect of the Great Society under Lyndon Johnson, founder of Common Cause and Independent Sector. What did Spence learn from Collins? Leadership Managing yourself Personal effectiveness'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Sue Decker, Yahoo’s former president, describes how the deal came about and what Yahoo learned from doing business in China. This success was built on what we learned from our prior efforts, as well as a resolve to take new risks to do what was necessary to succeed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The Lucian Leape Institute report states that “from the quality and safety perspective, transparency is foundational for learning from mistakes and for creating a supportive environment for patients and health care workers.” Internal transparency is hindered when lessons learned aren’t shared freely across the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

It was an incredible leadership school for me. The evidence shows that board appointments increase an executive’s visibility and give him/her access to unique contacts and learning opportunities. ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L. So what do these findings mean for today’s boards of directors and aspiring CEOs?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

It’s the things that scare you the most that you have to do…One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning.” Fired from that firm in 2002, he now runs a nonprofit and two biotech companies. It ended in a tie two years later.) Do what you think is right.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

As that dramatic disintegration played out in early 2002, I had to present our office’s results and perspectives at the firm’s annual partners’ meeting in Switzerland. It also creates the conditions for neurogenesis, allowing people to learn and develop new healthy habits and competencies. Use Language to Shape a Creative Culture.

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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. We’ll learn something important. What’s the connection between poetry and great leadership? He wants to capture live-action shots from his surfboard. We explore it because it’s interesting, meaningful, challenging, and often fun.

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JANUARY 15, 2014

In 2002, we had an offsite strategy session, and we had some consultants come in. In 2002, the worst-case models showed we’d still have over $1 billion in revenue. What lessons have you learned over the last dozen years as CEO? Leadership' People believed this was just a temporary speed bump.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

For many companies, this means extending their repertoire beyond the classical approach to strategy that relies on securing durable advantaged market positions through cost leadership or differentiation. This is easier said than done. Cultivate adaptive capability. Unpredictable environments require adaptation. Cultivate shaping capability.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

and smooth succession to a new CEO in 2002, while continuing an innovation thrust that included grid technologies, cloud computing, and supercomputing. HP needs to broaden perspectives beyond technology to learn from other giants, many of them customers. I studied IBM and HP (and your former company, eBay) for my 2001 book, Evolve.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

When Sir Dave Brailsford became head of British Cycling in 2002, the team had almost no record of success: British cycling had only won a single gold medal in its 76-year history. That quickly changed under Sir Dave’s leadership. We learned as we went. An edited version of our conversation follows.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

But we nonetheless learned some valuable lessons in this important area. And it was an engaged physician leadership that drove the care redesign. Physician reimbursement is just part of a complex puzzle, of course, and our experience at Geisinger is not the only viable approach, even to that one piece. Of course not.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The question on the minds of most managers around the world is, well, how did he do this (and can we learn some of those things)? In the new book, Great by Choice , Jim Collins and Morten analyzed the 1997-2002 period and discovered something interesting. Hid did it all.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Upon his retirement in 2002, Bill invented a new life and purpose (by making little bets, I might add shamelessly) to write and to teach. The new book is about how to create a great personal board of directors or tribe, along with all the norms, practices, and feedback mechanisms to support your leadership (and life).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

in 2002, and should touch 2.0% China’s educational system emphasizes rote learning rather than creative problem solving. As Lee Kai-Fu noted: “The Chinese education system makes people hardworking, teaches people strong fundamentals, and makes them very good at rote learning. of GDP in 2012 from 1.1%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

in 2002, as well as significant corporate governance reforms in the U.K. But a more fundamental reason for better CEO succession practices is that directors and senior corporate leaders are learning from the mistakes of the past. and the European Union. If a failed CEO succession is so costly, then how does it happen?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The CEO of Volkswagen from 1993 to 2002 was famous for his willingness to demote or fire employees who failed to meet expectations. If those who are breaking the rules are rewarded, employees quickly learn that the rules are meant to be broken. His successor frequently berated poorly performing employees. billion in inflated profits.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Asked about retirement in 2002, he replied , "I had a great-grandmother who worked until she was 108 and then died in an accident.". Now Greenberg is 87, and he certainly seems no closer to retiring than he was then. Anything they spot is reported directly, in writing, to Greenberg and a few other executives, including CFO Howard Smith.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

In this massive piece, Nicholas Carlson analyzes Armstrong''s rise from his days as the owner of a strawberry business, uncovering a leadership trajectory that culminated in a proxy war with an activist investor and a final realization that his baby — local-news and listings provider Patch — needed to be trimmed, or else.

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JUNE 20, 2017

This movement is being further fueled by the promise of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and by the ease of collecting and storing data about every facet of our daily lives. Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

However, this kind of rigorous repetition would seem to stymie innovation – by limiting opportunities to learn from mistakes, to quickly prototype, or to search for new ideas – and innovation is another critical dimension for success in the high-end restaurant world.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. Similar to what we’ve learned about creating cultures of innovation, it takes more than a handful of leaders contributing creative brilliance; it takes leaders driving the focus on and readiness for change that going digital requires.

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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

APRIL 28, 2015

It took almost a decade after the term was coined for Rutgers psychologist Daniel Goleman to establish the importance of emotional intelligence to business leadership. My research, along with other recent studies, clearly shows that emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. Learning to recognize the signs, and developing ways to respond to them immediately, can save you hours — and possibly even years — of fruitless effort and wasted resources. Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need.

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