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. Not necessarily.

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Adam Hartung

MAY 15, 2016

Quick Rundown: In January, 2002 Kmart is headed for bankruptcy. Heck, leadership had discontinued the famous catalogues in 1993 to stop store cannibalization and push people into locations where the company could promote more products and services. So that was where he had leadership focus. Chart Source: Yahoo Finance 5/13/16.

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Adam Hartung

AUGUST 16, 2015

Since passage of the Securities Act of 1933, little had been required of Board members other than to applaud management and sign-off on the annual audit. And there was nothing investors could do if a Board “checked out,” even in the face of poorly performing management. But this has changed.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

You’ve taken the leap from front-line individual contributor to professional manager. According to a new study, middle managers are the most likely people in an organization to suffer from depression. The researchers then segmented those individuals into four categories: owners, managers, supervisors, and workers.

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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

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 Or calling.

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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? The data-obsessed Pierce commissioned a third path impact report on PEP.

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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). Economy Managing yourself Research' What does all that have to do with soccer practice?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

How can we possibly serve them well if the managers in our company don't viscerally understand them? In 2002 and 2003, partnering with Catalyst , we took a hard look at ourselves. I am a big believer in "being the change you want to see" in your organization, no matter whether you are a middle manager or a CEO.

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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

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 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

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

MARCH 2, 2012

Here at Harvard Business School, Dean Nitin Nohria has revamped HBS's MBA curriculum to emphasize practical leadership and global experiences. It started 30 years ago with the progressive and unusual step (for that time) of shifting from local nationals as country managers to global leaders from other countries.

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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

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. Leadership Managing yourself Personal effectiveness' What did Spence learn from Collins?

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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). In a near-miraculous feat of management, those consultants were partnered with technologists and successfully integrated into the company.

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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. In effect it leaves the manager with no objective.". It is logically impossible to maximize in more than one dimension at the same time.

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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. Cultivating the Ability to Adapt.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

For example, employees may be reluctant to report safety issues or errors for fear of being reprimanded by their managers or shunned by their colleagues. The most effective way to build a culture of transparency begins with those in leadership positions. There can be many barriers, some of which can be quite complex.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Like the Premier League in soccer, Khazanah plays the role of investor and broker, creating a structure that allows the borrowing and lending companies to mitigate the risk and costs of managing the loans themselves. He spent two years as the CFO of power and automation company ABB, from 2002 to 2004, before returning to Shell as CFO.

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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. Research & development Financial management' It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why. Take Cisco, for example.

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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. Change management Mergers & Acquisitions'

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

” Only few firms manage to be ambidextrous—most struggle to maintain a healthy balance between exploration and exploitation. And managers focused on immediate total shareholder returns may be delighted with high performance. Some firms manage to maintain this dual discipline as they grow. points p.a.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. In a typical big data project, a manager engages an internal or external team to collect and process data, hoping to extract insights related to a particular business problem.

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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. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

I managed my restaurant from my hospital bed, by writing the menus, for example. ” And she admits she “was not initially the best manager.” ” “It took a while for me to understand that management is an art… I learned that you really can’t expect everyone to be just like you.

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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. I think the British government is already very much clued in to novel management approaches.

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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. Coaching Hiring Leadership Managing people Organizational culture' As you can imagine, that was not an easy time for me. Building a Feedback-Rich Culture.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

This question was at the heart of a recent study we conducted that is forthcoming at the Academy of Management Journal. It was an incredible leadership school for me. What do executives gain from serving on boards? ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L. Finally, our findings have implications for firms seeking new board members.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

While our own physicians are still largely reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis from non-Geisinger insurance payers, since 2002, we’ve been using the following 80/20 compensation model: 80% of total cash compensation is based on the usual piecework metrics: panel size, number of patients seen, number of work units performed, and so on.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Our own research on organizational strategy and leadership more broadly suggests a reason. Since 2010, we've been conducting an ongoing survey of managers' attitudes about the strategies of their organizations ( click here to take the not-for-profit version of the profiler). Why the disparity?

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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. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure. David Kopans. Andy Molinsky.

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