Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This article showcases a tool that will help you gracefully and mindfully execute a decision you disagree with. We may feel “stuck” in anger, anxiety, and confusion. But, we want to demonstrate resilience to our team and we want to maintain a good relationship with management. So, how do we forge ahead and follow with grace?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2024

But recent research at a food processing company in Colombia outlines some stumbling blocks companies might face when trying to change their structure. Specifically, the researchers and company CEO highlight a series of structural and people dynamics leaders should look out for in their own efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2024

Research and analysis of today’s landscape identifies six key strategic concepts that set outperforming companies apart: Borrow someone’s road, partner with a third party, reveal your strategy, be good, let the competition go, and adopt small scale attacks.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken If I asked 10 people who they thought could be planet Earth’s most customer-centric company, I bet a majority would have the same answer. I’ll share that company’s name at the end of this article. For now, you can guess. Cindy, from my office, had a customer service issue. Here […]

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This article shares some early examples of how new approaches to text and image generation, AI-generated video, customer insights, and more can help boost the competitiveness of SMEs willing to invest in generative AI tools.

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

COVID-19 has revolutionized the way most people live and work, leading to a stark shift in how companies perceive and support employee mental health. Even if a company did increase mental health support, our research indicates it may be temporary. This article has been paid for by Modern Health.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 29, 2021

It turns out that in order to keep consumers buying products year after year, some companies are actually deliberately reducing the quality of their products. In some especially nefarious situations, these companies may be updating their products through software even after you bought them, in order to make the performance worse.

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Michael Roberto

MARCH 12, 2023

Today, Fast Company published my article titled, "Was Ted Lasso's Leadership to Blame for Nate's Betrayal?" The article describes why "giving employees ownership of the win" is very important.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2023

Advancing your career during a company downsizing requires a shift in your mindset and actions. In this article, the author offers five strategies to turn adversity into a stepping stone for your professional growth: 1) Reframe your thinking. 2) Fill the vacuum. 3) Look for quick wins. 4) Negotiate for later.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Many companies sit on piles of cash, even when rates of return suggest they shouldn’t. Researchers have pointed to multiple reasons, including flexibility for M&A and tax advantages. But new research suggests it’s also a form of insurance, especially for smaller firms.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Lack of speed has been troubling companies for decades. Slow-moving companies increasingly will find themselves fighting for relevance or, in some cases, pure survival — and leaders know it. Slow-moving companies increasingly will find themselves fighting for relevance or, in some cases, pure survival — and leaders know it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

But what are early adopter companies really doing with Apple’s new hardware, and what do they hope to get out of these investments? Cosmetics, Hanifa, and the PGA Tour to understand these companies’ strategies. The piece examines efforts from Lowe’s, e.l.f.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A Fast Company article titled Starbucks and Amazon team … Continue reading → Starbucks the Real Winner in Amazon Go Collaboration Recently Starbucks announced a collaboration with Amazon Go on a New York City store that combines Starbucks Pickup concept with Amazon’s Go concept.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

SMEs do not have the same regulatory pressures that can lead larger companies to measure and mitigate their risks, but they also have fewer buffer resources to resist unexpected shocks. They are one large potential incident away from bankruptcy.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

However, some companies and creative individuals have already come up with innovative solutions to the problem. And no, this is not one of those funny articles showing people making their own masks out of bras or plastic bags. Necessity is the mother of invention. These are real innovations to fix the problems at scale.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The authors explore what can go wrong with autonomous agents, and how companies can deploy them responsibly. This evolution is exciting and promises to make our lives much easier — eliminating mundane tasks and helping us become more productive.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2023

GE is well known as an “academy company” — a talent incubator that exports effective leaders to other organizations and even industries.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 6, 2017

So here I have highlighted a small selection of what I believe are some of the best articles, videos and thought pieces on innovation from some of my colleagues from 2016 on their own websites. Greg’s articles always seem to resonate with his readers, which is why they have some of the highest sharing rates of all innovation articles.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Companies are struggling with where to start with generative AI. They call it WINS Work — the places where tasks, functions, possibly your entire company or industry — are dependent on the manipulation and interpretation of Words, Images, Numbers, and Sounds (WINS).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2024

In an annual survey assessing attitudes about data, analytics, and AI, data and technology leaders in large companies reported significant improvement in their organizations’ data culture. To take advantage of this, companies need to invest in experimentation, production deployment, and education.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Public company boards are typically focused on oversight, supporting the management team while keeping a respectful distance from day-to-day operations. In contrast, boards of companies owned by private equity tend to be much more hands-on.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2024

Companies across the economy require new tech workers who have the training in state-of-the art technologies so they can hit the ground running. A model that has been applied at universities such as Arizona State, the University of California San Diego, and Oregon State, and Purdue can help address this need.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2024

There are three immediate challenges for companies that want to train fine-tuned AI models: 1) they require extensive, high-quality data — a scarce resource for many enterprises, 2) third-party AI models can include problematic biases, and 3) training fine-tuned models with users’ personal data may result in privacy violations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2023

To fix that, companies should write core values that stand apart, using literary techniques (such as alliteration or rhyme), short and simple phrases, or unusual words that will stick in employees’ memories. Too many statements of corporate values are generic business cliches. Is it any wonder few employees can actually remember them?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Companies should enable their explorers, build platforms instead of buying products, and prioritize for impact. There are three drivers of AI scale: community, commonality, and coordination.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2024

Companies like Costco, Salesforce, Amazon, and Patagonia demonstrate the power of understanding and capitalizing on unique market differentiators. Strategic clarity is more than operational proficiency; it’s about deeply recognizing a company’s distinctive strengths and aligning every operation with this core identity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2023

This article identifies three common obstacles to scaling innovations and describes a way to overcome them. This leads to lost revenues and higher costs, since teams around the world often end up duplicating (or triplicating, or quadruplicating) investments in solving common problems.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2023

Companies are integrating AI into their operations so quickly that job losses are likely to mount before the gains arrive. Adopting a bias for boldness and a startup mentality will help companies find the agility to make the most of this moment, and protect jobs as a result.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In turbulent times, companies need a reliable anchor to guide decision-making. Second, treat purpose as an organizing principle that guides company structure, strategy, and culture. Three strategies can help. First, tell a big story about what your organization believes in and what it is trying to accomplish.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

As they strive to make their supply chains more resilient, global companies are grappling with two challenges: the difficulty in discerning potential sources and the extended time required to find, vet, and onboard new suppliers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2024

The author analyze project teams across 257 firms to identify why only 60% of planned value is typically realized in change initiatives, focusing on four key factors: effective initial communication (“ACE the Memo”), ensuring resource accessibility and autonomy (“Master the Means”), employing mechanisms to align actions with goals (“Amplify with Mechanisms”), (..)

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 21, 2018

In a recent article from Harvard Business Review , researchers reported that one of the most common barriers to innovation is internal politics. If you’ve got an innovation program at your company, but no one associates it with the company leadership it’s unlikely to be seen as a company mandate.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Companies can rescue qualitative survey data from the trash and dig for deeper insights. GenAI can transform the process of collecting feedback from consumers, reaching more people across more demographics than ever before, and learning more about what they really think.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2024

Worldwide, the past few years have been marked by multiple, intersecting crises — and things aren’t likely to get less complicated anytime soon. The authors met with a group of CEOs to discuss how they lead amid this ongoing chaos. To thrive in this chaotic new world, organizations need leaders with inner strength, character, and a moral compass.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Analyzing data from 515 companies in 35 countries, the authors found that apex firms, especially those sharing a brand with affiliates, engaged less in sustainability initiatives than their lower-tier counterparts. Recent research reveals a troubling trend: apex firms in Business Groups often promote sustainability without substantial action.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

3) Encourage “purpose integration” by tailoring roles that align individual and company aims. By personalizing purpose, businesses can boost productivity and job satisfaction, benefiting both the company and its employees. 2) Promote “purpose sharing” to enhance collaboration and find mutual goals.

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Company Collaboration 94

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Companies like Slack and Dropbox have pioneered the use of Product-Led Growth (PLG). But it can create challenges for growing companies. Eventually, even the best PLG company will need an enterprise sales strategy which takes years to develop. PLG works, at least at first. The answer isn’t to reject PLG.

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