Vision - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

Wal-Mart's and Microsoft's dominance in modern business has been attributed to any number of factors, ranging from the vision and drive of their founders to the companies' aggressive competitive practices. But the performance of these two... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

product, move into a more promising market, or adjust to a changing business environment. Whatever the circumstance, he says this action turns on a basic question: “What’s your story?” “How do you maintain trust and project your original View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

after it's no longer appropriate to do it. Laser focus and tunnel vision often cause you to miss data. ... Obsession is great, but have any of you ever charged into an unwinnable situation because you're obsessed? We have a problem in a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Advice on Advice

the field of vision necessary to help.'" But if that's the case, perhaps the adviser can recommend speaking with someone else more qualified. Other advice-giving mistakes include: Communicating the advice poorly Misdiagnosing a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

the bottom. What were they doing differently? A: The Vision and Fusion teams presented a fascinating contrast, partly because they were in the same industry (chemicals) and were working on similar projects. The leader of the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

Embodiments Of Ethnography Another way designers can gain fresh insights into their products is by observing consumers whose physical impediments make using them difficult. Engineers with Ford wore bodysuits that mimicked the vision and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

analysis. And a few are motivated simply by the vision of a better and more humane way of conducting business. Overall, though, my experience has been that probably half, and maybe even two-thirds, categorize ethics mainly as a risk... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

startup’s vision or step back altogether after a larger company takes possession. In 144 of these transactions, the deal effectively closed a failing business. Another 2.9 percent of the companies examined, or 317 ventures, went public... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

20 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

behave. Second, he must recognize that his position does not confer the right to lead, nor does it guarantee the organization's loyalty. He must perpetually earn and maintain the moral mandate to lead. CEOs can easily lose their legitimacy if their View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

management tackle big opportunities. The accelerators are: Create a sense of urgency. Build guiding coalition. Form strategic vision and initiatives. Enlist volunteer army. Enable action by removing barriers. Generate short-term wins.... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

30 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

managers have the courage, but does the CEO have the vision and fortitude to stand before the board and defend the opportunity to explore and fail?" Joe Violette, who reminded us that innovation (as opposed to invention) is most... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

business leaders to step forward and lead in ways that business schools don’t teach. Let’s examine these different ways of leading comprising VUCA 2.0: Vision – Today’s business leaders need the ability to see through the chaos to have a... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

genuinely good plan, pursuing a great idea, or making a needed vision a reality might be filled with frightening risks—even though that is not really the case. There are all sorts of ways to create fear. You have seen a half dozen in the... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

17 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?

vision. By all accounts, she and the others at Theranos, all of them wanted Theranos to succeed. Their vision was incredible; it would have been transformative. The question is, at what point does that wishfulness and enthusiasm go from... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Biotechnology; Technology; Medical Devices & Supplies

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

to have money of her own for a down payment on her EcoTech Visions building. One man, she says in the case, assumed that she must have earned her money as an adult entertainer. Another dismissed her because he didn’t understand the... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

17 Jan 2023
Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

culture, and they often describe it as this one, homogeneous culture. But, really, any company of any reasonable size is an amalgamation of hundreds of subcultures, and some of these subcultures are very much aligned with the vision and... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

based on "industry best-in-class performance measures or direct competitors," Hope and Fraser write; and give teams "an extended period of time to reach them"—two to three years. Atlanta-based eye-care company CIBA View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

06 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

twin mirages of short-term profit or stock market valuations. They have a grand vision for the future of their organizations, and they infect others with their energy, enthusiasm, and integrity. These are the leaders we write books about,... View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

drastic changes in their interactions with consumers. In education, teachers from elementary schools to universities transformed content and delivered it online or through phones. Retailers started to license Amazon's Just Walk Out technology that combines computer... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

Firoz Rasul "Religious practice without a social conscience is deceit," he said. The heart of social vision is providing care for the weak and vulnerable but "charity" that takes away someone's dignity is not... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

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