Harvard Business Review 2019 (January–February)

Год выпуска: January–February 2019

Автор: Harvard Business Review USA

Жанр: Бизнес

Издательство: «Harvard Business Review USA»

Формат: PDF (журнал на английском языке)

Количество страниц: 160

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THE PRICE OF "SUCCESS"

EVER SINCE ADAM SMITH noted the benefits of dividing up labor, efficiency has been management's highest goal. Reducing waste and increasing productivity drove the Industrial Revolution and inspired "management science," which holds that efficiency is fundamental to competitive advantage. "The belief in the unalloyed virtue of efficiency has never dimmed," writes Roger Martin in this month's Spotlight (page 41). Today, he adds, efficiency is "promoted in the classrooms of every business school on the planet."

What if that orthodoxy is wrongheaded and dangerous? Martin argues that it has led ineluctably to the intense concentration of wealth and power that creates many losers and far too few winners in business and society at large.
We don't have to accept that outcome, he says. His proposed remedy? Business, government, and education should focus on a less immediate source of competitive advantage: resilience. Two of Martin's ideas to that end — limiting firms' scale via antitrust policy, and introducing friction through trade barriers and other measures — directly challenge many precepts powering platform-based businesses such as Facebook and Amazon.
The key ingredient in Martin's vision is balance — between efficiency and resilience; between short-term realities and the goal of long-term sustainability. The ability to understand and achieve it is, of course, the essence of good leadership.

Сontents

Harvard Business Review

ECONOMICS & SOCIETY

THE HIGH PRICE OF EFFICIENCY

Eliminating waste is the holy grail of management science—but overemphasizing it leads to a host of problems. Companies should pay just as much attention to resilience.

Roger L. Martin

ANALYTICS

SUCCESS BREEDS INEQUALITY

What the data shows
Jacob Greenspon and Darren Karn

LEADERSHIP

"THE COSTS OF COMPLEXITY ARE HARD TO SEE"

A conversation with Jim Hackett, CEO of Ford Motor Company

CULTURE

The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures

Creativity can be messy. It needs discipline and management.
Gary P. Pisano

OPERATIONS

Retailers Are Squandering Their Most Potent Weapons

Salespeople are an asset, not an expendable cost.
Marshall Fisher, Santiago Gallino, and Serguei Netessine

MARKETING

What Does Your Corporate Brand Stand For?

It's harder to create a strong identity for an entire company than for a product. This tool kit can help you get there.
Stephen A. Greyser and Mats Urde

INNOVATION

Cracking Frontier Markets

 Investing in innovation in emerging economies is the secret to creating wealth and fostering inclusive, sustainable development.
Clayton Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, and Karen Dillon

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Calculating the Value of Impact Investing

An evidence-based way to estimate social and environmental returns.
Chris Addy, Maya Chorengel, Mariah Collins, and Michael Etzel

INNOVATION

When Your Moon Shots Don't Take Off

How science fiction and other unconventional tools can fire the imagination and lead to breakthrough growth.
Nathan Furr, Jeffrey H. Dyer, and Kyle Nel

STRATEGY

Why Some Platforms Thrive...and Others Don't

 What Alibaba, Tencent, and Uber teach us about networks that flourish. The five characteristics that make the difference.
Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti

ANALYTICS

Data Science and the Art of Persuasion

 Organizations struggle to communicate the insights in all the information they've amassed. Here's why, and how to fix it.
Scott Berinato

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Giving After Disasters

 When corporate aid has the most impact plus A roundup of the latest management research and ideas.

DEFEND YOUR RESEARCH

Mindfulness Is Demotivating

 Being present in the moment may have a downside.

MANAGING YOURSELF

Why Your Meetings Stink— and What to Do About It

 Strategies for engagement.
Steven G. Rogelberg

CASE STUDY

Bad Blood on the Senior

Team How should a CEO address friction between his CFO and the sales chief?
Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

SYNTHESIS

Ideal Worker or Perfect Mom?

 You can't be both. Stop trying.
Alison Beard

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