Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2011

So what can we expect in 2012 in a world that seems to grow ever connected by the hour? But for the next year, the cult of influence becomes less about consumer plays like Klout and more about the tools and techniques professionals use to "score" digital influence and actually harness, scale and measure the results of it.

Media 22

Media Travel Government Scaling 22

Peter Winick

JUNE 20, 2024

So if you want to work with me the entire time, then yeah, I know a very talented couple of designers and editors and indexers and e-book conversion folks, so we can scale up and scale down as needed. I will compare myself, Peter, on a much, much smaller scale to some something like Amazon Web Services.

Marketing 33

Marketing Software Scaling Engineering 33

AIHR

MARCH 24, 2023

Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS) The Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS) method uses a predefined set of performance standards with specific behaviors describing each level of performance. As you can see here, they use a five-point scale mapped on three competency levels.

Performance Management 100

Performance Management Scaling Performance Review Implementation 100

AIHR

APRIL 8, 2020

Examples are: Knowledge hiding questionnaire: a 12-item scale developed by Connelly et al. Interpersonal trust among employees: a six-item scale by Cheng & Li (2001). A 20-item scale on HR attributions by Nishii et al. An example item is: “‘I think my colleagues are worthy of trust”.

Scaling 86

Scaling Banking Implementation Revenue 86

UVA Darden

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

It’s about starting small and scaling up, understanding that even little gestures can have a big impact. In 2012 Parmar wrote the article “Moving Design from Metaphor to Management Practice” in the Journal of Organizational Design. Parmar’s work helps executives better handle ambiguity in their decision-making. University of Virginia.

Business Administration 98

Business Administration Administration Education Organizational Change 98

Liquid Planner Collaboration

JULY 7, 2020

Then there are the unpredictable and devastating external factors like COVID-19 that disrupt on an unprecedented scale. Countless projects have been delayed or temporarily suspended as a result of the pandemic, labor shortages, and disruption to supply chains.

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Manager Project Management Deliverables Media 91

Chief Executive

MARCH 2, 2023

Many mid-market manufacturers face a big decision as they attempt to scale up: To make or buy their goods? We had a binary situation,” Tierney, a former highly rated Michelin chef who founded Stuffed Puffs in 2012 based on his highly indulgent marshmallow recipe, told Chief Executive.

Scaling 52

Scaling Assets Engineering Marketing 52

Wendy Hirsch

AUGUST 14, 2020

As complexity and scale increase so do the leadership demands of change. It’s true, a single person can lead a change if the scope, scale, and complexity are relatively low. This is significant, as some research has indicated that influence via diverse informal networks is linked with success in large-scale changes.

Organizational Change 52

Organizational Change Diversity Scaling Government 52

Wendy Hirsch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Ford & Ford, 2012). Changes of any kind of scale, such as those that impact multiple functions or locations, if not an entire enterprise, require some degree of co-leadership. scale change: Employee evaluations of process and outcome in seven facility relocations. The heroic leader, if you will. P., & Geyer, P.

Organizational Change 52

Organizational Change Implementation Change Management Scaling 52

Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. Once you reach scale, fraud becomes a real issue. This often requires doing things that don’t scale at first. but enough did.

Retention 111

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AIHR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

But this human resource example can be implemented on a smaller scale as part of recognition and rewards programs. Companies like WATT Global Media , an agribusiness content marketing company, have been using ROWE since 2012. Of course, not all organizations can afford to do the same for every employee. But they must deliver results.

Human Resources 105

Human Resources Onboarding Retention Diversity 105

Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

And launching and scaling these products requires a mastery of “network effects,” one of the most-used but misunderstood jargon terms in the industry. It wasn’t until 2012, at the beginning of the explosion in mobile apps, that yet another generation of dating apps would emerge.

Marketing 95

Marketing Assets Recruitment Operations 95

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

I have been thinking lately about how hard it is to scale start-ups. But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? After all, scaling is hard. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 Really hard.

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Scaling Revenue Marketing Media 15

15Five

MARCH 2, 2017

According to Rand Fishkin , the founder of the successful marketing software company, Moz , “the biggest danger for subscription businesses is to start scaling up effort, money, people and time into marketing and growth before you have high enough retention and a low enough churn rate”. Is Growth Always a Good Thing? Click To Tweet.

Software 56

Software B2B Retention Benchmarking 56

AIHR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It identifies the skills that employees need but don’t yet have to carry out their job or perform certain tasks effectively ( Antonucci, Ovidio, 2012 ). Scoring – The skill assessments are expressed on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest level.

Benchmarking 98

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

But there’s a critical problem with Tesla’s product strategy: it’s not actually disruptive , which will likely cause it to struggle to scale. To scale, Tesla will eventually have to grow down market but there are real impediments to doing so. First, the Model X, an SUV expected to debut towards the end of this year.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Scaling is hard. So I'm highlighting a few companies outside of the Google/Amazon/Facebook pantheon that have built large, sustainable, profitable business models at scale. So I'm highlighting a few companies outside of the Google/Amazon/Facebook pantheon that have built large, sustainable, profitable business models at scale.

Scaling 11

Scaling Travel Engineering Revenue 11

Brian Balfour

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Andy Carvell joined SoundCloud in 2012, when the company was just over 80 employees and 10 million monthly active users. Because of that scale and complexity, they weren’t going to say, "Okay, we’ve built these ten push notifications. Let's push them live.

Retention 62

Retention Benchmarking Metrics Rollout 62

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

But the female edge in education (63% vs 37%) in Brazil is at the top of the scale, next to Sweden's. In the 2012 Grant Thornton survey of the gender balance in senior executive roles, for example, Brazil had 27% women and 73% men, compared to the US with 17% women and 83% men. percentage points between 2000 and 2010.

Diversity 22

Diversity Scaling Education Manager 22

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

There were five finalists in the race to host the 2012 Olympic Games. The 2012 candidates all had a sophisticated view of the advantages, not only of winning their bids, but also even of simply making a bid. Using London in 2012 as an example, the Opening Ceremony of the Games was fixed for 9:00GMT on July 27, 2012.

Media 15

Media Scaling Travel Revenue 15

Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. Once you reach scale, fraud becomes a real issue. This often requires doing things that don’t scale at first. but enough did.

Retention 48

Retention User Experience Travel Marketing 48

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. Consider, too, that when threats materialize at large-scale events, the damage often spills over to other parties.

Risk Management 17

Risk Management Manager Insurance Government 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

A bit of background: We launched #GivingTuesday in September 2012 and just 75 days later — four days after Thanksgiving — Americans in all 50 states came together to inaugurate a new "opening day" for the giving season. Follow the Scaling Social Impact insight center on Twitter @ScalingSocial and give us feedback.

Media 19

Media Nonprofit Scaling 19

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

For a sense of scale, the national ouput of Ireland in 2007 was 155 billion euros. In Spain, really only the scale is different. By March 2012 unemployment was 24.1 Such levels of unemployment will accelerate defaults in the mortgage market; depress growth; and may lead to large-scale social unrest and political turmoil.

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Balance Sheet Real Estate Banking Assets 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Among the findings: 63% of firms now report having Big Data in production in 2015, up from just 5% in 2012. 63% of firms reported that they expect to invest greater than $10 million in Big Data by 2017, up from 24% in 2012. 54% of firms say they have appointed a Chief Data Officer, up from 12% in 2012.

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Metrics Implementation Operations Culture Change 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

To take the Obama campaign as an example, look at their move from having two databases in 2008 to one in 2012. And then you can do that at scale. So you're saying it lets you be small, but at scale? Over and over we're seeing this ability to be precise and differentiated, at scale and repeatedly, with a lot more efficacy.

Scaling 18

Scaling Assets Hospitality Implementation 18

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. Generating fast, demonstrable growth of local firms is fundamental for scaling up any regional economy. strategic hires).

Scaling 13

Scaling Banking Balance Sheet Sales 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Along with a newly enriched investment class, business leaders in the South are on the move, tapping into the readily available funding and expertise they need to grow, and scaling up fast to grab once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. They think large-scale. The discipline of tight margins never left him.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

Havas Sports & Entertainment (HS&E) provided advice to a number of brands considering sponsorship of the 2012 Games. As strategic sponsorship consultants, though, we were conscious that while we provided analysis and evidence, we weren't working with as much hard statistical fact as we would have liked for the scale of the decision.

Revenue 15

Revenue Scaling Media Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Startups excel at giving birth to successful proof of concepts; larger companies are much better at successfully scaling proof of concepts. But they often stumble at scaling their proof of concept, not only because they’re often doing it for the first time, but also because the skills necessary for creating are not the same as scaling.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Instagram had only 13 employees when it sold for $1 billion to Facebook in 2012, and Snapchat has approximately 350 employees. But what’s even more notable is that these digital companies are staying small and keeping headcount low, even as the business scales. Smart headcount growth that optimizes technology is essential.

Scaling 14

Scaling Engineering Assets Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

The nonprofit sector is facing a massive talent shortage , which makes scaling a social enterprise extraordinarily difficult. Indeed, three of Year Up's five senior leaders came to us from the private sector, and their skillsets have been vital to scaling our impact. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group.

Nonprofit 14

Nonprofit Recruitment Scaling Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Here’s a brief account of how GE quickly scaled up a sizable software start-up within a big, successful conglomerate. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors. By June of 2012 we were close to 100. Getting Started. By the end of the year we were 500 people.

Software 14

Software User Experience Recruitment Scaling 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

As she navigated through spreadsheets and dashboard screens — each created by a different person for a different purpose — the only constant was the title of the report, "2012 Actuals." This single report had sixteen different versions, not to mention numerous formats, colors, column names and figures.

Revenue 16

Revenue Sales Sales Scaling 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

But no less planned or executed than another viral blockbuster — the OMGPOP team's March 2012 breakout of Draw Something , a Pictionary-like game. Teams scaled the cloud implementation to handle the massive load without downtime. The Invisible Children, Inc. Emergent, yes.

Media 16

Media Assets Marketing Engineering 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Harman created a scaled-down version of its high-end system which proved a dismal failure in poor countries. In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic.

Engineering 16

Engineering Transportation Marketing Scaling 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

After all, the legislation, passed in 2012 but stuck in SEC rule making until now, was intended to boost America’s entrepreneurial economy. The biggest barrier for most startups isn’t raising that first round of capital — it’s scaling, which in some ways is getting even harder.

Small Business 13

Small Business Scaling Assets Diversity 13