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"We Need People to Lean into the Future"
McMillon, Doug; Ignatius, AdiArtículo HBS-R1702F-EFor years, Walmart's unrivaled customer research capabilities helped it dominate retailing. Then along came the internet, and Walmart suddenly found itself playing catchup to e-commerce pioneers like Amazon. In 2014 the board appointed Doug McMillon as CEO and gave him an imperative: Bring Walmart into the future--without sacrificing its longtime strengths. McMillon, who began his career unloading trucks at a neighborhood Walmart, respects tradit...Desde 8,20 €
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"They Burned the House Down"
Lynton, Michael; Ignatius, AdiArtículo HBS-R1507J-EIn 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment was subjected to the most devastating hack in corporate history. Highly sensitive data--salary details, private e-mails (some of them harshly critical of top Hollywood talent), unreleased movies--was leaked for all the world to see. For good measure, the hackers wiped out everything on Sony Pictures' servers. Then they threatened retaliation against any theaters that proceeded with the release of "The Interview...Desde 8,20 €
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The HBR Interview: eBay CEO John Donahoe
Donahoe, John; Ignatius, AdiArtículo HBS-R1103G-EJohn Donahoe took over for Meg Whitman, eBay's celebrated longtime CEO, just under three years ago. The core business was slipping, and eBay's acquisition of Skype had gone wrong. The challenge facing him was how to keep the company strong despite enormous changes in consumer behavior. He talks about capitalizing on mobile technology-eBay's iPhone application, "by far the largest m-commerce application in the world," went from $600 million in vol...Desde 8,20 €
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Life's Work: John Cleese
Cleese, John; Ignatius, AdiArtículo HBS-R1403M-EThe comic icon shares his thoughts on creativity, corporate humor, and how the team behind Monty Python made decisions.Desde 8,20 €
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Captain Planet
Polman, Paul; Ignatius, AdiArtículo HBS-R1206H-EDirección estratégicaWhen Polman became CEO of the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever, in January 2009, it was his first time in the role of chief executive. That doesn't appear to have inhibited him: Since then he has transformed Unilever into one of the world's most innovative corporations. In addition to abolishing earnings guidance and quarterly reporting (on day one as CEO), he launched a plan to double corporate revenue by 2020 while simultaneously reducing the...Desde 8,20 €
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"Now is Our Time"
Sandberg, Sheryl K.; Ignatius, AdiArtículo HBS-R1304F-EAt 43, Sheryl Sandberg can look back on an already illustrious career that began with her graduation summa cum laude from Harvard and moved through the World Bank, Harvard Business School, McKinsey, the U.S. Treasury Department, and Google before landing her at Facebook, where she manages the social media giant's complex business operations. Nevertheless, she has faced her own internal barriers to success, which is part of the reason for her para...Desde 8,20 €
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"I Try to Spark New Ideas"
Lagarde, Christine; Ignatius, AdiArtículo HBS-R1311J-EAt 57, Christine Lagarde has held top jobs in government, in the private sector, and now at a big global institution, the International Monetary Fund, where she became managing director in 2011. It was a doubly challenging time to take the helm: Lagarde's predecessor, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was embroiled in scandal, and the global economy remained in dire straits. In this interview with HBR's editor in chief, Lagarde talks about what it takes to...Desde 8,20 €
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"Don't Try to Protect the Past"
Rometty, Ginni; Ignatius, AdiArtículo HBS-R1704K-EGinni Rometty has spent 36 years at IBM, where she now serves as president, CEO, and chairman of the board. She is on a protracted mission to reinvent the company as a cloud-based "solutions" business. That transformation involves moving into areas that have higher value and shedding ones that don't. IBM's new businesses around cloud, data, and security account for almost $34 billion in revenue. They're growing by more than 13% a year and constit...Desde 8,20 €
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"Above All, Acknowledge the Pain"
Sandberg, Sheryl K.; Grant, Adam; Ignatius, AdiArtículo HBS-R1703L-ESheryl Sandberg's life seemed ideal--she had a great job, a best-selling book, a loving family. But in the spring of 2015, her husband was felled by a cardiac condition while the couple was vacationing in Mexico. Struggling to regain her footing after his death, she reached out to her friend Adam Grant, a Wharton professor and author, to explore what research tells us about resilience. That led to their collaboration on the newly published book "...Desde 8,20 €
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"Managers Don't Have All the Answers"
Dimon, Jamie; Ignatius, AdiArtículo HBS-R1804K-EDimon has been at the helm of JPMorgan Chase, the biggest bank in the United States, for more than 12 years. A straight-talking guy from Queens (albeit a billionaire with an MBA from Harvard Business School), he has led the bank on a steady path of growth, having weathered both the 2008 financial crisis and the "London Whale" trading scandal. Dimon calls that latter episode "the stupidest and most embarrassing situation I have ever been a part of...Desde 8,20 €