Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Steve Jobs landed the number one spot in our ranking of the best CEOs in the world, published in HBR in January 2010. In our CEO ranking, we used three metrics to score a CEO ( see the January 2010 article for the methodology ). Steve Jobs combined creativity with discipline, and innovation with scale. million, a 35.4%

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CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

On March 18, 2010, an Apple engineer left what looked like an iPhone 3 in a German beer garden in Redwood, California. For instance, Apple filed applications for the original iPhone only four days before it was announced in 2007; for the original iPod in 2001, the filing was one day before release.

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Magazine Engineering Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

The innovation research identifies the tyranny of large numbers as a common (and vexing) problem for leaders as companies grow, well documented by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen in The Innovators Solution , Jim Collins in How the Mighty Fall , and by Scott Anthony on this blog.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” How to Brand a Next-Generation Product. Bagged salad would not have risen to what is now, a $2.5-billion-a-year Developing the Global Leader.

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Education Execution Content Cooper 8