Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. It gives the CEO a breather until the company has to return to exploration to restock its supply of radical ideas. Take Cisco, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002). One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures. These are just a few examples.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The shutdown will be completed by early 2014, bringing to a close a dramatic story of rise and fall at the hands of disruptive technological innovation, or what we have called “ big bang disruption.” As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion. For years, Blockbuster seemed unbeatable.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Dear Meg: Becoming CEO of Hewlett-Packard is almost as big a deal as being Governor of California (your previous aspiration ) — and just as political. But HP is no longer a values-driven, family-like, innovation-oriented company that inspires commitment. There's no time for either. You must get right to work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Had he been born in Texas, he might be a young CEO running an energy company by now, because the funds would inevitably flow.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. Prior to 2002, when Sam Palmisano became CEO, IBM had a series of feuding fiefdoms — 170 country units — each with its own policies, procedures, and processes. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

So the question is really whether the current, mostly hands-off regulatory regime for broadband has led to faster growth and more investment than if Powell, as chairman of the FCC, hadn’t decided in 2002 to classify cable broadband as a lightly regulated “information service” instead of a common-carrier “telecommunications service.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

August 2002: HBR's special innovation issue hits the street, and my contrarian article about the fickle nature of corporate innovation sits sandwiched between stories by the likes of Peter Drucker, Henry Chesbrough, John Seely Brown, and Richard Florida. Breaking Out" stood proudly at the lunatic fringe of innovation.

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Game Theory Open-book Innovation Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. These are the qualities I believe made him the best CEO, so far, of the 21st century: Humility and openness. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% In a recent interview Jane Wales, president and CEO of the Global Philanthropy Forum, argued that emerging philanthropists are acting more like investors than traditional philanthropists. growth in GDP.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Fast forward a few years, and lower growth means fewer interactions with new, demanding customer groups and less inspiration to innovate. 3M owes part of its innovative success to the “new product vitality index.”) Peter Hancock, CEO of AIG, told us: “I always hear, ‘You’re giving me mixed messages.’

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Might a company have the same DNA for its lifetime, but be able to innovate by expressing that DNA into new business models, organizational designs, and offerings? ” And its current focus is on Cognitive Business, led by the machine learning technology called Watson.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

These information services, the thinking went, were better left free to innovate and compete largely exempt from FCC regulation. There is widespread agreement among economists that the current open, modular nature of the Internet has stimulated innovation and growth. An open Internet does seem like a good thing.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 Capitec’s strategy is reminiscent of Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen’s model of disruptive innovation : It did not enter the industry taking its competitors head-on, by offering superior products or services.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2018

“You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology — it’s not only a great tool for democratization, but it’s a great tool for eliminating prejudice.” pm images/Getty Images. of employment in those occupations in 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work. Consider the case of Peter Voser, former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell.

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