Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. A look at any performance measure shows that innovation can come from either size, and that both arguments are oversimplifications. And the CEO sees enabling a culture of collaborative innovation as key.

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Operations Innovation Industry CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

We've all been in conversations on the topics of creativity and innovation when Henry Ford's most famous adage is (excuse the pun) trotted out, usually accompanied by a knowing smirk and air of self-evidence. Battle lines are quickly drawn. Having grown weary of both sides of the debate, I was curious; did Ford utter those words?

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Innovation Mass Marketing Price Market Segmentation 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Companies in the success trap over-exploit their current business models and fail to renew or grow future growth options. Unfortunately, these firms are rare—most follow a path towards lower exploration and risk falling into the success trap. Why does this happen to large companies with a legacy of success?

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Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Of course, Moneyball isn't just a baseball movie; it's Michael Lewis's account of the transformation of an industry by analytical decision-making. The success you achieve with analytics may even transform your industry, as we've seen in professional baseball. But the A's didn't win the World Series in 2002, or any year since.

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Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

In 2002, the year Alibaba.com first became profitable, founder Jack Ma gathered a handful of employees in his office and told them there was a secret project that they had the opportunity to join. ” It’s clear from the documentary, Crocodile in the Yangtze , that Alibaba sees a strong corporate culture as critical to its success.

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Porter Decentralization Film Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Physician reimbursement is just part of a complex puzzle, of course, and our experience at Geisinger is not the only viable approach, even to that one piece. I’d like to describe our model, using some of the hard data that illustrate its success, and then to offer my analysis of the underlying elements that made it work.

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Insurance Cost Incentives Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Its success demonstrates the potential of digital health services, and its approach can serve as a model for applying such services to other chronic diseases. The course usually consists of weekly sessions during the initial four months.

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Health Care Participative Wireless Pharmaceuticals 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

HBS welcomes 6,360 foreign nationals (64% of the total) to its executive education courses each year, enriching the experiences for Americans as well. In 2002 Novartis relocated its research headquarters from Switzerland to Boston and hired Harvard Cardiologist Mark Fishman as its leader.

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Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. The real story behind IBM's success is the course Palmisano set for 21st century global enterprises. They listen as well as they speak.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

” We then collected nine years of play-by-play data (2002 – 2010), totaling almost half a million unique plays. In organizations and industries in which experimentation, innovation, bold strategic moves, and thinking outside the box are valued (e.g., Risk-taking is not inherently good or bad; it depends on the context.

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Participative Rogers Influence Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

What successful companies are doing right. Writing in 2002, the depths of the dot.com bust, she says that business models are “at heart, stories — stories that explain how enterprises work. A new business model may turn on designing a new product for an unmet need or on a process innovation. Insight Center.

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Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. By Patrick M. By David Ulrich.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. Will badges require successful course completion? Taking 'Recofriendations' More Seriously.

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Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

And they face an even greater challenge: maintaining flawless consistency, while simultaneously being innovative and cutting-edge. Of course, consistency and creativity aren’t mutually exclusive. This means achieving precise standardization and strong quality control. Let’s consider an example.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

The success of platform businesses like Alibaba, Airbnb, and Uber is so remarkable that discussion about them often misses just how hard they are to build. For every successful platform, there are many more that struggle or simply don’t make it. For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Related Post : The Leadership Vacuum Share and Enjoy: View Comments John Mike, I believe you are correct in that the key 'qualification' for being effective at helping others is experience and of course that is a word open to considerable interpretation. I believe also you have just kicked the elephant in the room.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. But to explain that, one needs to explain why some companies are so much better at developing software than others and why their innovations don’t seem to be diffusing to their smaller competitors the way Carr thought they inevitably would.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

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. The 2005 Supreme Court dissent arguing that of course cable broadband was a common-carrier telecommunications service was the work of arch-conservative Antonin Scalia.

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Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8