Steve Farber

MARCH 27, 2017

Researchers with Deloitte , for instance, found that “ mission-driven ” companies typically are first or second in their market segment, have 30 percent higher levels of innovation, and have 40 percent higher retention levels. But success came because he invested in more than mere surveys. That sounds easy enough.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

About 7 percent of the population wore eyeglasses in 2002, while whopping 65 percent of those in need did not have them. Looking for innovations they could reapply, Essilor built upon the model of mobile cataract surgery vans that first made these surgeries affordable to the masses. This isn't particularly surprising.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

A few weeks back, we saw firsthand a hotbed of innovation in a place that many observers had long ago given up on. PARC fell off the innovation radar screen. It has delivered a stunning array of software and hardware innovations to global corporations, startups, and the U.S. and then letting most of it slip away.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. A few years later, Iger made another successful deal to buy Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion in 2009. This strategy has been, in itself, Disney’s great breakthrough innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

The speech resonated with me, so while serving as his lead researcher in 2001 and 2002, I returned to his classroom to hear it again. My own view is that there are three secrets to Christensen's success: 1. He is a wonderful human being who has brought great clarity to many of the mysteries of growth and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The concept of open innovation has moved from business phrase to business reality over the last ten years. When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

I'm often asked by companies how many experiments are needed to find a good "hit rate" of successes. Ironically, one of the co-founders of Twitter was Ev Williams, who had earlier sold Google Pyra Labs, which became the foundation for its successful Blogger.com platform. Google Answers (April 2002 to November 2006).

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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. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Interactive capacity includes: Mutualism – ability to see your success in the success of others.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. The success you achieve with analytics may even transform your industry, as we've seen in professional baseball.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. There are few human activities whose success is measured by a single metric. And it avoids confusing success with measurability.

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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. Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights. patent on July 31, 1790, there was a market for ideas and investing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

These investments included Nordstrom.com and a perpetual inventory system that allowed Nordstrom to offer a consistent multi-channel experience by 2002. What successful companies are doing right. Innovation Strategy Technology' Insight Center. Making Money with Digital Business Models. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. In 2002 Novartis relocated its research headquarters from Switzerland to Boston and hired Harvard Cardiologist Mark Fishman as its leader.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. If earnings are low, “the market sells first and asks questions later” as the adage goes. What about innovation? Tim Evans for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But HP is no longer a values-driven, family-like, innovation-oriented company that inspires commitment. A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. Put other people forward, especially current HP executives who know more than you do about the technology and markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets. 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. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Tom Falk, the CEO of Kimberly-Clark Corporation since 2002, talks about how the paper company is taking on environmental issues and has been practicing sustainability for 140 years. Our Brazilian team saw how well it was working there and adapted it for use in their market. It’s been a huge success there.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The language of ecosystems redefined our understanding of competition by viewing markets has habitats. 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? Does biology inform business? It’s happened before.

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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? What do they all have in common?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. One learns three times more from failure than from success. In 1999, the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. The stock market is down 25%. The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. billion for 2000.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. This, however, is only after it has become firmly established in the South African market — and that is a point in itself.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection. This suggests a more significant contributor to a successful coaching outcome is a person's state of mind rather than the qualifications and skills of the coach.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. “How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” Walmart went from a 3% share of the general merchandise retail market in 1982 to over 50% today. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

economy, according to white paper issued by 2015 Strategic Innovation Summit: Enabling Economies for the Future at Harvard University. Nationally, from 2002 to 2012, just 4 percent of U.S. Entrepreneurs creating gazelles pair fresh ideas with vision and know-how to innovate, launch concepts, and develop a viable business.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. The result was multiple product launches and more than 10 years of limited or no success in the connected home space. The result: Market success for the product and the company was purchased by Google for $3.2 Nest took a different approach.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

” And in the UK, Theresa May launched her ultimately successful campaign to become Prime Minister with a speech that proposed to curb executive pay. Firms do market research consulting customers, but don’t put them on the board. Politicians typically make two suggestions for pay reform.

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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. Google has about the same revenue and profits as Comcast, and more than twice the market capitalization. An open Internet does seem like a good thing.

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