Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Before 2018, it had the three standard board committees — governance, compensation, and audit — plus a technology and risk committee to cover important areas such as product risk, cybersecurity, and technological innovation. After the demise of Enron in 2002, many U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

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. Potential open innovation partners can't always immediately envision later-stage business opportunities from early-stage technology seeds.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

The technology world has some harrowing examples that no innovation-based industry should ever forget. That these were unwise deals may seem obvious today, but the trick is to see that at the time of purchase and not succumb to blind enthusiasm for new waves of technology. If it's the latter, you might want to reconsider.

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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. Exploitation allows companies to monetize their exciting new ideas and thereby relieve some of the stakeholder pressure for short-term earnings.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. and smooth succession to a new CEO in 2002, while continuing an innovation thrust that included grid technologies, cloud computing, and supercomputing. Set short-term achievable goals, and keep your promises.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

What if, instead of trying to fix people, we assumed that they were already full of potential and created an environment that promoted their long-term well-being? Mindfulness is one of the all-time most brilliant technologies for helping to alleviate human suffering and for bringing out our extraordinary potential as human beings.".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

To be clear, this tendency to focus on exploitation and not exploration may even be welcomed by some investors who value predictable short-term returns from reduced costs and investments, increasing dividends and share buybacks. And managers focused on immediate total shareholder returns may be delighted with high performance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Since 2002, Dr. Spertus and colleagues have been correlating quality-of-life PRO data with treatment outcomes for heart failure and stroke. The Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) assesses the patient-reported effects of heart failure, including shortness of breath and fatigue.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us. It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. But rules affect profits and long-term sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education. Who would have picked hydraulic fracturing as a disruptive business/technology breakthrough in 2002? Individual empowerment. The numbers don't lie.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. At that point we were a single technology company. We’d developed a technology that allowed companies to dramatically expand the capacity of existing fiber optic cable, so you could put more data through a network without digging up miles of fiber.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. Every day for most of the period from let’s say late 1980s basically through the end of my term, I would get almost every week people predicting that the world was coming to an end. They are not.

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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. As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. Instead of selling the concept of the “connected home,” Nest focused on specific problems their customers wanted to solve in addition to good technology. billion in 2014. Fix or kill?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

So while two of the three judges (the Clinton appointees) agreed that the FCC had the right to regulate broadband providers’ relationships with content providers (the FCC term is “edge providers”) even if it classified broadband as an information service, they didn’t think the agency had done it correctly up to now.

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