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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 29, 2013
Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). In the process, more than 600 million people have escaped poverty. percentage points in 2003-2012. China, too, needs more technological innovation. It contributed 1.4
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 15, 2013
For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5 million records).
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 13, 2013
The one certain outcome of these two strategies, of course, is to accelerate the commoditization process itself. Italcementi has achieved this through a co-innovation process with great contemporary architects. Another example is the Italian Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo in 2012 , designed by Giampaolo Imbrighi.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 9, 2014
Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? The ever-growing digital wave is washing over just about every facet of our personal and organizational lives, our consumer experiences, and across every industry and sector in its impact on business models and processes.
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.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Between 2003, when the Iraq war began and the conflict in Afghanistan was two years old, the Army’s volume of mental health care visits tripled, from 1.1 Previous efforts at consistent patient screening employed a manual process. Such a manual process is labor-intensive and potentially error prone. million to 3.3
Harvard Business Review
JULY 13, 2017
Indeed, the gap between firms in the top 10% by productivity and those in the bottom 10% increased by approximately 14% from 2001 to 2012. In the afterword to his 2003 book, Wage Dispersion , Nobel Prize winner Dale Mortensen argued that productivity differences could cause wage dispersion: “Why are similar workers paid differently?
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