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?

Innovation 15

Innovation Mass Marketing Price Market Segmentation 15

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. It made me sit down and think… Just yesterday I attended the opening of the second Columba 1400 Leadership Centre here in Scotland. The bottom line for C1400 is to help young people from “tough realities&# to reflect on their personal leadership.

Definition 370

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! And it’s a good thing, too. Building your Social Nation means changing what you think it means to build a company. Still skeptical?

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Here’s how to get your creative juices flowing so that you can out-think and out-earn your competition. This Book Will Make You Money : How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue by Jim Kukral This book provides an educational and motivational guide to using social media to market your brand or business online.

Creativity 50

Creativity Bottom-up Newsletter Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. When the Cayenne came to market in 2003, it was an instant hit. It was a significant risk for a company that knew fast cars, not family vehicles.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Development Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

In 2000-2003, the emphasis switches to employees and the struggle to get employees to buy into a new corporate culture. Our research also indicated that 2000-2003 seems to be a time when failure fatigue had set in. The issue of increasing margins might really be about how to corral both of these trends in ways that increase margins.

Analysis 13

Analysis Sample Globalization Sports 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Big insurers are taking a break from the new — figuring out how to pay for value, rather than volume, of care — and going for the tried and true: gobbling up smaller insurers. ” Merging firms rarely reveal how they’ll achieve such savings (and certainly avoid mentioning potential layoffs ). Aim 2: Raise Quality.

Insurance 8

Insurance Company Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Over the last fifteen years Apple has made a series of successful market-creating—or blue ocean—moves (think the iMac, iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, the App Store, and the iPad). From the 2001 launch of the iPod to the fiscal year end of 2014, Apple’s market cap surged more than 75-fold as its sales and profits exploded.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Blue Ocean Strategy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Competing for scarce labor in a tight market, they will have trouble continuing to shift medical bills onto employees as they have for several decades. To address these challenges, they will have to band together in purchasing coalitions that give them the local market power to force health systems to reform. Tim Robberts/Getty Images.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

As proprietors of a college-focused recruiting firm since 2003, we've seen examples like this again and again. More than anything, recent college grads are looking to see how they will fit into your company's culture. If your company has a youthful, tech-minded, or innovative vibe, try to convey that (but don't fake it).

Class 14

Class Process Information Environment 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Marketing professionals have learned the hard way that no matter what they do or do not plan to do with consumer information, privacy matters. In part, that''s because marketing has always been something of a black art. How did they know what I wanted, perhaps even before I did? How the Internet of Things Changes Everything.

Morale 8

Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea. In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8