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Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, and Apple's Innovation Premium

Harvard Business Review

It took a few years to get things back on track, but from 2005-2010 Apple's innovation premium jumped to 52%. With Jobs unexpected exit in 2011, Cook's key task is to not only keep Apple humming but to deliver something surprising. Can he do it? History suggests Cook's task will be difficult, but not impossible.

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Innovative Companies Demand Innovative Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Leaders at companies with high innovation premiums, in fact, landed at about the 88th percentile on our Innovator's DNA assessment, which measures the five skills of disruptive innovators: questioning, observing, networking, experimenting, and associational thinking.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). Drucker passed away in 2005. The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997). Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, Christensen presents a set of rules for capitalising on the phenomenon of “disruptive innovation.”. Winning (2005).

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Toys ‘R’ Us Is Dead, but Physical Retail Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

billion leveraged private equity buyout in 2005, with the aim of turning the chain around, but the resulting debt has proved to be unserviceable. As Darrell Rigby argued in a 2011 HBR article , every 50 years the retail industry goes through a major disruption. In their 2005 book, W. The firm was taken private in a $6.6

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A Short History of Radio Explains the iPhone’s Success

Harvard Business Review

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. By 2005 smartphones were already popular, but the Cupertino visionary saw something much cooler than a “Crackberry.” Steve Jobs was the Baby Boomer version of Armstrong. Etheric Bedlam.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. Entrepreneurship Disruptive innovation Emerging markets East & Southeast Asia' And we counted 10 local exits in 2014.