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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. That's what an innovative leader does.

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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. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate. The smartphone’s iconic social significance has been duly noted. FM was destroyed.

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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.