Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2018

In much the same way, IBM’s Watson project , which is helping the venerable company overcome the disruption of its traditional business, began in 2005. Every new generation of computer chips has offered more power and capability but works exactly like earlier generations. Why We Need to Think Bigger.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. ” So while businesses are major contributors to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, they are also presented as offering innovative ways to decarbonize our economies. We get back to core stuff.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. We know that great ideas that drive breakthroughs in productivity come from human beings with the time, talent and energy to innovate. And wages are stagnant.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Intentionally imposed constraints are mechanisms actively used to force inventiveness — "necessity is the mother of invention" turns out to be not just a great quote but a powerful tool. By using another innovation management best practice, they analyzed their system and found that the opticians themselves were the most expensive piece.

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Constraint Marketing Travel Innovation 15

Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

The longer version is that an intentional leader revolutionized the academic institution of High Point University with powerful and practical business principles, which often received sharp criticism but ultimately proved to be wildly successful. Everything operated as its own unit. The short answer is intentional leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

While there are numerous factors in such a massive shift away from business formation, one of the most powerful has to be the consolidation of multiple economic sectors toward a handful of firms with hegemonic power over their industry. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Without the ability to say “no” to low-level tasks in order to say “yes” to groundbreaking ones, people stop innovating. In 2005, ”Frontline” introduced Americans to the PlayPump. The inventor created a new kind of pump, one that was powered by children playing on a merry-go-round-like device.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

We all have a stake in the infrastructure surrounding us — the roads, buildings, power lines, and telephone networks that we rely on daily. In Jakarta, from 2005-2009, the number of cars rose by 22% annually, while the distance of usable roads actually declined (PDF). an estimated $100 billion per year.

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Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. And we received a flood of big ideas and game-changing initiatives and experiments from management innovators in all kinds of organizations around the world. Story by Bjarte Bogsnes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Attacking "other" greenhouse gases , those that can be much more powerful warming agents than CO2, such as methane (which comes from animals/farms, natural gas leaks, and landfills) and HFCs (the class of chemicals used in refrigerants). In other words, costs for energy will potentially rise if your power is heavily coal-dependent.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Despite the technical nature of these innovations, there are a few broad managerial lessons that have emerged from this prominent patent case. The Apple-Samsung battle shows that patent litigation can be a much broader and powerful strategy. The real enemy of Apple is Google, whose Android operating system runs on Samsung’s phones.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Leaders used to have all the power in these hierarchical relationships, but this is no longer the reality facing many organizations. It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. The eight steps are: 1) Create Urgency, 2) Form a Powerful Coalition, 3) Create a Vision for Change, 4) Communicate the Vision, 5) Remove Obstacles, 6) Create Short-term Wins, 7) Build on the Change. Drucker passed away in 2005. The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

This is a true golden age for consumers, who are demanding innovation in both the packaging and pricing of content. The average cable subscriber’s monthly bill, for example, includes $5 the operators must pay Disney just for ESPN, whether they want it or not. Since 2005, cable companies have lost ten million subscribers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

Well, Burrows was converted to the stores, at least: in a glowing 2005 piece, he professed that Apple had discovered what surely must be the future of retail. Advantage instead went to the horizontal layers of chips and operating systems (cue Wintel). The folks at Fortune weren't all that prescient, either.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

I had just finished a guest lecture on business and innovation at Parson's School for Design , and a particularly attentive front-row audience member kicked off question time with the curliest one of the day. In 2005, an investment banker was asked to lead a small team in (now) rapidly growing Latin America.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2010

Defenders of McChrystal argue he was speaking truth to power. George Marshall also increased knowledge flow in cultures by speaking truth to those in power. Eisenhower to the position of supreme commander of Operation Overlord. Sources: Carl Joachim Hambro, Nobel Peace Prize Presentation Speech—George C.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

British law created the Community Interest Company in 2005, and a number of U.S. For-benefit enterprises currently operate at a substantial disadvantage relative to for-profits because our legal and market systems are not designed to recognize or support them. Change the Rules.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

Such leaders understand that a push to undertake a new strategy or to redirect operational performance depends pivotally on how well they communicate with employees. So Howard Schultz, the company''s founder, retook the reins as its CEO and launched a drive to revitalize its operations from the ground up. Talk straight.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

But, my friends, one of the best things I’ve done, in summer of 2005, was start painting the wall. In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. You’re witnessing creative destruction and disruptive innovation at work. ” I said, No.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. ” Given a choice between a network heavily skewed to the power players in your firm and a good mix of diverse contacts, which would you choose? 2 (2005): 447–504. The sidebar “The Innovator’s Network Dilemma” presents convincing data that bears out this observation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. The FRC restricted WCFL’s hours and reduced its power. By 2005 smartphones were already popular, but the Cupertino visionary saw something much cooler than a “Crackberry.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

For a long time, the Silicon Valley funding model has been hailed as a powerful alternative to the stifling way corporate America works. In 2005, when the demand for the iPod Mini remained huge, the Nano was launched, effectively destroying the revenue stream of an existing product. Self-cannibalization occurs at different levels.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

By definition, an insurgency consists of a small and less-powerful force seeking to overturn the leadership of a much larger and more powerful institution. With access to his own broadcasting channel, Dave Carroll became an insurgent — quickly outmaneuvering a much more powerful organization.

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Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture. Rebrand from the inside out.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

It seems that every week, one or another announces a new “Center for Health Care Value” or “Center for Health Care Innovation.” In 2005, when Prof. Comparison of outcomes is essential to disseminate innovations from one individual or team to another. The final result? For more, see this HBS case.).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

In 2005, I visited Wired magazine’s founding editor Kevin Kelly at his home in California. As a final illustration of the downsides of some innovations, I mention Midgley’s development of an automatic bed, using ropes and pulleys, to get him in and out of bed when he sadly contracted polio. In 1944, the bed strangled him.

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Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

He, like others , has discovered the power of teaching online; in his case, he reached 160,000 students in a single online course on artificial intelligence. Impressive facilities were a way of showing off the power of your wealthy alumni. A Stanford Professor quit his job. But he doesn't plan to go to another prestigious university.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Last week PwC released its Low Carbon Economy Index 2012 report, which calculated one simple, powerful number: In order to meet the 2°C warming target, we will need to reduce the global carbon intensity (how much carbon it takes to produce every unit of energy or GDP) by 5.1% But constraints drive innovation. every year until 2050.

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McKinsey GDP Cost-Benefit Analysis Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For decades, the production of corn has been led by family-based businesses who operate their farms with a time-tested mix of traditional agriculture tools. Farmers who used to trudge down long rows of cornstalk are now using FarmLogs’ satellite imagery and algorithms to turn raw agricultural data into powerful insights.

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