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What Innovative Companies Can Learn from Keurig’s Highs and Lows

Harvard Business Review

These changes, often unclear and barely perceptible, foreshadow new trends in human behavior, technology, and demographics. ” Weak signals — specifically Americans’ desire for flavorful, convenient, fresh coffee — in the late 1980s, inspired the development of the Keurig coffee system.

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4 Ways to Build an Innovative Team

Harvard Business Review

In 2012 Google embarked on an enormous research project. For example, two of the scientists at PARC, Dick Shoup and Alvy Ray Smith , developed a revolutionary graphics technology called SuperPaint. Smith would team up with another graphics pioneer, Ed Catmull , at the New York Institute of Technology. Create diversity.

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Morning Advantage: A Supply Chain Solution to an Age-Old Problem

Harvard Business Review

Here in the Guardian , two business professors offer a practical solution to all three problems using developing nations’ supply chains. But that’s not what HHL Leipzig management school and BCG found when they looked at 225 start-ups that PE firms bought from one another between 2006 and 2012. Popular Mechanics).

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Apple’s Patently Absurd Smartphone Crusade

Harvard Business Review

Between 2006 and 2012, the company was involved, sometimes as plaintiff and sometimes as defendant, in nearly 150 patent lawsuits around the world over various features of its iPhone — including hardware, software, and product design. Last month, the court reversed an eminently sensible 2012 ruling by federal appeals judge Richard A.

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How Labor Standards Can Be Good for Growth

Harvard Business Review

Nike is a leading example of how both anti-sweatshop campaigns and labor standards in trade agreements can be good for innovation and growth in developing countries. In May 2012, as part of our research , we gave out the new dies randomly to 35 of the 135 producers in Sialkot and sat back to watch.

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Buying Gold in the Olympics and in the Global War for Talent

Harvard Business Review

In In 2012, the New York Times published a round-table debate about it. Consider one of the brightest stars in the 2014 winter games, short-track skater Viktor Ahn, who won a gold medal for Russia last week — and three gold medals for South Korea in the 2006 Olympics.

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Understanding Chinese Consumers

Harvard Business Review

A bottle of 2006 Penfolds Bin 389 cabernet, which costs $37 in the U.S., In 2012, Chinese took 83M foreign trips, up by 18.4% These experiences, along with technology development and social media channels, have helped Chinese consumers become more informed and sophisticated. is about $77 in Beijing.

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