Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Figuring that their earnings would decline, the cutters were trying to block adoption, in part by misinforming owners about the benefits of the technology. In late 2006, Nike broke off relations with its existing supplier in Sialkot amid concerns over labor issues. The second surprise was an exception to this general rule.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Outside of universities, ongoing learning and skill development is essential to surviving economic and technological disruption. In 2014 a CBRE report estimated that 50% of jobs would be redundant by 2025 due to technological innovation. Trends including AI, robotics, and offshoring mean constant shifts in the nature of work.

Education 8

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. In 2006, Khan launched Khan Academy to deliver “a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” Second, technology made Khan Academy possible.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As University of Toronto professor Ayelet Shachar explained in a Yale Law Journal article : “Countries seeking to attract Nobel Prize contenders, gifted technology wizards, acclaimed artists, promising Olympians, and other high-demand migrants have come to realize the attractive power of citizenship.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Fortunately, advancements in computer, sensor, and networking technology over the past few years are now providing a new lease on life for aging physical infrastructure. Alternatively, cities can use technology as a force multiplier. In short, cities have to become much smarter about how they use existing capacity and resources.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

While the middle class has been eroded by currency depreciation and recession, the Russian consumer remains technologically savvy, interested in quality Western brands, and able to spend. And prior to the latest economic challenges, its middle class was estimated to account for as much as 60% of the total population.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What happened in 2006? Note: This post is adapted from my remarks at Babson College’s 2014 Lewis Institute Social Innovator Awards. And is this kind of rapid growth good news? You can find the answer to the timing question nestled among the facts that David Bornstein lays out in the preface to his book, How to Change the World.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

As Tom Davenport wrote in HBR in 2006 , the year before publishing his seminal book, Competing on Analytics , “For analytics-minded leaders, then, the challenge boils down to knowing when to run with the numbers and when to run with their guts.” Sponsored by Accenture. Analytics are critical to companies’ performance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

“Social design,” a term whose roots go back several decades, fully entered the lexicon around 2006. In 2014, Murphy made a presentation on the history of hospital design at Ariadne Labs. It refers to the design of relationships, including those that are invisible and intangible.

Health Care 8

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

In 2006, when the company launched a new line of foundations intended to address a wider variety of skin tones, Atis saw that they still didn’t measure up. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements. It lit a fire under her. Atis created a rich ecosystem around her idea.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. In 2013, GE had reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 32% and water use by 45% compared to 2004 and 2006 baselines, respectively, resulting in $300 million in savings. Some 62.4%

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Satya Nadella, for instance, joined Microsoft in 1992 and worked his way up to running its cloud computing effort, building that business unit into a viable new growth platform before becoming CEO, in 2014. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

Franchising 15

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ. At the end of 2006, eBay pulled out of the market. With the filing of Alibaba’s registration statement in early May of 2014, the company is set to tap the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 But is all of that changing?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

With the acquisition of Pixar by Walt Disney in 2006, Catmull became president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar. Does this create pressure to adopt the same technology or the same processes? Pixar announced in September that the release of The Good Dinosaur , originally scheduled for 2014, would be postponed to 2015.

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