First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 21, 2012

An entrepreneur and veteran of the computer industry, Frank Moss spent his career bringing innovative technologies to market. Ten years ago he set out to make a broader contribution to the world, leading him to cofound a cancer drug discovery company and then to the MIT Media Lab, where he served as director from 2006 [.].

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Entrepreneur Media Technology Innovation 80

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

As an example, the marketing assistant who receives a comparatively small bonus when contrasted to that of a sales person feels that his/her contribution is minimized and feels treated unfairly. I now own two small construction companies, I believe this industry could actually change to commission//Salary. a 12 month project.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

You can review virtually any industry, sector, vertical, or micro-vertical and when you examine the dominant brands you’ll find quality design at their core. While there are exceptions to every rule, they are few and far between when it comes to design.

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Brand Blog Reputation Parcell 267

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2019

With VoIP termination taking the telecom industry by storm, and it’s continuing to grow each year, carriers are looking for ways to woo customers by offering a competitive advantage. If you’re in the market for a VoIP service, let’s look at which model is best for your needs. billion in 2006.” The Wholesale Model.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Listening to the breathless commentary surrounding technologies such as AI and robotics and one could be minded to believe that technology is transforming life as we know it on a scale never seen before. The need to disseminate technology. in 2013, compared to 2.5% in 1992. in 2013, compared to 2.5%

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Innovation Productivity Products Technology 101

N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

WRONG …The simple truth of the matter is that the time needed to attain performance goals varies depending among other things the age, size and competitive positioning of the company, the industry, sector and vertical, etc.

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CEO Blog Long-term Short-term 305

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Also, we need to recognize that for some businesses/leaders, you're more likely to encounter a fairly homogeneous population subset due to geography or types of individuals that gravitate toward a particular field or industry.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

It is a collection of in-depth interviews with movers and shakers in the technology world. Her fields of experience span from hard core technology disciplines like semiconductors to sophisticated consumer marketing industries including fashion and education. And for those in all the emerging markets.

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Entrepreneur Licensing Newsletter Books 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

billion people, the Chinese consumer market is a tempting target for Western technology companies. The recent news that Google is considering a re-entry into China further highlights a troubling balancing act faced by technology companies looking to do business there. With over 1.3 Regulatory creep. But moving forward, U.S.

Ethics 8

Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

If I only had a nickel for each time a CEO has told me “We have the best talent in the industry.&# They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

In the model described by Clayton Christensen, a new entrant offers substitute products using technology that is cheaper but initially inferior to products offered by mature incumbents. Then the disruptor improves its performance over time, eventually catching the industry either unaware or unable to adapt.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

We studied the German mobile-handset market during the feature-phone era of 2004-2008 — a dynamic period in which competition was about equipping devices with new functions such as photography. In 2006, HP — then still active in the mobile space – acted as a follower, but failed to focus its innovation portfolio.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

and this is in addition to reading a variety of industry publications and periodicals. With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. The question is not if you should be reading, but rather what should you be reading?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The world's second largest carbon market (after the European Union) opened in the state as part of California's ambitious program to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The market will decide that. The beauty of the market is that it reveals the market participants' collective estimate of the price.

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Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Who are these makers if not the revivers of dying or, in some cases, long extinct technologies?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Readers in industries where the pace of change has slowed and ambiguity has decreased , please stop reading. An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. newspaper industry. Thought so.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The electronics giant had seemingly lost its dominant position in the gaming console market, with the Nintendo Wii’s surprise success overshadowing the more powerful but pricier PS3. And a weak lineup of games at launch, combined with the high price translated into a weak holiday season for Sony in 2006. Learn From Your Mistakes.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 1, 2010

For an individual of note, I would have to select Father Greg Boyle of Home Boy Industries in Los Angeles. professing leadership acumen and expertise that it can be tough to distinguish between the posers and the players. professing leadership acumen and expertise that it can be tough to distinguish between the posers and the players.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

had any product, service or process innovation between 2006 and 2008. China's brilliant "Fast Follower" innovation policy is generating the biggest transfer of technology in history. This industrial policy is at odds with WTO standards, but is a boon to Chinese economic growth and a long-term threat to U.S.

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Policies Innovation Fast Follower Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

My recent Harvard Business School Working Paper on small business credit explores new technology-driven entrants in the world of small business lending. Online lending platforms like OnDeck have been using information on cash flows and direct deposits from small businesses’ bank accounts as a key indicator of credit health since 2006.

Credit Scoring 9

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Look out across today’s ultra-competitive smartphone market and you’ll see something resembling the religious wars of the Middle Ages. And the havoc being wreaked — in higher prices, banned devices, and stifled innovation — is laying waste to the industry landscape. This is no quaint summer-weekend reenactment.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software Industry Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

My recent Harvard Business School Working Paper on small business credit explores new technology-driven entrants in the world of small business lending. Online lending platforms like OnDeck have been using information on cash flows and direct deposits from small businesses’ bank accounts as a key indicator of credit health since 2006.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Firms who buy up vast swaths of dubious patents and then use them to squeeze settlements out of deep-pocketed (or not) technology companies and their customers troll the federal courtrooms of the Eastern District of Texas, notorious for its excessive jury awards to plaintiffs. A 2006 U.S. That’s an increasingly serious problem.

Innovation 8

Innovation Technology System Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Drawing on a sample of top science talent — 6,469 people who graduated from MIT between 2006 and 2012 — Shu shows that Wall Street is not attracting the best future scientists and engineers out of college (or at least, not the ones from MIT). of MIT graduates taking jobs in finance after graduation.

Engineering 8

Engineering Finance Bottom-up Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. In 2006 alone, Nokia introduced 39 new mobile-device models. Insight Center.

Strategy 11

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

What do leaders dop to provide a safe environment for people to explore, test, try, fail, learn, review, try again etc.

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Influence Blog Leadership Video 359

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Disney, which bought Pixar in 2006, knows what infinity looks like: copyright protection. The message of the ad is clear: stop selling silly pink toys to little girls and instead encourage them with toys that might lead them to study STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math). To infinity… and beyond!,

Technology 8

Technology Open-book Information Technology Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

MasterCard IPO’d in 2006, and Visa followed two years later. In fact, some not-for-profit multisided platforms — hardly household names — have helped drive the major technological revolutions of the last several decades, including the internet and mobile. SSOs comprise a massive, yet almost invisible, industry.

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IPO Succession Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Some examples of shared team learning are: Regular seminars and guest lecturers: Bring in experts and professors on various topics related to the history, science, or culture of your industry as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and technologists who work in peripherally related fields. Nash Equilibrium, Pareto Principle).

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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. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

By invitation of the GM with whom I was to mainly to work, I visited the competitor’s premises to learn several things about their industry. When in practice as a management consultant, I once started a client in a region on a day when they, and a major competitor, were having a board meeting that afternoon.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It says that markets determine wages, and any social or political tampering just creates inefficiency. In the 1990s, a whole subfield of economics reached "virtually unanimous agreement," as a survey in the Journal of Economic Perspectives noted , that in the context of technological change, markets themselves inevitably drove U.S.

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Automotive Lean Production Marketing Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. For more on our methods, see the sidebars below.) The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Inspired by this pattern, my wife, Annalisa Guzzini, an architect, and I developed a new cutting die that reduces total costs by 1% — a modest reduction, but not negligible in an industry with average profit rates of 8%. (To In late 2006, Nike broke off relations with its existing supplier in Sialkot amid concerns over labor issues.

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