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JULY 9, 2013

The new retail-oriented CEO decided to close down their website, fire their internal website experts and contract out information technology by having their books sold through Amazon.com. Mr. Lynch had been named chief executive in March 2010, having previously run the company''s website. Related articles.

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JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. In contrast, Musk cares about customer needs as well but only at a high level; he picks what he perceives as big important needs that haven’t been met because of technology constraints and is more of a “technology first” innovator.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. Don’t answer the question with technologies, offerings, or categories.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Yet even as we connect people and the world’s population rises 7 percent between 2010 and 2020, the number of working-age employees will actually decline in many industrialized nations. They tend to think of innovation as a shiny new product or service that incorporates a major advance in technology—something like the Model T or the iPhone.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

.’s ” Similarly, according to a survey by CareerBuilder in 2013, almost a third of employers said that their educational requirements for employment had recently increased, and specifically that they were hiring more college-educated workers for positions previously held by high school graduates. Adobe Dreamweaver) as well. .”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

In 2010 the “New GM” did one of the largest initial public offerings in history, with share sales to the public of $23.1 In 2010 the “New GM” did one of the largest initial public offerings in history, with share sales to the public of $23.1 government sold off all of its GM holdings in December 2013, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

More US bank branches closed in 2013 than ever before. Rather than going the way of Tower Records, leading banks are reinventing themselves with innovative mashups of digital technologies and physical facilities, a combination we call “digical.”. More than 85% of retail banking transactions are now digital. In our view, no. Here’s why.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. But back in 2010, Chris Trimble criticized 20% time both for being expensive and for emphasizing ideas over execution. How Google manages. That’s just a sampling.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With guidance from Paul English, chief technology officer of Kayak, we borrowed a common tool from business — professional virtual communities (PVCs) — and adapted it to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. As of July 2013, there were 50 private communities. The Launch. What features would make the site inviting, accessible, and useful?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

In 2010, the average American spent 10 hours and 46 minutes a day consuming content; by 2013, that number had risen to 12 hours and 5 minutes. That it was named “Magazine of the Year” in 2013 by the American Society of Magazine Editors. But rather than blaming their bad ads, they blame the technology and ask for a discount.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Technology has prompted tremendous change in the advertising industry—change that would have been inconceivable even a decade ago. Technology will only be able to deliver on its promise of moving TV dollars online if it creates greater process efficiencies, drives more commerce, and enables deeper engagement with consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. Consider Intel, which began eyeing Big Data’s potential to quantify marketing’s contribution to revenue in about 2010. His artillery: Advanced Big Data analytics. Inside Intel.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

As the 2010 case describes: By his own admission, Ma was a fan of Jack Welch, so it was only natural that his organization came to resemble that of GE in some regards. As a 2013 HBR article explained, “Conglomerates may be regarded as dinosaurs in the developed world, but in emerging markets, diversified business groups continue to thrive.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

The results, published in “ Socializing Your CEO: From Marginal to Mainstream ,” show that CEO sociability has more than doubled since we began tracking the social activities of chief executives in 2010, when only 36% of CEOs were social. — Lyle & Scott (@Lyle_and_Scott) August 29, 2013. NextGreatLeader.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. With the cautionary notes in mind, I arrived in Singapore in March 2010. based WiFi service provider Ruckus Wireless snatched it up in 2013. “Name a Singapore start-up.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

million – between 1990 and 2010. Only 44% of households had any life insurance in 2010, which is a 50-year low. years in 2013. Changing customer behaviors driven by digital technology have altered the way consumers want to buy. dropped 45% – from 17.7 million to 9.7 In 1960, it was 72% of households.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three. Sales rose 300% in Georgia by the fall of 2010 and rose even more the following year.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Our annual Prosperity Index –- the 2013 edition of which we released yesterday –- measures national prosperity based on eight core pillars that combine “hard” data with survey data. This is driven by big technological advancements, as more and more people gain access to infrastructure vital for commerce and entrepreneurship to thrive.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

People and Organization : In late 2010, GE CEO Jeff Immelt decided to give country managers P&L responsibility for all of GE in their countries and have them report to vice chairman John Rice, who would be stationed in Hong Kong. Today most if not all industries are impacted by digitization—mobile technology, big data, and the like.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Congress has been the piñata in every poll lately, but recently presented bipartisan legislation — the Start-up Innovation Credit Act of 2013 (SICA) introduced by Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) — is proof that Capitol Hill has its share of good ideas. And let's not forget the argument that better-performing start-ups create jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

We see this in nature (ant colonies, for example, only grow to a certain point before retreating), in the brain (neurons multiply exponentially in a child''s brain but shrink down to a fraction of their maximum level by adulthood), and in technological networks ( remember MySpace? ). Finance Internet Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

In 2013, I began reporting on a groundbreaking all-women special operations team made up of the finest, fittest and most driven soldiers chosen from across the Army, Guard, and Reserve. The shift began in 2010. Some of the most tested special operations leaders in the U.S. Quite simply, desperation was the mother of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

democratized communication technologies like Skype) and more physical touch points (e.g. In Nigeria for example, recorded remittances rose from $2 billion in 2000 to $20 billion in 2010 (a whopping 26% annual growth rate). In their October 2013 HBR article on diaspora marketing, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict E.M.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The lessons from BP's gulf explosion in 2010 took a dramatic turn for many regulated industries. This question of BP's responsibility for overseeing contractors is critical because so many risky, high technology projects involve use of specialized vendors upon whom safety and quality depend.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

in 2013 to 3.7 Before 2018, it had the three standard board committees — governance, compensation, and audit — plus a technology and risk committee to cover important areas such as product risk, cybersecurity, and technological innovation. in early 2018, according to Moody’s.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. I began Englishnization in 2010. points in October 2010 to 737.3 out of a possible 990 in February 2013. I don''t think English is "better" than any other language.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

This new process, the brave seedling of personal technology, would transform "the former secretary" to "an administrative assistant, performing the nontranscription portion of the traditional job plus taking on additional responsibilities.". Watch for our January-February 2013 issue, which revisits this study.).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

Yet compared to great technological inventions of the past, it is also a colossal economic disappointment. The technologies of the past had massive new job creation effects that swamped displacement effects. million in 2010. The Internet is one of humanity’s greatest technical advances. I’m talking about jobs.

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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. For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

On March 18, 2010, an Apple engineer left what looked like an iPhone 3 in a German beer garden in Redwood, California. As part of the AIA, on March 16, 2013, the United States adopted a first-inventor-to-file regime. Innovation Product development Technology' Another patron later picked it up from a barstool.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Consider the harrowing events after the crash-landing of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 last July 6th 2013. Second, embrace technology. Medical technology is often perceived as a driver of health care costs, and there is certainly some truth to that. In medicine, timing is everything. Cutting costs Health Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

In 2010, the first year, the event was fledgling, but charming. By 2013, we had honored Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Garrett Camp of Uber, famed choreographer Twyla Tharp, and Gangnam style pop artist Psy. Capturing the Innovation Mind-Set at Bally Technologies. If you say we should, let’s do it. Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

But when we consider the momentum – i.e., the five-year rate of change from 2008 to 2013 – the two countries are far apart. The Dutch government’s austerity measures beginning in late 2010 reduced investment into elements of the digital ecosystem. Take, for example, Singapore and The Netherlands.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

economy during the peak of the Great Recession (2008-2010). Businesses that innovate and invest in these technologies will gain a competitive edge and enhance their bottom line. While leaders in Washington D.C are just beginning to debate the potential of pricing carbon on a national scale, California is once again ahead of the curve.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

’ the questions must be asked, ‘WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?’”

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