Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. Jeff Dyer is the Horace Beesley Distinguished Professor of Strategy at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School and an adjunct professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Innovation Capital. Moreover, it’s hard.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In a June 12 th blog post that made instant waves, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla Motors, declared: “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this. Under new ownership (Volvo was sold to China’s Geely by Ford in 2010), the Swedish automaker decided to transform its product line by becoming a premium player. The company sold 571,000 cars last year, up from 373,000 in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. Part of the problem may be in the backgrounds that companies desired: 85% of COOs had experience in operations, strategy, or finance. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

To many, a modern meat plant might seem somewhat “shocking”, but to us this “automotive assembly plant operating in reverse” is common place and, in fact, we are not easily “shocked” by much of anything (for evidence of this you are welcome to view the video on our website).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Rapid technological and competitive innovation. Take, for instance, the automotive industry's pursuit of information services like GM's OnStar and Ford's Sync, even BMW's iDrive. A great deal of the argument made in 2010 by those in favor of U.S. Unless, of course, you are in the media industry.) Look as well to health care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software.

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