Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Today, few firms monopolize the technologies on which they rely, and they can no longer absorb the total costs of radical innovation alone. Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display. No ideas are local, and increasingly few are secret.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Just ask anyone working in the health care, financial services, automobile, retail, media, publishing, education, advertising, real estate or defense industries. The profound difference between today [2010] and 2005 is that good hires looked like better investments than great tweaks back then.

Human Capital 9

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Others may simply see no alternative to trying to keep the brand going at any cost, even if that means aggressive discounting, cheap licensing, or other tactics that erode long-term brand value. ’” Purpose might have informed the management of two failed brands – Blockbuster and Radio Shack — differently.

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

“Managing career cycles with flexibility and non-linear trajectories is important for us. “It wouldn’t have been the right time,” she said, and acknowledges the extremely supportive managers she reported into at the time. This propelled her into a re-accelerated career phase. New mental skills emerge.

Career 8

Career Real Estate Learning Curve Education 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

That may increase a certain kind of productivity, but at what cost? Management professors Sigal Barsade at Wharton and Hakan Ozcelik at Cal State Sacramento are among the pioneers in studying how employee isolation correlates with organizational outcomes.

Silverman 16

Silverman Real Estate Fashion Open-book 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. So here are some suggestions, most of which by the way, happen to be essentially cost-free: Removing barriers to growth should be your number one priority. It is hell to manage.". Not" is not a typo.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

You certainly don’t need to bang on doors on Sand Hill to start a restaurant chain or a real estate brokerage. For startups outside of those cities, that means there is a smaller pool of locally-managed dollars to chase for your startup. The world is well versed in Michael Porter’s cluster theory.

IPO 9

IPO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). Malthus strikes back: Coca-Cola takes an $800 million hit on commodity costs. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15