Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. When Edison developed a commercially viable light bulb, he was able to convince Morgan to advance him $30,000 for the Edison Electric Light Company. Championing change is hard.”

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Mine your backyard.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. Behind company walls, data scientists'' ability to mine operational data is helping to develop digital repositories of workers'' best practices, and helping fewer workers do more, via collaboration tools. In the U.S.,

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 31, 2021

Do you remember the image of artificial intelligence you had in 2010? Search Engines. Search engines could hardly function without AI, given the massive size of the web. Alexa and Bixby come to mind when it comes to using AI in the development of smart homes. It was not yet anchored in our daily lives. Smart Homes.

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Examples Banking Engineering Brand 97

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

They're concerned with growing budget deficits, uncertain tax policy, rising energy costs, and crumbling infrastructure. First, develop a strategy for energy security — then stick to it. We need a plan that will lead to energy independence so that we can stop moving from one energy crisis to another.

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Transportation Energy Globalization Budgeting 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Young Africans are unleashing entrepreneurial energies as governments continue to enact reforms that improve business environments. Yes, in our work, from engineering to herbal medicine to craft, we have seen inventions — such as a local company that remakes automobile engines into electric power generators.

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Innovation Engineering Entrepreneur Banking 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Thanks for a wonderful 2010. Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. Great professional achievements are tarnished against a backdrop of personal failure. You've helped me a great deal in this area Mike. Thanks for the great reminder.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

Mulally also drove Ford's engineers to define Ford’s “DNA,” as Derrick Kuzak, Ford’s global product chief, called it—the “genome that was designed to and engineered to convey quality, innovation, and style.” In 2010, Motor Trend named one of Ford’s newest cars, the Ford Fusion, “Car of the Year.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Your company has just developed an amazing new product. Years of development, energy, and, of course, money have gone into it. While this story is not new, it represents the perfect example of a phenomenal corporate turnaround and the skills required to engineer such a recovery. By 2010, sales exceeded $2B.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The idea to design and build a $300 house first appeared here on the HBR site in August 2010, in a post by me (Vijay Govindarajan) and Christian Sarkar, and then again as one of several ideas in the HBR Agenda 2011. How can world-class engineering and design capabilities be utilized to solve the problem? Urban Housing Design Prototype.

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Govindarajan Construction Workshop Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

In 2010 the computer worm Stuxnet was discovered and implicated in the attack that caused physical damage to centrifuges at Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities. Train engineers to apply existing systems-engineering tools to security threats. stock market to decline almost 1% before the news was revealed as a hoax.

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Engineering Software Wireless Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Out of curiosity, I ran it through a search engine and what did I get? Alignment matters because it decreases the amount of energy it takes to go from A to Z. While you may still get from A to C or even to K with some misalignment, you are living with friction and energy loss. At that point, it becomes an energy drain.

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Brand Energy Price Long-term 15

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. Almost half of the COOs we studied had business degrees and around a third had engineering degrees. That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

According to Mergermarket, the value of investment activity rose from $111 million in 2010 to $829 million in 2011, while the number of deals doubled from 33 to 66. There's the question of how to develop robust legal, regulatory, and financial infrastructure (including payment systems). This expansion isn't just domestic.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. They will not, it must be noted, alter how the role of manufacturing evolves as economies develop.

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Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

QAspire

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

It just refreshes me, pours new energy into my system and makes me more effective at work” – he says. My post “ On Leadership, Opening Up and Being Prepared &# is featured in February Leadership Development Carnival , along with a number of fantastic posts from Leadership community and friends. Check it out.

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Creativity Blog Directory Quality 84

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

After 2010, climate all but disappeared from the national conversation. It is worth remembering that strong business support helped secure passage of the House climate bill in 2009, and though that effort failed in the Senate, no serious legislation can move without the backing of men and women in the engine room of the American economy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For example, in 2010, Corelio and Concentra, two European media companies, established Coldset Printing Partners, a joint venture (JV) for their newspaper printing assets. For example, the global energy player ENGIE and its local partners apply it in the independent power production business in the Middle East.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The last official report on the April 2010 explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig was issued on September 16th. But none of the reports step back to ask fundamental questions — much less develop information and analysis — about how the gulf explosion was caused by larger issues of corporate structure, policy and behavior.

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Report Policies Risk Management Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

The global economy is in a massive transition from a fossil-fuel-based energy system to one using sophisticated renewable energy technologies. For tens of thousands of fossil fuel workers, though, the energy industry outlook is not promising. For coal industry workers, the future looks particularly bleak.

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Energy Industry Engineering Training 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. A 2010 Harvard Business School case by Julie M.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. First, you need to inject new energy into a tired organization under stress.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5 times global GDP). And capital continues to expand.

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ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

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 ). Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Fortune recently named its Businesspersons of the Year for 2010 , and the list was, for the most part, predictable. They not only grow their current business but simultaneously develop the next one that, ultimately, will enable a graceful transition from the first. It became the most successful product launch in the company's history.

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Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. That is, the importance of "research & development" to business innovation. Digital coupons aren't just "smart," they can be "brilliant" — linked to recommendation engines, GPS, supply chains, etc.

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Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

” The bottom line is that most people don’t want to be “sold” by an ad anymore; they want to develop a relationship where a business earns their purchase by offering invaluable content. It leads to a higher search engine visibility through stronger online authority (links and social shares).

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Maybe, as a start, we ought to describe peopley stuff in more economic language, by putting it in some context that will help our CFO and engineering friends better understand how things relate to one another. Knowing that he was going to apply his creative energies, he inquired about purpose and mission and vision. Or: S = (PT) C.

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Succession CFO Collins Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2016

The latest “report card” from the American Society of Civil Engineers gives the U.S. We’ve only scratched the surface of ideas such as the internet of things; smart cities, homes, and energy grids; autonomous transportation; and much more that entrepreneurs will think up. trillion.

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Wireless Policies Proposal Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The United States desperately needs an energy policy. With five percent of the world's population and 20 percent of its energy use, the U.S. However, to have climate change policy you need an energy policy. People confuse the two — you need both for sustainable development. has an obligation to lead globally.

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Policies Energy Transportation Politics 12