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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. The book introduced the idea of disruptive innovation to a generation of managers. First, ideas are important.

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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

Just ask anyone working in the health care, financial services, automobile, retail, media, publishing, education, advertising, real estate or defense industries. And higher education isn''t offering the human capital cure. In 2010, good tweaks look like better bets than even great hires.". A recent McKinsey & Co.

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Entrepreneurship Always Leads to Inequality

Harvard Business Review

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. Entrepreneurial success is intrinsically lopsided, a natural outcome of creating extraordinary value for customers.

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You've Come a Medium-Length Way, Baby

Harvard Business Review

Kept in 'women-type' jobs, they have not efficiently used their aptitudes, intelligence, education, and skills. At the highest level, women have made barely a dent; of the 100 top-performing CEOs in the world, according to HBR's January-February 2010 issue, exactly one was female. Disruptive Innovation Comes to Health Care.

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Creative Destruction Visits the MBA

Harvard Business Review

Grow it has — the Journal reported that the US awarded 126,214 masters of business administration in the 2010-2011 school year, 74% more than ten years prior. Executive education, to me, is at the forefront of innovation in how the study of business and the practice of business can be mutually informed.

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In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. He asked how significant the education costs would be to sign up additional farmers. That involves educating executives as to why the innovation you''re pursuing is different.

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The Market Wants Apple to Unveil a Time Machine

Harvard Business Review

Also, Consumer Reports issued a "does not recommend" on the iPhone 4 (in 2010). There are other markets waiting to be disrupted, for sure. Higher education (Apple is already on its way to transforming that with iBooks Author and the iPad). Bad product reviews: One word: Ping. No iPad mini at all. Apple's is 13. Television.