Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

With the highest per capita spending across all industries, Washington, D.C. Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. Detroit , MI With the auto industry and heavy manufacturing in decline, Detroit is using its stimulus dollars to combat soaring unemployment.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 23, 2020

By facilitating the rise of the ‘superstar’ firms, the new technology is leading to increases in industry concentration.”. What’s more, this increase in employment was not just found at the firm level, but across entire industries. It’s possible that it will take longer to see improvements in efficiency.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Investors affect innovation investments. ” Investors seemingly just weren’t looking for radical innovation from GE.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. At Bettcher Industries, we love the meat processing industry; we’ve always loved the meat processing industry and one reason we do is because many others don’t.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees. Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. Have a great Thanksgiving Sir.

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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. The next evolution in digital advertising must be driven by innovative platforms that more effectively help marketers move their businesses forward. Open ecosystems will succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

New research , funded by the Tony Elumelu Foundation and conducted by my team at the African Institution of Technology , shows that within Africa, innovation is accelerating and the continent is finding better ways of solving local problems, even as it attracts top technology global brands. Opportunity is on the rise in Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Here's my attempt to capture what I see as the most important stories affecting the greening of business in 2010. Germany, not really the sunniest country in the world, added 1% of its electric needs in solar in 2010 alone (it took 10 years to get the first 1% online, and just 8 months for the second 1%). trillion by 2020. Enough said.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Our soon ending year, 2010, has been fascinating. I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

"We're looking for new models of innovation. Comstock was telling me about the company's growing innovation platform, the GE Ecomagination Challenge which inspires collaboration between GE and entrepreneurs. The Ecomagination Challenge, now in its second year, is GE's foray in to the fast-growing world of "open" innovation.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” Dickens Jr.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. If you aren’t sure where to get started, take a cue from other companies that have taken innovation to heart and used it to successfully win and keep customers. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Back in 2010, one of Judson’s residents realized that the goal of enlivening the cultural life of the retirement community and the need to provide affordable housing for nearby graduate music students might be simultaneously solved. However, during the industrial age in the U.S., But something else has happened.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Some examples of shared team learning are: Regular seminars and guest lecturers: Bring in experts and professors on various topics related to the history, science, or culture of your industry as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and technologists who work in peripherally related fields. In economics, trust is a mechanism of efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” The industries most susceptible to disruption are those selling information-based services that can be delivered digitally – and a perfect example is the insurance industry. Insurethebox, a U.K.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Many leaders, particularly in financial services industry, seemed perfectly happy to disrupt the global economy and lay off thousands of employees while collecting multimillion-dollar compensation packages. High scorers on Critical Thinking are constantly identifying ways to improve productivity or efficiency, drive sales, reduce costs, etc.;

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

In calculating return on investment, we don’t just do simple math — we figure out the most patient-centered, efficient way to spend our finite funds to care for our population. In 2010, while overseeing Louisiana State University’s 10 public safety-net institutions, I faced an interesting dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

°F) since pre-industrial times, holding the world to 1.5°C ” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. auto industry. The current administration gave the auto companies way more than they wanted and froze the fuel efficiency levels.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

and this is in addition to reading a variety of industry publications and periodicals. With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

American firms alone laid off more than 8 million workers from the end of 2008 to the middle of 2010. Even in healthier financial times, such as now, firms often downsize because it is seen as a way to reduce costs, adjust structures, and create leaner, more efficient workplaces.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010. A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. Later on, a new innovator comes along and pushes it aside. The basic facts are these: Most industries in the U.S. When I spoke to Zingales, he told me that he thinks different industries in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. But in a different sense, the health care system is starved for innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit. Think instead about other industries.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Higher pay throughout the industry helped lead to more sales, creating a virtuous cycle of growth and prosperity. Looking closer at the period following the financial crisis, 2010 to 2014, we find that weak demand played a key role in the recent productivity growth decline to historic lows. Could we be at another Henry Ford moment?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

States and power companies can design their own way to compliance using a mix of onsite operational improvements and “beyond the fence” innovations, such as increased reliance on renewable energy sources, low-cost energy efficiency measures, and demand response, which compensates electricity customers for conserving energy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” The industries most susceptible to disruption are those selling information-based services that can be delivered digitally – and a perfect example is the insurance industry. Insurethebox, a U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

By that I mean that pharma companies should develop innovative treatments for pervasive unmet medical needs; avoid corruption, collusion, and other unethical marketing practices; and make sure that their products reach as many patients around the world as possible. citizens have a positive opinion of big pharma.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Tight cultures have an efficient orderliness and reassuring predictability, but are less adaptable. Rooted firmly in the manufacturing industry, Amazon has defined processes to maximize its efficiency. provided the founders with considerable latitude in introducing innovative and unorthodox management methods.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

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.”. JP Morgan Chase, although a digital innovator, has opened 600 branches since January 2010 while closing 325. In our view, no. Here’s why.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

pace in the first quarter of 2010. Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. Experimentation is required to build new businesses and industries. In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In order to assess the future of retail, we need to understand the sector's current impact on our entire economy, and the direction that Washington is taking the retail industry with policies that are being shaped today. Overly broad privacy legislation and regulation will stifle innovation and hamper the growth of online retail.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Business Model Innovation. How can multinationals develop innovative business models with "small store" formats to promote convenience, yet give consumers lower prices through economies of scale in purchasing and supply chain efficiencies? How can we improve the businesses of our suppliers and local partners? Our consumers?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. What did 2010 look like for you and your company? OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?) Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Her attitude of retaining only good followers resulted in the loss of numerous well-experienced and efficient people. By invitation of the GM with whom I was to mainly to work, I visited the competitor’s premises to learn several things about their industry. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2011

They outperform their industry because they've figured out how to enable the key asset of the new economy: scalably leverage many people's contributions, including the app developers eager to piggyback on the industry's most attractive devices. Yet most organizations still operate much as they did in the industrial age.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships. Auto industry Leading teams'

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