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? Boniface Haiti Foundation.

Govindarajan 8

Govindarajan Construction Workshop Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

in 2010, and has a couple thousand hybrids or EVs on the road now. Broadly, the cost of electric batteries has plummeted 80% in just six years , due to innovation and enormous investments in production capacity, largely in China. The EVs will use much less energy. Third, there are brand benefits to this kind of innovation.

Strategy 8

Strategy Efficiency Brand Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The cap-and-trade program is the centerpiece of California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, also known as AB 32 — a suite of clean energy solutions that has proved to be the engine of an astounding economic transformation that drove statewide growth at twice the rate of the U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

Price 15

Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

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.”

Brand 193

Brand BPR FOB Automotive 193

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It came by great gas mileage on the back of a scam: The car’s supposedly low emissions were fraud — perpetrated by VW engineers who designed the car’s software to lower emissions during testing, only to let them bump back up in real life use. Now we know that vehicle wasn’t green. It arguably started with BP.

PPM 8

PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

The reality today is that businesses, governments, and nonprofits are so complex and often must move so quickly that in many cases, finding answers to difficult questions requires tapping experts, service providers, and innovators scattered all over the world. Collaboration and coordination eventually improved , but still faltered at times.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Automotive Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Second, we see a raft of innovations that will alter how products are designed, manufactured and sold — everything from nanotechnologies to 3D printing. Then, manufacturing's most important role is as a driver of innovation, trade, and productivity. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

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.

Brand 15

Brand Energy Price Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Consumer demand for innovative digital services, when executed ably, seems unquenchable; and that demand is stimulating capital flows. 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.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 14

QAspire

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

They spend long hours over the years to understand, study, apply and innovate ideas in this core area. In my experience, the key to remain innovative in your core area is to find an ‘alternative’ – a creative pursuit that you love, that is different from your normal work and where you spend at least a few hours in a week.

Creativity 84

Creativity Blog Directory Quality 84

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

But an awful lot of these jobs command very high-wages in law, finance, accounting, consulting, advertising, engineering, design, software, healthcare, scientific research, architecture, entertainment, hospitality, and many other areas. This may all change as China innovates and grows.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Magazine Pharmaceuticals Creativity 8

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. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

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.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 Others reward easy-to-measure improvements in existing processes over less-easily-quantified innovations. Companies that encourage innovation take steps to overcome these organizational obstacles. times global GDP).

ROE 14

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 ). The military continues to lead the way on energy and climate. While the overall carbon emissions news is not good , the renewable energy market is growing very fast.

Supply Chain 15

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. When Carlos Ghosn passionately promotes the all-electric Nissan Leaf while aggressively pushing advances with conventional internal-combustion engine vehicles , you know you're looking at a new type of leadership.

Parcell 12

Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 12

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It leads to a higher search engine visibility through stronger online authority (links and social shares). Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. This is not 2010, a lot has changed over the past couple of years. Myth #2: That you need to publish as frequently as you can.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Late in June, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton surprised business leaders by issuing a detailed technology and innovation platform. master’s and PhD students in science and engineering, “enabling international students who complete degrees in these fields to move to green card status.”

Planning 8

Planning Innovation Review Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

The former creates efficiencies and propels markets; the latter drives creativity and innovation. 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. No, people are not cogs.

Succession 16

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.

Wireless 8

Wireless Policies Proposal Banking 8