Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

From 2001 to 2010, some 20 million service jobs that could have been expected to materialize based on historical rates did not. Job growth has slowed significantly in the financial- and business-services sectors due to technology-driven service industrialization (automation, outsourcing, off-shoring, process re-engineering, and self-service).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

The situation is such that if a physician from the 1950s were magically brought back to life today, he would recognize none of the technology that a contemporary doctor uses, but he would feel quite at home in the settings in which the technology is used. Think instead about other industries.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Throughout the news and business coverage, the feeling that sustainability is crucial to the future of the country and its industries is palpable. China Hi-Tech Fair ready to highlight emerging industries ," which describes Chinas largest tech show going on this week in Shanghai. Follow him on Twitter at @GreenAdvantage. And on and on.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). In 2010, Embrace entered into a partnership with General Electric to help scale the technology around the globe.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Increasingly, customers demand more after-sale service; this is the norm now in business-to-business sales, but will spill over to consumer goods, too, thanks to some of the technology advances we'll talk about below. All over the world, automakers are mastering new drive train technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

In my 2010 HBR piece , I reviewed some of the ways in which firms are doing this, and the story continues. New technologies, industry standards, and approaches to tagging and labeling are enhancing the ability of consumers to trace the origin of goods.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Wen also remarked that China, "cannot sacrifice rural industry and the interests of rural residents." In China, we calculate that the rural population will fall from 53 percent of the total in 2010 to 45 percent in 2020, with rural households' share of the country's disposable income falling to about 15 percent, down from 25 percent today.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

trillion spent on health care in the United States in 2010 was wages for health care workers, and labor productivity has historically worsened at a rate of 0.6% As Ari Hoffman and Ezekiel Emanuel argue in the Journal of the American Medical Association, reengineering is very different from implementing new technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

When we over-automate big-data tools, we get Target's faux pas of sending baby coupons to a teenager who hadn't yet told her parents she was pregnant, or the Flash Crash on Thursday May 6, 2010 , in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged about 1000 points — or about nine percent.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Complexity stemming from globalization or technology rank much lower in the list of causes. Businesses are focusing on technological solutions to tackle complexity. As a source of complexity, though, technology comes in only at seventh place in the survey.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

In the past, network effects were hard to reverse in industries that relied on physical networks such as railroads and telephones. Currently, modern technology — fueled by software, the internet, and the cloud — makes it possible for a challenger to enter the market at minimal cost.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

As a 2010 study by the Center for College Affordability , a non-profit research center, expressed it: "With a tenure system, colleges are not able to reduce the number of medieval history professors in order to increase the number of information technology and business professors.". For example, a 2011 UCLA study of 6,768 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

What many don't realize is that as part of those funds, the incentives created to digitize medical records were massive — amounting to $40,000 to $65,000 per physician and $11 million per hospital for the "meaningful use" of health information technology. That's quite frankly still how U.S. health care performs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Indeed, when I sit down with people in industry after industry, they have lots of ideas for improving products and services in this way. Of course, the list can go on and on. While I know of no formal study, it seems to me that there is big money in informationalization.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Businesses with dealings in China that either offend authorities or offer opportunities for industrial — or post-industrial — espionage have come under attack. Remember the May 2010 "flash crash" where the stock market plunged nearly 1000 points in a matter of moments?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

The strategy appears quite profitable — some years ago Wired magazine predicted that, by 2010, half the value in the delivery of a shipping container, from half-way around the world, would lie in the data associated with the contents. My friends in the industry tell me that bogey was met by 2005.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win? The contest is now shifting toward more-traditional industries, like transportation (Lyft and Uber, for example) and hospitality (Airbnb). Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Is digital technology a democratizing force, allowing smaller, newer companies to compete against giant ones? has slowed , and that in most industries the biggest firms have higher market share than they did a decade ago. has slowed , and that in most industries the biggest firms have higher market share than they did a decade ago.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. The program is most often associated with the tech industry, where H-1B workers hold about 12%–13% of jobs , according to a Goldman Sachs report. jobs overall.)

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

has created no net new jobs for those whose highest educational level is a high-school degree (or less) since the job market bottomed out in 2010, but it has created 4 million jobs for people with a bachelor’s degree. service industries like higher education, publishing, design, and consulting. But the lower end of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Technology, on the other hand, makes it much easier. And while you might scoff at these as something that only early adopters use, even late adopters of digital technologies leave behind an incredibly detailed trail of their lives. But the technology alone isn''t the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

While 44% of EU residents shopped online in 2014, a paltry 15% bought from another member state; barely up by six and a half percentage points since 2010, according to the European Commission’s (EC) “Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015.” More than 40% in Europe cited fear of failure as a barrier, compared to just 24.0%

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Court of Appeals (with Clinton appointee David Tatel writing the majority opinion there, too) ruled in 2010 that the FCC had failed to offer adequate justification in the law for its actions — it had basically just cited some vague exhortations from the Communications Act of 1934. Information & technology Innovation Internet'

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