Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

They might make a targeted acquisition here or there, form an alliance now and again, or license in some specialized technology, but by and large they made their own drugs, supporting big, fully staffed research labs, which they would then market themselves. Historically, big pharma firms made their own drugs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2012

The latest statistics from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) show a 54% drop in reported incidents during the first half of 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011, some of which is certainly attributable to improved analytics. But travelers and businesses still face a big challenge from pirates. Visualization is key.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2012

The latest statistics from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) show a 54% drop in reported incidents during the first half of 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011, some of which is certainly attributable to improved analytics. But travelers and businesses still face a big challenge from pirates. Visualization is key.

Trends 16

Trends Tactics Document Travel 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

However, Nokia held on to Symbian until 2011, when it eventually switched to Windows operating system, which also underperformed. This bold strategic leap was, we found, in part facilitated by Nokia’s newly appointed board who actively attended to top managers’ emotions in 2012-2013. Not until there’s an option.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But the Strava case is prescient as we continue to develop digital technologies that influence the emotions and impulses that make us so darned human. How Hollywood can Capitalize on Piracy MIT Technology Review When the rogue file-sharing site Megaupload was shuttered in 2012, legal online revenue for blockbuster films rose.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. Procter & Gamble wanted to become “the most digital company on the planet” in 2012, but ran into growth challenges in a difficult economy. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. Julian Watt/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? Yet huge opportunities exist in using digital technology to evolve your business model by rethinking your existing products, economic models, and digital assets. Thus, in 2012, Luminar was born.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

. “Yahoo’s mobile business barely existed” when Marissa Mayer took over as CEO in 2012, wrote Vauhini Vara at The New Yorker. Perhaps by 2012 it was already too late. Mentions of mobile were more than three times higher in 2012, the year she started, than in 2011, and the uptick happened when she was hired.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Between 2006 and 2012, the company was involved, sometimes as plaintiff and sometimes as defendant, in nearly 150 patent lawsuits around the world over various features of its iPhone — including hardware, software, and product design. Motorola (owned by Google since 2011) is suing and being sued by everyone. And so Apple has.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5 million records).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

” In 2011, Rita McGrath echoed another one of Iver and Davenport’s points: the importance of failure. The authors are ex-DARPA leaders now running an innovation group at Motorola Mobility, which Google acquired in 2012. In 2011, Joshua Gans used Google+ to argue that the company was now playing catchup in key areas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

Census Bureau announced that the percentage of Americans who changed residences between 2010 and 2011 — 11.6 Of workers who were laid off in 2011 and found new jobs, 20 percent relocated to a new city or state. And 32 percent of employers reported they would be willing to pay to relocate new employees in 2012.

Health Care 13

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

It’s become commonplace for observers to tout the transformative potential of digital technologies and bemoan the allegedly slow pace at which companies support these initiatives. And is the key to success here the technology, or fundamental segmentation and buying-process criteria? are picking up steam.” According to U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

In 2012, China''s top six solar companies had debt ratios of over 80%. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5% In 2011, the U.S. imported 560% more technologically-advanced products from China than it exported to that country. billion in 2010.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. In Washington, business as usual.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Yet as we look forward to 2012, it's just as crucial to see where we're going right. What is the most important business or personal relationship that began or grew online in 2011? Which of 2011's entertaining online discoveries have helped you bond with friends, family or colleagues?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. Where did all that money go? based labor. manufacturing jobs.

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Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. Comparing the five years between 2012 and 2016 to the period between 2007 and 2011, U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Tourism Pharmaceuticals Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A McKinsey study released in May 2011 stated that, by using Big Data to the fullest, retailers stood to increase their operating margins by up to 60% — this, in an industry where net profit margins are often less than 2%. Wholesalers do not have shopper data, and do not have sophisticated technologies or expertise in mining the data.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

We''re not a technology firm." "We In other cases, such as Nationwide Insurance ''s October 2012 security breach, companies invoke client-attorney privilege to seal the evidence. The idea of placing your data, probably your company''s most important asset, in the hands of a third party needs careful review.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2012

As the 2012 Broadway season kicks off, Playbill lists 30 new shows that will vie for audience attention — and dollars — this year. In the spring of 2011 you couldn't pick up a New York newspaper without reading about Spider-Man 's problems. The media likened Spider-Man to the Titanic. Work together.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Recent access to technology has offered an irreversible level of transparency, connectivity, and inexpensive access to capital and markets unprecedented only five years ago. Disposable income has grown 50 percent over the past three years, to over $1 trillion in 2012. Entrepreneurs are watching these dynamics play out in real time: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Using a new database from Burning Glass Technologies containing 83 million online job postings between 2007 and 2014, across all U.S. Others have argued that the rise in skill requirements during this period was driven by changes in technology or outsourcing. domestic labor force each year between 2009 and 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

On December 9th, 2012 his piece, " Robots and Robber Barons ," states: "there's no question that in some high-profile industries, technology is displacing workers of all, or almost all, kinds. Double Robotics integrates robotic technology to make human beings more effective and more connected.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Could technology help? corporations between 2000 and 2011. We used a machine learning method called gradient boosting , and then evaluated the results using a separate test dataset of directors who joined firms between 2012 to 2014 who the algorithm did not observe during this “training period.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

In May 2012, as part of our research , we gave out the new dies randomly to 35 of the 135 producers in Sialkot and sat back to watch. Figuring that their earnings would decline, the cutters were trying to block adoption, in part by misinforming owners about the benefits of the technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

China, with a per capita GDP of $7,827 in 2011 (in 2005 dollars, according to the latest edition of the Penn World Tables ), is getting close to that first landmark. In a newer working paper with more-complete data, they revise that to report two inflection points, one in the $10,000-$11,000 range and another around $15,000-$16,0000.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

There are many reasons why Silicon Valley might have been a top contender: for years, it''s been the premier technology hub of the world. While no one can dispute Silicon Valley embodies the quintessential technology culture, there''s another piece of the culture equation that matters just as much for a company like ours: diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

By second phase, I mean the creation of entirely new offerings that are possible only because of digital technology. So in 2011, the publication launched a new model, called FUSION, for working with start-ups, welcoming a select group of new ventures into the Irish Times offices to help the company develop new digital offerings.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

” In 2011, when Gallegos first started at Jitterbit, the company had about 50 customers. The toughest sell was going to be “Jeff” — Jitterbit’s senior technology leader — who was skeptical of the cloud. ” Jitterbit had its first cloud-based release in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Essentially the team needed to rebuild the entire product and technology architecture for BTFG’s wealth products and then migrate existing customers to the new technology platform. During early 2011, Shuttleworth’s team interacted with customers of two of the key products to understand their needs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 So during initial rollout from May 2012 through February 2014, we examined 80,000 BHDP surveys in four military-treatment facilities. This combination of clear policy, well-designed technology, and redesigned workflows can come together to enable precision mental healthcare. million to 3.3

Health Care 8

Health Care System Report Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

Last year, Nature reported that Flu Trends overestimated by 50% the peak Christmas season flu of 2012. In Science , a team of Harvard-affiliated researchers published their findings that GFT has over-estimated the prevalence of flu for 100 out of the last 108 weeks; it’s been wrong since August 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Tim Cook took over as CEO in 2011. It's fascinating to watch where Cook has spent his time at work so far in 2012. During the past few months, two troubling fault lines have surfaced at Apple — one at the top and another at the bottom. Neither bode well for the future. Fault Line #1: At the Top. Jobs was an innovator at heart.

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