Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

For more than three years, I've been sharing strategies, lessons, and case studies as a blogger for HBR. This is a special group of leaders, innovators, and change agents, and I have been fortunate to be a part of it. As many of you know by now, my new book, Practically Radical , will be published on Tuesday, January 4, 2011.

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Taylorism Taylor Case Study Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

How Google innovates. Bala Iyer and Tom Davenport attempted to “reverse engineer” Google’s innovation machine in 2008. The first step to innovating like Google, they argue, is patience. ” In 2011, Rita McGrath echoed another one of Iver and Davenport’s points: the importance of failure.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

GoDaddy (a web hosting company) announced its support of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in late October 2011. The news of GoDaddy's pro-SOPA stance appeared on Reddit on December 22, 2011, and then went viral. How can you avoid a customer revolt?

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Case Study Media Cost Blog 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. Both strategies are evident in the case of Gerstner and IBM.

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

Back in 2011, crowdsourcing was fueling an explosion in open innovation. At that time, most Fortune 500 firms had launched crowdsourcing initiatives or partnered with startups in order to access outside innovators or co-create with customers. The providers of crowdsource solutions had their heyday. of people never won.

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Participative Innovation Benchmarking Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

The innovation game is changing. The big difference is that the eReader market of 2007 was an open field; the tablet market of 2011 had a dominant giant. Amazon and Apple will go down as case studies in alternative strategies for succeeding in ecosystems. Delivering great products is no longer sufficient for success.

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Strategy eBook Library Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The sharp recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis and the uncertainty created by the 2011 debt crisis have fundamentally reset the world. Here is a case study of attacking audacious goals in the face of austerity, one that should serve as an inspiration for skeptics reading this blog post. The new reality is austerity.

Company 12

Company Succession Constraint Sharpe 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

As Chad Syverson at the University of Chicago wryly noted in his 2011 round-up of the evidence on what drives productivity : “…no potential driver of productivity differences has seen a higher ratio of speculation to actual empirical study” than management.

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Skills Management Succession Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Just a few examples illustrate some of the pressing issues: South Africa''s power distribution network has an estimated maintenance backlog of $4 billion — equivalent to half of the country''s total investment in electric power generation and distribution in 2011. an estimated $100 billion per year. We need to streamline delivery.

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Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Nearly every criticism the authors levy in their op-ed is answered in 12 blog posts , a magazine article from January/February 2011, a video interview , and a slideshow that integrated community and commentary, which were published between last October and this May. For us, good business and social innovation are one and the same.

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Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

August 2011 HBR. The participants attend training sessions addressing such current topics such as creativity, innovation, and self-awareness; work in teams on a project related to a pressing banking issue; and meet Garanti's top-level executives to listen to their stories of success in their careers.

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Banking Crisis Restructuring Reputation 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

I'd like to point you to two well-known case studies — one from Asia, one from America. Managers are encouraged to innovate. These are central themes of my new book, Too Many Bosses, Too Few Leaders. The first is Tony Fernandes, founder of AirAsia. And all that plays into professional development.

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Airlines Mentor Environment Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Interviews, case studies and ethnographies tell us proximity matters to certain industries. To find out answers to these questions, we tracked 77 fashion designers working in the Garment District and the larger New York region over two weeks in July 2011. Think Silicon Valley, Wall Street or Hollywood.

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Fashion Industry Parcell Apparel 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

If you still don’t know whether or not your attitude is affecting your performance, I would strongly suggest participation in a 360 review process where your strengths and weakness are objectively assessed by those whom you interface with on a frequent basis. The beautiful thing about your story is it makes for a wonderful case study.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

At the same time, as material consumption in emerging economies rises, we also face the fact that, as of the end of 2011, the Earth now contains seven billion people ; by 2050, that global population is projected to reach nine billion. We look forward to sharing their case studies in a third research study, to be published later this year.

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Spanish-born Roberto Alcazar, who started his branded content agency EOIntegration.com at Grind at the end of 2011, told me one of the things he likes about Grind, "is that you get to interact whether you want to or not. They foster innovation. They make starting a business simpler.

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Entrepreneur Case Study Innovation Media 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

When you meet him — for me it was at a BankInter-hosted gathering of scientists, business innovators, and policy experts in Madrid — you''re struck by his no-nonsense style and gruff Brooklyn charm. Some of the case studies put forth by Trachtenberg, Kauvar, and Bogue yield straightforward lessons.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Case Study Emotional Intelligence Storytelling 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In 1M/1M, we offer a case-study-based online educational program, video lectures, and methodology, online strategy consulting at public and private online roundtables, as well as introductions to customers, channel partners and investors (pre-seed, seed, angel, VC, bank, alternative financing). on a global scale.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies. In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs?

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8