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Flash Case Study: Will a Pilot Program Unleash This Innovation, or Kill It?

Harvard Business Review

Editor's Note: Like HBR's traditional case studies, this online-only "flash" case study dramatizes a dilemma frequently faced by leaders in real companies. This fictional story is inspired by "The Art of Piloting New Initiatives" by Rhoda Davidson and Bettina Büchel in the Fall 2011 MIT Sloan Management Review.

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The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge.

CO2

They have been studying over the past decade innovation within established organizations. In the process they have compiled perhaps the most extensive library of innovation case studies in the world. This is such a straight forward book well thought out and well executed. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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The Right Way to Spend Your Innovation Budget

Harvard Business Review

We’ve come to these conclusions after completing case study analyses of a range of companies, including Nokia, Kodak, Borders, Amazon, Apple, and Xerox. Yet Nokia hung on to the Symbian operating system despite knowing its weaknesses in the eyes of the consumer. Together, these companies have spent billions on innovation.

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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. Earlier this year, Google’s SVP of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, wrote about its latest “people analytics” experiment. What Google could do better.

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Fixing the World's Infrastructure Problems

Harvard Business Review

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. an estimated $100 billion per year. There are ways of cutting the bill down to size and meeting the challenge.

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9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work

Harvard Business Review

“Meaning is the new money, an HBR article argued in 2011. Often, the people “in the trenches” (retail floor clerks, assembly line workers) have valuable insights into how operations can be improved. increase in annual operating profits. increase in annual operating profits.

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Leading Across Borders? Don't Change a Thing

Harvard Business Review

I'd like to point you to two well-known case studies — one from Asia, one from America. Years later, he bought a financially ailing airline and transformed it into Asia's most profitable and fastest-growing low-cost operator. These are central themes of my new book, Too Many Bosses, Too Few Leaders.