Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. The case instructs students in the value of deconstructing an industry into its component parts.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

We all know innovation has its own language conventions, rich with revolutions , evolutions , ecosystems , and more. Innovators, after all, are trying to communicate the promise of something that may not exist yet, and sometimes that requires some optimistic adornment. We wanted to learn more.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Over the last three years I have consistently stated my belief that Asia was emerging as a global innovation powerhouse. In late 2011, I even wrote , "The overarching trend I continue to see is a shift in the world's innovation energy to the east.". Innovation isn't random, but it isn't perfectly predictable either.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The week before Fashion Week in New York, now underway, is perhaps the busiest in the city’s apparel industry. How does New York’s fashion industry continually pull off Fashion Week year after year? Interviews, case studies and ethnographies tell us proximity matters to certain industries.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

That’s why Google created its Founders Awards to provide stock worth up to several million dollars as an incentive to innovation. But our research shows that high-powered rewards are no better than low-powered incentives at producing radical innovations. is far from settled, even after years of research.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Adapt ideas from other industries.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

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. We've been co-running the steering committee for this innovation project for almost six months now. MORE ON KNOCKING DOWN BARRIERS TO INNOVATION. I don't think we're ready.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Essentially, these statistics tell us that companies need to embrace and capture the voices of their employees and customers if they want to innovate and thrive. Rule 6: Rely on Others for Growth and Innovation. He is a regularly featured keynote speaker at industry associations and for leading companies on the power of social media.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Only 13% of employees worldwide are engaged in their jobs, according to 2011-2012 numbers collected by Gallup. The numbers only include people who work for an employer, and stretch across industries and sectors. They drive innovation and move the organization forward.”. “ What does that mean for where you live and work?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you aren’t sure where to get started, take a cue from other companies that have taken innovation to heart and used it to successfully win and keep customers. Instead of focusing on what clients liked about their industry, they chose to plan their strategy around what customers liked the least and improve upon it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). How did we get here, and what does it mean for the industry? oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Americans — and American companies — have also connected the dots between clean energy and economic growth, with 87% last year saying that developing clean energy should be a priority for the President and Congress. Renewables are growing faster than any other kindof of power generation, with more solar panels installed in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

By the mid-1980’s, the American semiconductor industry seemed like it was doomed. So in 1986, the American government created SEMATECH , a consortium of government agencies, research institutions and private industry. The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

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. of what George Mason University’s Adam Thierer calls “ permissionless innovation.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. While it can offer valuable lessons for other industries and other problems, the model is not universally applicable. This is a dangerous mindset. The Silicon Valley Model.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. Consolidation of the financial sector has led to similar dynamics in other industries. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.". Don''t get us wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. Experimentation is required to build new businesses and industries. That was down from 9.7%

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

He has challenged Indian companies to come up with inclusive business models that deliver more value at less cost for more citizens — be it in agriculture, healthcare, education, energy, or financial services. We will be writing more about these pioneers in our blog posts throughout 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

By some estimates, China has supported its domestic solar industry with $34 billion in loans; that cash, an ability to rapidly ape western technologies , and the competitive advantages of low-cost labor and limited regulatory restraints allowed Chinese companies to sweep away Western competitor after Western competitor in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

"Off the charts" is both figuratively and literally accurate: the data for the last 100 years shows a tight regression of temperature and water availability in Texas.except for the 2011 drought, which is far off the line (three degrees hotter with an inch less rainfall than any previous year). billion in agricultural production alone.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

link] Anna Smith “Let the attacks begin” – The number one source for innovation/change is pissed-off people (Tom Peters). Your comment summarizes exactly how things should work as opposed to how they often do. Have a great Thanksgiving Sir. LeRoyD Amen! We are all biased.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

As the impacts of climate change become even more evident, we will see calls for increased regulation to help us move away from carbon-emitting energy. More recently, in 2011, a large group of mostly European companies, led by the Prince of Wales Corporate Leaders Group, signed the 2°C Challenge Communique.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Everyone is familiar with the primary methods Gillette used to grow: It innovated via technology (with the Sensor, Mach 3, and Fusion razors), and in 2001 it formally expanded into the women''s leg shaving market with a new brand called Venus. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal. Marketing A C'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

Industry disruption and accelerating change are no longer remarkable phenomena requiring a special response — they are part of the landscape. Prado tapped a broader and more basic energy source that effective transformational leaders are able access, and that must come before concrete and specific strategies, plans, and business actions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. As in China several years ago, there's a reluctance to pay for goods using the Web; most of today's online transactions are in the travel industry (representing 87 percent of a $6.3 billion e-commerce sector, says Avendus).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Today, he is using his telecom industry expertise to help San Francisco’s Mayor Ed Lee launch the nation’s first entrepreneurship-in-residence (EIR) program for cities. The program pairs start-ups with government workers to improve government services in areas including transportation, energy, data services, and the environment.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Successful leaders of the South have enormous energy, ambition, and business savvy, and they are aiming to compete everywhere on the planet. In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Think beyond the obvious connections to come up with something truly innovative. Look at what others are doing in other industries and see how you can apply their ideas to your own business. Take two ideas and put them together to make one new idea. After all, what is a Snuggie but the mutation of a blanket and a robe? Get physical.

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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. How do you get energy and infrastructure into such dwellings?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

In 2011, floods in Thailand stranded hard drive and automakers for months without key parts. Facebook employs a Green Energy Czar, so I can easily imagine a Zero Carbon leader or Extreme Weather VP. They could work with their supply chain partners to innovate and improve the resilience of the whole chain.

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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.

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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. And that requires a real skill. We as a company will invest a huge amount of time.

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