Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

Every company has a limited amount of time, money, and resources that it can invest in innovation. That’s why they should focus their energies on opportunities that will set them apart from their competition — that is, they should innovate where they differentiate. So what about your company? Is it differentiating itself?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

But the more time I spend with game-changing innovators and high-performing companies, the more I appreciate the need for leaders to “talk the walk” — that is, to be able to explain, in language that is unique to their field and compelling to their colleagues and customers, why what they do matters and how they expect to win.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. As business tycoon Richard Branson has proclaimed in 2012, “our only option to stop climate change is for industry to make money from it.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Unless we also design new ways of talking about ideas and exploring the future, those product and service innovations will never be embraced by the organization and never make their way out into the world. In the face of this dynamic, it isn’t enough to create new products and services. Related Video. The Explainer: Design Thinking.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

In 2012, according to the State of Women-Owned Businesses Report from American Express Open, there are more than 8.3 In 2012, over 50% of dentists are women, as are 47% of medical students. Yet corporate leadership still lags as does the percentage of women on U.S. The gender gap has continued to widen since then. of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

BancAlliance, a consortium of community banks, has partnered with Lending Club, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace. Customized, individual lending has historically been difficult for small banks because of regulatory risk and the high cost of underwriting a large pool of loans. Building in-house is not for the faint of heart.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. However, during their prime working years, most Manizalenos would move to Bogota (7 million people) or Medellin (2.5 strategic hires).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. Your leadership is crucial. Economy Execution Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. It was a much-watched contest, as many had thought it might turn out otherwise—that the old boys' bargain, under which an American gets to lead the World Bank and a European gets the IMF, would cave in to pressure from everyone else.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

billion, which has experienced incredible growth, with the total number of users having practically doubled each year since 2012. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. A third example is Airbnb, now valued at $25.5

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

So, on August 23, 2002, we shut our doors, and laid off all 400 employees, including me and my entire leadership team. On August 23, 2012, I walked into our headquarters — a spectacularly creative facility that we had just moved into a few months earlier. We subsequently sued Avon for breach of contract and won. Or calling.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

In late 2012, Bank of America announced that it was preparing to add more restrictions to its work-from-home program, reportedly to increase efficiency. Okay, okay, it might boost productivity," was the argument, "but it inhibits innovation." It''s not innovation. Increasingly, many fathers do, too. It''s identity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Bela Karolyi coached the US women's gymnastics team to gold at the 2012 Olympic Games, adding to a long and storied coaching career. We asked her for the best way to spur innovation in any field. We talked with Nobel laureate and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus about scaling up. "I

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