Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The Problem of Social Cost," Coase once told me, was the reason he spent his career not in an economics department or a business school but at the University of Chicago School of Law. Coase had observed first-hand the efficiencies to be gained by internalizing market transactions. So, yes, his death struck me as sudden.

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Cost Open-book Disruptive Innovation Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Because new technologies frequently require specific new skills that schools don’t teach and that labor markets don’t supply. Workers will more likely invest when standardized skills promise them a secure career path with reliably good wages in the future. Why are skills sometimes hard to measure and to manage?

Skills 8

Skills Short-term Technology Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Each research area has a unique focus: Business Unit Laboratories focus on specific markets, with near-term products; Sector Laboratories, on applications with 3-to-10 year time horizons; and Corporate Laboratories, on basic research with a time horizon of as long as 20 years. The consistency in the bad years is particularly important.".

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Innovation Engineering Wireless Resources 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. ’ What they’re really selling: Computer software. Computer software is merely one tool out of many.

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Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

Branch 2: Environmental, safety, IT systems design and computer software, training for computers and technology, architecture, engineering and legal. You offer a promising career and future for people with ideas and initiative. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. You always give your customers their money’s worth.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Consider, for example, the UK software company, Red Gate. They first experimented with a "coding by the sea" initiative, where they got a bunch of volunteers to take over a beach house for a few days to see if they could make progress on a software product. So a more focused approach may be more worthwhile. Tolerance of Failure.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. The company’s software-as-a-service offering, called ReferralCandy, helps small businesses organize customer referral campaigns. With the cautionary notes in mind, I arrived in Singapore in March 2010.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Monster is the most iconic of those that brought the service to market, and the first to do it at scale. Dice was actually launched in 1990, initially as a bulletin board service for recruiters – and by the late 1990’s had ascended to prominence as the go-to site for finding software developers in Silicon Valley.

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