Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

One important distinction to note is that not all stress is created equal and there are even some types of stress that may also have a positive effect on our well-being and productivity. The long-term payoff is that we preserve energy and prevent burnout over the course of days, weeks and months. Develop mental agility.

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Stress Agility Globalization Energy 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. But here it is midyear and the signals are decidedly more positive. The shifting energy equation, for example, sets the stage for growth. Position yourself in market segments that will grow. Increase your R&D spending.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors. By June of 2012 we were close to 100.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Where there is economic growth, there is opportunity, and the companies that can predict where growth will take place are better positioned to take advantage of it. CEO Ginni Rometty took the top job in 2012, and identified Africa as a locus of technological growth early in her tenure. That is playing development to win.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

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. They were the initial developers of this technology and hold the patent for it. This created an unassailable competitive position.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

New technology has turned the U.S., however improbably, into the world’s largest energy producer. The need to renew manufacturing was a big issue in the Presidential election of 2012. An Energy Bonanza . First, America’s energy bonanza has changed the equation. Indeed, it could even turn positive.

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Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Energy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Embedded sustainability efforts clearly result in a positive impact on business performance. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5 In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

Consider that many directors who sit on boards hold senior management positions at other firms, and some sit on the boards of multiple companies. Many directors have similarly demanding positions at firms other than the one they serve as a director. Boards can and do play an important role in the success of companies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. But the most important and universal lesson is that everyone has a vital contribution to make — and that the ideas they produce, the energy and initiative they bring to the table, and the passion they share have nothing to do with the position they occupy.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2014

In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ. The company subsequently went private in early 2012. internet company in China.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The wartime challenge demanded better collaboration, greater situational awareness and more strategic application of cutting edge technology for the war-fighter. “Our instructors were teaching better, and our students were learning better,” Webb noted in The Red Circle , his 2012 SEAL memoir. This made a huge difference.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Some of the world’s best teams — such as Brazil, Colombia, Germany, and Holland – have shifted from the traditional one-touch style of play to the tiki-taka style, which is characterized by short, fast passes and continuous positional changes and first used by the Spanish team. Be a full-time leader.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Some of the world’s best teams — such as Brazil, Colombia, Germany, and Holland – have shifted from the traditional one-touch style of play to the tiki-taka style, which is characterized by short, fast passes and continuous positional changes and first used by the Spanish team. Be a full-time leader.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The 2012 OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study showed the UK invested the 8th largest amount out of 34 OECD countries, but only came 19th in mathematics, 14th in science and 16th in reading. The strength of a nation’s economy and the vitality of its society depend on the quality of its schools.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

The global economy is in a massive transition from a fossil-fuel-based energy system to one using sophisticated renewable energy technologies. For tens of thousands of fossil fuel workers, though, the energy industry outlook is not promising. For coal industry workers, the future looks particularly bleak.

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Energy Industry Engineering Training 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

On paper, the project seemed like it would be a hit: The investment by the mining company would bring jobs and 21st-century technology to an economically poor area and tax revenues to the government. Alice Potter/Getty Images. Conflicts like these with local communities are not only divisive, they are expensive.

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Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Facebook tried to ignore Wall Street pressure in 2012 upon its IPO, but quickly decided to shift course after experiencing attrition. However for the companies that are already public and don’t have a dominant position in their category, they have become acquisition targets. The good news is that there are many buyers out there.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Assuming the opt-in take up rate of 25.1%, as reported in my 2012 research with Ehud Peleg and Richard Thaler, that’s an under-statement of more than five million participants (75.4 Digital and mobile technology makes this process feasible on a mass scale. What kind of digital feedback encourages people to consume less energy?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

These tax rates will remain in effect through 2012. Extends the repeal of phase-outs of personal deductions and limits on itemized deductions for higher income taxpayers through 2012. Extended many energy and business credits and incentives, such as the Research & Development credit. People are optimistic–almost happy!–and

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Ten years after Kleiner star John Doerr was moved to tears during his TED talk about climate change , there’s no longer any question that VCs’ interest in clean energy is waning. as the most attractive market worldwide for renewable energy investment, this year downgraded it to third , behind China and India.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

So much for the lazy, hazy days of summer: If any of us needed one final reminder that the competitive logic of business and media and branding are being reshaped before our very eyes, that the merciless advance of technology upends every institution it touches, well, we got it. Yes, technology changes everything it touches.

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Media Magazine Creativity Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Last week, the House failed to pass a bill that would've repealed the so-called "light bulb law" that raised energy efficiency standards for lighting. Government standards, and particularly energy efficiency standards, are, well, standard. But the bill does not pick technologies; it says how much energy the bulbs can use.

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Innovation Efficiency Energy Price 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Hoping for a more nuanced perspective, Jay went next to the pastor, the Reverend Clyde Dahlberg, who, to Jay’s surprise, advocated a completely evidence-based approach: “Make two columns, one for adverse environmental effects, one for the positives,” he said matter-of-factly. Figure out a way to quantify the effects, then do the math.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The 2012 election cycle is remarkable for how much information the campaigns have about voters. The goal is to figure out which persuadable voters to spend energy — and dollars — on, in the hope of moving the dial just slightly in their favor. The underlying technology is still largely the same. Predict faster.

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