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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

When firms fail to establish good relationships with their stakeholders, it can lead to increased conflict and reduced stakeholder cooperation. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Fostering innovation. ” Improving risk management. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Learning Collaboration from Tiki-Taka Soccer

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly. They have adopted a silo mentality of departmental self-interest, maintaining rigid, top-down hierarchies that act as a barrier to cooperative participation and promote a dependency on managers.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Learning Collaboration from Tiki-Taka Soccer

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly. They have adopted a silo mentality of departmental self-interest, maintaining rigid, top-down hierarchies that act as a barrier to cooperative participation and promote a dependency on managers.

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What Low Oil Prices Really Mean

Harvard Business Review

In fact, today’s oil prices that we think of as low are actually near the real average price of a barrel of oil for the last 150 years: $35 (2014 US dollar reference year). Historically this wouldn’t be shocking at all. What is surprising though, is the fundamental shift we think is happening.

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Why Companies and Universities Should Forge Long-Term Collaborations

Harvard Business Review

Instead, they want a relationship model – a durable, cooperative model that enables companies to partner with academia in a fashion that allows them to stay continuously connected to early stage research and to accelerate the translation of that research into new products that drive economic growth. Find common ground on non-disclosure.