Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. But new strategies and structures are squarely in the board’s domain, and we have seen any number of governing boards innovating with, not just monitoring, management. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee.

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Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

This "power of the purse" is growing rapidly; expectations are that it will swell to $18 trillion by 2014. Specifically, we find that companies fail to realize the full innovative potential of women in their midst because leadership either doesn''t know how to elicit their insights or lacks the perspective necessary to endorse their ideas.

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Innovation Banking Proposal Diversity 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

Last night, President Obama laid out a set of goals and proposals for his next year in office, with a substantial portion of the speech focusing on business and economic issues. As the President sets out on a post-speech tour to sell his policies, here are management experts’ perspectives on some of those proposals: Minimum Wage.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Health Care Proposal Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Entrepreneurship aids economic vitality by getting rid of complacent incumbents, accelerating innovation, and creating jobs. For example, one celebrated software company had managed to accumulate 600 vice presidents by the time it reached $4 billion in revenues. ” “Great,” you might say. Considering the following.

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Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Looking ahead to 2014, one of the most urgent issues will be a new war for talent: not yesteryear’s broad-based need for all top talent but an increasing demand for the right kind of talent. How can leaders leverage and develop diverse talent in 2014? What does it take to consistently drive growth and innovation?

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EPS Diversity Innovation Bottom-up 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

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. At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Library leaders knew that given the immense changes brought on by digital innovations, as well as shifts in the communities that the Library served, it would need to evolve. Leadership would shape the conversation to ensure proposals were strategically on-point. The conversation would be neither bottom-up nor top down.

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Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2015

The “them” the leader was referring to were zombie projects: the nefarious enemies of well-intentioned innovation efforts around the globe. We had suggested that at least one reason why the company was struggling to successfully commercialize innovative ideas was that zombies were draining its resources and clogging its pipeline.

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Project How To Innovation Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

The WSJ for example reported as recently as 2014 that the future was “very bright for anyone entering into compliance as a career.”). ” Drucker thought of one solution to propose (we’ll let you read the chapter if you’re curious) but even he conceded it would never be accepted.

Compliance 9

Compliance Drucker Banking Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Odd as it may seem for discussing innovation and management, I’m reminded of a sociology experiment done in the 1960s. I’m reminded of Enron’s “new metrics” once touted by big-name thinkers as reflecting the future of management. And proposing a solution helps advances the idea. Collaboration Communication Innovation'

How To 8

How To Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

My colleague Andy Hargadon noted this when he did an ethnography of the renowned innovation firm IDEO in the 1990s. It intends to open two more warehouses and add 300 more employees in 2014. BuildDirect encourages its people to propose imaginative, off-the-wall, and even downright weird ideas.

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Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

the approach to digital privacy has been more piecemeal: in effect, it is predicated in part on the idea that the ability of companies to collect, analyze, sell and monetize user data with minimal restrictions is the basis for an innovative digital industry; new users are drawn by free services and companies make money from the data collected.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Constraint Self-aware Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

It is little surprise that direct employer-purchasing of bundled care is a burgeoning area of healthcare payment innovation. HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. To achieve those ends, we propose that business leaders support a new agenda, comprising seven areas of opportunity. This approach was credible as long as economic inequality was kept within reasonable bounds.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In 2014, I applied for and received a grant from The W. In 2014, as in previous years, the dominant reason for discontinuation of a venture in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania was that the business was not profitable, as per the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2014 Global report.

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Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

He has proposed reforms, such as tax breaks for mining firms and commercial farmers, aiming to assist export-oriented businesses and earn Zimbabwe much-need hard currency. For example, after opening its first store in 2014, fast-food chain KFC recently opened its fifth branch in the country.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Why did it take until 2014 for the world’s second-largest toy maker to offer girls (and their toy-buying parents) products they might actually want? Perhaps it has something to do with the profile of LEGO’s management team, comprised almost entirely of men. After all, even Barbie has been an astronaut since 1965.).

Management 13

Management Niche Marketing Retail Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Phil Gilbert , general manager of IBM Design: “In design thinking, you need to listen to the people doing the job, while in continuous delivery you don’t need to talk to users; you just monitor what they do on the web.” To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea. In fact, for many managers, it may be the approach that defines strategy. As of 2014, its stock was up 800 percent from recession lows.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

For example, one of her key proposals is for shares to be held well beyond the current minimum period of one year before the profits from their sale are taxed as a capital gain. Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity.

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Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? Many have tried but few have succeeded in developing substantial innovation hubs. counterpart, Match.com.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Most decisions in organizations are made by escalating them up the management hierarchy — and it’s usually the highest paid person in the room’s opinion (“HIPPO”) that prevails. Consider these three examples from the frontiers of management: Funding decisions at most organizations are made by senior management or maybe an independent panel.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

According to an analysis by Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at Howard University, in 2014 nearly one-third of new H-1B visas went to 13 of these so-called “outsourcers.” on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment. “But more engineers is a good thing.

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Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

billion, as estimated by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development in 2014. Since its passage in 1983, the ODA has governed approval of drugs for rare diseases and has incentivized pharmaceutical innovation via multiple tax breaks and seven years of market exclusivity. The FDA should be freed to make this decision.

Price 14

Price Pharmaceuticals Company Health Care 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

I help the University of Utah hospital system manage its drug budgets and medication use policies, and in 2015 I got sticker shock. The 1984 Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act gave pharmaceutical companies exclusive protections for innovating a new drug. How generics are supposed to work. Not anymore.

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System Pharmaceuticals Company Sample 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. Based on our research, we propose four critical areas of focus: Harmonizing across the e-commerce value chain. President Obama said it plainly in a recent interview : “We have owned the Internet.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. His pick for Labor Secretary is staunchly opposed to covering overtime pay or increasing minimum wages (something many leading companies have been doing on their own since 2014.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8