Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Of course, the internet has since become a major influence on our lives, from how we buy goods and services, to the ways we socialize with friends, to the Arab Spring, to the 2016 U.S. How technology is transforming transactions. Unfortunately, the exuberance of fintech investors is way ahead of the development of the technology.

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Banking Media Decentralization Technology 18

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

That you would be paid peanuts compared to your old comfortable job, and you would be harassed and bashed in the media constantly. I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. I would say overall we harnessed technology to push the country toward the future.

How To 50

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Most companies, whether start-ups or long-time players live in a world shaped by the laws of demand where low pricing can trump quality, and where targeted marketing, carefully crafted keywords, and social media engineering can build awareness, influence opinion, and generate sales. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2006, 26-year-old Frank Wang started up DJI in a dorm room at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. As part of his graduate thesis, he perfected an electronics flight controller, a critical element of drone technology. Western media has been quite critical of the Chinese miracle.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. China has not been a huge technology innovator, despite being the world’s second-largest investor in R&D , but Chinese businesses have found ways to use innovations in processes, business models, and customer experience to their disruptive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For instance, Snapchat’s recent IPO filing revealed that the company grew revenues by 600% (to $404 million) in 2016. The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. Many of them have been growing at a ferocious pace.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain technology is not well understood and subject to a lot of hype. However, there are many reasons to invest the time now to understand the technology and begin exploring specific marketing applications for your industry. Blockchain technology allows for near-zero transaction costs—even on microtransactions.

Marketing 8

Marketing Advertising Technology Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

cleantech innovation declined from 2014 to 2016, as measured by patents. America appears to be pulling back on cleantech innovation when it can least afford to do so. America appears to be pulling back on cleantech innovation when it can least afford to do so. VC investment; in 2016 it was under 8%.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

To address this problem, in 2011 a group at Mayo Clinic led by the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology launched an initiative to transform prenatal care from this medicalized model to an innovative wellness model. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

While most bosses would frown on playing Halo at the office, it’s video games that are driving much of the innovation in video, virtual reality, and collaboration technologies today—something that has important implications for how we work, especially with far-flung colleagues.

Technology 8

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Technology has prompted tremendous change in the advertising industry—change that would have been inconceivable even a decade ago. The next evolution in digital advertising must be driven by innovative platforms that more effectively help marketers move their businesses forward. Fortunately, there are some encouraging trends.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. In March 2016, Thales purchased Vormetric, the growing cybersecurity firm, for $400 million, which was 5.7 In fact, by the end of December 2016, Thales traded at a 21.8 Sysomos offers social media site analysis that could help an acquirer understand what people are saying about a target.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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P&L Agility Fashion Media 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

But certain types of decisions — particularly those related to strategy, innovation and marketing — will likely continue to require a human being who can take a holistic view and make a qualitative judgment based on a personal consideration of the context and facts.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. The Obama campaign's techniques, tools and technologies deserve detailed and dedicated attention from every organization that takes data-driven decisions seriously. They're right.

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Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Young people do avoid their parents, but they do this by moving some, though not all, of their social media interactions elsewhere. When Instagram demonstrated that sharing photos on mobile devices was a new social media platform, Facebook acquired it. Insight Center. The Platform Economy. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Film Christensen Short-term Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Up to 85% of women report that they have been sexually harassed at work, according to a 2016 report by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. What happens next is often not captured in numbers, but in the fine-print details of recent media reports. ” Or, “ I left that place.”

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Venture Capitalist Gordon Industry Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

Indeed, writes Aaron Hurst in a Stanford Social Innovation Review blog, there is an increasingly popular perspective that supporting business is a charitable act. By 2016, four out of ten jobs will require advanced education or training, and many hiring managers are already finding that the talent they need is hard to find. "If

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. Experiment with frontier technologies. joshua sortino/unsplash.

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Succession Industry McKinsey Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

What you didn’t know is that during the 2016 season, the NFL made major league-wide improvements to its radio frequency technology, both to prevent interference from media using the same frequency and to prevent tampering. This was a development led by John Cave, VP of football technology at the National Football League.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.”

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

” This is what the back end of AI looks like in 2016. Indeed, the creation of human tasks in the wake of technological advancement has been a part of automation’s history since the invention of the machine lathe. Her teenage sons do their homework in the adjoining room.

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Content Trends Media Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

They like technology, they have an Xbox, they have children, and they have an annual household income of more than $100,000. million consumers, or 45% of the people who bought a Kinect at launch who will try a HoloLens by 2016. But the technology itself is moving faster than before.

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Forrester Technology Execution Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Cost Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

On October 12, 2016, President Obama’s Executive Office published two reports that laid out its plans for the future of artificial intelligence (AI). The reports received less media attention than they might have otherwise because the United States was gripped by the final weeks of a presidential campaign race. ” The U.S.

Policies 8

Policies Report Technology Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

Today some companies are taking brand anthropomorphism to a whole new level with sophisticated AI technologies. Studying those deployments led to several insights around three new types of decisions executives face at the intersection of technology, personality, and strategy. The implications are numerous. Beyond Chatbots.

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Ethics Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? In a fragmented media and social landscape, marketers can no longer reach their goals for awareness and reputation just through paid media and PR. Old Navy has traditionally dedicated their media budget to TV, particularly around back to school. What makes marketing creative?

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Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. The idea to do this study and connections with some of the CEOs came from a presentation I gave at the 2016 Billie Jean King Leadership initiative symposium.

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Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

But the cure to the pathologies of past-sickness does not lie in the equally romanticized vision of modernization and innovation we have been offered for the last 40 years — something that might be called future nostalgia , or modernization-sickness. As of 2016, that had fallen to 22.8%. of America’s total wealth.

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Class Bottom-up Arkes Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. ” Immelt elevated marketing and digital media when he promoted Beth Comstock to vice chair, while other positions, including that of the CFO, are at the senior vice president level.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Leading technology companies are increasingly soliciting their users to take political action on their behalf to defend controversial business models from regulation, support new programs, and promote their moral values in active political battles. We’re being introduced to a new lever of corporate influence on democracy.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

That you would be paid peanuts compared to your old, more comfortable job, and you would be harassed and bashed in the media constantly? I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. And you wouldn’t be allowed to complain? How could I refuse?

Politics 8

Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. Transportation, aviation, health care, and energy all require physical delivery, whereas media, music, and advertisement do not. Such knowledge is in fact the prerequisite to innovation.

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