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The Biggest Obstacles to Innovation in Large Companies

Harvard Business Review

The responses , from 270 corporate leaders in strategy, innovation, and research and development roles, were illuminating. Are they looking for ideas to streamline operations and serve customers better, or developing new business models around existing products?

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Business models that can prosper at structurally lower price points are the engines that power true market disruption.

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An Agenda for the Future of Global Business

Harvard Business Review

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. Business leaders will need to visibly embrace and take action on a new agenda to shape the future, both for the direction of our societies and for the sharing of benefits and opportunity within them.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. They need to feel valuable and that they are being developed. I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. Value chain and transparency partnerships growing: The apparel industry bands together. for " every manufacturer, component, and process in apparel production."