N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.
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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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 25, 2017
That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. This vexing global challenge causes me to wonder, “What if the world’s innovators turned their sights on solving this problem?
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 17, 2016
Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. In everything it does, the company pays as much attention to its growth engine — its ability to manage innovation and launch consistently valuable products — as in any particular garment or device it sells.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. McGrath recalls the painful experience of working with a big chemical company that wanted to diversify its business.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 28, 2014
At the hoary age of 128, it had already beat the odds twice over when it lost its place to chemical maker LyondellBasell at close of trading this year on September 4 th. Founded in 1886 as a mail-order watch retailer, Sears was already 71 when it became an original member of the S&P 500 in 1957. We felt defeated and powerless.”.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 20, 2011
On the use side of the water issue, companies with products that depend on water in production (beverages) or in use (shampoo, apparel) are also seeing the writing on the wall and getting creative. Value chain and transparency partnerships growing: The apparel industry bands together. trillion market for clothes and shoes.
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