Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Pick a small project and a “low hanging fruit” vendor. Rather than going all in, some companies begin by picking a small project that could benefit from cognitive technology, and use a smaller, less transformative toolset to attack it. Some of Cognitive Scale’s customers, like M.D.

Organization 8

Organization Software CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

Standing before a brown swathe of land cut up into rectangular ditches for a World Bank-funded project just outside Liberia's capital city of Monrovia, George Howard is a beneficiary of one such innovation. The goal is "to develop sustainable banking products which are more accessible for qualified candidates and women in general."

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Vitality provides people with incentives to improve their health through gym memberships, discounts on healthy foods, and other awards based on the achievement of personal health goals, and then rewards members dynamically through lowered annual premiums, free travel, and perks. The result is a structural transformation of insurance.

Insurance 8

Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. Robert Cialdini’s research on commitment and consistency shows that if we publicly commit to a goal we are more likely to honor it because it becomes part of our identity and we dislike operating in ways that contradict that identity.

Organization 8

Organization How To Cialdini Schein 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. CEO Peter Loscher declared Germany's plans to move aggressively toward renewables "the project of the century.". The goal: to reduce negative environmental and social impacts of the $1.4 trillion market for clothes and shoes.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

Executives of the “old economy” are certainly aware of their own vulnerability, as they witness the impact of Uber on the taxi industry, Airbnb on hospitality, and automated asset management on financial services. Such collaboration can take many shapes.

Innovation 11

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". This is the focus of my next project.). In reality, both views were right. economy commodity prices have become.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9