Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

And it is strangling both US competitiveness, and the ability for US firms to innovate. One of the prime drivers of economic growth inside America over the past century has been disruptive innovation ; yet the phenomenon that Lessig describes is increasingly being used by large incumbent firms as a mechanism to stave off the process.

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Innovation Transportation Disruptive Innovation Price 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla, Elon Musk’s automotive start-up, is having a very good year. There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. But is its automotive business a disruptor, poised to transform the entire transportation sector? car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. Access to innovation resources and skills matter far more than money.

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Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Gordon, an economist at Northwestern University, has recently published an important new book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth , which argues that the U.S. However, I think it’s clear that innovation since then has continued (and even accelerated) but has focused largely on information and communication technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

“What matters is the pace of innovation — that is the fundamental determinant of competitiveness.” This seems to describe Musk’s view of strategy, that Tesla’s strength comes from its capacity to innovate, rather than from its assets or any particular niche in the automotive market.

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Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In a June 12 th blog post that made instant waves, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla Motors, declared: “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors?

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Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

This was the case at Harman , which had achieved extraordinary success in the high-end automotive infotainment systems for luxury cars. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. So innovation and learning will move from rich countries to poor countries. As they develop, poor countries will catch up with rich ones.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

My research on succession, summarized in the book The CEO Within , revealed that CEOs brought in from outside the company succeeded less often than insiders even when the company’s poor performance would seem to have justified going outside for a new leader. That is good news for the companies involved.

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CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I wrote a case study about this for my book and it ended up on the cutting room floor, but it's still a fascinating story and one that has valuable lessons for today. If they had doggedly followed this idea, things could just as easily have turned sour and today Honda would be just a footnote in automotive history.

Strategy 14

Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Type 2: These are once-analog products that have now been converted into digital products, such as photography, books, and music. These products are typically sold as a service via digital distribution platforms (Audible.com for books, Spotify for music, Netflix for movies). Here too, digital natives dominate. Not, really.

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Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king.

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Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Taylor, chair of Columbia University's Department of Religion and author of a book critical of tenure , estimates that a college ties up between $10 million and $12 million of its endowment to support a single tenured professor for a 35-year career. For example, a 2011 UCLA study of 6,768 U.S. For example, a 2011 UCLA study of 6,768 U.S.

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Engineering Education Class Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Use new Disruptive Technology. When I started in political campaigns in the late 70s, the disruptive new technology was TV. Several years ago, I worked with Bill Ford of Ford Motor Company, who set down a marker that "Innovation will be the compass that guides this company going forward." In both the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

So it doesn’t surprise me that Uber’s bookings are said to have grown by more than 141% in the past year. What I’ve learned is that it is rare for firms to succeed in transitioning from the present to an entirely different future; typically, the leader in one technology is not the leader in the next.

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Industry Engineering Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2017

” LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is the technology that helps self-driving cars “see” their surroundings. Research shows that non-competes reduce innovation, entrepreneurship, and, most basically, job mobility, all of which are fundamental to a healthy economy.

Engineering 8

Engineering Download Technology Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Consider the automotive industry. automotive manufacturers owned rental car companies in the hopes of maintaining strong unit sales figures by captive fleet purchases (which were also to maintain volume to fulfill their onerous union obligations). . When things change, outmoded metrics can threaten a firm’s survival.

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Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. doubled from 20% to 40% between July and December 2013, and has stayed at that level since.

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