Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Although directors in certain industries are more aware of the threat of disruption, the widespread lack of board-level engagement in innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability. These firms also had higher-rated processes for innovation. Setting Priorities. Director Recruitment and Skills.

Innovation 9

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

So instead of looking at it as a substitute for existing manufacturing, we should look to new areas where it can exploit its unique capabilities to complement traditional manufacturing processes. In these cases, 3D printing has to compete with scale-driven manufacturing processes and rather efficient logistics operations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Tacit Knowledge Contract Manufacturing Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The reason for the interest in in part because the industry has suffered from poor returns on investment over the last decade; indeed, some sectors, including biotechnology, report negative aggregate returns. Investing in a specialty hospital or HMO can accelerate the process of demonstrating value.

Marketing 14

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

In order to do this, your company needs a process to source radical ideas that can catapult your business to new heights, open up new markets, or bring in completely unfamiliar profit streams. Three major factors drive convergence: technology, competition, and the customer. Let’s say you’re in the energy sector. Find Pivots.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

As our research has shown us, the core of the problem is not the high number of M&A deals in itself, but rather that too many executives bring insufficient discipline to the evaluation process that fuels these deals — as a result, they often get deals wrong.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Biotechnology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. chemicals, metals and mining, paper and forest products), made out worst, scoring poorly on "firing" and "leveraging diversity," and not much better on "assessing talent" and "developing talent.". chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Although many boards continue to select new members from their own networks, our research suggests that more are beginning to implement objective processes to select members based on the skills and attributes that boards need to be effective. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Paul Kennedy's seminal Rise and Fall of the Great Powers captures the way technological and economic advances have converted into strategic advantage, and how failure to "lock in" that edge accelerates imperial decline. Technik , then, is the technological quotient of civilization. It pledges $1.5 The contrast between the U.N.'s

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

A major reason for the decline in manufacturing employment in recent decades is the huge increases in the productivity of American factories. With those productivity gains likely to continue (a good thing), it is hard to imagine how manufacturing could ever return to its glory days, when it employed about a quarter of the U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Biotechnology Industry Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision. Health Information & technology'

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. Reliance MediaWorks. Decentralize and empower global R&D units.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Works like these are reflections of the American story, which has always experienced tension between its narrative of meritocratic social mobility, its long history of racial inequality, and the boom-bust economic cycles that have allowed rapacious monopolists to manipulate the political process with impunity.

Class 8

Class Open-book Politics Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. Take a look at any significant innovation, such as an iPhone , and you’ll find that most, if not all, of the technology came from some government program.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

New Zealand is the world’s largest exporter of dairy products. Intense biotechnology research and development activities at some of the country’s universities (and their research farms) have raised the complexity and level of the industry’s outputs. Expand into more products and industries.

Cooper 12

Cooper Long-term Industry Health Care 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

” Directors of both political views rate their boards similarly on processes, dynamics, and effectiveness as a whole, but differ on the question of compensation. Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8