Business Model Chemicals Engineering Innovation 
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 6, 2016
At least, that’s how the story is often told today, and that telling meshes with how people see innovation: a single, simple observation, a flash of brilliance, and — eureka! Put simply, Fleming didn’t have the requisite skills to engineer his discovery into a practical solution to the problem of disease.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 4, 2017
To address the realities of climate change and other ways in which we are increasingly overrunning planetary boundaries, we must now shift our mindsets, technologies, and business models from left to right, and from bottom to top. A brilliant engineer and chemist with General Motors and DuPont, Midgley held over 100 patents.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 17, 2016
They do so by building powerful growth engines. If you build a robust growth engine on a strong foundation, rather than seeking individual opportunities, you can be confident knowing that sustainable expansion will follow. Other companies known for their capabilities are similarly focused on building growth engines.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 11, 2014
Almost none of their patents would be useful (the tire business was the second most research-intensive industry in the U.S after chemicals). Propeller planes yielded to jet engines. How often have you seen a firm revolutionize an industry by creating a superior product using a new business model?
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
New business models can hurt a company’s existing businesses; however, if they work, they can enhance overall performance. These new entrants often bring new business models, and thus measure performance differently than incumbents. Against which metrics are they building their businesses?
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 26, 2017
“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator,” stated Francis Bacon. As with many clusters, a university sits at its center: founded in AD 1088, the Studium of Bologna was the major educational innovation of Europe’s second millennium.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 15, 2016
After all, the first prototype of a digital camera was created in 1975 by Steve Sasson, an engineer working for … Kodak. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Maybe in 2010 it would have lured a young engineer from Google named Kevin Systrom to create a mobile version of the site. Insight Center.
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