The Horizons Tracker

MAY 2, 2023

By contrast, the IT and engineering sectors were far more accessible to people from working-class backgrounds. These CEOs had transitioned through the classes as a result of their educational performance and were highly present in sectors like technology, engineering, health, and education.

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Class CEO Education Engineering 106

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. Today’s corporate leaders are under intense pressure to deliver continuous business growth. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. Not very likely.

How To 100

How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Some of this may just be the product of the high regulatory costs in pharmaceuticals, but research by Harvard's F.M.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

ill-fated attempts to impose global business models unsuited to the Chinese market. failure to manage relations effectively with local business partners. underestimating the major differences between digital business and other industries. failure to develop and communicate business strategies effectively.

Competitive Advantage 11

Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 11

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. How did the city make the leap?

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Innovation starts with new and novel ideas. When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Finding ideas is never the problem — initially. Find Pivots.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

With dozens of other genetically engineered therapies moving through clinical trials, the long-promised era of personalized, gene-based medicine seemed to be at hand. New business models. Our research on major innovations finds that when disruption occurs, technologies don’t replace technologies; systems replace systems.

Business Model 10

Business Model Insurance Cost Bond 10