Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

Mostly by Arguing How Greylock Partners Finds the Next Facebook Newsweek When the CEO of Sprig, a start-up focused on meal delivery, finally made it to the boardroom of the VC firm Greylock Partners to pitch his business model, everyone argued about it. The Comfort of Crowds Are Smartphone Users the Missing Link in Building Efficiency?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Then I met three people — a Dutch CEO, a Welch education expert and a German scientist — who saw things in a very different way. The business model changes. The marketing model changes. Renault has a 230 million Euro remanufacturing business with engines and gear boxes. It's a huge challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

With the ad market under $70 million, many of our local competitors were rapidly experimenting with new types of revenue and business models and were far ahead of us. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. A 2010 Harvard Business School case by Julie M.

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