Mills Scofield

AUGUST 30, 2015

Thank you Nicha Ratana-Apiromyakij & Saul Kaplan for this honor from TIME magazine. How many people end business meetings with an “I love you” and a hug? weeks til the magic of BIF2015. I am blessed with the gift of my network and can't wait to see my students and clients and friends and friends-to-be.

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Venture Capitalist Kaplan Diversity Magazine 70

LDRLB

OCTOBER 7, 2013

To what degree does your product, service, or business model elicit positive surprise? Innovation innovation kaplan leapfrogging surprise' What do your customers say or convey as the most surprising elements of your solution? What surprises you about your customers’ reactions? References: [link].

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 113

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

One epiphany from my immersion into the non-private sector is how strenuously social sector organizations resist the notion they have a "business model." Non-profits, government agencies, social enterprises, schools, and NGOs consistently proclaim that they aren't businesses, and therefore business rules don't apply.

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Business Model Kaplan Finance Health Care 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

If the erosion of a market requires a new business model, that’s change management. For example, Gary Kaplan, president of XL Catlin’s North American Construction insurance, got his division started by formulating some major strategic goals. If a merger needs to be implemented, that’s change management.

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Management Kaplan Short-term Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The Dead hold an iconic spot in the history of popular music by virtue of their unique sound, devoted fan base, and ahead-of-its time business model that generated almost all of its revenue from live performances rather than studio records—a model that bands, executives, and academics still learn from today.

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Innovation Kaplan Insurance Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

The solutions we need require transformative bracket-busting business models and systems. Saul Kaplan is the Founder and Chief Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory (BIF). Don't allow anyone to say you aren't allowed to go to the big dance. Don't be constrained by brackets created by someone else. Be an innovator.

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Innovation Health Care Kaplan Education 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

As Zingales’s University of Chicago colleague Steven Kaplan wrote in a separate paper , Facebook and its fellow tech giants “used market forces to their advantage, are profitable as a result, and certainly now enjoy some market power. .” Take Facebook as an example.

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Competitive Advantage Kaplan Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

But in my 24 hour visit I met individually with Mayor Gray and Mayor Fischer, talked with the Lexington City Council, taught a class on business model innovation at the University of Kentucky , and met with over 150 local entrepreneurs at several sessions bouncing back and forth between Lexington and Louisville.

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Innovation Entrepreneur Kaplan Class 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

million workers — but is mostly comprised of entrepreneurial, family-run businesses with fewer than 500 employees. In the United States, wholesale distribution is a $4.8 trillion industry that employs 5.6

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Storytelling Kaplan Taylorism Taylor 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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Review Technology Strategy Books 80

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Creating game changers – whether products, services, or new business models – requires leaders to live with uncertainty, embrace ambiguity, and respond to both good and bad surprises along the way. During OpenTable’s early days, the online restaurant reservation service received a big blow to its business model.

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