Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

This is called Functional Fixedness and while you probably won''t need to build a fort during your professional career, chances are you do suffer from it and it is impacting your work. Companies often struggle to develop breakthrough products because they are hobbled by Functional Fixedness. How can I be so sure? you''re human, right?

Innovation 8

Innovation Open-book Objective Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Backing them up are legions of qualified and ambitious women who, increasingly, are the engines powering China's economic juggernaut. New research from the Center for Work-Life Policy (CWLP) explores and analyzes the complicated career dynamics of this rich talent pool. The payoff?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career. What I can tell you is that I’ve always made my family a priority.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed. Our research and work with companies suggest three broad approaches you can try, each with its own pros and cons: Enact a sharp "decree" to force a specific change in behavior.

Productivity 8

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

As I recited that back to my boss he looked at me sternly and said, “ now young man, you’ll remember that, won’t you ?&# I had just received one of the best lessons I’d ever get as a leader, and better still, I got it early in my career. So that meant I would never make a hiring mistake, right?

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Open-book Blog Core Competence Books 222

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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