Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Improving innovation is one of the key competencies that companies often look for when replacing a CEO. Yet committees responsible for recommending candidates often grapple with finding the right person for the job when an innovation emperor like Steve Jobs isn’t available. And that’s false when you look at the facts. Find the truth.

Innovation 8

Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The free flow of workers between companies is central to economic growth and innovation. Yet employers are increasingly taking legal action to prevent former employees from using knowledge and skills learned on the job. Employees’ incentives to learn on the job are weaker if they cannot use that knowledge later in their careers.

Incentives 13

Incentives Policies Innovation Human Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. Sara Vaerlander, Bobbi Thomason, Brandi Pearce, Heather Altman, and I observed what happened after the innovation practices were shared with the company’s Indian and Chinese counterparts. It made sense. Leaders from the U.S. Pamela Hinds.

Innovation 11

Innovation Altman System Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains. Knowledge management Managing people Productivity'

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8