Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

A former Google executive- wasn’t Mayer supposed to bring new energy to Yahoo!, Innovation has always been what makes good businesses great. And innovation does not happen without change and risk. Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office. and maybe some of those famous Google perks?

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Flip the book over, and you have Gutsche’s updated and expanded, bestselling, Exploiting Chaos , book now called, The Innovation Handbook , featuring memorable real-world case studies and plenty of thought-provoking questions to inspire next steps for innovation. It's the ideal guide to turn your big idea into a reality.

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Talent Anarchy 1

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Over the course of my career, I’ve found that at the core of so many organizational challenges, whether it’s with employee engagement, performance or innovation, is a damaged relationship (i.e. He shared a few case studies for how his team is using Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) to improve engagement and performance.

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Call Center Case Study Bottom-up Travel 118

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

If we can recognize the patterns, we can improve our ability to sidestep the biological traps that can sabotage us—and use the energy that accompanies pressure to thrive. What has emerged from these conversations is that while everyone’s experiences under pressure are unique, pressure follows patterns and develops in predictable ways.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Editor's Note: Like HBR's traditional case studies, this online-only "flash" case study dramatizes a dilemma frequently faced by leaders in real companies. We've been co-running the steering committee for this innovation project for almost six months now. MORE ON KNOCKING DOWN BARRIERS TO INNOVATION.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships.

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Case Study Business Model CFO Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2011

Innovate and build products and services customers love to use. Front Runners step-by-step program includes case studies, illustrations, graphs, glossary, and bibliography. Energy: People are called to action by leaders who display genuine enthusiasm – even passion – for the vision they espouse.

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Energy Follow-up Industry Learning-by-Doing 66

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Editor''s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The energy there is great. I worry that if we gobble the company up and treat it like a business unit, we won''t innovate on our existing model.".

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Bright minds spend considerable time and energy drawing up ambitious plans for things like market share growth and increased revenue generation — only to watch staff put out fires all day rather than work on the strategy which will prevent most fires in the first place. whose astronomical success is the subject of much study.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

The article is a call to arms for corporate innovators to seize the opportunities that only a big company can realize and to corporate leaders to ensure they create a culture conducive to transformational innovation and impact. So it might seem counterintuitive to suggest that large companies are where the innovation action will be.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

When we launched the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation last year, we aimed to enlist the most progressive practitioners and thinkers in the collective effort of reinventing what we call "the technology of human accomplishment." Innovating Innovation. Vote on your favorite challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Xerox has worked with multinationals such as Dow (case study here ) to drastically reduce the number of printers sitting in individual offices by thousands, shifting instead to many fewer centrally-located multifunction devices. From waste hauler to energy company — that's a transition for sure.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Essentially, these statistics tell us that companies need to embrace and capture the voices of their employees and customers if they want to innovate and thrive. Rule 6: Rely on Others for Growth and Innovation. What’s more, these constituencies are driving advertisers to spend an expected $2.6 billion on these social sites by 2012.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

The urgent challenge now is to drive the majority of businesses to take measures that will save energy and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Firms as diverse as Walmart and KKR are finding that reducing energy use and embracing renewable energy can be immediately profitable. To do so, we have created the Future Economy Project.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

I put a lot of energy into making certain that I was shepherding everyone along, doing all the right things for my teams. Cautiously, we called it problem-led leadership, and launched into all the interviewing, case studying, and literature review that goes into a leadership research project. Then I realized: You know what?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Work increasingly isn’t, or isn’t only, a matter of producing things, but of supplying your energies, physical and emotional, in the service of others," writes Myerscough. "It INNOVATION LESSONS FROM SURFING, DUDE. Sometimes the Smaller Wave is the Best Wave (Innovation Excellence). Before Innovation Was Cool (Cultureby).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? These are rarely studied questions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

But according to a new report, 2016 Predictions for the Luxury Industry: Sustainability and Innovation , that sustainability gap is closing fast. Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo have produced movies and started organizations to tackle climate change and promote renewable energy. Now all the big brands are jumping in.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. But the focus was squarely on "energy saving, environmental protection, and the low-carbon economy" with other emerging areas — infotech, biotech, and modern materials — taking a distinctly secondary role.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Back in 2006, my colleague Huggy Rao and I launched an executive education program at Stanford called “Customer-focused Innovation.” Mornings consisted of lectures and case studies in a traditional classroom in the Stanford Business School; this was the “clean models” part of the program. Connect people and cascade excellence.

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Case Study Pharmaceuticals Airlines Hotels 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Intranet: Like many companies, we have an intranet, and this is where groups of domain experts across disciplines and locations can share knowledge in the form of presentations, whitepapers, and case studies. He can be found on Twitter at @Richardsona.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

While you would expect online giants like Amazon and companies like Netflix to be early innovators in the use of data to recommend products or movies, you only care about the answer to one question: what does big data mean for the everyday employee and how can regular businesses extract real value from it? Black Hills Corp.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

That said, with 187 countries pledging collective action to cut carbon emissions, the deal will have vast repercussions for business , particularly as governments put into place policies to remake our energy, transportation, and building systems. The vision of an all-renewable energy system comes into focus. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

It is also an entertaining case study in the power of grassroots innovation and open-source creativity, a positive symbol of how unchecked human energy, shaped by a few simple rules, can unleash truly amazing results. Is a colorful symbol of the performance of open-source innovation. Who gets to perform?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Around the world, the most effective executives are the ones who draw energy from a clear sense of purpose and a set of deeply held personal values. I'd like to point you to two well-known case studies — one from Asia, one from America. Managers are encouraged to innovate.

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Airlines Mentor Environment Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

How do you get energy and infrastructure into such dwellings? Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. Bhalla used the case study of the chulha stove, co-created by businesses, NGOs, and slum dwellers, to make his point.

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Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

That positive, innovative approach is not only far more likely to lead you to a beneficial solution, but also to a place of trust. Case study #1: Pausing to inquire. Jeff Haydock was spearheading bidding negotiations on behalf of a solar energy company for a large installation project in a Massachusetts town.

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Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Interviews, case studies and ethnographies tell us proximity matters to certain industries. What we think is raw creativity – the electric energy of Marc Jacobs and Anna Sui or the exciting parties reported in the media – is quite a practical matter. Think Silicon Valley, Wall Street or Hollywood.

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Fashion Industry Parcell Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Similar to 3M's or Google's innovation time, CLOs give employees a way to try out their ideas in a less risky environment — but in the context of the company's needs, as well. This helped them build new skills, reduced the cost we incurred on outside agencies, and created a great case study for the strategy work we sell as a service.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

Focus on forging relationships that give you energy, rather than sapping it. Case Study #1: Integrate your interests into the job. He also approached his company's training and development office about developing a course that uses positive psychology to teach innovation and creativity.

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Contract Manufacturing Case Study Delegation Learning-by-Doing 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

At the same time, we know a new movement requires constant infusions of fresh energy to build its momentum. Encourage innovations on the theme. GivingTuesday developed case studies and metrics to capture what happened in 2012. Learn from experience.

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Decentralization Media Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Editor''s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Innovation' The journey ahead for the drug, developed through Hilde''s research on probiotics, suddenly looked arduous. Let me see if I understand," Hilde said.

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Case Study Pharmaceuticals Bottom-up Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. Innovative Then and Now… Still Creating. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. by Hank Moore.

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Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 62

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Undeniably there is more pressure on the things we all depend on: finite resources like water, energy, food, certain metals and minerals, and ecosystems like fisheries and forests. We look forward to sharing their case studies in a third research study, to be published later this year.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. We want to establish a prize to reward innovative ideas in this particular area.”. “I’m not dead yet,” he teased. They had too much work to do. What about you, Gil?”

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Case Study Career Planning Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

Nick Bilton of The New York Times strongly suggests that comfort and wealth are inimical to innovation. But a couple of academic studies suggest an alternative view — that in certain contexts, at least, innovation thrives in comfortable, calm, conflict-free zones. municipal governments.

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