Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it. Kodak created a digital camera, invested in the technology, and even understood that photos would be shared online. Why did this happen?

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Here’s an example. For example, a supplier in the packaging industry — we’ll call it EuropePack — wanted to find new applications for its existing materials over a one-to-two-year time horizon in order to drive sales of their latest product line and extend current business.

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B2B Innovation Company Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Scenario planning is as essential for strategy formulation as it is for the design of next generation technologies and industries. The student teams, with budgets and other constraints, have to assemble and field the best-performing teams they can and justify their investments and trade. Cooking Science & Technology.

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Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Scharpf and the SHE team, for example, first identified in banana-plants a local agro-waste fiber, and after experimenting, concluded that it had the potential to be an absorbent, cheap, safe material. They then approached MIT to partner on enhancing the process to make it more absorbent.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

To address the realities of climate change and other ways in which we are increasingly overrunning planetary boundaries, we must now shift our mindsets, technologies, and business models from left to right, and from bottom to top. Technology. But, he says , ultimately “technology is a resource-liberating force.”

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Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12