Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In our most recent Breakthrough Innovation Report , Taddy Hall and I cite that 49 percent of the growth in U.S. food and beverage over the last four years is coming from twenty thousand companies below the top one hundred largest companies. Sometimes this is the natural result of portfolio strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape…That’s what this degree of yours is — a blunt instrument. Speeches are one way to do this, but I think companies can create many other avenues to encourage and facilitate the exchange of wisdom. rawpixel/unsplash.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

For the moment, this is good news for those companies still experimenting or piloting AI (41%). Survey respondents from firms that have successfully deployed an AI technology at scale tend to rate C-suite support as being nearly twice as high as those companies that have not adopted any AI technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

And as the Internet of Things (IoT) expands to include people, companies that create value will need to understand user experience, psychological, and even some philosophical concepts much more deeply than they do now. To solve the problem, New England Biolabs developed an IoT enzyme freezer to replace its conventional one.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

companies are outperforming their overseas counterparts: Clean-energy technologies. This healthy, innovative sector holds out vast promise, but missteps now could cost the United States its lead. has underwritten much of the technological innovation behind clean energy's progress. The clean-energy field is evolving rapidly.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. If so many companies are using social media, it must be effective, right? For developers, that may be Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site specifically for programmers. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. These companies can’t ignore sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. But I think the interesting part comes when they start to see it as an opportunity for innovations that are financially beneficial as well as socially beneficial.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Every serious technology company now has an Artificial Intelligence team in place. These companies are investing millions into intelligent systems for situation assessment, prediction analysis, learning-based recognition systems, conversational interfaces, and recommendation engines. I am here to ask you not to do this.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

I've worked with a wide range of clients as a consultant and have seen too many companies hire employees they thought were top talent, only to watch them spend company time on personal passions and then walk out the door when their side projects were ready to launch. I also ask direct questions like "What motivates you?"

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. Microsoft Windows, for example, has been the dominant platform for users, developers, and hardware makers for more than 25 years. Uber and the other ride-sharing companies have disrupted them.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. The story of the firing spread (as it always does) throughout the company, morale slipped, and the CMO never completely trusted his boss again.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The Lean movement began in manufacturing , then took the startup world by storm, and now the methodology has crept into companies of all kinds and sizes, both in practice and in jargon. The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment. But what is lost?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

Reflecting this broader viewpoint, the company began to expand its market footprint, by, for instance, investing in a start-up that planned to sell furniture via the internet. When the brand does “good things,” such as introduce a highly innovative new product, a deposit is put into the brand bank account.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. Strategy and business development executive with substantial experience designing, leading, and implementing a broad range of corporate growth and realignment initiatives. It should match what they’re looking for. And be sure to avoid clichés.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? And it’s not just your company. In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. So it is with innovation. So it is with innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

People buy them because they trust the companies. And the beauty of innovative sectors such as impact investing is that we can experiment, collaborate and try to — even in a very small way — reconcile some of what didn’t work previously. It will get harder and harder for mainstream investors to not develop some strategies in this area.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). After hearing about its success at another organization, many companies choose just one.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. As a mathematical model developed by Yale psychologists Adam Bear and David Rand shows , people who are typically surrounded by jerks learn intuitively to be selfish and to not deliberate over their actions. Some leading companies offer formal civility training.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations.

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