Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand. Certainly, some customization and personal touches were lost.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Under the hood, the business model is fundamentally not very different from that of a traditional rental car company. This "reengineering" of consumption is a natural consequence of the ongoing consumerization of digital technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. These aristocrats and their friends put up £40,000 to form the American Company. By November 1764, the American Company was making iron.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. The businesses most at risk from platforms powered by rapidly improving online technologies aren’t, in fact, traditional businesses that sell products and services to consumers.

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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. Information & technology Internet Technology' So, what might a “handy” IoT offering look like?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

There's no doubt technology entrepreneurship is becoming its own kind of celebrity. But let's not swing the pendulum too far in the other direction and spread the delusion that starting a company is something anyone can do to get rich and famous quickly. Learn your place.". I hope we abolish that narrative completely.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

There's no doubt technology entrepreneurship is becoming its own kind of celebrity. But let's not swing the pendulum too far in the other direction and spread the delusion that starting a company is something anyone can do to get rich and famous quickly. Learn your place.". I hope we abolish that narrative completely.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

However, for some companies, especially smaller businesses still unsure of their [place in the corporate world, it can be difficult to justify spending the money. Often, investing in the best equipment can be the first step towards your company experiencing better luck and improved fortunes. But only if you know how to use it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

companies are outperforming their overseas counterparts: Clean-energy technologies. In just the past few years, there has been a global boom in the wind and solar industries, with wind power's generating capacity expanding dramatically and companies competing to offer free solar panels to households.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Listening to the breathless commentary surrounding technologies such as AI and robotics and one could be minded to believe that technology is transforming life as we know it on a scale never seen before. The need to disseminate technology. in 2013, compared to 2.5% in 1992. in 2013, compared to 2.5%

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Last September some of the world’s foremost technology industry leaders met in Seattle with Xi Jinping, president of China. On Monday Uber said that it is selling its operation in China to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company whose CEO was in that foreshadowing photo. trillion smiled for the camera alongside the Chinese leader.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. In better times, companies are attracted to ideas that help them do their work more effectively. Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist. Link the New to the Old.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

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. Life at the company went on as before, and the targeted executives remained in their jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

” Tell them why they’re losing their jobs, whether it’s because of a drop in demand, changes in technology, or productivity and quality issues. When I was at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, I was responsible for helping to improve the performance of a number of companies in KKR’s portfolio. Be visible and personal.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

If so many companies are using social media, it must be effective, right? At least one company has worked Quora specifically into its recruitment strategy. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. .”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

I've lost track of the times I've Googled or Binged the name of a company or individual during a telecon or WebEx and then wrote, edited and emailed a quick memo to the participants based on the search. But the Jeoparization of this phenomenon has been rapidly creeping into both physical and virtual workplaces.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

Our field research showed that some traditional physical stores were rapidly blending the best of physical, web, and mobile to serve their customers, while others were simply being hammered by the growth of e-commerce. We thought getting data would be pretty easy. The Census Bureau has reports galore on e-commerce, broken down by industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” On the other side, noted economist and hedge fund adviser Larry Summers cautions that reforming “quarterly capitalism” would risk driving us toward “Japan’s keiretsu system, which insulated corporate management from share price pressure by tying large companies together.” public companies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

People buy them because they trust the companies. I think a lot more investment decisions will have considerations about impact and the transparency and accountability that comes with technology and social media is going to propel that. They trust the governance. Noble: It’s not going to be that all investing is impact investing.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In the late 1960s, Frank Pipp, an assembly plant manager for a Ford Motor Company factory, instructed his staff to purchase competitor’s cars. Included were these remarks: “ The most important thing we learned was that quality in those companies means something different from what it means in the U.S.

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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 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

My company was an early adopter, purchasing our first social ads in 2012. If your company is on social media, youre likely already sending out multiple Tweets, Facebook Posts, and LinkedIn Updates every day. and industries, as well as to specific job titles and even particular companies. 5) Understand how ads are sold.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations. Mini-glossary: The size factor means that small-cap stocks outperform bigger companies. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. They tend to be followed by declining prices.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

They are also discussing ways to prevent China from forcing Western companies to transfer technology to Chinese firms. Unlike economy-wide supports such as an R&D tax credit, WTO rules prohibit subsidies to specific companies because of the competitive advantage they confer.) Forced technology transfers and theft.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

But perhaps a slowdown in China, which can take away the "bid" for certain industrial commodities, might adversely affect many of the Latin American extraction-based companies, countries, and economies. In more straightforward language, a man with a hammer is more likely to see nails than one without a hammer.

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