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Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied

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Steinway & Sons spiraled into decline “in large part due to its myopic obsession with craftsmanship at the expense or technological advancement and automation.” As P&G chairman William Cooper Proctor said in 1933, “This [synthetic detergent] may ruin the soap business. Steinway allowed its strengths to become its weakness.

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A Simple Workaround to Overcome the Bureaucratic Mindset

Tanveer Naseer

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Are You Using Dialects To Develop Your Employees’ Skills?

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Is the Cost of Innovation Falling?

Harvard Business Review

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. Some of this may just be the product of the high regulatory costs in pharmaceuticals, but research by Harvard's F.M. In fact, the costs of developing seminal software algorithms continue to rise, too.

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How to Actually Put Your Marketing Data to Use

Harvard Business Review

So marketers today have unprecedented “weapons” and “recon” in terms of technological tools and access to data. In 2014, Atrion — a privately owned Technology Services company based in Warwick, RI — had a problem. Still, as military experts will tell you, air campaigns don’t win wars.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We recently visited the brand-new R&D lab of Dr Reddy's , one of India's leading pharmaceutical firms. Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines.

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Here Are All the Reasons It’s a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data

Harvard Business Review

Facebook, at that time, allowed app developers to collect this personal data. ” By that I mean companies that control a key platform which, like a coral reef, attracts to its ecosystem users, sellers, advertisers, software developers, apps, and accessory makers. But this was not the first time its policies were violated.

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

And coaching or mentoring approaches have great merits for personal development, but are hard to scale. From cooperation to competition, a game with multiplayer features taps into the rich culture of board games humans have been playing for centuries. Live pilots are highly realistic but costly, time consuming and risky.