Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

.” Survey respondents included Presidents, Chief Information Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Data Officers representing 50 industry giants, including American Express, Capital One, Disney, Ford Motors, General Electric, JP Morgan, MetLife, Nielsen, Turner Broadcasting, United Parcel Service, and USAA.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

FedEx offered overnight delivery services in the 1970s, letting anyone ship a product anywhere, fast, at a modest cost. These two changes alone allow a lone innovator in Austin to build a world class product in China and ship it to Berlin — and that’s a revolution for someone with a good idea. Innovation Technology'

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 16, 2008

You are breaking down the problem (OCR errors) into small pieces and parceling them out to individual websites. People are engaging in solving the first problem as a side benefit of solving the second problem – meaning at no cost at all. Simply brilliant.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

The induced innovation literature has taught us that drug companies focus their efforts on researching and marketing new drugs for which there is expected to be great demand (think of aging baby boomers’ aching knees). Innovation in Cities. Pessimists about the costs of climate change ignore such latter effects.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. By contrast, for corporate innovators each idea needs to carry its own weight. And yet no provision was made to cover the cost of the inevitable failures. Those that don’t, don’t.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

But the emerging challenge of reducing risk exposure for coastal residents creates new opportunities for firms that can innovate and provide new solutions. But we now see insurers exploiting geographically refined data to more precisely estimate land parcel risk. Where Would You Rather Live?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

She had “an ability with people” and a track record of bringing new models to market faster and at lower cost. That’s part and parcel of Mary’s success, and the rest of the team plays well together, too.” Innovation is always the product of teaming. They play well as a team. Top-down leaders simply can’t get that done.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs.

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Then ask the student to “compare and contrast” the vacuum salesman’s approach with a peace negotiator’s tactic of asking for a small and relatively unimportant parcel of land before requesting a large payment of reparations. This is a subtle, but important nuance.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Yesterday" is a sunk cost. But that's exactly why acknowledging the current trend is so important: The leaderships of the richest and (ostensibly) best-managed franchises in sports have effectively declared that the costs of preserving past values are too high relative to the potential for tomorrow's performance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." How do we put the right number of people in the right roles without reducing headcount to reduce costs? How can we share insights and innovations that allow our employees to be more productive? Take Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. ” According to Der Standard , an Austrian newspaper , mailing a parcel from Munich to Salzburg (distance: 145km; 90 miles) costs many times more than mailing it from Munich to Berlin (distance: 585km; 364 miles). Investing in innovation capacity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role. The sidebar “The Innovator’s Network Dilemma” presents convincing data that bears out this observation.

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