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Don’t Overlook the Small Brands You Already Own

Harvard Business Review

In our most recent Breakthrough Innovation Report , Taddy Hall and I cite that 49 percent of the growth in U.S. So in an entrepreneurial fashion and with minimal budget, Steve and Carl created Ball Park Angus hot dogs after a casual “what if” conversation with Mike Clabby, the lead food scientist.

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Make the Internet of Things More Human-Friendly

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, Google just enlisted Diane von Furstenberg to design fashionable Glass frames, while the Cupertino-designed Apple Watch will eventually be angling to compete with stylish wrist-worn fashions from Geneva. To solve the problem, New England Biolabs developed an IoT enzyme freezer to replace its conventional one.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. For developers, that may be Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site specifically for programmers. ” 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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An Inside View of How LVMH Makes Luxury More Sustainable

Harvard Business Review

The company is a €36 billion decentralized collection of valuable brands — which they call houses (or maisons ) — covering fashion, wine and spirits, cosmetics, and jewelry. The most innovative part of LVMH’s carbon strategy is the use of an internal carbon fund. Supply Chain Partnerships.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. It’s about having the guts to seek feedback from others in a sincere and genuine fashion. Because innovation requires it. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what?

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

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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