Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Even organizations that remain headquartered in other cities have set up innovation outposts there in the hope that high-tech silicon dust will rub off on them. Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. That’s the conventional wisdom, and it’s given rise to popular mantra “Disrupt or Be Disrupted.” Fuse/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Innovation has never been more accessible.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

These were companies following the pattern of disruptive innovation. We argued in The Innovator's Guide to Growth that on-the-brink-disruptors are often not appreciated by stock analysts whose models haven't caught the fact that the company is at or near a "kink" in the "S" curve that typifies the growth of these companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

Too many leaders try to demand creativity on the spot: They offer cash rewards for new ideas, sequester teams in endless brainstorming sessions, and encourage competitive hierarchies that reward some people for out-innovating others. One manages for creativity.” Related Video. Tony McCaffrey outlines a new way to generate ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Edison’s insight provides a useful frame for viewing Tesla’s splashy launch of Tesla Energy and its battery systems — Powerwall for residential use and Powerpack for commercial, industrial, and utility customers. Tesla’s flashy electric cars are positioned as but one component in the energy system of the future.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Last week I attended an Executive Sustainability Summit hosted by Xerox , Waste Management (WM), and Arizona State University. The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. billion "managed print services" (MPS) industry ( according to research firm IDC ).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

As the effects began to play out in the ''70s and ''80s, Drucker wrote extensively about the need for management practices to change. The widespread erosion of ROA confirms that our management practices and institutions are struggling to respond to the relentless pressure. The Mongrel Discipline of Management , by David K.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

These four elements set the stage for disruptive innovation to emerge, which suggests a more focused approach to national cleantech policy — and a path towards competing asymmetrically with China. Denmark, for example, has catalyzed the creation of its electric vehicle infrastructure through progressive tax policy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

based solar energy companies produce systems that compete on price, opening up huge new mass markets for renewable energy? will need radical and disruptive innovation to reinvent its clean-tech economy. The Chinese now account for 80% of this market and will soon take it global. These examples make clear that the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Innovation starts with new and novel ideas. When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Let’s say you’re in the energy sector. Find Pivots.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Instead, they sought to reenergize and leverage their own people, but, Karvinen explained, “We also did not just want to handpick the usual senior managers we had always worked with before, because we knew that, in order to drive the transformation of the company, we needed new and fresh perspectives.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

That's the driving question behind the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), , a web-based open innovation project dedicated to mustering the daring and creativity of the broadest base of thinkers and practitioners to reinvent management for a new age. The first phase of the competition, the Management 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Autonomous vehicles will profoundly affect insurance, road design and construction, traffic management, taxi and limousine services, the materials and safety equipment in vehicles, and asset ownership (who needs to own a car when one can simply be summoned from the most efficient location?).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Such ecosystems even the playing field for individuals and small firms to participate in technological progress, catalyzing both employment and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

I had just begun to get to know the company, and it seemed to me to be brimming with innovation energy, particularly among young employees who would regularly throw out creative "What if's" during casual conversations. You see, before anything made it onto the agenda of the top management's biweekly meeting, it was vetted.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Danita Delimont/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

How can incumbents manage through the monumental changes currently under way? From distributed energy generation to 3D printing to crowdfunding to the Internet of Things and data analytics, all of these technologies enable us to provide what customers want, where, how, and when they want it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

While working with a huge Russian hydrocarbon company in Texas last year, our innovation conversation quickly zeroed in on customers. Who was the energy giant’s most important customer? The innovation roadmap was hauled out and reviewed less in the spotlight of global opportunities than the cold reflection of domestic politics.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

When it comes to innovation, businesses have a strong bias for the new. The idea of creating a fresh new product, the prospect of increasing market share with brand new offerings, or the vision of disrupting some slow-moving incumbent with a radical new technology – these have an inherently strong appeal for companies keen for growth.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Instead of risk = bad, leaders need to understand that today, calculated risk = innovation, meeting marketplace demands, leapfrogging competition and creating true profit.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Rather than focus on those mutinies here – they are fascinating, but you can read about them elsewhere – let us look at more closely at the leader who managed not only to survive them, but to harness the power of mutiny to serve his enterprise. Columbus invested inhuman levels of time and energy in research. A foreigner.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

So she created exactly that in a Cambridge, Massachusetts lab and launched a wholly original and powerfully effective internship program called Extreme Blue , which has since grown into a thriving platform for innovation and talent development. How do we stay true to the core and inspire ever more creativity and energy to tackle the future?"

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

I am on record of being "long" on innovation in Asia, and I continue to feel tremendous innovation energy in the region. But observations during two recent meetings made me wonder about the degree to which Asia needs a "Woodstock moment" to realize its full innovation potential. Then the top brass left.

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