Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The factory floor at Pittsburgh’s Aquion Energy doesn’t look much like the steel mills that once populated this Rust Belt city. Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. But just as U.S. They employ 12.3

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We call this phenomenon reverse innovation — any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world, and then later in the developed world. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich. Reverse innovation will become more and more common. Phase 3: Local Innovation.

Glocalization 11

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. In 1990, there were 227 million houses in China — by 2010, there were 371 million.

Industry 9

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Picture something like a rotational program for innovation. Entrepreneurs in the Clean Energy sector would make invaluable assets to the Department of Energy. Entrepreneurs building businesses in telecommunications could predict the next wave of disruption for the FCC.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Licensing Telecommunications Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Fourteen years ago, Darren Entwistle arrived as a young CEO (he is now Executive Chair) and immediately began transforming the regional telecommunications player into a global entity. Between 2000 and 2014, the TELUS brand grew in value from a few hundred million dollars to $4.3 billion, and its revenues increased from $6.4 billion to $11.7

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Ignoring these is a bit like putting enough energy into a leap to get halfway across a stream; it takes time and money but leads to an unhappy result. As a data-driven culture permeates more broadly, an enterprise's abilities to take bold, innovative, concerted action on increasingly larger challenges also grow. We figure it out.

Organization 15

Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

We recently participated in a data-dive type process at a major telecommunications company. But the fruits of the creative energy that you can unleash through teaming analysts and domain experts in these ways more than justify the investment of time and money involved. Innovation' This approach works well in business.

Analysis 8

Analysis Storytelling Brainstorming Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

Just as government and industry coordinated the telecommunications response after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the order enlists both public and private entities in assuring that critical infrastructure is continuously monitored and protected from attack. Certainly, the environment is complex.

Cooper 8

Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

True collaboration always has open-ended elements — ranging from precisely how new innovations will be implemented, to how products will fare in the market, and even to what priorities partners will pursue in the face of changes in the environment. Google uses a different approach to working with multiple external parties.

Software 15

Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

Globalization 10

Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Business drivers examined include: Building high-performance cultures; engaging employees; cultivating a customer-focused culture; creating alignment and accountability; enhancing organizational talent; building strategic partnerships and relationships, driving process innovation and driving efficiency. Wellins, Ph.D.,

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Cable internet service goes out in snowstorms, too, and if the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index is to be believed, Americans are much happier with their energy providers (who score a respectable 76 on the index ) than their internet providers (a dismal 63 , absolute worst of the 43 industries tracked).

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Industry GDP Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., Not rising costs.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Pursuing bold innovations in health care, life sciences, and space explorations will require core competencies at the intersection of human minds and fast machines (to paraphrase GE’s definition of industrial internet). A talent magnet. The creation of Alphabet should also concern Apple.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. This failure to work together across a system continually exercises me.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

We did not have a lot of competition for developing and producing high-value-added products like semiconductors, airplanes, software, complex electronic systems, high-end computers, telecommunications equipment, and pharmaceuticals. It also potentially means that we will lose our advantage in innovation. fertile ground for innovation.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Policies Telecommunications Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

In 2012, Huawei surpassed Ericsson – at that time the world leader in telecommunications and networks – in terms of sales revenue and net profit, and this trend continued in the fiscal year of 2014 when Huawei reached an all-time high sales revenue of $46.5 billion and net profits of $4.49 billion (both in U.S.

Succession 8

Succession Golden Handcuff IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

But it is all too easy to forget (or not to know) what encouraged those fiber investments in the first place: the federal government’s successful antitrust lawsuit against the “old AT&T” that once monopolized telecommunications in the United States. Ideas about Energy Price Control.

Transportation 8

Transportation Price Airlines Retail 8