Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Take Hamel and Prahalad's 1990 HBR article, "The Core Competence of the Corporation," which suggests that firms should identify some activity at which they already excel or could plausibly excel in the future, and make that the centerpiece of their strategy. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add?

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Gary Hamel will explore how companies build their innovation engines. We''ll also look at how organizations are using crowdfunding internally to bring their new ideas to life, as well as the qualities that help great entrepreneurs execute on their ideas.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Hamel Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Gary Hamel will explore how companies build their innovation engines. We’ll also look at how organizations are using crowdfunding internally to bring their new ideas to life, as well as the qualities that help great entrepreneurs execute on their ideas.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Hamel Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Core insights are a complement to the familiar notion of core competencies , which were first advocated by Gary Hamel and the late C.K. I call these types of insights core insights, a concept which I first introduced in my book, Innovation X. But whereas core competencies are about know-how, core insights are about know-why.

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

How do you get your best or most typical customers to willingly, cheerfully and innovatively re-engineer themselves around your core competencies in ways that enhance both? Core competencies should be platforms for customer—and customer-sensitive supplier—collaboration, not proprietary silos of exclusive expertise.

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Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Not only has Rite-Solutions' innovation engine unleashed a torrent of creativity, real commercial innovation, and immeasurable goodwill among employees, it offers up important insights into how to weave innovation into the fabric of organizational life. "We knew as founders we didn't have a monopoly on great ideas.

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Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Also, the concept of digital business ecosystems has drawn more academic business , economics , process , scientific , mathematic , systems theory , and engineering attention than any other business idea. What does it mean to view innovation as the only competitive advantage? The nature of competition is changing.

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

” By the way — that CEO was my brother, Dr. Loren Hamel. For me, the point of his story was simple but profound: empathy is the engine of innovation. That’s why I often worry about just how de-humanized our organizations have become.

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Innovation CEO Benchmarking Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Indeed, "perhaps only in Silicon Valley would a group of engineers think they could hack their way to charisma with a series of neuroscientific shortcuts." In Hamel''s view, every company should be like the internet: decentralized, non-bureaucratic, flexible, and empowering.

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Charisma Hamel Bureaucracy Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Or is one more a pawn in a rigged game of self-destruction; a mark in a ponzi scheme; a dull-eyed pack animal to which the engines of extraction are yoked? Gary Hamel has suggested we redesign the corporation as more a vehicle for human accomplishment than a military machine.

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Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

A study of star engineers at Bell Labs found that the most accomplished ones worked in a close-knit group, but also frequently reached out to people outside of it. Gary Hamel and C.K. He called the phenomenon the strength of weak ties. Another study of Broadway plays found the same thing.

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Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

A study of star engineers at Bell Labs found that the most accomplished ones worked in a close-knit group, but also frequently reached out to people outside of it. Gary Hamel and C.K. He called the phenomenon the strength of weak ties. Another study of Broadway plays found the same thing.

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Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8