Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. Yet they have already generated tens of millions of dollars in value for Roivant.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Personal savings, insurance, credit, cash transfers from family and friends and other financing mechanisms offer promising opportunities to create security and steady employment but they require a nuanced understanding of product design and the local market conditions in order to be effective.

Microfinance 10

Microfinance Insurance Banking Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

Mass Marketing 9

Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The financial crisis is a prime example of too few people holding the reins. The first is breakdown , where early experiments fade in the face of resistance. Our research with members of the global C-suite, and with leading sustainability and innovation experts, has identified seven vectors of breakthrough change.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example. An increasing number of mission-driven, innovative professionals are finding they can't resist this opportunity.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Even a full professor typically remains ignorant of vital skills related to organizational behavior, operations management, finance and strategy. The coursecovers topics including healthcare policy, finance, and organizational culture as well as decision making (led by an Air Force colonel) and conflict resolution (led by a minister).

Training 8

Training Health Care Leadership Education 8

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. For example, USAA now offers discounts for homeowners in seven fire-prone states who take steps to protect their houses from wildfires. Where Would You Rather Live?

Insurance 10

Insurance Real Estate Industry Bond 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

Moreover, in instances where borrowers want to shop and compare myriad options in one place, they turn to online credit brokers like Fundera or Intuit’s QuickBooks Financing for a one-stop shopping experience. The recent partnership between OnDeck and JPMorgan Chase is such an example. Eastern Bank).

Banking 11

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

The psychologist Daniel Pink describes the primary sources of human motivation for people who have covered their most basic needs, such as food and shelter, as being autonomy, mastery, and purpose — and Musk seems like a prototypical example of that. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

Planning 8

Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. Innovating for Value in Health Care. For example, one front-line nurse was incredibly dedicated to patient satisfaction. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. In this article, we identify the barriers slowing the transition of episodic, in-person primary care to innovative models that separate care from location and that empower patients to take on more of their own care.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

When they voiced concerns about the business and organizational impact of her recommendations, she dismissed them as "old school" and resistant to change. Leading innovation within today's organizations demands enlisting and mobilizing others since significant change will in all likelihood impact multiple organizational units.

Proposal 11

Proposal Cialdini Execution Influence 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc. Financial performance.

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

While I use online for just about everything, and will be facilitating a leader’s board meeting for PBS on webcam tomorrow for example, I still prefer the page to the screen when I read:-). For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

By contrast, nearly every program at Parkland “loses” money (if you think in typical hospital-finance terms). For example, our new tele-dermatology service allows patients to see dermatologists remotely and, therefore, more quickly, conveniently, and cheaply. Ability to resist reimbursement pressures.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

The closet in Mark’s bedroom offers a glimpse into his three-decade career in finance. He will layer a women’s sequined top under a men’s leather jacket, for example, or a basketball jersey with maroon faux-fur pants. They also represent varying degrees of fabulousness, from subtle to full-on. ” Olu.

Fashion 11

Fashion Participative Class Creativity 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Consider, for example, a government payment system created in 2016 that was processing 100,000 transactions per month in October of that year, prior to the sudden demonetization. Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization.

Banking 14

Banking Long-term Short-term System 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Researchers have confronted us in recent years with example after example of how we humans get things wrong when it comes to making decisions. I have a project with the Bank of England called simple heuristics for a safer world of finance. It is not, however, the only lens through which to view decision-making.

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 9

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The sad reality is that as in the dot.com example mentioned above, culture run amok can kill companies. Every vibrant, healthy, inspiring, innovative, and positive corporate culture I’ve witnessed has occurred not because culture has been placed ahead of strategy, but because it has been a key driver of the corporate strategy.

Blog 366

Blog Strategy Brand Bottom-up 366

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have seen examples of great health care all over the world, but too often the inspiring individuals delivering this care have been impeded, rather than helped, by the system in which they are working. Health care is not the only industry that is resistant to change. But no country is delivering these transformational changes.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Second, because it’s centralized, which makes it resistant to change and vulnerable to systems failures and attacks. But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. For example, consider how new business ventures access growth capital.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8