Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Any promising new initiative — a stand-alone business venture or an innovation in an established organization — hits roadblocks and unexpected obstacles. Recently I''ve advised entrepreneurs and innovators about a different, seemingly better, dilemma: pop-up opportunities that look like short cuts to success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Walgreens, for instance, which has widened its mission from operating pharmacies to improving people’s overall wellness, would naturally want people to get more exercise and live healthier. Innovation Marketing' This sounds straightforward, and in a company with a clear strategy it is. Finally, make the data actionable.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! I have found that with self-awareness comes clarity about my goals and vision for my life. They can focus on the goals they have set before themselves and not get distracted by the noise of the world. What is that!?”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

To help you answer this vital question, consider these two definitions: Hot conflict is when one or more parties are highly emotional and doing one or more of the following: speaking loudly or shouting; being physically aggressive, wild or threatening; using language that is incendiary; appearing out of control and potentially explosive.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

Always open to new challenges, he seized the opportunity to lead a university with facilities that were a bit long in the tooth and that lacked any signs of innovating in the future. . He made it a goal to provide life preparation for students to take their place in society after graduation. Everything operated as its own unit.

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Case Study Education Learning-by-Doing Brand 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

He had spent the last two months interviewing for a position as director of operations at a sporting goods company. His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.” His goal today? “To

Management 8

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating. I innovated programs which brought acclaim, prestige, fund-raising, community collaborations and more to that organization. How Quickly They Forget Some people are creative and innovative. Spot them and avoid them.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In the Big Bang Disruption model, where innovations take off suddenly when markets are ready for them, Google Fiber could be seen as a failed early market experiment in gigabit internet access. The overall goal: to ensure at least 100,000,000 Americans had access to broadband speeds of 100 Mbps by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., The goal: to reduce negative environmental and social impacts of the $1.4 business continuity").

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

When it comes to discovering unmet customer needs and innovation opportunities, there’s no substitute for in-the-moment, in-context observation for making meaning out of the complex weave of emotion and rationality that drives consumer behavior. “And what we learned was sobering. And you don’t need a Ph.D.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In a recent HBR article, Paul Nunes and I introduced the term Big Bang Disruption to signify innovations that, thanks to rapidly advancing technology, come out of the box both better and cheaper than alternative solutions already in the marketplace. We call this the victory of “innovation by combine” over traditional “innovation by design.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

The problem is not that these innovative technologies don’t work; it’s that users will inadvertently make choices and take chances that undermine colleagues and customers. For all intents and purposes, this software acts as manager and coach, setting goals and guidelines even as it offers data-driven advice to get the job done.

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Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

You see both the innovation and the ethos of cool. But the real heroes are operating with automobiles and roads and whole systems of support without which they couldn’t be heroic. I mean, has it led to technological innovation? Absolutely, an efflorescence of technological innovation. That’s what you see in Google.

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