The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 10, 2022

The European business community is more engaged than ever in the race to zero, with the number of companies publicly setting goals having grown over the last two years,” the researchers say. Indeed, just 5% of European firms were actually on target to meet their net-zero goal. And as our study shows, the targets work.

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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

Think how Uber transformed the transportation industry, how Airbnb took over the lodging industry — not to mention how Tesla is upending both the automobile and energy industries. Our end goal was to hire not only the artist and body piercer with the most talent but someone who understood and could adapt to our company culture.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

Concern propagated , however, that the very technologies that enabled us all to work from home would mean that we could, in theory, work from anywhere , which means we wouldn’t need to be tied to cities in order to work for companies based there. A smarter normal.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Renewable technology is gaining ground left and right. Sustainable technology is getting cheaper as time rolls by. For instance, it’s hard to imagine a viable alternative to fossil-fuel-based transportation right now. What is more, the adoption of new technologies will facilitate oil and gas operations. The Bleeding Edge.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 1, 2013

Futureview is not the same thing as a goal, plan, ambition, or aspiration. Visit the airport in Beijing and ride the train that transports passengers from terminal to terminal. We are in a time of massive, technology-driven, transformational change, pregnant with opportunity. It is not something you hope for or try for.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 18, 2020

Indeed, the decision from the National Transportation Safety Board split liability between Uber, the vehicle, the victim, the safety driver on board the vehicle, and the state of Arizona. These actors include manufacturers, law makers, the vehicles themselves and human drivers, with each having differing goals.

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Game Theory Uncertainty Insurance Policies 89

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

A Roadmap For Recovery Stimulus dollars are headed toward businesses that support these Recovery Act goals: Healthcare : Modernize the healthcare system with electronic medical records systems. Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston.

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Curious Cat

APRIL 28, 2015

For me the pitiful state of the air transportation system is another reason to reduce conference attendance in the USA (most of the rest of the world this doesn’t apply, though in some places you do have other transportation – some parts of Africa for example).

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2020

It’s a shocking statistic, given the amount of lip service business owners around the country pay to innovation. The age of 3D printing has been around for a while, yet the vast majority of businesses are still stuck on technology invented millennia ago. Ease of Use – The primary goal of downloading an app is to simplify tasks.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more. Employees need to see how their experiments support an overall strategic goal.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Many mature industries are experiencing significant technological disruption. Leaders in every industry are no doubt keeping a vigilant eye on such developments, yet one very important aspect of this disruption has been largely overlooked: technology fundamentally changes what makes your brand premium. JEWEL SAMAD/Staff/Getty Images.

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Automotive Brand Technology White Paper 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

.” An increasing number of companies — particularly in the auto industry — are heeding that call, setting aggressive, creative, and visionary goals that change their approach to business and how they relate to the wider world. Nissan is not alone in setting big goals. But it’s also very good for the business.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Need drives innovation, so this week we want to highlight some of what is happening in the new markets in water. For example, GE's investment in water technologies is well known, and its leadership stems from its ecomagination portfolio of products. We spoke with Colin Sabol, a Vice President at ITT, about the survey and ITT's goals.

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Innovation Management Energy Asset Management 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Late in June, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton surprised business leaders by issuing a detailed technology and innovation platform. ” No technology company would object to that proposal. ” No technology company would object to that proposal. Tech and business leaders should be taking note.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The inability of established firms to come up with breakthrough innovations is a truism today. Joseph Schumpeter, the 20 th century economist known for heralding the role of innovation in the evolution of society, argued that established firms were best positioned to innovate because of the resources available to them.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Earlier this week, the space-transport start-up SpaceX had its most successful launch test yet with Grasshopper, the first fully and rapidly reusable rocket. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction. The complexity of the Shuttle and its reliance on 1970''s technology drove costs up.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

But even when the technology is ready to use and has been shown to meet customer demands, there’s still a great deal of skepticism among consumers. In order to understand trust in the relationship between humans and automation, we have to explore trust in two dimensions: trust in the technology and trust in the innovating firm.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. To create the conditions that support innovation, leaders need to build connections across companies, industries, and sectors. Developing and deploying new technology requires building a supportive ecosystem surrounding it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

Huge real-world challenges still exist to the wide adoption of the technology, but let’s say for a moment we get all this working, and our cities become flooded by driverless vehicles. As for any powerful new technology, we must ask ourselves: What could go disastrously wrong? Innovation in Cities. Insight Center.

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Transportation Supply Chain System Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Transportation infrastructure must be renewed and reinvented. Technology entrepreneurs should be at the table with established companies, elected officials, financiers, and consumers. The state of transportation infrastructure has implications for every major issue. Citizen voices and votes can encourage action.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

Tech start-up Haystack has developed an innovative – and controversial — solution to the stressful challenge of finding an open parking meter in congested areas. Technology allows Uber to strategically flex prices and just as importantly, inform its customers of the current price. To secure this meter (i.e.,

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Price Transportation Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?” Yet those very weaknesses give startups an overwhelming advantage in innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The failure last month of green-tech start-up Better Place, which promised to free drivers and nations from oil dependence and revolutionize transportation, has generated both attention and derision. EV advocates are quick to note that technology improvements in batteries will one day eliminate the range problem.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Southwest’s innovation was to focus on low fares with one-class cabins, homogenous fleets, and point-to-point routes. From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains. But the Model S gets faster and better.”

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Airlines Strategy Business Model Metrics 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2011

cities today, we talk often about sustainability as a big-picture goal. We're working to get our arms around a more sustainable future — a better way to connect people, homes, jobs and places — as a metro area and region, with more transportation choices. What if, instead, cities could work toward multiple goals at once?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

But let's take a step back and consider the nature of the controversy, which I think is rooted in the way many inventors approach innovation. That's the tension I see in the original Broder review: great driving, bad transportation. Tesla's goal is to sell 20,000 units of the Model S and they are promoting it as a "normal-use" car.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

Artificial Intelligence, which has already had a major impact on industries such as transportation, retail, energy, and banking, is only just beginning to be applied in medicine. We are now preparing to submit the technology to the U.S. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. clem onojeghuo/unsplash.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Policy signals from California, the world's 9th largest economy, are clearing a path for energy innovation. Cap and trade is projected to achieve nearly 20% of that goal by limiting emissions from the industrial, utility, and transportation fuels sectors — which account for roughly 85% of the state's greenhouse gas pollution.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

By supporting worker mobility, cities can both foster the growth of denser talent networks within their borders and increase the likelihood of technological and other productive innovation. They also said they were looking for growth and development at work , not simply short-term goals and personal financial gain.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. Companies deploying IoT successfully in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and transportation are seeking multiple agile partners with open IP architectures to co-create solutions. Second, implement a culture of innovation across all grades, functions, and regions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The UN then asked the IPCC to study what it would take to achieve that goal. Engage employees, through awards and incentives, to innovate, find operational savings, and develop products that cut customers’ emissions as well. Work with suppliers on systemic reductions across the value chain and set big goals for them as well.

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Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future. Knowing that today’s operations will almost always win the lion’s share of resources, you need to consciously create a protected class of innovative ideas to invest in, even if money is tight.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

Previous goals, set when we knew much less about climate impacts and were more sanguine about early action, tended to focus on distant dates — for example, you still often hear that the figure that the U.S. Rebuilding cities will cut auto emissions much faster than technological innovation in the auto industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

In order to achieve these goals, new, non-traditional metrics were needed to track the project’s community impacts while making sure that investors and capital partners were still accomplishing their financial objectives. Design for inclusion. Efforts to foster inclusivity also extend to arts and creativity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role. One of us, Arvind Gupta, is head of technology for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP party, and has been for the past seven years.

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