Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap. The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable. That might surprise some.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. His doctor had an EHR, a rarity among rural physicians, as did the ER where he traveled next. The VA has had an excellent EHR system for over 10 years.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

There is still a need for accountants and face-to-face meetings, but typically accountants now require such visits for only the more complicated cases that can’t be managed with software or a call. This approach has had the secondary consequence of limiting innovation in delivery methods. A Way Forward.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

Spurred by new payment models and new incentives, health systems are increasing their commitments to innovation in health care delivery. Unfortunately, many systems are overlooking an entire class of innovations that are modest in size, low in risk, and highly likely to deliver wins for both patients and profits.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Your projections for the business should not be wildly optimistic so you can manage your expectations and those of any partners. Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances. We serve a clear segment of travelers who are looking for deals, but who also want to control where they stay.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

I was traveling, and to continue our discussion, I had to walk across the airport to a public pay phone. Space to excel: The third crucial element is the space to innovate, to be able to make mistakes and start over. Research challenges the assumption that people will perform only if they're provided financial incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2015

Though these services and their innovative business models win acclaim from consumers and investors, their approach to the law is troubling — both for its implications for civil society and in its contagious influence on other firms in turn pressured to skirt legal requirements. .”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

Among health care leadership, it can have the unintended effect of promoting inaction over change and innovation. This is a trend in health care that can and should take a hold – even if it might mean creative solutions such as paying for patients and their families to travel to your hospital (by private jet, in some cases).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. After the recession, for instance, one large lender made a practice of looking for “rehab” customers whose credit suffered in the downturn but who had since managed to achieve more stable incomes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

more global travel and larger immigrant communities). The latter is a vital part of the final climb from developing to developed status — no economy has managed the climb without spawning globally competitive brands. It is important that these reward incentives are aligned with the right performance metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

But some companies have what I call rural DNA – the ability to recognize the rural opportunity and to develop innovations to tap those markets along with their urban markets. Particularly in Asia, Unilever has pioneered a number of innovations that it has exported to other regions in its focus on addressing rural market opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Research on which methods are most effective for sharing knowledge related to innovation provide some clues. Webinars don't require the time or expense of travel. Provide incentives for participants to demonstrate their mastery. Indeed, in certain cases, webinars have advantages over other types of learning. Ask questions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Any manager who has ever tried to shift organizational behaviors by rolling out a new piece of software knows this well. They must be supported by incentives, different processes, training, and often changes in how adjacent activities are carried out (as tools rarely sit in isolation). He can be found on Twitter at @Richardsona.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

At Pinterest, we understand that diverse teams yield smarter , more innovative results, which are essential in the competitive, dynamic tech industry. With over 175 million active users worldwide, Pinterest thrives on providing users with relevant ideas: what to wear, what to cook, how to furnish your home, and where to travel.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The overriding importance bestowed on the budget in India dates back to the central role played by the munim in traditional Indian businesses, a trusted person who kept accounts, managed the purse strings, and ensured a balanced budget. ” Companies are often wooed by multiple countries with tempting incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Even better, blockchains can spur local high-tech innovation. The Dubai Blockchain Strategy (disclosure: Vinay is the designer) envisions moving all government documents — more than 100 million documents per year — onto a blockchain by 2020, creating a new platform for innovation and huge cost savings.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

During a recent visit to the Managing Service Operations course I teach to MBA students at Harvard Business School , McDonald reflected on the lessons he had learned at VA and their significance for service transformation both inside and outside the public sector.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Let’s look at the key errors. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2011

For forty years , every decision at Southwest, from focusing the fleet on 737s to perfecting the rapid turnaround to choosing the ticker symbol "LUV", has advanced the cause of giving regular folks the same freedom and flexibility to travel as the wealthy. That's because there is no place to hide. It's built-in habit.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

In product tests conducted around events like limited-run merchandise (a limited-run chain designed by the rapper A$AP Rocky, for example) , 72% of our fans chose to engage with other like-minded fans when incented with a reward on our platform (in this case, our mobile Virgin Mega app).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. And it traveled in your pocket. Wireless rights became more flexible, ceding spectrum management to the market. The smartphone’s iconic social significance has been duly noted.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The infamous East German secret police, the Stasi , managed to infiltrate every pay of German life, from factories, to schools, to apartment blocks — the Stasi had eyes and ears everywhere. A former employee of the NSA described the basic premise of the center as just to capture everything: "financial transactions or travel or anything.

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