Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This is the latest step in the company''s journey to dramatically reduce the cost of space travel, and follows the first private resupply of the International Space Station with the launch of their Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft last fall. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection. The centripetal force of today's cities is pulling the ambitious and educated back in, and increasing cities' innovative capacity, without sacrificing (at least some would argue) their inclusiveness.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition to the negative impact on decision-making, diminished communications from the lack of connection reduces the marketplace of ideas inside the organization, which in turn reduces innovation. Admiral Clark’s description of who sailors are as members of the U.S. One such system was the Navy’s job assignment process.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Now the rise of digital technologies has added a third construct: data equity. Before the rise of digital technologies, customer data was worthless to consumers. As customer-targeting technologies initially evolved through online ads and matching search algorithms, companies began to realize the full value of this information.

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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. We need to strike back and employing Health Information Technology, in the form of electronic health records (EHRs) is an excellent place to start the battle.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

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. This approach has had the secondary consequence of limiting innovation in delivery methods. A Way Forward.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Patients are believed to be uninformed about hospital quality, insurance reduces the incentives to shop for better deals, and government programs aren’t sufficiently responsive to quality. Innovating for Value in Health Care. For heart attacks, patients studied were willing to travel 1.8 Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Much has been made of the potential for blockchain technologies to open up new vistas for business and society. But is there a way for this revolutionary technology to empower the rich and poor alike? How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Distributed Database.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Namely, for the first time in a long while, Apple is pursuing a sustaining innovation fight against a well established incumbent: Google. Or in simpler terms, they were the types of innovations that reject the existing basis of competition in an industry. Consider Apple's string of big wins — the iPod, iPhone, the iPad.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

democratized communication technologies like Skype) and more physical touch points (e.g. more global travel and larger immigrant communities). The knowledge and technology transfer stage, however, is where most developing markets are focused today. Technology also provides an excellent means of creating engagement opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We studied Omada’s program as part of our Harvard Medical School initiative to identify and share knowledge about innovative approaches to major health challenges that primary care providers play the lead in treating. This provides the company with an incentive to improve participants’ lifestyle habits and prevent diabetes.

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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 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. Technology now allows for webinar viewers to submit questions in real time, and skilled moderators can integrate these questions or themes into the discussion.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Use risk data as an avenue for innovation. The marketing and sales team of one major technology vendor, for instance, partnered with risk to assemble a range of financing packages to help its mid-market clients fund upgrades, manage invoice payments, and smooth cash flows. Gauge and influence a customer’s “next best action.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Technology is making it easier to connect with rural consumers in so-called media dark areas. 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. Worldwide, there are 3.4 One of the standouts was Unilever.

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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. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate. And it traveled in your pocket. But the free speech of WCFL did not much impress the FRC.

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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

MARCH 31, 2016

Successful platforms engage in platform evangelism, providing developers with resources to innovate, feedback on design and performance, and rewards for participation. If Android throws a Hawaiian luau with a five-course feast, free travel, and attendees get to meet Robert Downey Jr. Conceding defeat in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.4

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I also know all too well that, like all strategies, superconsumer strategies can be hard to implement, because of internal processes, misaligned incentives, and organizational structures that are difficult to navigate. “My guess is that one hundred percent of United’s employees are superconsumers of travel,” he said.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Technology, on the other hand, makes it much easier. And while you might scoff at these as something that only early adopters use, even late adopters of digital technologies leave behind an incredibly detailed trail of their lives. But the technology alone isn''t the problem.

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