Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships. They play well as a team.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey. At the storage and software company EMC Corp.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Today, the company does roughly $50 million in total sales, with the home market accounting for over 80% of them. That’s a healthy company. There is no paradox.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Not only are delivery robots not appearing to make any practical inroads into the last-mile market, but research from the University of Michigan also suggests they don’t even make a positive contribution to lowering our carbon footprint. Carbon footprint. Optimizing the last mile.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

If your company had just announced a 27% increase in revenues in this market, you'd probably be quite happy. And you'd think the market would be, too. Like many other companies that have a core product line, Google is struggling to find its next market. Since the beginning, Google has had a great culture of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

Many of the nation’s most beautiful and productive cities — New York, Seattle, San Francisco, and others — abut the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Innovation in Cities. Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. Insight Center. economy be crippled?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. better goal would be something like “Sell $100,000 worth of the new product.” The severances team increased parcels processed per day by 175%. Make it a stretch.

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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. Hayek , economists have emphasized the central role that price signals play in markets. Better Data Can Help Insurers More Accurately Price Climate Risk. Dating back to at least F.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

How many organizations would rely mainly on intuition when taking a new product to market? ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." When successful, these companies improve the productivity and capability of their workers — and that's a good thing. A man who is.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Accordingly, it consists of a collection of broadly defined markets (“where to play”) and strategies (“how to win”), rather than a group of more fully defined businesses. That could involve targeting new geographies, developing new products, taking advantage of new technologies, or devising new business models.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role. Jones, and Brian Uzzi, “The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge,” Science 316, no.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

When Nokia's boss declares a state of emergency because the company is caught between a surge of low-end products and the runaway success of other mobile telephony platforms, you know that his organization is crying out for 2-in-1 leadership. What's the market for them?" Are our new ideas big enough? Valuable enough?"

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