Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

In 2012 the world's problems grew more complex, but America's top 400 charities saw very little growth in their resources to address them. When presented with a surprising idea, smart organizations will bravely listen, because what comes next might just be game-changing innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

They put their money where their strategy is and continually cut bad costs and redirect resources toward good costs. At the same time, Eagle Snacks was gaining market share with innovative new products and its own distribution system. Distinctive capabilities will get the resources they need to realize their full potential.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Already, in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom Friedman had declared that “there is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

This is quite challenging as it either never feels like there is enough time to dedicate to learning or it feels like an unproductive use of available resources. E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. This is in direct contrast to "financial innovation" that focuses on only one dimension of performance, putting the others at risk.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Three decades later, Drucker had become convinced that knowledge was a more crucial economic resource than land, labor, or financial assets, leading to what he called a “post-capitalist society.” Virtually every executive is eager to see his or her organization innovate. They may also know more about the customer—his needs and desires.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We were supposed to be coming up with ideas for improving the company’s customer experiences, but the head of operations could not think of a single new customer service idea to explore. They were happy to maintain the age-old silo between marketing and operations. I was stunned.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. ” Faced with hard choices, innovators find ways to transcend the tradeoffs. Size and speed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Instead of reading like it was written by a committee of academics, it's as easy to understand as Mr. Rogers. It consists of thousands of super-skilled, conscientious, and objective analysts who visit each and every operating charity in America to do annual surveys. Instead of intimidating you, it invites you. billion sounds huge.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

How do you maintain the cohesion” at a multinational corporation with far-flung operations spanning myriad cultures? More than ever, it’s imperative that all employees make innovation a priority, not just the R&D staff or the “new products” team. How do you organize your entrepreneurial within the managerial?” “How

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Roger Martin and Sally Osberg argue in their new book, Getting Beyond Better , that the answer is social entrepreneurs, who target unjust and unsustainable systems — or “equilibria” — and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. Adapted from.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. b Between 1920 and 1930, for example, 87 percent of Broadway shows flopped despite being attached to big names like Rogers and Hammerstein, or Gilbert and Sullivan. The sidebar “The Innovator’s Network Dilemma” presents convincing data that bears out this observation. The list goes on.

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