Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

They all use the same words, such as “respect,” “teamwork,” and “innovation.” ” Notice that these questions do not ask exactly what that purpose is, whether it is to save the environment, advance human health, push the technological frontier, or provide cheap and efficient energy for all.

Company 8

Company Middle Management Survey Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

The next innovation in web content might be something we haven''t even dreamed up yet. We don''t even need to predict which one of these new technologies will capture the public''s imagination. As with all major technology innovations, the heart of this challenge is the people side of the problem.

Strategy 8

Strategy Content Document Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. With all the buzz around disruptive innovation as a driver of business success in recent years, it’s important not to forget this original meaning.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

The second group, the New Communalists, believed in doing away with all of those things and turning instead to small-scale technologies, LSD, Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, etc. as technologies with which to kind of change our minds. You see both the innovation and the ethos of cool. That’s what you see in Google.

Information Technology 10

Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

The American Company was to be a transatlantic enterprise that would produce large amounts of high-quality iron and, eventually, steel. Technology was part of the problem. But even more troublesome than the lack of technology were the cultural underpinnings of eighteenth-century British capitalism. Innovation Technology'

Industry 8

Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

There is more super-interesting, high-quality, first-hand user experience information outside of the travel sites than there is inside travel sites. The size of the data being generated in the wild is immense and it's just sitting out there. Chris Lynch: The potential is as disruptive as the internet and mobile technologies have been.

Travel 14

Travel Hotels Wilde Fashion 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

There is more super-interesting, high-quality, first-hand user experience information outside of the travel sites than there is inside travel sites. The size of the data being generated in the wild is immense and it's just sitting out there. Chris Lynch: The potential is as disruptive as the internet and mobile technologies have been.

Travel 14

Travel Hotels Wilde Fashion 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

According to Whole Foods co-CEO Walter Robb, these future stores will feature “modern, streamlined design, innovative technology, and a curated selection” of lower-priced organic and natural foods. The news that Whole Foods will open a separate chain of stores designed to appeal to millennials stopped me mid-aisle.

Price 8

Price Retail Brand Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Were it not for the intense media and consumer interest in high technology, the industry would be in big trouble. First, the products share elements that elevate them above the consumer electronics commodity bin: all of them make people feel good, exceed already high expectations, and improve people's perceived quality of life.

Marketing 12

Marketing Productivity Products Retail 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

Studies show that constant task-switching means that tasks will take longer and the quality of the results will be lower. Encourage “technology-free meetings” whenever possible. What kind of technology infrastructure will be required to keep the employee connected?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Energy Policies Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

So what makes artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) champions confident that their technologies will be immune to comparably counterproductive outcomes? For too many managers, the technology’s costs often rival its benefits. But most companies have very few reliable review mechanisms to assure or improve quality.

Software 8

Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8