Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. Third, the companies with the most pricing power use technological tools to measure value and willingness to pay in a systematic way.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Technology and the Internet are enabling women to work and run businesses more virtually, often from their homes and often with help from angel funding. how to keep all her channels operating in concert with one another.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

Technology is meant to serve us. More and more, we're turning over this precious resource to our digital technology, allowing it to define the depth and span of our attention, and to seduce us into operating at such high speeds that we don't notice the insidious toll that's taking.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Leaders increasingly need to model traits that reflect the values and culture of the organization in which they operate. And at Red Hat , where one of us is CEO, the organization’s mission is a powerful catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners for creating technology the open source way.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

This diagram presents examples of a number of problems ordered by their predictability given the current state-of-the-art in machine learning and AI technology. Driverless cars, for example, operate in domains in which the physics is well understood. The extreme right suggests purely deterministic, mechanical decision problems.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Leading technology companies are increasingly soliciting their users to take political action on their behalf to defend controversial business models from regulation, support new programs, and promote their moral values in active political battles. We’re being introduced to a new lever of corporate influence on democracy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The operative word in that sentence is “founding” or in my case “co-founding.” Over eighty founders or co-founders of health care, technology, social media, retail, and financial services firms responded. I have clients who like to play golf. And I often get asked to hit the links.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

And in a departure from attitudes five or 10 years ago, most employees care more about ensuring that the business operations themselves are sustainable than they do about philanthropic activities, as shown in this chart. Yet many companies are missing the opportunity to fully engage their employees on this issue.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

In a bit of understatement, Simon Dietz of the London School of Economics, the lead author of the report, told The Guardian , “long-term investors…would be better off in a low-carbon world.” Last year, Citi produced a powerful study of the costs and benefits of shifting the energy system toward low-carbon technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Simon Sinek has a great TED Talk about hiring people because they believe what you believe, not because they have the particular skill you think you need right now. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. The selection criteria.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

soldiers operating a radar station saw something that looked like an incoming airplane; they telephoned an officer, who told them to forget it (the attack occurred 53 minutes later). This requires that hierarchy is flattened, that people build rich networks across units, and that information technology systems cascade data across units.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

” In his book, Start with Why , Simon Sinek says that purpose should provide direction when deciding a company’s future: “Instead of asking, ‘WHAT should we do to compete?’ There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer technology are causing us to think again about some really basic questions: what is a firm? How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. The incumbent therefore needs to invest in the invasive technology before it is definitively needed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. But with sales volume expected to double in 10 years, it was considering whether to outsource to additional countries to spread its risks more evenly. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. Those risks were many.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

What makes it all that more interesting, is that those fictional numbers aren't even close to the staggering reality of how many drones are in operation. The efficiencies come with 100% robotic operation.". While that was a fictitious scene, it was the type of statement that would make anybody raise an eyebrow.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

As the CEO of a British bank confided at last year’s World Economic Forum, “We all know it’s important to be empathic, but how do I galvanize 48,000 people in my UK operations — most of whom think that empathy is for wimps?” Few would have been surprised to see the airline Ryanair down at 99th.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The more we use technology and outsourced thinking, we diminish our ability to think for ourselves. Lakhani (Harvard Business School Press, 2020) AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. Complexity is in. Other people’s agenda becomes our narrative.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

What will be the administration’s take on science and technology? Likewise, we know that whatever our historical assumptions have been, many are likely to change as technology advances. We are living in an era where macro effects can easily swamp competitive and operational considerations. Invest in Resilience.

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