Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

ISRO’s success is best characterized as frugal engineering. Indian engineers cost less, for sure. Companies based in developed economies can learn much from the Mars mission about competing and operating in emerging markets: Create an audacious, inspiring goal. Global business India Innovation Product development'

Innovation 9

Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

You are the newly promoted vice president of business development at an oil company. The CEO of Volkswagen from 1993 to 2002 was famous for his willingness to demote or fire employees who failed to meet expectations. Picture this. Your first assignment is to land an oil field services contract abroad.

Ethics 8

Ethics Company Incentives Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Email and early web browsers were still the province of "techies," none of our current search engines existed, and there wasn't much to learn or do nor was there anyone to meet "online" even if you knew how to get there. Teacher professional development, parent engagement and transparent data can drive significant reforms.

Education 15

Education Technology Engineering Committee 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

We’d developed a technology that allowed companies to dramatically expand the capacity of existing fiber optic cable, so you could put more data through a network without digging up miles of fiber. We intended to broaden the company out and develop new products over time, but then the dot-com bust came.

Industry 8

Industry CEO Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nationally, from 2002 to 2012, just 4 percent of U.S. Entrepreneurs creating gazelles pair fresh ideas with vision and know-how to innovate, launch concepts, and develop a viable business. To help gazelles get off to a faster start, cities can develop local networking structures and help in attracting capital.

Company 8

Company Content White Paper Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

What policies and programs is your organization developing around badges? While recommendation engines have been fantastically successful for the Amazons and Netflixes, they remain relative underachievers given their technical and algorithmic potential. Do your hiring/promotion processes recognize badges? Is HR your best badgemeister?

Innovation 17

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Many large planes had to be landed at small airports that were equipped only with a few landing lights, controllers, and fire engines. In November 2002, the Chinese government found that a large number of people had been afflicted with atypical pneumonia in Guangdong Province. Not a single additional plane crashed in the US that day.

Guidelines 11

Guidelines Goal Follow-up Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

These investments included Nordstrom.com and a perpetual inventory system that allowed Nordstrom to offer a consistent multi-channel experience by 2002. Nordstrom hasn’t used SMACIT to develop a digital business model — they have further digitized their business model, and pursued their purpose, using SMACIT.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The 2002 movie Minority Report told the story of a future in which law enforcement could tell who would commit crimes in the future. It’s now done by economists, data engineers, IT operatives, and anyone who has access to the data. The police then arrested those people before they could commit the crimes.

Succession 11

Succession Human Resources Information Technology Software 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. And the engineers and developers working on the product are too close to it or have a much higher tolerance for complexity than the customer will. Kill: Set clear timelines, milestones, and criteria for product development in new market areas.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

As that dramatic disintegration played out in early 2002, I had to present our office’s results and perspectives at the firm’s annual partners’ meeting in Switzerland. They can reverse-engineer your processes. It also creates the conditions for neurogenesis, allowing people to learn and develop new healthy habits and competencies.

Emotional Intelligence 10

Emotional Intelligence GDP McKinsey Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Over time, Rob Arnott and Peter Bernstein demonstrated in a great 2002 article in the Financial Analysts Journal , stock market returns should and do trail economic growth. An important engine for economic growth is the creation of new enterprises. Compensation Economy Finance'

Bond 8

Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. TruTouch, based in the United States, has developed and is commercializing a sensor that instantly detects a person's blood-alcohol level with the touch of a finger.

Finance 9

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

When I arrived, I found myself among some intimidatingly accomplished people — a PhD chemist/engineer/professor, a laureate-quality poet, and activists behind some of the most successful social movements of our time. Back in 2002, I was proud to vote for Terrence and honored to be on such an impressive selection panel.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Self-aware Health Care Committee 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s clear that he thinks he’s gotten both too much credit and too much blame, but he has also developed an interesting theory – that good central bank performance actually breeds bubbles and crashes. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002. It didn’t happen.

Long-term 12

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The 2002 movie Minority Report told the story of a future in which law enforcement could tell who would commit crimes in the future. It’s now done by economists, data engineers, IT operatives, and anyone who has access to the data. The police then arrested those people before they could commit the crimes.

Succession 8

Succession Software Commitment Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

In 1990 they gained a second Michelin Star, and in 1994, they became the first high-end restaurant to invest in a development team and a lab. books and cooking gadgets), developing brand partnerships, and opening more restaurants. The projects range from developing new techniques and ingredients to designing final dishes and products.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Likewise, where mechanical engineers once predominated, the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are increasingly looking for software engineers, energy management experts, and data scientists able to build electric and self-driving vehicles. Similar patterns of cutting and hiring are visible in last week’s announcement.

Industry 8

Industry Technology Engineering Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. Over 70% of the firms’ software budgets goes to code developed in-house or under custom contracts. Most industries in the U.S.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8