Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

In technology companies, engineering talent needs the balance of a business and operations team. Engineering departments fetishize the theory that if you build a better mousetrap, the rest takes care of itself. Crystal Pepsi; MySpace 2003-2007). Unfortunately, it can be hard to persuade different camps of their mutual necessity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

In engineering, it usually leads to fatalities and recalls, because in the real world, the worst case does happen. In 2003, the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan explained that the chance of a radiation related fatality in a Japanese nuclear plant is one per one million years.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price. We term these product launches “minivations” and they are the result of product developers who don’t realize just how much value their offerings would provide to customers. Most definitely. How do you so?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

times more R&D than small companies, but their R&D is 13% more productive — meaning large firms are the real engine of economic growth. It is well-known that Bill Gates didn’t develop DOS — he bought it for $50,000 from Seattle Computer Co. Companies with more than 500 employees not only do 5.75

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

So Amazon started to develop an architecture that could be re-employed over and over again by different engineering teams for different projects. Today, AWS generates roughly $3 billion in annual revenue and adds more infrastructure daily than it took to run all of Amazon in 2003 when it was a $5.2

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. Ford reengineered its global product development process so that an engineering plan designed in Detroit can drive the shop floor in a European factory.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

developers has long been to help humans be more productive. In 2003, DARPA contracted SRI International to lead a reported $200 million, five-year project to build a virtual assistant. In 2008, with the agreement of DARPA, a private company co-founded by three of the engineers from SRI International was spun out of the CALO project.

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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. Identifying the causes led to a better understanding of transmission modes and enabled the development of guidelines for managing the epidemic.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

And I believe developing more resource-efficient business models will be the largest single financial opportunity of the twenty-first century. automaking industry currently employs 786,500 people , down from 1,136,500 in 2003. Cummins , the Fortune 500 engine designer, began remanufacturing their products 45 years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Successful computer hacks now more often than not involve “social engineering,” the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned con. But also it is about developing a capability for reacting publicly, quickly and rapidly. Someone gets talked into giving up info or doing something they should not.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

If an employee can accomplish work with a modified or non-standard schedule, if he eschews face time because a disabled child at home loves and needs to eat dinner with him, if a woman engineer takes a year maternity leave and wants to return—what is a manager to do? Employ the new, adaptable rice cooker!

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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. In 2003, then-HBR-editor Nick Carr wrote an article (and later a book) titled “IT Doesn’t Matter.” Most industries in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Daimler's engineers in Germany could not work with their Chrysler counterparts in Detroit , leading to the sale of the latter at a loss of some $35 billion. Sony was unable to come up with its version of iPod/iTunes because divisions competed with one another.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

We also found that the professionals we spoke with at Accenture, in offices on three continents, consistently lauded the firm for its willingness to support innovations, from Accenture Development Partnerships to professional programs for First Peoples in Canada and support for call centers in native communities. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Software development, operations, and support have to be provided for both offerings, and because they differ from one another considerably, economies of scale cannot be reached in the way possible with just one business model.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

For example, in 2013 there were 315 people in China who had more than a billion dollars , up from zero in 2003. This is partly because engineering costs are low and partly because there is less of a fear of failure. How Chinese Companies Can Develop Global Brands. Income inequality is growing. China Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

By 2003, there were 800,000. It’s with good reason engineers, scientists, writers, ethicists, and philosophers are considering the ramifications of advanced robotics and artificial intelligence. It was precise, but not necessarily elegant. By 1973, there were 3,000 industrial robots in operation. Today, more than 1.3

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Between 1984 and 2003, this once-popular software application went from 40 features to more than 1500, with 35 tool bars! In the tech world, we talk about creating flexible architectures that can “scale,” or grow quickly: “prototype for 1x, build for 10x and engineer for 100x.” Innovation Managing people Product development'

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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.

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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. Look, we were and we still are pilloried for lowering the federal funds rate in 2003. We at the Fed kept being concerned about bubbles.

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