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

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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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

APRIL 17, 2018

If everyone followed that logic, however, there’d be little innovation to walk out the door or to acquire! Small Firms Are Not More Innovative. The first problem with this view is that it ignores where most innovation comes from. For one thing, small-company innovation is often more visible. The answer is no.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. So the designers threw that out – not an easy sacrifice for the engineers at a performance-driven company like Porsche.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

In 2003 a doctor with SARS unknowingly infected several guests while staying at a Hong Kong hotel, and overnight the virus reached across the globe. With the advent of genome-editing technologies, bioterrorists could artificially engineer new plagues, a threat that Ashton Carter, the former U.S. Point-of-Care Diagnostics.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. Brad Power (bradfordpower@gmail.com) is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

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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. Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. That’s a recipe for missing out on an innovation with huge profit potential. How do you so?

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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 Innovation Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

The reality today is that businesses, governments, and nonprofits are so complex and often must move so quickly that in many cases, finding answers to difficult questions requires tapping experts, service providers, and innovators scattered all over the world.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. In 2003, then-HBR-editor Nick Carr wrote an article (and later a book) titled “IT Doesn’t Matter.” Architectural Innovation. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger.

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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

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. With such innovation and variety, that can only be a good thing for consumers. Income inequality is growing.

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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? I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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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! Rule 5: Innovation is not instant. Don’t chase brilliant one-offs when seeking innovation–it takes lots of lead bullets to make a silver bullet that enables a step change in user experience.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

Even the term “net neutrality” was coined not by an engineer but by a legal academic, in 2003. A monopoly or municipal utility, by definition, doesn’t compete with anyone, eliminating incentives for investment, innovation, customer service, and maintenance. Increasingly, the distinction is meaningless.)

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Prior to starting his own business in 2003, Gordy was a Vice President and General Manager for Personnel Decisions International and an Associate Professor at the USAF Academy. We believe the skills of identifying, developing, and fostering effective followership will be more important then ever in the past. Pink Demos Dr. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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