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). most of Nicolai Tesla's inventions; Web 1.0;

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. IT isn''t somebody else''s job, it''s ultimately theirs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

But the team went beyond that, figuring that if they were having difficulty with certain technology infrastructure problems, it was highly likely that other companies were experiencing similar problems. Thus, if they could solve these issues for themselves, they could potentially also solve it for others. And so Amazon Web Services was born.

Retail 9

Retail Core Competence Project Software 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

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. And this factor is likely to loom even larger in the future because many of the benefits of new technologies increase as more people join in. You cannot afford defenses that will fully protect you.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage PR Information Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Together the officials and engineers overcame unprecedented technical challenges and brought about a rescue that most observers hardly thought possible. During the Chilean mine rescue, a key breakthrough came from a 24-year-old field engineer who showed up at the site on his own. Collaboration Leadership'

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Automotive Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

By 2003, there were 800,000. It’s a question that conjures Čapek’s robot uprising, and has prompted many essays invoking Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , among other texts of monsters and unintended technological consequences. Technology' It was precise, but not necessarily elegant. Today, more than 1.3

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

In the Columbia shuttle disaster , junior engineers knew that there was critical foam damage on the shuttle, but they did not dare to speak up to more senior managers in a meeting on January 24, 2003. At Pearl Harbor , at 7:02 am on December 9, 1941, two U.S. just passed on), and if not, to act themselves.

Management 14

Management Licensing Crisis Hedge 14

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

It may well be that some Self-Starters lack the equipment, technology, or funding needed to perform well and have simply given up. 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.

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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! 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.” Simple is a feature of great management too.

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Productivity Products Team Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

search engine company Inktomi in 2002. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

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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Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

In the afterword to his 2003 book, Wage Dispersion , Nobel Prize winner Dale Mortensen argued that productivity differences could cause wage dispersion: “Why are similar workers paid differently? One of them has clearly been information technology. The Productivity Gap Is Causing a Wage Gap. ” How Trade and IT Fit In.

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Productivity Products Policies Bottom-up 12

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.

Innovation 11

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Yet, companies and executives spend endless amounts of time and money trying to foster collaboration through technology, training, and memos instead of quickly defining the problem, framing the challenges, and inspiring people to come together and tackle it. Let’s remind ourselves of three outstanding examples of collaboration.

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Guidelines Goal Follow-up Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

And current recycling technology is limited. automaking industry currently employs 786,500 people , down from 1,136,500 in 2003. At the same time, the automotive service industry currently employs 827,900 people , losing less than 100,000 jobs since its pre-recession peak in 2003. Recycling aluminum requires around 1.7

Resources 8

Resources McKinsey Globalization Industry 8

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.

Globalization 15

Globalization Budgeting Engineering System 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. In this view, the “soft landing” engineered by the Fed in 1994-1995, hailed at the time as a masterpiece of monetary policy-making, may have actually set the stage for the wild times that ensued.

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