Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. And remember that technology connects people in faster and more transparent ways than ever! Ducati really personifies this strategy.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Perhaps drawing on a national affinity for design, Italcementi has rediscovered cement as the raw material of architectural beauty, transforming a drab, gray powder into a technologically advanced and aesthetically sophisticated building material. Behind each partnership with an archistar, there is always a commissioned landmark project.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Self-aware Fashion 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Slackers are quite clever at avoiding work and often disappear for hours on end, make it a practice to look busy but get little done, have many excuses for not getting projects accomplished, and spend more time devising ways to avoid getting tasks completed then they would just getting them done.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

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.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” But fundamentals of innovation are not usually taught as part of science and technology training.

Innovation 16

Innovation Education Survey Training 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Kahn, 38 years old, graduated from MIT in 1998 and Harvard Business School in 2003. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible. Social enterprise Venture capital'

Bond 11

Bond Education Finance Video 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Countries that manage to transition effectively to low-carbon generation technologies will be home to competitive energy solutions and manufacturing firms that are more resilient to energy shocks and weather disruptions. That’s why so many countries are moving ahead with ambitious plans in this sector. GW of new installations in 2016.

Energy 10

Energy Decentralization Industry Power 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

At the mine site, project leader André Sougarret sought assistance while managing the boundaries of the rescue effort to screen out contributors who lacked expertise or workable proposals. Even paid outsiders usually have plenty of other projects to work on, so mobilizers can’t just issue demands. It often starts with greater humility.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Automotive Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Incorporate some aspects of design thinking into your digital projects — starting from a solution is a good way for everyone to envision themselves in the final outcome, rather than focus on their piece through to handoff. In 2003, blogging was still new in the mainstream, and mistrusted by corporations wedded to large CMS installs.

Team 8

Team Management Software Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

In a similar vein, Google announced last year that it was supporting the Endangered Languages Project , an initiative to allow people to share resources and information about languages on the verge of extinction. Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use.

GDP 9

GDP Company Niche Marketing Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Couple the lack of transparency of marketing generally with the shock of new technology, and you get anxiety over information use that increasingly translates into calls for legislation or regulatory intervention. New laws aimed at specific technologies, however, are the worst possible outcome. It''s also misguided.

Morale 8

Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. Women must project gravitas in order to advance at work, yet they also need to retain their "feminine mystique" in order to be liked.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

In an essay that was never formally published but became something of a cult favorite among finance professors and some finance practitioners, Asness looked at Cisco Systems and concluded that even if the most optimistic projections about its future growth came true, it was still priced to disappoint current investors.

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Building off US-inspired steel-based technology, we believe that it's possible to design, build, deliver, and erect affordable multi-tier tower housing, addressed squarely to lower class sections of the Indian demographic.

Suri 14

Suri Construction Class EBITDA 14

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.

Innovation 15

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 15

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

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Henry Chesbrough's seminal book on the topic wasn't published until 2003. The unsolvable problem that has become the "white whale" of my career's own captain story was posed by Nick Donofrio, IBM's senior vice president of technology (and official protector of innovators) a year before I wrote "Breaking Out." Here's a conundrum."

Game Theory 8

Game Theory Open-book Innovation Disruptive Innovation 8