Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative. PE investors don’t typically invest in firms known for innovation. that didn’t undergo buyouts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. Cambridge, U.K.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Innovate and build products and services customers love to use. In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award. Mahesh has received numerous corporate, client, and industry accolades for coaching senior executives at Fortune 100 companies to become successful transformation leaders and organizational innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

This includes everything from past entrepreneurial experience to the need for external finance and the urge to grow the business or to innovate. entrepreneurs over a six-year period (2005 to 2011). There is a range of contextual factors that prompt the decision to plan. Two findings stood out.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

.” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels. The program delivered $1.6

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, In August 2011, consumers in Mexico's fifth largest urban area, Toluca, were offered a new product, PureIt , a home water purifier that enabled them to not have to lug 40-pound garrafones (bottles) of drinking water to their homes from the grocery store.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

On the one hand, there is widespread fear that innovation will lead to a loss of jobs and rising income inequality — the “race against the machines” narrative. On the other, the slowdown in productivity growth across advanced economies has led some economists to argue that new innovations have no impact on growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. Much of this is driven by the needs of the financial sector, which itself has consolidated massively.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, New Orleans was a place where too many people accepted that the city’s zenith had passed over 150 years ago. Now, New Orleans is being recognized as a hub of innovation, with a rate of business startups 64% higher than the national average.

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Real Estate Transportation Price Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

August 2011 HBR. By 2005, Garanti began to open branches and grow rapidly. This is a commentary on " The Paradox of Samsung's Rise ," an article by Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee in the July?August But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies.

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Banking Crisis Restructuring Reputation 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. A Short History of Dell.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). Drucker passed away in 2005. The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997). Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, Christensen presents a set of rules for capitalising on the phenomenon of “disruptive innovation.”. Winning (2005).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Their crowning achievement was a service launched in 2011 called Google Takeout, a unified site for exporting user data from multiple services like Gmail and Google Photos.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Nike is a leading example of how both anti-sweatshop campaigns and labor standards in trade agreements can be good for innovation and growth in developing countries. If practices like Silver Star’s really are good for productivity and innovation, won’t companies adopt them on their own? Not necessarily.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three. Revenue in 2011 was $59 million. Tinkering can kill midsize companies.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 23, 2010

However, I challenge organizations to be more innovative with the format of their meetings. Let’s be innovative with our “how&# so we can perhaps get to richer discussions during the process. Bring in faciltiators, shake things up, try to do meetings WITHOUT powerpoint sometimes, bring in a yoga teacher!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Just a few examples illustrate some of the pressing issues: South Africa''s power distribution network has an estimated maintenance backlog of $4 billion — equivalent to half of the country''s total investment in electric power generation and distribution in 2011. an estimated $100 billion per year. We need to streamline delivery.

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Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Terry Starbucker

MARCH 10, 2010

Why else would all new products or innovations be compared to it since it was first sold in 1928 ? It was just another consumer convenience, allowing us to make our sandwiches faster. But because it made it that much easier, it launched the sandwich into a whole new level of popularity.

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Media Blog Open-book Productivity 278

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

This is a true golden age for consumers, who are demanding innovation in both the packaging and pricing of content. Since 2005, cable companies have lost ten million subscribers. Beyond consolidation, Comcast, along with other media incumbents, must find new ways to innovate products and services.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

She published her first book, Spark: How Creativity Works in 2011 and now hosts her own podcast, Pursuit of Spark! It turns out that some of our best thinkers and innovators are introverted. Watch this TED talk to inspire more creativity in your work and personal life. Susan Cain: The power of introverts. Like to read?

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 8, 2010

I write a lot on innovative thinking. ] Tweet This Post Tagged as: idea factory , Leadership , leadership ideas , Willy Wonka { 5 comments… read them below or add one } ed bernacki August 9, 2010 at 11:59 am Hi – Good piece.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

They foster an environment that encourages the sharing of ideas through brainstorming while realizing that innovation need not be preceded by the existence of committees. In situations where consensus cannot be reached, they have an uncanny ability to cut to the chase and make informed decisions.

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Before joining MassMutual in 2005, Mark served as general counsel and secretary to the following three public companies prior to their sale/mergers: Fisher Scientific International Inc., Gordy earned his bachelor’s degree from the USAF Academy and his PhD in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Minnesota.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 11, 2010

I love the innovative structure. The movie isnt well known because the writer and director, Christopher Nolan, achieved acclaim for his later works, Memento (2000), Insomnia (2002), Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and this year Inception (2010). I love the mix of gritty realism and humor. I love the dialogue.

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Film Video Blog Follow-up 76

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Even though I had been working with entrepreneurs since 2005, and I had created my own Company in 2011, I was still afraid of being totally free to work on my dream. In any case, this is an indicator of wasted resources, and wasted dreams. Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

billion leveraged private equity buyout in 2005, with the aim of turning the chain around, but the resulting debt has proved to be unserviceable. As Darrell Rigby argued in a 2011 HBR article , every 50 years the retail industry goes through a major disruption. In their 2005 book, W. Yet the struggles at the company are not new.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. In 2005, when the demand for the iPod Mini remained huge, the Nano was launched, effectively destroying the revenue stream of an existing product. Back in 2009, there were just four companies that fit the bill.

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Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. By 2005 smartphones were already popular, but the Cupertino visionary saw something much cooler than a “Crackberry.” The smartphone’s iconic social significance has been duly noted.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Just one in three diagnostic mistakes result from physicians’ mental mistakes, according to a 2005 analysis by the Archives of Internal Medicine. But the latest innovations in imaging and diagnostic testing can lower costs by improving the odds of a correct diagnosis. Cutting costs Health Innovation' Four things.

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Cost Health Care System Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. We interviewed leaders in 37 private for-profit and non-profit primary care programs identified in the Center for Health Market Innovations database and operating in over 25 developing countries. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.

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Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

In 2011, Netflix announced it would split into two businesses, then retreated after only three weeks. In 2005, a single post by blogger Jeff Jarvis led to a customer uprising now known as "Dell Hell." In 2009, Tropicana brought out brand new packaging for their orange juice, then pulled it a few weeks later.

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Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

It''s a bubble when the price you pay for share of stock cannot conceivably be recouped from the earnings of the company (this was Cisco in 2000 ) or the price you pay for house cannot conceivably be recouped from rental earnings (this was Phoenix in 2005 ). Then again, lots of important financial innovations start out like that.

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Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 9

In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 8, 2012

Now that we are in the New Year, you can expect to see 2011 rankings by major periodicals on a variety of measures from most valuable global brands to the most innovative companies. Sadly, Wrangler faced mounting competition, closed its last American sewing plant in 2005 and slipped from the apex of consumer esteem.

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