Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. Nike embedded sustainability into its innovation process and created the $1 billion-plus Flyknit line, which uses a specialized yarn system, requiring minimal labor and generating large profit margins.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. When a company had dozens of potential competitors in various geographic regions, there was an incentive to innovate before the other guy does.

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

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. By mid-2013, the company was chugging along at a $200 million annual revenue rate.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Thousands of very lucky individuals are seated in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center are at TED 2013. In the spirit of TED 2013, here are 10 amazing TED Talks that have helped me think differently about what business can be, how to be a better leader, and how to become a better global citizen. It's happening right now.

Godin 8

Godin Open-book Mass Marketing Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company. 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.

Deming 28

Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The CMS monthly status reports leading up to October 1 (especially the report for August, 2013 ) reveal increasingly desperate language and blame shifting. Celebrate intelligent failures as a source of innovation. And the New York Times lists “weak leadership” at Medicare as another complicating factor. Playing the blame game.

Company 8

Company Telecommunications CIO Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Consider the harrowing events after the crash-landing of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 last July 6th 2013. Just one in three diagnostic mistakes result from physicians’ mental mistakes, according to a 2005 analysis by the Archives of Internal Medicine. Cutting costs Health Innovation' In medicine, timing is everything. Four things.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care System Software 8

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.

Price 9

Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. Garvin stresses the importance of rigorous experiments (years before experimentation became the rallying cry for a new generation of innovators); thoughtful problem definition; and smart, well-designed metrics.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

While roughly 20% of lawmakers owned stock in 2001, that number had more than doubled by 2013. Congresspeople in both political parties have substantial holdings in firms their legislative actions affect — and this number has grown substantially in recent years. Not only did his wife invest between $610,000 and $1.5

Conflict of Interest 8

Conflict of Interest Committee Collins Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

These information services, the thinking went, were better left free to innovate and compete largely exempt from FCC regulation. This led to a zillion lawsuits from phone companies and other non-cable ISPs, but in 2005 the Supreme Court decided that the FCC was within its rights to make that call.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8