Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

In 2013, Jayne Juvan became one of the youngest partners ever at the Cleveland-based law firm Roetzel & Andres — thanks to Twitter. In 2007 and 2008, the economy collapsed. A Romanian-born, US educated analyst, Dediu studied engineering in college, received an MBA but kept a lifelong passion for technology. Good thing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

Strategy 8

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. In 2008, GE corporate decided to invest $1 billion in the $5.6 In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” and compete successfully.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

To understand more about these types of changes around the world, we developed an “index” to identify how a group of countries stack up against each other in terms of readiness for a digital economy. Stand Out countries have shown high levels of digital development in the past and continue to remain on an upward trajectory.

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Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With guidance from Paul English, chief technology officer of Kayak, we borrowed a common tool from business — professional virtual communities (PVCs) — and adapted it to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. As of July 2013, there were 50 private communities. What features would make the site inviting, accessible, and useful?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.) dollars.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Spun out of Carnegie Mellon’s materials science research department in 2008, Aquion now employs 130 workers, manufacturing batteries to store electricity generated by intermittent renewable resources. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Saraki''s approach is emblematic of a growing trend of impact-focused investors that are emerging from developing countries, where economic growth is on the rise. Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% growth in GDP. But the growth — while rapid — has not been broad-based.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

There are many reasons why Silicon Valley might have been a top contender: for years, it''s been the premier technology hub of the world. While no one can dispute Silicon Valley embodies the quintessential technology culture, there''s another piece of the culture equation that matters just as much for a company like ours: diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It was called "Equal Opportunity for Women Is Smart Business" but it might just as easily have been called "Management Development for Women Is Just Management Development (but with women in it)." Technology in the carpal tunnel era changes at the speed of our flicking fingertips, but equal opportunity merely plods along.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. The AfDB has the strongest credit rating of any organization in Africa and in 2008, it surpassed the World Bank in lending to Africa , a signal of Africa’s growing agency in its own development.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A study by Jennifer Glass and coauthors in 2013 found that women leave STEM fields at dramatically higher rates than women in other occupations. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Earlier this year we led a thought exercise for 240 senior leaders of a Silicon Valley technology company.

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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. I hope they do the same for you.

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Godin Open-book Mass Marketing Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

New technology has turned the U.S., A new wave of it began before the crash in 2008, stopped while the world caught its breath, and is now resuming. Not only can natural gas be used as a feedstock for chemicals, fertilizers, pesticides, paints, plastics, and cosmetics, in 2013 the Cummins Corp. As it develops, the U.S.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Energy Creativity 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

healthcare spending set to grow 5 percent – or more than $100 billion – each year through 2013, businesses are scrambling for ways to save money on their health benefits. Healthcare Sector Forecast to 2012”, national healthcare spending is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of around 5 percent during 2010-2013.

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Company Management Human Resources Human Capital 56

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. Meanwhile, the organization’s mission aspirations grew bolder.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Our annual Prosperity Index –- the 2013 edition of which we released yesterday –- measures national prosperity based on eight core pillars that combine “hard” data with survey data. This is driven by big technological advancements, as more and more people gain access to infrastructure vital for commerce and entrepreneurship to thrive.

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Globalization GDP Hammer Maslow 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL Technologies, the German division of online auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Developing the Global Leader. Willing to Take Chances. “He let them play it out.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

Andrea Chermayeff wishes she’d kept a diary during the fall of 2013. They join Goldman Sachs, which has offered such a program since 2008*. (I Vodafone has led the STEM companies with its Returning to Technology program that began in 2012. Developing employees Talent management Professional transitions'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL Technologies, the German division of online auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Developing the Global Leader. Willing to Take Chances. “He let them play it out.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. The Kingdom of Bhutan was the first — and still the only — country to reject GDP as its primary measure and instead developed a Gross National Happiness index. It is a profoundly important indicator. It is also a profoundly flawed one.

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GDP Education Industry Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. Two personal stories illustrate these points. Both challenges were fundamentally political with a small “p.”

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Extended many energy and business credits and incentives, such as the Research & Development credit. Review your investment portfolio to identify certain appreciated positions to sell now before taxes potentially increase in 2013. Extends unemployment insurance coverage through 2011. Stay tuned for more excitement!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Positional advantage is sustainable in a classical environment: the environment is predictable and develops gradually without major disruptions. Tata Consultancy Services, the India-based information technology (IT) services and solutions company, operates in an environment it can neither predict nor change.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Coaching Tip

JUNE 29, 2013

A 2008 Goldman Sachs GS -1.47% report defined this group as those with incomes between $6,000 and $30,000 a year and predicted that it would grow by some two billion people by 2030. They are technology-savvy and use social media like Facebook FB +0.89% and Twitter to broadcast information and organize demonstrations.

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Class Leadership Politics eBook 85

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. You’ll never find any interesting deals there.” ” Sure, I would respond.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

They tend to think of innovation as a shiny new product or service that incorporates a major advance in technology—something like the Model T or the iPhone. Because it takes an enormous amount of money to find a truly revolutionary technology or product. Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

But in the last two contests in which Hillary Clinton has participated, the 2008 primary and the 2016 election, she won on most of these metrics — and lost the elections. Two developments bear noting. First, and most obvious, traditional media is no longer the only way to spread the word. Rowling, sales rose to over one million.

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Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11