Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

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Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

As someone who’s been involved in marketing breakthrough innovations, I’m convinced Google’s approach is the right one. Google is focused on possibility rather than profitability — a mindset that’s necessary to create innovations that transform categories. billion in net sales from 2008-2013. The derision is misplaced.

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Innovation Short-term Long-term Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. A few years later, Iger made another successful deal to buy Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion in 2009. This strategy has been, in itself, Disney’s great breakthrough innovation.

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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

MARCH 5, 2013

For a preview of what Harvard grads might expect, see the embedded video from Oprah’s 2008 Stanford commencement speech, where she reflects on harnessing passion, finding meaningful work, giving back, and what we can all learn from failure. A tattoo studio in Turkey found an innovative way to use QR codes in job ads. Trust your gut.

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Brainstorming Innovation Video Advice 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

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A 2008 survey of 250 managers in the UK revealed that 90% of them believed that political skill is required to succeed and to improve one’s career prospects. While the link between political skill and career success is firmly established, there is a problem: Office politics doesn’t work for everyone in the same way.

Politics 8

Politics Cooper Mentor Diversity 8

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.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Think of your company in its entirety, or perhaps select a strategically important element of it, such as a growth area upon which future success depends or its primary source of income, and consider the following two questions: 1. Superior technical innovation is at the heart of its strategy and its organizational design.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After an unprecedented decade of growth, analysts wrote off 2013 as a year to forget for Apple. Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. When Innovation Is Strategy.

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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Your business is a success, but you feel like a failure. Founded in 1966, Norwegian quickly became an innovator in its field as the first company to offer round-trip cruises that nearly anybody could afford. An innovator? Consider the case of Norwegian Cruise Line. Were we a price cutter? Customer-focused?

Company 9

Company IPO Price Loyalty 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. Innovating away from past exclusion.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

As GHDonline’s rapid growth and success have demonstrated, they can indeed be a valuable tool for improving the efficiency, quality, and the ultimate value of health care delivery. As of July 2013, there were 50 private communities. The Launch. What features would make the site inviting, accessible, and useful? Growing Participation.

Globalization 8

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Despite early concerns that falling revenue (and online piracy) would reduce the availability of music, research by economists Luis Aguiar and Joel Waldfogel shows that the number of music products created between 2000 and 2008 tripled. Skeptics may worry that quantity is coming at the expense of quality.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

Throughout the world, it has become a proxy for success and for failure. government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. In 2008, the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, convened a commission to go beyond GDP that recommended a broader “dashboard” of variables to measure the health of a nation.

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GDP Education Industry Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. The first priority must be a renewed commitment to innovation. But just as U.S.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Jules Pieri, who was recently named one of 2013’s Most Powerful Woman Entrepreneurs by Fortune Magazine, is a woman who is now reaping the rewards of standing up. Pieri is the Co-founder and CEO of The Grommet, a retail site devoted to promoting innovative, undiscovered products and the stories behind their makers.

Learning Curve 11

Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Retail Budgeting 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

My colleague Andy Hargadon noted this when he did an ethnography of the renowned innovation firm IDEO in the 1990s. In other words, successful scaling means finding ways to limit the number of things that people are expected to focus on and execute. Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days.

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Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 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. I hope they do the same for you.

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Godin Open-book Mass Marketing Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

economy during the peak of the Great Recession (2008-2010). Policy signals from California, the world's 9th largest economy, are clearing a path for energy innovation. Businesses that innovate and invest in these technologies will gain a competitive edge and enhance their bottom line. dependence on foreign oil.

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Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.) After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Progress on resolving these issues will be slow and incremental.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The launch of Pokémon Go this summer was a huge success—both for the gaming industry and for Augmented Reality (AR). But it is just as important to ask: What has contributed to AR’s increasing success? The first commercial AR application appeared in 2008. Aside from complex technological advances (e.g.,

Tourism 9

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

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. The FCC chairman who went after Comcast in 2008 was Bush appointee Kevin Martin. By classifying broadband as an information service, the FCC was effectively pledging to leave it alone.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea. They carefully select the most successful ones to scale up and exploit. • Adaptive: Be fast. • Visionary: Be first.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8