Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

The Gates Foundation sees better toilets as key to fighting disease and improving lives; for business, what they represent is a huge potential market. I have come across many writings about entry strategies and product offerings for emerging markets, but little that addressed the sheer sizes at stake. million of them in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. This needs to change.

Real Estate 13

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

When big business leaders think about social media they tend to focus on three things: innovative technologies, marketing applications, and IPOs — the three factors that make Facebook and Twitter so hot. 15,000), a website, pirated films of wildlife massacres that were "youtubed", and a network of supporters in online forums.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002). The more trust that exists between players, the more efficiently the system, market, or organization will work.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

and other developed markets? You may think this is an issue for tomorrow—when Chinese firms are known for being innovators instead of imitators, and when their overseas investments are not limited to natural resources in Africa and Latin America. In 2010, Chinese firm AVIC Automotive purchased Nexteer for $465 million.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2008 and 2010, over 25 US-based, cleantech-focused venture capital and private equity funds raised over $300 million in committed capital each, amounting to over $35 billion of capital committed for clean energy startups (here's an example ). Click on the table below to see at full size.).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No. A misunderstood story. 3 globally).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The story, which apparently has echoes in some other school districts around the country, is but one more salvo in the wars of educational reform (recently depicted in the film Waiting for Superman — dont miss it). No one would claim that new product design does not or should not involve wise judgment.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

There have always been friends and family we trust, journalists and film critics we find credible, and publications like travel guides or Consumer Reports that we know are reliable. Today, we add to that a great deal more. For Google, this was the perfect advice consolidation play.

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