The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 11, 2019

That’s beginning to shift however, with R&D hubs emerging in countries like China, India and Israel, and a recent study argues that the role played by information technology in innovation is a major driver behind this change. Shifting R&D overseas.

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Innovation Human Capital Software Globalization 68

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. But in a different sense, the health care system is starved for innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit.

Health Care 15

Health Care Biotechnology Mayo Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Employees have proven to be a valuable source for innovative ideas. Which is why more companies are testing crowdsourcing initiatives and other ways to encourage people to innovate. But the research on whether rewards actually yield more innovation is mixed. Motivating people Innovation'

Incentives 8

Incentives Motivation Innovation Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We need transformational innovations to stop this train wreck. A new business model will only emerge through continuous discovery and experimentation and will be defined by market demands, start-ups, a Silicon Valley mindset, and young technology experts. Education Information & technology'

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Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. As the impact of the labor bonanza and capital-led phases begins to fade, productivity growth in China must increasingly come from the quality of innovation and management expertise at the organizational level. China, too, needs more technological innovation.

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Second, we see a raft of innovations that will alter how products are designed, manufactured and sold — everything from nanotechnologies to 3D printing. Then, manufacturing's most important role is as a driver of innovation, trade, and productivity. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97 It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97 for Spain's financial sector.

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CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." Follow him on Twitter at @GreenAdvantage. And on and on.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

A revolution in information technology has transformed businesses around the globe over the past two decades. More recently, companies have discovered that technology-enabled data is an underappreciated but highly valuable asset. And innovative technology soon will extend its reach without increasing its size.

Education 8

Education Technology Information Technology Report 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

In cardiology alone, for example, the country spent $273 billion in total direct costs in 2010 and will spend an expected $818 billion in 2030. Any innovative care redesign must include all providers and cannot pit generalists against specialists. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

Health Care 8

Health Care Organization Incentives Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

trillion spent on health care in the United States in 2010 was wages for health care workers, and labor productivity has historically worsened at a rate of 0.6% As Ari Hoffman and Ezekiel Emanuel argue in the Journal of the American Medical Association, reengineering is very different from implementing new technologies.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Compliance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Notwithstanding their rapidly growing economies, China and India are a long way from attaining technological parity with developed countries like the US. In 2010, China overtook Japan to become the world's second largest R&D spender (in purchasing power parity terms) after the U.S.

Globalization 14

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

MD Anderson Cancer Center established its version of a value management office, the Institute for Cancer Care Innovation (ICCI) in 2008 with Thomas Feeley, a senior anesthesiologist and a coauthor of this article, as its head.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

It's telling us that software as a service just blinked into being mainstream in 2010. Undo matters, in other words, because its appearance almost always signals that a market has gone from fringe to mainstream, with profits set to follow. If we listen to "undo", what is it telling us now? Undo says the profits are about to roll in.

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Early Adopters Norton Wilde Software 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

When we over-automate big-data tools, we get Target's faux pas of sending baby coupons to a teenager who hadn't yet told her parents she was pregnant, or the Flash Crash on Thursday May 6, 2010 , in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged about 1000 points — or about nine percent.

Black-Scholes 15

Black-Scholes Software Tools Information 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

As a 2010 study by the Center for College Affordability , a non-profit research center, expressed it: "With a tenure system, colleges are not able to reduce the number of medieval history professors in order to increase the number of information technology and business professors.".

Engineering 10

Engineering Education Class Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

With low entry costs, trivial sunk capital, easy switching by consumers, and disruptive innovation showing no signs of tapering off, every internet-based business faces risk, even if it has temporarily achieved winner-takes-all status. From around 1990 to 2010 Microsoft arguably ruled the information-technology industry.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Advertising Marketing Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

The strategy appears quite profitable — some years ago Wired magazine predicted that, by 2010, half the value in the delivery of a shipping container, from half-way around the world, would lie in the data associated with the contents. Of course, competing through lowered cost, providing better products, and innovating are nothing new.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Remember the May 2010 "flash crash" where the stock market plunged nearly 1000 points in a matter of moments? If cyberattacks become more innovative or intense, the West may well see the emergence of a "military, post-industrial complex" to protect and assert its interests.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

From 2010 to 2017, the market cap of GAFAM companies increased by $2.6 The Information Technology Industry Council has identified at least 22 laws in 13 European countries that regulate the localization of data. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? And the amounts involved are huge.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

These must qualify as “specialty occupations,” which typically require a bachelor’s degree (or the equivalent) and are found in fields such as science, engineering, information technology, medicine, and business. on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Ross , the State Department''s outgoing senior adviser on innovation: "the truth of the matter is that there are laws and due process in the United States that protect our liberties to a degree that simply do not exist in 99% of the rest of the world." Government Information & technology' Does Your CEO Really Get Data Security?

Film 8

Film Information Technology Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. While 44% of EU residents shopped online in 2014, a paltry 15% bought from another member state; barely up by six and a half percentage points since 2010, according to the European Commission’s (EC) “Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015.” Investing in innovation capacity.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Serious marketers, innovators and quants can't find a better — or more controversial — case study in the problems and pathologies of predictive analytics than America's down-to-the-wire presidential campaign. Or a 30% level from the 2010 congressional election? Do they reflect probabilistic "best practice"?

Politics 15

Politics Sample Survey Benchmarking 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Telecommunications services are common carriers , expected to provide basic service on equal terms to all — and to let other businesses make use of their infrastructure to provide information services. These information services, the thinking went, were better left free to innovate and compete largely exempt from FCC regulation.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8