Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste. states with deregulated power markets) and technologies (e.g., He treats flour as a critical resource tied to the bottom line. In a 2012 study , Notre Dame researchers found that green buildings saved money and increased revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

You can watch the recording of our conversation at the bottom of this post.). The same sentiment was behind Twitter’s announcement in 2012 of an Innovator’s Patent Agreement, designed so that “employees can be assured that their patents will be used only as a shield rather than as a weapon.”. Innovation Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

By now we’re all familiar with examples of small and lean digital companies popping up out of nowhere and outcompeting larger, established companies. Instagram had only 13 employees when it sold for $1 billion to Facebook in 2012, and Snapchat has approximately 350 employees. How technology is changing the way we work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

It's also how we should think about the way the Internet is developing, and about the way our choices in how we use technology are shaping this global brain. Vint Cerf, considered one of the co-creators of the Internet's architecture, wrote in a 2012 New York Times Op-Ed that "The Internet stands at a crossroads.

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Globalization Film Participative Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

I knew I was signing up for long hours, but the reality of that didn’t really sink until a few months in, when I asked for a vacation day to go to a friend’s wedding. This pace continued for months – even on national holidays, I holed up in my apartment to work — and I began to wonder how long I could continue.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. billion on these social sites by 2012. And remember that technology connects people in faster and more transparent ways than ever! Power to the people, indeed!

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Foreign Policy reports in this intriguing list of the 10 most overlooked stories of 2012. Tensions built up between China and Hong Kong as the percentage of the city's residents identifying themselves as Chinese dropped to the lowest level since 1997. All of which points to a 2013 that looks nothing like 2012. On Facebook, Too.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Innovation Centers. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Drawing on a sample of top science talent — 6,469 people who graduated from MIT between 2006 and 2012 — Shu shows that Wall Street is not attracting the best future scientists and engineers out of college (or at least, not the ones from MIT). of MIT graduates taking jobs in finance after graduation. more likely to enter finance.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. Building a large-scale biopharmaceutical facility requires up to $500 million. This all presents CEOs with a tough dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

All this excitement about the unicorns is understandable — up to a point. Airbnb has nearly doubled its user base every year since 2012 and is now worth $30 billion — nearly as much as Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel chain. Many of them have been growing at a ferocious pace. has steadily increased.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

In 2012, even in the midst of an anemic global economy and budget tightening at firms, the amount spent on these events worldwide was an estimated $565 billion. So consider what more productive event spending means for the bottom line. No technology can help managers who are unable or unwilling to set goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. According to the 2012 IDC/EMC report on the digital universe (PDF) , it''s doubling every two years. It is ultimately up to each of us to make a difference.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Because a lower carbon price is a sign that power companies and other regulated entities don't think it will be very costly for them to reduce their own emissions, so they didn't need to stock up on allowances or permits to emit. million annually. Three (quiet) cheers for California.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

In May 2012, as part of our research , we gave out the new dies randomly to 35 of the 135 producers in Sialkot and sat back to watch. Figuring that their earnings would decline, the cutters were trying to block adoption, in part by misinforming owners about the benefits of the technology.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Local governments are not known for being at the forefront of innovation and technology. Cities are beginning to see the value of using consumer-feedback sites to improve efficiency, provide citizens with important health data, and put pressure on unhygienic restaurants to clean up their acts. That may be about to change.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

They had surged with the rise of digital camera only to peak in 2012, coming back down as smart phones became widely used. He asked one former major investor for a reaction to the company’s prediction (accompanying poor quarterly results): “that the [current] market contraction will bottom out soon and our profits will improve.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The MIT Forum launched an online survey in 2012 to understand what U.S. production of cheap natural gas (using new fracking technology). Cheap sensors, fast computing, and new technologies have led to new user-friendly manufacturing automation that increases productivity. One-hundred fifty-six U.S. Labor costs. Automation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Regarding the former, the increased complexity of global supply chains could increase the likelihood of industrial accidents due to such factors as technological differences between home and host countries or culturally divergent perceptions of risk and workplace safety.

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Globalization Industry Cost Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The team ended last season at the bottom of the standings (Las Vegas odds were 28 to 1 that they’d make it to the World Series), but rallied this year. Others need a course correction while still profitable (Microsoft), or a momentum shift because of disruptive new technologies (newspaper companies).

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How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

A 2012 Pricewaterhouse Coopers survey found that 60% of CEOs did not believe they had the talent they needed to be successful, and one in four had to delay or forego market opportunities and strategic initiatives because they didn''t have the right talent. Recruiting, staffing, and hiring-support services is a $16B industry , yet 52% of U.S.

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Cooper Customer Loyalty Storytelling Career 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Nonetheless, between 2012 and mid-2103, Banner has captured nearly $70 million in savings, and by 2017, the savings will contribute $256 million annually to its bottom line. By the end of 2012, the first year of implementation, Banner captured $31 million in G&A savings. . Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

billion in the bottom half of the scale, and that 70 percent of the world’s people live in countries where income inequality has increased in the past 30 years. Between 1976 and 2012 the share of US income earned by the top 1% almost tripled, rising from 9% to 24%. How should business respond to the growing prominence of this issue?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. The bottom line is that progress in wage equity has hit a wall. The Start Up Paradox.

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Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The value of the shares bought then, in fact, makes up a big chunk of Yahoo’s value today, and the windfall from that purchase is what many hope will allow the company to remake its future. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. Yang had struck up a good relationship with Ma, which greatly facilitated the negotiations.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

In a 2012 poll of 1,600 sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) experts, 81% saw activists as central to further progress in the environmental agenda. Breakthrough requires an end to systemic inequities by opening up processes, information - and markets. Accelerating Customer Adoption at the Bottom of the Pyramid.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

I dwell on these fears because these games could end up mattering, a lot. I first met Halfteck at a conference late in 2012, and got him to send me a link to one of his company’s games last spring so I could play it and have my performance assessed. And you can’t really study for them. Basically, they leave nowhere to hide.

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Hedge Efficiency Information Technology Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5 Some 62.4%

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The 2012 OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study showed the UK invested the 8th largest amount out of 34 OECD countries, but only came 19th in mathematics, 14th in science and 16th in reading. In the meantime, buoyed up by an undeserved reputation, the Surgeon has moved on to their next patient.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

The corporate landscape has become increasingly unequal, with the most productive firms thriving and the least productive ones failing to keep up. Indeed, the gap between firms in the top 10% by productivity and those in the bottom 10% increased by approximately 14% from 2001 to 2012. A second one has been international trade.

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Productivity Products Policies Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Like YouTube in 2006 and Facebook in 2008 , 2012 will go down as the year that online polling joined telephone polling as part of our electoral process. This victory for online technology wasn't a foregone conclusion. The polling companies that actually did include cell phone users did so at an enormous price (between 1.8

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Benchmarking Bottom-up Media Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Apple fuses technology with design. Innovating from the bottom up. “We could advance the core technology without being tied to a particular product. That creates a rich problem set, which helps draw top-notch researchers to Google who, in turn, create even more exciting new technology. Innovating the core.

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Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

The CMO has historically focused on driving growth and brand engagement; the CRO has typically focused on safeguarding the bottom line and minimizing unwanted exposure. The ability to offer financing gave the technology vendor a point of differentiation that helped it beat its revenue projection for the year.

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Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Nike no doubt had this willingness in mind when it reinvented shoe manufacturing in 2012 with the Flyknit line. Besides the highly visible examples above, other technologies are conspiring to make fabrication more nimble, including low-cost, high-accuracy 3D printing, CNC milling, and laser cutting. It’s worth it, though.

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Offshoring Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Your company might not be as extreme as Jack Welch’s GE, which famously relied on forced rankings to cull weaker managers (a system still in use by more than half of Fortune 500 firms as of 2012), but chances are your company has given you a number that puts you in a specific spot on the employee continuum.

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Performance Review Review Quinn Health Care 11

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. They make up by increasing rates of advertisers…offering cause-related marketing packages as incentives. At the bottom of the totem pole sits coverage of community activities…unless they can sell advertising around it.

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