Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

We stand today on July 27, one year away from the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Rather than panic, London's leaders have been both innovative and fearless in finding ways to "make more from less." Despite this, the 2012 Oympic Games has become a critical component for it. Britain is well ahead of schedule.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. It is impossible to earn healthy profits in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Work is like weightlifting: Alternate stress with recovery to gradually build your capacity. Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012. Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma. What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. by Tony Schwartz.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. CEOs need to know how a change in strategy (a new target market, say, or a new product) will affect manufacturing, marketing, selling, servicing, and other processes.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The electronics giant had seemingly lost its dominant position in the gaming console market, with the Nintendo Wii’s surprise success overshadowing the more powerful but pricier PS3. Cloud-based gaming poses a higher risk to the casual end of the market because it allows relatively complex games to be played on simpler, cheaper devices.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

Recent research from the Center for Talent Innovation , a New York-based think tank where I serve as president, details the benefits of an inclusive work environment. In 2012, LGBT adults in the U.S. represented $790 billion in total buying power , making them a market force companies can''t afford to overlook.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

But every business is an information business, they stressed. But the questions of timing and scale are still the minds of Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell in 2012. Back in 1979, Daniel Bell didn’t have much sympathy for people who felt helpless in the face of technological innovation.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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