Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. From early on, Google employees were encouraged to spend a significant portion of their time on interesting side projects, with the idea that some of these projects would become new products. How Google manages.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Nike halved the size of its digital unit in 2014 by discontinuing its Nike+ Fuelband activity tracker and some other investments. This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

.’s ” Similarly, according to a survey by CareerBuilder in 2013, almost a third of employers said that their educational requirements for employment had recently increased, and specifically that they were hiring more college-educated workers for positions previously held by high school graduates. Adobe Dreamweaver) as well.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” They built 75 of version 6 in January 2014 and response so far has been positive.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Frustrated by these limitations, the global information-technology service provider Atos, headquartered in France, sought an internal collaboration system that would do away with email’s “closed” form of communication. Insight Center. Growing Digital Business. Sponsored by Accenture. New tools and strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. At times, I’ve been critical about the sometimes-loose definition of what GE “counts” as an ecomagination project (making oil sands production a bit cleaner, really?).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. Earlier this year, we projected that sales will hit $6 billion by 2018. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. The numbers were grim.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Coinciding with this is recent discussion in the business media that since “work” no longer adheres to the traditional 9-5, and technology allows us to be connected anywhere and everywhere, perhaps those longer work hours should be reconciled with more time off. But an unlimited-vacation-days perk misses the point.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. But a few years ago, delays in signing new hires were impairing its expansion; in 2013, the average time to hire was 100 days. Generate and nurture your own talent channels.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

As an organization or project grows, and as its challenges change, it not only needs to recognize new priorities, it needs to delete or deemphasize old ones. Sales doubled in 2013. It intends to open two more warehouses and add 300 more employees in 2014. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

As a result, the United States experienced five years of the lowest growth in health care costs ever in the 2009-2013 period — although an uptick in the rate in 2014 raises questions about what it will take to contain costs on a sustainable basis. By also pursuing other concrete opportunities (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. Financial capital was recognized as the scarce resource and its shortage a significant constraint on growth. Even HR itself agrees.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. Here are some steps you should take to build for 2014-2015: 1. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good. Position yourself in market segments that will grow.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. more competition to reduce consumer prices, sharing international best practices, technology transfer, public-private partnerships) needed to boost the economy’s health.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. billion in mining projects since 2010. Wal-Mart, for example, aimed to double fleet efficiency between 2005 and 2015 through better routing, truck loading, driver training, and advanced technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Technology has prompted tremendous change in the advertising industry—change that would have been inconceivable even a decade ago. Technology will only be able to deliver on its promise of moving TV dollars online if it creates greater process efficiencies, drives more commerce, and enables deeper engagement with consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Where/how are people having difficulty with technology? Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. Where/how are people stuck?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

But with the rise of digital technology, and with it the ability to get immediate feedback from customers and communities, crowdsourcing has become a powerful alternative for driving important decisions. Kickstarter is one of a growing number of crowdfunding platforms for gathering money from the public to fund all sorts of projects.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

This figure is likely to decline as genetic testing technology improves and more vendors get into the market. For instance, the commercially insured population suffered 158,895 heart attacks and had 126,710 diabetes-specific admissions in 2014, the last year for which statistics are available. What type of genetic tests are involved?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

And even when we’re connected, we’re often dazed and confused: with more than six billion smartphones projected worldwide by 2020, we’ve succeeded in creating an environment in which we and our employees can, if we want, work 24/7, checking our phones as many as 150 times per day. No wonder we have skills shortages!

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