Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber built up staff, procedures, and software systems whose purpose was to enable and mobilize passengers and drivers to lobby regulators and legislators — creating political disaster for anyone who questioned Uber’s approach. A Race to the Bottom. (To be fair, Uber didn’t start it — Lyft did.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

One of the reasons for Amazon’s great success, I would argue, is that it is constantly honing its answer to “What is our business?”—although The key to improving knowledge-worker productivity, Drucker wrote, begins bottom-up, “with asking knowledge workers themselves: What is your task? What should it be?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Policy signals from California, the world's 9th largest economy, are clearing a path for energy innovation. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. 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. What is a common definition of success?

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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. Capitalize on success. million by creating an internal facility for drug compounding and packaging.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

While many of these strategies apply both within and outside the consumer packaged goods industry, there is no secret sauce and all marketers should ask themselves what their unique mobile framework should be in 2013, and beyond. But, it's easier to see into the future when you have a stake in building the innovations that shape it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Nevertheless, analog spending still rules, as confirmed by Gartner''s 2013 digital marketing spending report. Like so many other revolutions, digital marketing has taken hold from the bottom up. How could this be?,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

” If you feel your family member isn’t respecting these boundaries, “bring it up privately and immediately,” says Lachenauer. For your sanity and future success, it’s critical to maintain outside interests and contacts of your own. And I had to start at the bottom.” What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Senior management at the new company knew him, his successful track record, and the companies he’d worked for. Martin decided he wanted the job, and if he had to give up the keys to the car to get it, he was going to hope for the best. Slam dunk, right? Rachel: “I understand. I won’t call again. Thank you.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. It’s easy to get caught up in the hype. So this view is often associated with innovation or disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

doubled from 20% to 40% between July and December 2013, and has stayed at that level since. I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Success begets success.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

M&A does boost companies’ growth and value, our new research shows, but the bet-the-company deal isn’t the route to success. By examining dozens of variables, we found the levers that explain more than 80% of the up-drift and down-drift on what we have dubbed the “power curve” of corporate performance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The CMS monthly status reports leading up to October 1 (especially the report for August, 2013 ) reveal increasingly desperate language and blame shifting. But under the surface, health reform is starting to look like a bigger success than even its most ardent advocates expected.”. Let people know to expect them.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany. Individual providers who didn’t measure up had to follow a remediation plan, with incremental improvements that were documented. Speak with one voice.

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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. In fact, we lose up to 40 percent of our productivity by switching between tasks; the more we switch, the worse our performance.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

But the cure to the pathologies of past-sickness does not lie in the equally romanticized vision of modernization and innovation we have been offered for the last 40 years — something that might be called future nostalgia , or modernization-sickness. ” In 2007 the bottom 90% of the population held 28.6%

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