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Leading in a World of Change: Lessons from Downton Abbey

Great Leadership By Dan

At the same time, the advent of new ground breaking technologies such as electricity and motorization – today we would call them disruptive – allowed the estates to operate with significantly less staff. You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study.

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Big Data, Big Opportunity

Chartered Management Institute

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. Last month the supermarket giant Tesco announced a partnership with a technology firm Amscreen aimed at improving the targeting of its advertisements. And of course there are ethical and legal considerations to consider with trading data.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g.,

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

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Remembering Ronald Coase

Harvard Business Review

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). Yet "The Problem of Social Cost" has proven to be one of the most-cited articles in the history of economics. And I thought, ah, it''s all about transaction costs.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. As long as the revenues you obtain from those customers exceed your costs, you will turn a profit. Subsequently they become more knowledge-based, as you share technologies, brands and customer intelligence.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” The next question was where to establish the software center.