Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Who are these makers if not the revivers of dying or, in some cases, long extinct technologies?

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

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?).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Cap and trade is projected to achieve nearly 20% of that goal by limiting emissions from the industrial, utility, and transportation fuels sectors — which account for roughly 85% of the state's greenhouse gas pollution. Businesses that innovate and invest in these technologies will gain a competitive edge and enhance their bottom line.

Price 15

Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. As GHDonline’s rapid growth and success have demonstrated, they can indeed be a valuable tool for improving the efficiency, quality, and the ultimate value of health care delivery.

Globalization 8

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 8

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. Booth and Banks each invested $20,000 to start a company that could ship heavy home-improvement products more efficiently. Sales doubled in 2013.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

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. Since 1994, Dow has invested nearly $2 billion in improving resource efficiency and has saved $9.8 Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. Google Internet Technology' Large datasets don’t guarantee valid datasets. Can we do better?

Trends 8

Trends Short-term Analysis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

Later, as a project officer at the Rockefeller Foundation, he channeled resources to risk mitigation schemes that allowed banks to better serve small farmers. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Not just conceptually in terms of work-life balance, but also physically, with the introduction of wearables and other employee-tracking technologies. Tesco, the UK-based retailer, uses wearable technology on many of the people working in their warehouses to keep track of product orders and help boost efficiency.

Company 8

Company Long-term Bureaucracy Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

We’ve used this data for public-health projects such as tracking the impact of the Affordable Care Act in practices , monitoring the spread of influenza, surfacing novel insights about pediatric mental health , and synthesizing the first national map of antibiotic resistance.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Short-term Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. From just a few thousand queries a month in 2013, ABIe now handles 100,000 — from all of the company’s employees, and not just from agents.

Company 8

Company Insurance Call Center Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It was then that a belief in external controls began influencing the industry.

Education 8

Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. Subsequently they become more knowledge-based, as you share technologies, brands and customer intelligence. In the emerging world, however, these forces may be underdeveloped.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

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. We believe that the United States should pursue both strategies.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Project Apollo Archive/NASA Johnson Space Center/Flickr. Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Oil and Gas subsea operators across the world are adopting a GE Industrial Internet technology developed in Norway. A 210 meter mean sea level (MSL) deep water facility at the Bergen site also provides deep water testing for the technology. Taken together, they will tell you what the efficiency is.”

Industry 8

Industry Offshoring Engineering Operations 8

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.

Advertising 9

Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. From these 109 applications, the board has selected a total 31 semifinalist projects in two cohorts. But it needn’t always be. Increasing vaginal births after Cesarean section.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8

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.

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. Fama said that if you want to say something more about how efficient markets are, how good a job they do of pricing assets, you need some theory of what asset prices should be. When the Riksbank Prizes in Economic Sciences (a.k.a. And the theory that was available then was CAPM.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Zerhouni, the 15th director of the National Institutes of Health, Arab immigrants have made major contributions to American science and technology. In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S. Arab inventors show some technological specialization in information and communication technologies.

Innovation 14

Innovation Analysis Technology Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Some parts of the agenda — eco-efficiency and resource conservation for example — are widely accepted now, and it's rare to find a big-company CEO who doesn't have sustainability on his or her radar. Keeping the apparel theme, um, running, check out Nike's new shoe with FlyKnit technology. Five Questions For 2013.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

A 2013 Pew Research survey found that business executives ranked ninth out of 10 professions in terms of social contribution, only placing ahead of lawyers. Perhaps U.S. executives feel that they do not generally seem to have the kind of social capital that would cushion against a big sociopolitical backlash. economy on globalization.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8