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Why Is Innovation So Often Synonymous With Disappointment?

Harvard Business Review

Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School urges companies to look beyond the usual R&D approach to consider becoming corporate venture capitalists themselves, a point he expands on in his article "Corporate Venturing" in the October 2013 issue of HBR. Gary Hamel will explore how companies build their innovation engines.

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Why Is Innovation So Often Synonymous With Disappointment?

Harvard Business Review

Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School urges companies to look beyond the usual R&D approach to consider becoming corporate venture capitalists themselves, a point he expands on in his article “Corporate Venturing” in the October 2013 issue of HBR. Gary Hamel will explore how companies build their innovation engines.

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Three Ways CIOs Can Connect with the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

However, time and time again, statistics show that CIO and C-suite alignment drives financial success. Gary Hamel maintains that the key to future success is management innovation. To be fair to the CIO, CEOs have created this problem by emphasizing efficiency and cost-cutting over value creation. IT management'

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