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. gDNA is a longitudinal survey of Google employees on everything from happiness to teamwork to office layout. Both Gmail and AdSense, the company’s ad software for publishers, started out as 20% time projects.

IPO 15

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 15

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

One of the pioneers of challenge-based innovation has been the XPRIZE, and I wrote recently about the growing number of student teams that are participating in competitions. “We want to make it approachable for any organization, including smaller challenges and projects that incorporate a variety of approaches.”

Education 53

Education Software Skills Engineering 53

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

For example, its accountable-care-organization partnership with Bellin Health, a health care system in Green Bay, Wisconsin, presently has the lowest cost per Medicare beneficiary among 32 pioneer ACOs, and the ThedaCare Physicians group was ranked first in quality performance statewide in 2013 by Consumer Reports. Health Operations'

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Decentralization Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

We do not emphasize collaborative skills and teamwork much in education, from K-12 to high school to college. Unfortunately for the accused, they are students — not engineers or project managers — and the professor meant to ban such collaboration in his instructions to the test. It is an afterthought, it seems.

Education 9

Education Incentives Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 9