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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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. In a recent Forrester survey of 100 customer experience professionals, nearly half of respondents said that their executive team''s strategy for customer experience is market differentiation. Sixty-four percent have allocated time to innovation activities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

What exactly are the issues that people have with Europe’s innovativeness? Half or more of those surveyed believed that European innovators were good, even world class, and that they had good business and technological skills. Let’s look at innovativeness. The US is usually seen as a hotbed of innovation.

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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. How Google innovates. The first step to innovating like Google, they argue, is patience.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? In our survey research , a mere 7% of executives said that their company’s digital initiatives were helping them to launch new businesses. Business model innovation is hard. Why is that?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. That vestiges of old technologies linger on, capable of being resurrected into viable businesses again, doesn’t seem strange to us. A survey of its 5,500 U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? A 2012 survey of board practices reported that almost none of the large-cap companies had a director under the age of 40. years in 2013 from 60.3 Not likely. in 2003, an all-time high. (Of

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. In December 2012 and January of this year, Tata Consultancy Services surveyed 1,217 executives from large companies (revenue of more than $1 billion) in a dozen global industries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. It’s clear why pain in the domestic supplier base matters from a policy perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In its “State of Human Capital” report , McKinsey found that people in HR still largely have “a support-function mindset, a low tolerance for risk, and a limited sense of strategic ‘authorship’” — all of which has led to “low status among executive peers, no budget for innovation, and a ‘zero-defects’ mentality.”.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

years in 2013. A recent survey by Gallup found that Americans, on average, expect to retire at 67, and only 38% think their retirement will be comfortable. Changing customer behaviors driven by digital technology have altered the way consumers want to buy. Life expectancy for women increased from 71.1 years in 1950 to 81.1

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Even if the United States implemented all the approaches whose effectiveness has been measured, only 40% of the estimated $1 trillion of wasteful spending would be addressed, leaving a significant opportunity for innovation in all areas of health care. Take our survey and download “How Not to Cut Health Care Costs” as a thank you.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms. 1 form of self-expression.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

ended the company''s telecommuting option for employees early in 2013, and Best Buy followed suit a week later by terminating its groundbreaking, decade-old flexible work program, Results Only Work Environment (ROWE), they joined a growing trend among organizations trading flexibility for face time. When Yahoo! Prior to Yahoo!''s Both Yahoo!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Google and Intel rely on experts in social science and biomechanics to develop transformative products by better understanding how people think about and use technology. In 2013, Accenture suggested that 20 to 30 percent of the total workforce falls outside the organization’s traditional full-time, permanent employment relationship.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2013

One can naturally debate any system that seeks to crown the world’s most innovative companies. Forbes’s mathematical approach, which calculates an “Innovation Premium” baked into a stock price, suffers from market capriciousness. Amazon continues to be the world’s best example of a serial business model innovator.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

As a result, we can rapidly innovate and improve our products. Inside the company, we sometimes refer to this initiative as “The Death of McKinsey,” an identifier not-so-loosely inspired by a blog post from Gordon Ritter and motivated further by a 2013 Clayton Christensen HBR article.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle.

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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. To date, these innovations have saved an estimated $4 million in annual medical expenses while decisively improving quality. But it needn’t always be.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

An emerging suite of literature and research—including our 2013 Workplace Survey — clearly points to the power of choice and autonomy to drive not only employee happiness, but also motivation and performance. Take the technology workers in our survey, for example. Why are they so satisfied? Facebook is a prime example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. At least for voice services, the U.S. As a result, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Where/how are people having difficulty with technology? Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. Where/how are people stuck?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

One might think that technological connectivity has or will soon save us from the blight of loneliness. You’ll also be more productive and innovative together. But it seems that we feel more isolated today than ever. Neuroscientist John Medina, the author of Brain Rules says that 1.8

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

According to a 2013 survey by Nielsen, "Nearly 60% of women use Facebook/access Facebook multiple times a day on their device/computer compared to approximately 45% of men." Innovations in Digital and Mobile Marketing An HBR Insight Center. It''s a delicate push.". How Advertisers Can Maximize Mobile Conversions.

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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. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

democratized communication technologies like Skype) and more physical touch points (e.g. In their October 2013 HBR article on diaspora marketing, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict E.M. The knowledge and technology transfer stage, however, is where most developing markets are focused today.

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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. A survey of the job and business gains in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Over one-third of the world's largest companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project are already seeing the impacts of climate change on their business. Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help. Keeping the apparel theme, um, running, check out Nike's new shoe with FlyKnit technology.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

A new survey from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reveals that 60% of Americans support the negotiations for trans-Pacific trade , down slightly from 2015. Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. Most economists believe that technology, innovation, and consumer tastes are more significant sources of change than is trade.

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