Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. What’s more, many of the innovations originate in relatively poor, underdeveloped regions or are designed to serve low-income customers, which means that the innovators have no choice but to be frugal.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. Financed by VC firms. Founded in 2015 and now valued more than $18 billion, it raised $3.3 A third example is Airbnb, now valued at $25.5 Airbnb has raised approximately $2.3

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. In other words, they had great business models.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. As I have explained elsewhere , a finance committee is critical for a board in complex public companies like GE, which are involved in a broad range of retirement plans, stock buybacks, and large acquisitions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

I suggest that Obama announces now that Start-Up America will officially disband on December 31, 2015. Encourage financial entrepreneurship and innovation. Entrepreneurship in financial services has been given a bad rap as one contributor to the economic crisis, but we desperately need innovative financing models for start-ups.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

Not many would associate innovation with large, service-oriented nonprofits with decades of history. and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change.

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Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For most of 2015, I was the director of Rhode Island’s SBM, known as HealthSource RI, which more than 32,000 Rhode Islanders use to purchase health insurance. By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Fostering innovation.

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Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

based companies that they finance,” according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Now, New Orleans is being recognized as a hub of innovation, with a rate of business startups 64% higher than the national average. to live on the sort of shoestring budget that startups demand.

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Real Estate Transportation Price Education 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And as innovation brings self-driving cars, electric vehicles, in-vehicle data connectivity, mechanisms for sharing rides and vehicles, and other technologies to more people, getting around cities will become easier, faster, and safer. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

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Transportation Technology GDP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In 2015 Doreetha Daniels received her associate degree in social sciences from College of the Canyons, in Santa Clarita, California. And almost all of us have limits on our time and finances — due to kids, social organizations, work, and more — that make additional formal education impractical or impossible.

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Education Press Release Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

It means embracing a new culture and mindset, where hierarchy fades and innovation happens through networks. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. After all, when HR people routinely talk to finance staff, they are effectively working as members of a cross-functional team.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. Investing in innovation capacity.

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. The advanced care model offers an innovative solution that benefits all stakeholders — patients, families, providers, and payers — by informing and engaging seriously ill patients directly in making decisions about their care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Health Care Sharpe Document Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Marketing, commercial and finance have to work together to develop new pricing models.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

By 2015 we'll have more Americans over 60 than under 15 — and that's just the beginning. It will likewise demand new opportunities and innovations, if we are to help those many millions seeking encore careers. We'll need new ways to help individuals finance the frequently costly transition to what's next.

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Productivity Products Finance Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Hero Images/Getty Images. To many at the time, we were fools.

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Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

So most companies in traditionally male-dominated sectors (IT, finance, law, most heavy industry) are unwittingly speaking and selling “male” while they profess to want balance. The tone from the top is what defines how people talk — to each other and to customers and clients. Which Microsoft would you rather buy from?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Even before announcing his new cabinet, Mnangagwa installed a key reformist, Patrick Chinamasa, as acting finance minister, tasked with tackling corruption and re-engaging with international institutions to unlock funds to ease liquidity shortages. Mnangagwa’s first actions in office underscore how important he views economic recovery.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

” Voluntarily led response to 2015 flooding of School of Design building. Establish functions from scratch — Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Sales, and HR. She quantified the growth she generated and included one of her innovations that generated much of that growth.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It teaches young people the dress, demeanor, and collaboration skills expected in a professional setting as well as the technical skills for careers in IT, operations, finance, sales and marketing, or customer service. A study conducted by Innovate + Educate , which uses research-based strategies to address the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

As JPMorgan Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, warned in a June 2015 letter to the bank’s shareholders, “Silicon Valley is coming.” Banks must focus on areas where they can build a distinct competitive advantage, and find ways to partner with or learn from the new innovators. Sometimes David can triumph over Goliath.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

As innovation consultant Pete Maulik told me, “It’s time to switch from here they come to this is how we’re going to win.” ” Here are three big companies using innovative approaches to make this crucial connection. That’s an enormous mistake. MassMutual Walks the Talk by Talking.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. This failure to work together across a system continually exercises me.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In a 2011 study management teams exhibiting a wider range of educational and work backgrounds produced more-innovative products. There’s another bias at play here, too: A 2015 paper in Organization Science, summarized in this HBR article , suggests that people overestimate the amount of conflict that actually exists on diverse teams.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

It is little surprise that direct employer-purchasing of bundled care is a burgeoning area of healthcare payment innovation. Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015. Business development, contracting, and finance personnel are also required.

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Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

But by early 2015 they stopped accepting new submissions to their open market and discontinued their API support for external developers. Successful platforms engage in platform evangelism, providing developers with resources to innovate, feedback on design and performance, and rewards for participation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Energy-efficient lighting, motors, and other hardware continue to make good sense for many firms, whether financed on the balance sheet or by third parties who provide the upfront capital and then share the savings on future power bills. GW of renewable energy since the beginning of 2015, enough to power about half the state of Connecticut.

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Energy Licensing Efficiency Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Time is a finite resource, but energy is not.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. Similarly, in 2015 Techstars committed to doubling the representation of women and minorities in their programs within four years. The business case for diversity is clear.

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Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In November 2015 Geisinger Health System launched its ProvenExperience program – a wide-ranging cultural and process reengineering initiative whose long-term goal is not just to assure the best customer experience in healthcare, but to offer the best customer experience of any industry. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative. in 2000 to 2.0%

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Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Innovation and change.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

companies don’t pay taxes on debt-financed investments, which amounts to a subsidy. After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. And in practice, the foreign income of U.S. Further, U.S. member states.

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Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. By 2015, it generated about half of Porsche’s total profit. This flawed innovation process is the primary reason that 72% of new products fail.

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Productivity Products Development Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. However, even these commodity offerings can find ways to innovate and survive. As with all such innovations, a global standards war is under way. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Insurance Industry Market Penetration Policies 9