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Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Harvard Business Review

She had “an ability with people” and a track record of bringing new models to market faster and at lower cost. That’s part and parcel of Mary’s success, and the rest of the team plays well together, too.” Innovation is always the product of teaming. They play well as a team. Top-down leaders simply can’t get that done.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Accordingly, it consists of a collection of broadly defined markets (“where to play”) and strategies (“how to win”), rather than a group of more fully defined businesses. The innovation portfolio. area health care market has indeed shifted. and Maryland to launch a more general health insurance plan.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

and China take the lead in tech innovation. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 Investing in innovation capacity.

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