Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

A few years ago one of the most vexing questions for marketing executives was whether big corporations were going to have to do what Bharti Airtel had done. Airtel’s move quickly transformed the mobile-phone market in India as other telecomms followed suit. So now that 2015 is almost here, has that come to pass?

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. Entrepreneurship aids economic vitality by getting rid of complacent incumbents, accelerating innovation, and creating jobs. .” Those fears are not entirely unfounded.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The following blog post is part 3 of a 3-part series , which is adapted from a speech given by Harlan Schafir (CVO, CEO of ExactHire and Human Capital Concepts) at the Collective Alternative Executive Speaker Series on September 17, 2015. Innovation was the focus. The style was still very top-down. They managed by “walking around.”

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Leadership Styles Leadership Constraint Talent Management 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2016

Research we conducted at the Center for Talent Innovation reveals a remarkable correlation between inclusive leadership, innovative output, and market growth. Management endorsed her proposal to make over the New Delhi and Kolkata branches into all-women-staffed banks. So do employers and shareholders.

Diversity 8

Diversity Globalization Case Study Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. In early 2015 the government announced its intention to auction 450 beer licenses to grocery stores, citing Ontarian’s demands as the motivating factor. In the U.S.,

Licensing 9

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Unilever, for example, has found that its sustainable living brands are growing 30% faster than the rest of its business and in 2015 delivered nearly half the company’s total growth. I call this new breed of companies the “inclusive innovators.” Segment the SDGs. You can see these focus areas in the chart below. (In

Development 10

Development Company Innovation Goal 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

I help the University of Utah hospital system manage its drug budgets and medication use policies, and in 2015 I got sticker shock. The 1984 Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act gave pharmaceutical companies exclusive protections for innovating a new drug. ” And for a while, the system worked well. Not anymore.

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System Pharmaceuticals Company Sample 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

We know innovation drives corporate growth. As Strategy& reported in its 2015 survey of 1,757 executives, “innovation today is a key driver of organic growth for all companies — regardless of sector or geography.” Historically, R&D has been viewed as the engine of national economic growth as well.

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Gordon Company Innovation Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2015, the price of oil dropped dramatically. Large investments made when the market was growing, including several acquisitions, became a heavy debt load in the downturn. They were more and more focused on growing the top line and innovating, and launched new initiatives accordingly.

Agility 11

Agility Team Crisis Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Something reassuring happened Monday after EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy unveiled the Obama administration’s proposed Clean Power Plan , arguably the most important step the U.S. There will be time to debate whether the EPA’s proposed targets are sufficiently ambitious. Low-carbon leadership isn’t just confined to the coasts.

Power 8

Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

.” Businesses and consumers are being warned that Republican lawmakers are united in their determination to not just modify the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order, but to “kill,” “destroy,” “dismantle,” or “abolish,” the open internet, as soon as possible. More on that later.)

Objective 8

Objective Engineering Content Open-book 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. The customer-listening process continued with every proposed feature. When the Cayenne came to market in 2003, it was an instant hit.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Development Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The action thus far involves national for-profit firms, like the proposed acquisitions of Cigna by Anthem and Humana by Aetna. Before addressing that question directly, let’s start with some basic premises: Consumers need an ample choice of innovative, well-priced insurance products. Aim 2: Raise Quality.

Insurance 8

Insurance Company Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

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 million jobs.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Here’s what we’ve learned from three pioneering companies about how to identify, grow and retain leaders to meet today’s demands: Identify: Let them innovate. Both seek to create an environment where employees can pursue innovative business offerings to address problems that are personally meaningful.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Consider that the basis for the health care market’s inertia — the resistance of the incumbents to changing the volume and direction of the money flowing in the current system — is counted in trillions of dollars. These shifts are finally creating the market demand — the business case — for solutions to emerge.

Health Care 8

Health Care Analysis Constraint Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

In 2015 the Army informed Riley that, because of his time away, he was not being promoted alongside 90% of his peers to the rank of 1st lieutenant and he would soon be facing a board to determine whether he should be separated from the Army altogether. That was where the trouble began. Today he continues to wear the uniform.

Talent Management 9

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

By now, we have all heard a great deal about marketing to Millennials. population ; they’re a big part of many companies’ market base, and pretty soon they will be the part that counts most. ” Here are three big companies using innovative approaches to make this crucial connection. The New Tools of Marketing.

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Marketing experiments that might have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in 1995 might cost a couple of hundred dollars in 2015; maybe less. In purely human terms, serious researchers are the worst possible judges of their own proposed experiments. Ethics Information & technology Innovation'

Ethics 8

Ethics Zimbardo Explicit Knowledge Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Aligning with creative colleagues, like those in design or marketing. Achieving our 2015 results. Imagine how great it will feel when we hit our targets — when we crush the competition and claim the market share we deserve? Our strategy was, and still is, innovative and viable. The destination?

Influence 8

Influence Audience Analysis Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We sent a call for proposals to three major academic centers in Chicago. After UCM reviewed feedback from its radiation oncology department that staffing levels were too low, Silver Cross agreed to hire more staff for the program in accordance with UCM’s proposed volume guidelines. The answer turned out to be in our own backyard.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Hillary Clinton has a tech and innovation agenda. The world’s five largest companies (by market capitalization) are all American and compete in the digital sphere: Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. based companies plan to innovate to meet the competitive challenges of tomorrow. digital industries.

Politics 9

Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In 2015, the world pivoted in a historic way toward sustainability. In response to Trump’s election and his statements doubting climate change, many countries that signed the Paris climate accords in 2015 made it clear they would power on (China in particular — see story number three, below). days of innovation).

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

corporate tax code should be reformed, but not every proposed fix is a good one. 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. capital markets, and it increases the credit-worthiness of U.S. multinational firms.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

On the other side of the debate, H-1B supporters argue that the program brings needed skills into the labor market, which helps firms remain innovative, productive, and competitive. on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment. biomedical sciences, physical sciences).

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

A 2015 PwC study of 6,000 senior executives , conducted using a research methodology developed by David Rooke of Harthill Consulting and William Torbert of Boston University, revealed just how pervasive this shortfall is: Only 8 percent of the respondents turned out to be strategic leaders, or those effective at leading transformations.

Development 100

Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

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. Employer purchased bundled payment innovations continue to expand.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

By introducing the idea of holographic computing and baking it into every Windows 10 device from launch forward, Microsoft is offering developers, marketers, and ultimately consumers, completely new ways to do what they already want to do. On the one hand it was proposing a future where we would have ubiquitous computing on the go.

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Forrester Technology Execution Automotive 8