Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. Here are eight cross-cutting themes and stories from 2015 that are driving us toward a sustainable world (and two that are doing the opposite): 1. in the first six months of 2015, 70% was renewable.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

How could an advanced country, once the model for the world’s most modern transportation innovations, slip so badly? The average family of four spends as much as 19% of its household budget on transportation. Cross-sector innovation is also promising. The glory years were decades ago. This amounts to 5.5

Transportation 8

Transportation Innovation CEO Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

Civic leaders knew the formula for attracting industry: They had to provide financial incentives, a strong transportation system, a solid infrastructure, and community services such as public schools. cities based on findings from the 2015 Strategic Innovation Summit: Enabling Economies for the Future. San Francisco, CA.

Content 8

Content Human Capital IAS Transportation 8

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

MAY 15, 2015

Transportation infrastructure must be renewed and reinvented. The state of transportation infrastructure has implications for every major issue. It touches the environment: transportation accounts for more than a quarter of U.S. Citizen voices and votes can encourage action. greenhouse gas emissions. infrastructure problems.

Transportation 8

Transportation Wireless Entrepreneur Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. To create the conditions that support innovation, leaders need to build connections across companies, industries, and sectors. Engineering innovations lowered the cost. Classic leadership lessons apply.

Project 8

Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Uber, like all transportation services, has never and will never offer a product that’s composed purely of digital “bits,” as companies do in media (Netflix and YouTube), music (Spotify), or advertisements (Facebook and Google). Such knowledge is in fact the prerequisite to innovation. “‘Why us?’

Transportation 10

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

New Orleanians new and old returned to their city with a newfound sense of urgency, and they began to look at some of those decades-old problems that had dogged the city with fresh eyes, whether in education, transportation, food service, or music. Similarly, housing in New York is 368% higher, and Boston is 95% higher.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Transportation Price Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

.—while still a net importer of oil—is now selling millions of barrels of oil to China, Britain, Mexico, and India, a new reality made possible when restrictions on crude oil exports were lifted in 2015. The soaring U.S. These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past. It was Lyft that first invited drivers to provide transportation through their personal vehicles. ” (After I first flagged his posting, in 2015, Uber removed the document from its site.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

” Voluntarily led response to 2015 flooding of School of Design building. Throughout four-day visit, arrived early and left late to ensure that everything ran smoothly, including meetings, housing, transportation, and meals. Within 24 hours, orchestrated School’s relocation and reopening.

COO 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

By supporting worker mobility, cities can both foster the growth of denser talent networks within their borders and increase the likelihood of technological and other productive innovation. Innovation in Cities. Their innovation districts focus on quality of life, not just tax breaks. How do they do it? Insight Center.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Incubator Innovation Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Fast forward to 2015. Over the years, innovations in distribution, media, and technology have enabled buyers to use non-sales force channels for various steps of their buying journey. To his credit, Weiss also predicted that sales roles would not die, but would change in some industries.) Is this another doomed prediction?

B2B 8

B2B B2C Uncertainty Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. ” So while businesses are major contributors to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, they are also presented as offering innovative ways to decarbonize our economies.

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

After all, in 2015 Nucor recycled 17 million tons of scrap. Today the airlines that participate in GALs transport more than two-thirds of all international traffic. Basically, unable to innovate their core offering, airlines have figured out a way to innovate in the way costs are allocated. There is no Plan B.

Airlines 10

Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In early 2015 the government announced its intention to auction 450 beer licenses to grocery stores, citing Ontarian’s demands as the motivating factor. Uber learned this lesson the hard way in its bid to enter Calgary in October 2015 when its petition reached 14,000 signatures – only 1.2% Consumer clubs.

Licensing 10

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C °C (3.8°F) °C (2.7°F). Keeping the world at 1.5 Getting to 1.5

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

In order for Nissan to actually pursue the Vision Zero goal, the company is forced to think differently about innovation and product development, developing technologies that keep cars from hitting each other. Deutsche Bahn: Achieve rail transport that is CO2-free and powered by renewables. It’s brave.

Goal 8

Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

The most recent study, conducted in October 2015, surveyed 933 U.S. Transportation (e.g. “Explorers” are the most innovative and optimistic about technology and are early adopters; they make up 41% of on-demand consumers. since 1999. adults sampled at random from a consumer research panel. billion in spending.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Technology Survey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Innovative products like fitness trackers and Google’s Nest thermostats are demonstrating the potential for both consumers and enterprises. Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 Australia and China.

Early Adopters 12

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

But, that didn’t stop two successful Division I women’s basketball coaches from venturing into the bedsheet business, hoping to disrupt the industry with their innovative idea for “high performance” sheets. Basketball and bedsheets would seem to make for strange bedfellows. BONUS BITS: Telecommunications Takedowns.

Apparel 8

Apparel Telecommunications Transportation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Think of it as analogous to the state of telephone or cable wiring: Billions of miles of copper and other wires transport signals to stations, then to satellites, back to land stations, and then through more wires to someone’s home. The second and less obvious reason is the state of the wiring of all health care transactions.

Health Care 8

Health Care Analysis Constraint Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. Proximity to public transportation allows for greater access to jobs, as well as other amenities like schools and daycare, which are often critical to an individual’s support system.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

As Lawrence Susskind, a professor in MIT’s urban systems department, described it to me, “Millions…could be left with no electricity, no water, no public transportation, and no waste disposal for weeks (or even months)… No one can protect critical urban infrastructure on their own. And we need it now.

Power 10

Power System Video Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

In February, as part of an FAA spending bill, Congress ordered the agency to develop rules by 2015 that would allow military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Government Innovation Technology' Thus, mass-market drones clearly hold potential for what Paul Nunes and I call "big bang disruption."

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Technology Long-term Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

While there has been progress made in many countries by smart, passionate people in global health, the United Nations acknowledges that its Millennium Development Goal to dramatically reduce maternal mortality by 2015 is at great risk for failure. Pursue scientific innovation. Maternal mortality is an enormously complicated problem.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The good news is that multiple employers are already innovating in these areas. is an innovator in this area. They also want their managers to be flexible when unexpected events outside of work arise, such as sickness or transportation challenges. Train frontline managers to support people and process.

Survey 8

Survey Retail How To Reis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

In 2015, in fact, it spent more than $500 million to acquire two popular fitness-metrics services in a bid to become the world’s largest tracker of fitness information. Ultimately, the goal is to link customers to new services such as innovative start-ups that are developing embedded sensors and biometric readers for apparel.

Loyalty 14

Loyalty Marketing Apparel Maslow 14

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In 2015 U.S. Firms with greater stock-priced compensation beat their peers by 4%–10% per year , and implementing long-run stock compensation improves not only profitability and innovation but also the stewardship of customers, the environment, society, and, in particular, employees. The numbers are striking. In the U.K.

CEO 9

CEO Price Long-term Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

My research on rail, air, roads, cars and trucks, public transit systems, and model infrastructure projects for my book Move confirms a lesson about leadership for change: Incremental innovations can pave the way for breakthroughs. Take rail transportation. Big systems changes can seem daunting. Small wins can have big impact.

Transportation 8

Transportation Innovation Project Training 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Business drivers examined include: Building high-performance cultures; engaging employees; cultivating a customer-focused culture; creating alignment and accountability; enhancing organizational talent; building strategic partnerships and relationships, driving process innovation and driving efficiency. Wellins, Ph.D., Goldman Sachs.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

Our 2015 trends offer great opportunity – along with some unusual new challenges – for managers in all industries. In 2015, consumers will begin to see SVPA technology baked into their mobile phones. One new area of particular note in 2015: digital consent. Innovation Internet' Here are six of note.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Take a look at the transportation network. The president wants to double exports by 2015; you can't do that without a modern infrastructure. Investing in infrastructure also drives innovation, creating the kinds of jobs we want in this country around new technologies like smart grid, renewables and high-speed rail.

Innovation 14

Innovation Transportation Efficiency Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. So, to achieve higher performance, should company boards and investors choose CEOs with the expertise that would better qualify them to lead innovation? For the rest, we found that other factors besides innovation drove strong shareholder returns.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 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. Demand conditions.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8