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Dealing With Investors the Sam Palmisano Way

Harvard Business Review

The two were sitting on stage at Radio City Music Hall chatting about business-y stuff when the retired GE CEO made the suggestion, and I was a little surprised when the retired IBM CEO didn’t dismiss it out of hand. They do, however, have to be managed intelligently. But investors — he didn’t have a problem with them at all.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2015 the Consortium arranged a global Zika Innovation Hack-a-thon in which 200 innovators developed 15 proposed solutions in 48 hours to help control the virus. Scoping projects for success and managing ambition: Interdisciplinary design teams are, by nature, optimistic and ambitious.

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Good News, Bad News: An HBR Management Puzzle on Innovation Execution

Harvard Business Review

The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Commentaries by project manager Roger Thomas and researcher Kim van Oorschot provide frameworks for understanding the team’s decisions.