Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. Some firms are investing heavily in R&D to expand their technological capabilities, while others don’t make that investment and so fall further behind.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

But all too often organizations’ approach to mitigating that risk — other than taking the wise step of ensuring that they have the state-of-the art technological protection in place — is more training. In 2015 , the U.S. The human is indeed the weakest link in cybersecurity. It won’t suffice.

Training 9

Training CIO Chief Information Officer Information 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. Since 2015, our data shows that rate snowballing again, nearly quadrupling to an average of 1000 deals annually. Julian Watt/Getty Images.

Company 8

Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

The dominant dismal view is that rapid technological innovation has been gobbling up jobs faster than it is creating them. Technological change is causally connected to the stagnation of median income and the growth of inequality in the United States. A select few were in the business of thinking creatively for the entire species.

Drucker 8

Drucker Technology Efficiency Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. Based on our research, we propose four critical areas of focus: Harmonizing across the e-commerce value chain. Some of the best places for such changes to take root are in the cities that become technology hubs: Berlin, London, Barcelona are examples.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

While 38 companies joined the unicorn ranks in the second half of 2015, only 19 made it into the club in the first half of 2016. Moreover, it’s not clear whether unicorns exploiting other technologies, such as genomics or robotics, will be able to expand as rapidly as Uber, Airbnb, and other smartphone-enabled businesses.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. Model 2: Asset capacity pooling.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

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.” We know innovation drives corporate growth. GDP growth over the past 30 years. One possible explanation is that R&D has gotten harder.

Gordon 10

Gordon Company Innovation Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

Given the trend to a surveillance society, our deepening embrace of technology, and the emerging Internet of Things, are we right to be afraid? ” A second notion, proposed by Herbert Simon and Allen Newell, is of machine intelligence based on heuristics. The theme: Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age.

Simon 8

Simon Proposal Learning-by-Doing System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Investors also did well: A $100 investment in Ruger in late 2010 was worth $443 in late 2015, while the equivalent investment in the S&P 500 yielded only $163 over that time frame. Debate-producing proposals on curbing gun violence have come from many corners, including the White House. presidential election.

Licensing 8

Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

National Infrastructure Week, May 11-15, should mark the acceleration of giving entrepreneurs and innovators a prominent seat at the table, adding technology opportunities to solve America’s infrastructure problems. In the case of the FAA and mobile technology, the slow-moving agency is trying its best to be nimbler.

Transportation 8

Transportation Entrepreneur Wireless Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Further complicating matters, decision makers may balk if they think you’re being overly emotional, or they may feel defensive if you’re proposing a change to something they’ve done. He wanted to sell his boss, the GM, on a safer and cheaper gas-scrubbing technology.

Engineering 11

Engineering Tactics Influence Middle Management 11

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

JULY 9, 2014

The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Marketing experiments that might have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in 1995 might cost a couple of hundred dollars in 2015; maybe less.

Ethics 8

Ethics Zimbardo Explicit Knowledge Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Beer is a great example: Regulators are contemplating the proposed merger of Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller, the capstone to a decade of frenzied merger and acquisition activity in the brewing market. A recent USA Today piece noted: “At the end of June [2015], there were 3,739 breweries in the U.S…that’s

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Industry Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

We propose a four-pronged strategy to help retailers reduce food waste as it occurs in food farming and food production, in the stores themselves, and during consumption. Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology. Technology is an important enabler here too. Companies like Whole Foods and Target in the U.S.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

They like technology, they have an Xbox, they have children, and they have an annual household income of more than $100,000. And going into 2017, just two years from now, the momentum they will have generated will force executives at your company to sidestep drones, self-driving cars, and robots to focus on this technology.

Forrester 8

Forrester Technology Execution Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

technology companies as much as $35 billion in potential business. At the same time, several technology platforms that do not collect or share personal data have emerged since mid-2013. How will technology evolve to address customer concerns? In the personal data market, many key questions remain to be answered.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. We sent a call for proposals to three major academic centers in Chicago. Is our multifaceted partnership model sustainable?

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

It requires a new set of tools: a more open and flexible mind-set, significant process changes, as well as new technology and infrastructure. But more than anything else, younger consumers like their technology. In a 2015 report on the Millennial traveler, “free Internet access” was the top-ranked desired amenity.

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

He has proposed reforms, such as tax breaks for mining firms and commercial farmers, aiming to assist export-oriented businesses and earn Zimbabwe much-need hard currency. South African restaurant chain Ocean Basket also opened in Harare in 2015 to serve the wealthy urban elite.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally. Leadership is happy to ask that proposals and presentations be backed by “data.”

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 20, 2015

I imagine for some of you, your answer would be the personal computer and all the technological marvels that now make up our digital world. The talk in question is one given by Mohammed Qahtani, a security engineer from Saudi Arabia, which won him the 2015 Toastmasters International World Championship of Public Speaking.

Power 100

Power Long-term Uncertainty Biotechnology 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In an April 2015 Kaiser Health tracking poll , fewer than 1 in 10 Americans reported that in the past year they had seen information comparing prices of hospitals or doctors. An educational proposal. Educating consumers in how to find and evaluate health care pricing information is essential for capitalizing on its availability.

Health Care 8

Health Care Price How To Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Before joining Facebook as a security engineer in 2015, I worked in industries from consulting to manufacturing to retail. Over time, security will become an expected and valued voice in any new product proposal. Creating Better Experiences.

Team 8

Team P&L Engineering Cost 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? The right approach for a fast-evolving technology unit is unlikely to be the same as for a more mature one.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

If the machine could, Turing proposed, it could be considered intelligent. Turing’s thought experiment spawned scores of science-fiction tales, such as the 2015 hit movie Ex Machina.

Marketing 8

Marketing Tools Follow-up Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

On September 29, 2015, Techdirt posted “ You Can Now Turn Off Ads On Techdirt ,” explaining all the reasons why they were granting readers the power to not see ads. According to PageFair and Adobe’s 2015 Global Adblocking Report , “there are now 198 million active adblock users around the world.”

Advertising 8

Advertising CRM Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

With Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals to encourage longer-term investing , the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. primary season. ” A Review of Relevant Studies.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

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

JANUARY 24, 2018

Bakken Medical Devices Center for research, continues to grow one of the largest medical-technology clusters in the world. R&D headquarters to Cambridge in 2015 from Westchester County, New York, where it had resided for the preceding 67 years. The intent is to submit a joint proposal for funding to the U.S.

Long-term 8

Long-term Company Licensing Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Many are betting on the new generation of technology firms to unsettle the old guard. Fortune counted more than 170 of the mythical creatures , with an average of one unicorn born every week during 2015. With the rise of the smartphone and mobile technology, QQ failed to capture new users.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Deep changes in technology and globalization that started in the 1990s continue to up-end how we live and work. Disney’s proposed acquisition of 21 st Century Fox’s entertainment assets is partly a classic horizontal consolidation, though it is more complex than that. Carson Jimi Filipovski/Unsplash.

Automotive 8

Automotive Retail Restructuring Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

These must qualify as “specialty occupations,” which typically require a bachelor’s degree (or the equivalent) and are found in fields such as science, engineering, information technology, medicine, and business. There is other evidence of a strong demand for workers with tech skills. What Could Change?

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In 2015 and 2016, we witnessed dozens of CEOs speaking up against anti-LGBT laws in a handful of states such as Indiana , Georgia , and North Carolina. The technology sector takes the lead. The technology sector has been the front-runner in terms of speaking out on these five issues. but many lead global companies.

CEO 8

CEO Travel Letter Diversity 8

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). Then came 2016.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8