Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

It turned out that knowing about couture, the art of constructing garments perfectly fitted to the body, was more important to helping humans survive the vacuum of space than the aerospace engineers initially understood. They set up the creative, collaborative environments that foster crossovers and the innovations that come from them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. Maximize engineering productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. Small Firms Are Not More Innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. In 2016, the U.S. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. In March 2016, Thales purchased Vormetric, the growing cybersecurity firm, for $400 million, which was 5.7 In fact, by the end of December 2016, Thales traded at a 21.8 Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. How the best companies get up to speed. times Vormetric’s sales.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

We know that GM or Toyota cannot just close down production of gasoline engine cars and transform themselves into Tesla. What I’ve learned is that it is rare for firms to succeed in transitioning from the present to an entirely different future; typically, the leader in one technology is not the leader in the next.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Many conversations about data and analytics (D&A) start by focusing on technology. A robust, successful D&A function encompasses more than a stack of technologies, or a few people isolated on one floor of the building. Innovate more effectively? reduced instances of teams playing four games in five days by 26%.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers. Digital transformation is not just about technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

political system, including the 2016 U.S. ” But absent “demonstrable harm to competition and consumers,” the DOJ is “reluctant to impose special duties on digital platforms, out of [its] concern that special duties might stifle the very innovation that has created dynamic competition for the benefit of consumers.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 1985, Peter Drucker made a hopeful case for an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and the creation of new businesses would more than compensate for job losses stemming from the retreat of manufacturing industries in the U.S. This “VUCA” environment rewards innovation but it also punishes failure more harshly.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

Indeed, writes Aaron Hurst in a Stanford Social Innovation Review blog, there is an increasingly popular perspective that supporting business is a charitable act. By 2016, four out of ten jobs will require advanced education or training, and many hiring managers are already finding that the talent they need is hard to find. "If

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The Southeast Asia city’s rapid growth echoes the story of the so-called “unicorns” — technology start-ups that rapidly grew to a billion-dollar valuation and beyond. It employs over a million workers and is expected to hit $25 billion in revenues in 2016. So far, 2015 has produced 30 unicorns.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

” But, when it comes to more complex and creative tasks such as innovation, the question still remains whether AI can do the job better than humans. After its March 2016 victory, the Google-owned program racked up over sixty wins against online opponents, a streak which sent the world’s top players into a tailspin.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

What if disruption comes instead — as I outline in the April 2016 issue of HBR — from the supply side? Supply-side disruption arises when a new innovation or technology offers a better way of providing consumer value than the old technology does. Any capabilities they had were eroded quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In 2016, breaches cost businesses nearly $4 billion and exposed an average of 24,000 records per incident. Despite increased spending and innovation in the cybersecurity market, there is every indication that the situation will only worsen. The same is true for security technologies designed to defend against other threats.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. It is the algorithms that will create value for the business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

According to Deloitte’s 2016 Global Human Capital Trends study , 51% of global executives surveyed said their organizations plan to increase or significantly increase the use of contingent workers in the next three to five years; only 16% expect a decrease. This percentage is expected to grow in the coming years.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

And third, various machine-learning techniques should be combined to effectively identify insights and foster innovation. Some extremely successful companies have made great use of recommendation engines to boost sales or improve customer satisfaction. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

” Their new building “is really designed to spark not just collaboration but that innovation you see when people collide.” As Scott Birnbaum, vice president of Samsung, told HBR , “The most creative ideas aren’t going to come while sitting in front of your monitor.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Often dismissed in the popular mindset as a tool for home-based “makers” of toys and trinkets, the technology is gaining momentum in large-scale industry. Impressive next-generation technologies are overcoming the last generation’s drawbacks while adding new capabilities. Now we’re seeing much bigger stakes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? Adopting an agile method of customer testing and rapid iteration, they worked with engineering to rethink the product and bring a “minimum viable product” to market for these new buyers. What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Taking that leap, though, has opened doors for us to create a path for customer conversations around solving business issues and accelerating the pace of product innovation. One example is our Design for Sustainability program for product managers and design engineers, which we developed with Underwriters Laboratories Environment.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2006, 26-year-old Frank Wang started up DJI in a dorm room at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. As part of his graduate thesis, he perfected an electronics flight controller, a critical element of drone technology. But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

” There, in the shadow of Google’s global headquarters, the audience laughed on cue, quickly grokking the embarrassing point: it’s 2016 and this $3 trillion industry that our lives depend upon still relies on faxes, clipboards, and isolated instances of legacy software locked away in hospital basements. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

By all accounts, the Chinese state is on all-out drive to move the country up the technological ladder. As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 24, 2023

However, until recently, a precise gauge of the immigrants’ contribution to the country’s economic and technological progress has remained elusive. To shed light on the matter, the researchers analyzed the output of almost 880,000 Americans who patented inventions between 1990 and 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

With dozens of other genetically engineered therapies moving through clinical trials, the long-promised era of personalized, gene-based medicine seemed to be at hand. In 2016, the company had to pull its gene therapy for potentially fatal fat-processing deficiencies from the E.U. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2017

In the escalating Google-Uber dispute, Anthony Levandowski, a key engineer working for Google’s self-driving car arm, Waymo, allegedly downloaded in 2015 more than 14,000 confidential files, or 9.7 In August 2016, Uber bought Otto for approximately $680 million and hired Levandowski to lead its self-driving car efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

Companies, which have been reducing their spending on early stage research for three decades, have been increasingly turning to universities to perform that role, seeking access to the best scientific and engineering minds in specific domains. Minneapolis, with the University of Minnesota and its dedicated Earl E.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

That’s why many seek to tap the potential of “open innovation” by encouraging their employees to scout for new ideas among external partners, such as universities, research institutes, competitors, and customers. They will presumably have less time to attend internal meetings, talk to colleagues, and stay on top of email.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

Today some companies are taking brand anthropomorphism to a whole new level with sophisticated AI technologies. Studying those deployments led to several insights around three new types of decisions executives face at the intersection of technology, personality, and strategy. The implications are numerous. Beyond Chatbots.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

The digital marketplace has created a business imperative that every company be — in some way — a technology company. Marketing executives are being tasked with leveraging technology to improve customer experience, drive client growth, and meet loyalty goals. Align your vision. It also helps for long-term planning.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

I admit that when Microsoft unveiled its holographic computing engine at its Windows 10 event last week, I didn’t pay much attention. They like technology, they have an Xbox, they have children, and they have an annual household income of more than $100,000. But the technology itself is moving faster than before.

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