Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. Roivant was addressing some sobering realities: In 2016, only 22 new drugs were approved by the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. What’s more, many of the innovations originate in relatively poor, underdeveloped regions or are designed to serve low-income customers, which means that the innovators have no choice but to be frugal.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

We need to go no further than the Pet Rock for an example. He began his career in the software industry as a corporate attorney focused on private-equity financing and technology transactions, serving as senior corporate counsel at Paciolan, Inc. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies. Financed by VC firms.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Take, for example, the hiring process. ” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs. And sameness blocks performance and innovation. Diversity, on the other hand, spurs innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. As I have explained elsewhere , a finance committee is critical for a board in complex public companies like GE, which are involved in a broad range of retirement plans, stock buybacks, and large acquisitions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. The idea to do this study and connections with some of the CEOs came from a presentation I gave at the 2016 Billie Jean King Leadership initiative symposium. For example, Gap Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Typically ensconced in corporate databases, and tightly held in order to maintain competitive advantage, this data contains tremendous possible insights and avenues for policy innovation. While still an emerging practice, examples of such partnerships now exist around the world, across sectors and public policy domains.

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Company Policies Media Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Example #1: Applying for a position at a much higher level than your current job title. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Example #2: Breaking into a new industry. Wouldn’t you want her running your department?

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Later, they would partner with VentureWell , a nonprofit that focuses on accelerating innovation. That spring Rithmio won the COZAD New Venture Competition , and on the strength of that was able to secure $650,000 in angel financing. Rithmio is just one example of I-Corps’ success. Now there was a plan in place.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2016

All things considered (interests, age, health, finances), early 2016 seemed like the right time. That’s one of the reasons, for example, that 4.5 One long-time United Way executive, for example , parlayed his social service experience into becoming a police officer and then detective at the age of 50.

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Career Balanced Scorecard Consultative Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. Investing in innovation capacity. million jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

For example, DNA is formed at conception. Might a company have the same DNA for its lifetime, but be able to innovate by expressing that DNA into new business models, organizational designs, and offerings? Consider Pokemon Go, the viral sensation of Summer 2016 and the most popular smartphone game in history.

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How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. The HR Digest: Can you tell The HR Digest readers more about the Chamber’s T3 Innovation Network?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Take, for example, customers who showed up at a doctor’s office only to learn that they had an invalid insurance card, even though they had paid their premium. We will continue to strive for improvements in 2016.

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Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

For example, a 2009 analysis of 506 companies found that firms with more racial or gender diversity had more sales revenue, more customers, and greater profits. A 2016 analysis of more than 20,000 firms in 91 countries found that companies with more female executives were more profitable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Furthermore, mega-cities seem to be natural hotbeds for growth: as just one example, London , with around 10 million people, currently has a 50% greater incidence of high growth firms compared to other UK regions, and a quarter of the high growth firms in the nation overall. strategic hires). 4 – Building local capacity and getting out.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

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. Financial performance.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

For example, during a clinical huddle, a pharmacist may identify the potential for a medication complication and trigger CareMore’s mobile team to visit the patient’s home that day to review the medications being taken. Community and patient engagement focused on social needs.

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Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In March of 2016 we expanded the refund program system-wide to include all patients and all forms of patient individual financial responsibility (copayment, coinsurance, and deductible). Innovating for Value in Health Care. We move pretty quickly on these. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. ’ It’s a stupid idea.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Platform businesses bring together producers and users in efficient exchanges of value – Uber, for example, connects drivers and passengers just as YouTube connects videographers and viewers. Before the iPhone launched in 2007, HP dominated the handheld calculator space for science and finance.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

By early 2016 there were 20 HR business partners, covering almost 6,000 employees. But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. Our study , published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, found that CEOs with strong connections to people of different demographic backgrounds and skill sets create higher firm value.

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Diversity CEO Sample Financial Leverage 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

One is profits — cryptocurrency investors made some massive returns in 2016, with cryptocurrencies from Blockchain startups Monero and NEM both seeing 2,000% increases in value. For example, the cryptocurrency used for the Ethereum network, called Ether , saw its value double in just a few days in March 2017.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that had no other government had attempted before at the same scale: it decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation. and are private sector efforts — Facebook and Google being among the prominent examples.

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Banking Long-term Short-term System 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

However, it is imperative we question the confidence placed in the new generation of quantitative models, innovations which could, as William Dudley warned, “lead to excess and put the [financial] system at risk.” in November 2016. If Trump voters are less likely to be included, for example, that may bias the analysis.

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Crisis Uncertainty Finance Price 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

cleantech innovation declined from 2014 to 2016, as measured by patents. America appears to be pulling back on cleantech innovation when it can least afford to do so. America appears to be pulling back on cleantech innovation when it can least afford to do so. VC investment; in 2016 it was under 8%.

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Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. There were approximately 180,000 new H-1B visas issued in 2016, according to State Department data. For example, Axios reported that 72.4% Who gets H-1Bs?

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Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. For example, consider how new business ventures access growth capital. In 2016 blockchain companies raised $400 million from traditional venture investors and nearly $200 million through what we call initial coin offerings (ICO rather than IPO).

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Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

At the start of 2016 Google announced that it had discovered the secret ingredients for the perfect team. To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. A more effective approach (like the mission to Mars example) focuses as much on people’s skills as on their personalities. Amy Jen Su. Kevin Kniffin.

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Skills Team Cooper Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

In previous research discussed in HBR , I’ve described how concern about women earning more than their husbands decreased support for Hillary Clinton (but not Bernie Sanders) in the 2016 election, but this is only part of a long line of research on how men try to compensate when their masculinity is threatened in some way.

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Politics Video Analysis Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

For example, in Pittsburgh, the Blue Cross plan (Highmark) decided to fight back against the exorbitant prices the provider UPMC was demanding. One example is California. In 2016 the California exchange saw a modest 4% increase in premiums. by paying higher monthly premiums). UPMC terminated the Highmark contract.

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Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8