Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong. In other words, they had great business models.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt. Especially regarding Twitter.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. And he’d seen and heard about similar cases of misuse elsewhere. But not here , he thought. “Higher! .” Was Andrew right to suggest a hybrid model?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

Technology is but one tool of the trade. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. Ideas make the future happen.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Technology is but one tool of the trade. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. Ideas make the future happen.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

.” Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Friends since their engineering days at Stanford, VV Tikekar and Reza Rastegar had each been involved in several start-ups before joining forces on AndFound.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. But its business was manufacturing lightweight small arms technologies, so-called LSATs, for the U.S. Now it seemed like a hornet’s nest. Every lightbulb was an LED.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. What knowledge and skills does Alice need to lead a technology venture? Juan Díaz-faes for HBR. Cofounders are crucial.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Here’s a look at a tiny, tiny slice of it: Those are a couple of dozen air quality sensors located around Boston, as documented by Thingful , a search engine for publicly available Internet of Things things (including sharks !). Information & technology' Click on a dot to get real-time information on air quality in the area.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

However, looking at the surveys and consulting reports, it is unclear what the precise use cases are that will drive this positive ROI from big data. Our goal in this article is to offer specific, real-world case studies to show how big data has provided value for companies that have worked with Microsoft’s analytics teams.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This is the context Tracy Goss, Richard Pascale, and Anthony Athos talk about in their article. But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. The case studies the authors outline in the article are familiar to me.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Virtually every 21 st century business scandal is reducible to a morality tale of a technology that allows us to do things we couldn’t before, coupled with major institutional failures that were enabled by failures of omission and commission of corporate leaders. Consider the Columbia and Challenger space shuttle disasters.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Four times each year, we launch a new team of astronauts and cosmonauts to the ISS, where they will stay for six months to one year, performing engineering tasks, research, maintenance, and upgrades to prepare for future commercial vehicles. A Case Study: Conducting Ultrasounds in Space. Apollo, Skylab, ISS, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In the 1990s, Procter & Gamble’s Product Supply Organization kicked off a major Reliability Engineering program, much like the efficiency initiatives of companies such as Toyota. While not historically dedicated to connected devices, these companies are good case studies for the commercialization and valuation of their data assets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Case Study #1: Stay current and build relationships with your colleagues so that you understand what motivates them. ” Case Study #2: Create a message that resonates, and forge a path for others to become proponents. Standing up straight with your shoulders back helps you come across as confident and commanding.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

Managers understand that having employees who understand the latest tools and technologies is vital to keeping a company competitive. A recent study by researchers from Bucknell University found active learners perform better than their passive peers in mechanical and electrical engineering. Learning is not a spectator sport.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Does your organization prefer weekly staff meeting announcements, newsletter case study examples, quarterly prizes for model behavior, or financial incentives? Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Case Study #1: Seek advice from others and uncover the root of your boss’s indecisiveness. The team had created a new product, but “we were limited by technology at the time — the cloud infrastructure wasn’t very developed — and our solution wasn’t elegant.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

If that seems counterintuitive, consider the “fundamental tension” that Wasserman presents in his book (and in a 2008 article for HBR) : founders can choose to be “rich” or to be “king.” Interestingly, Williams is mentioned in Wasserman’s HBR article for having bought back control of Odeo from investors, in order to restore his kingship.).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Intranet: Like many companies, we have an intranet, and this is where groups of domain experts across disciplines and locations can share knowledge in the form of presentations, whitepapers, and case studies. Magazine: frog produces a print magazine several times a year with articles by external experts and frog staff.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Expertise can be noticed more easily," says Soumitra Dutta, a professor in business and technology at INSEAD, author of "What's Your Personal Social Media Strategy?" If you want to drive home that you have expertise, post articles that show, don't tell, you have expertise," says Clark. Case study #1: What boundaries?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As one of the most serious industrial accidents in history, the Gulf explosion should be a great case study for corporate leaders across the globe who are trying to manage risk in hazardous activities involving complex technology. And future books or articles may have difficulty piercing the top levels of corporate leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Case Study #1: Adapt to the boss’s communication style. ” Case Study #2: Make a connection and bring solutions. When Shutterstock hired a new chief technology officer, Kiran Patel, the director of engineering, was eager to start things off on the right foot. Present solutions whenever you can.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Indeed, since the chaos erupted, the prime minister has tweeted : “Time has come for everyone, particularly my young friends, to embrace e-banking, mobile banking & more such technology.” While I do not intend to demonize the demonetizers, this unfortunate crisis is a case study in poor policy and even poorer execution.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. It turned out that on the first shift the airflow was weaker because there were more lines operating using the same technology than at night. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Case Study #1: Use “radical candor” and look for ways to challenge your employee. ” Case Study #2: Understand what matters to your employees. ” Specifically, he encouraged Maria to get more involved with the inner workings of a team of presales engineers. Are you growing? The answer is yes.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

“If we don’t see male kindergarten teachers or female engineers we don’t naturally associate women and men with those jobs, and we apply different standards” when hiring, promoting and evaluating job performance. Case Study #1: Work to understand biases and set diversity goals.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

To help bring cool new technology to the world? “You might move from product to engineering to ops.” “You might move from product to engineering to ops.” Case Study #1: Get to know the founder and spend quality time with the team. Why do you want to join a startup in the first place?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

In a lengthy Newsweek article in January, former New York Times correspondent Howard French depicted Kagame as an out-of-control tyrant. The best attempt I''ve seen at sorting out these opposed narratives was an article published last fall by Time ''s Alex Perry that weighs the scales at least modestly in Kagame''s favor.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This is frequently the case in industrial production. Because of the way industrial products are designed and engineered, you know that when your production line is spitting out Model T cars, you can be reasonably certain they will work as designed. Case Study: Putting This into Practice.

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