Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

One well-known product company, for instance, bypassed its distributors and embedded some of its engineers in paint shops because customers had reported having trouble keeping the walls clean. Create a technology engine that powers the front lines. While there, they discovered dust in paint bays was causing defects.

Marketing 11

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

For all of the fervor around innovation, far too many organizations are hostile places for new ideas and the people who harbor them. All too often, new ideas are cooked up in a hothouse environment, like the executive inner sanctum or an invitation-only innovation offsite, and not shared widely until they've been sanctioned from on high.

Innovation 12

Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Then we got talking about the odometer on my Nissan Pathfinder: Is a car that can go 300,000 miles a case of over-engineering or TQM excellence? Can a product placement in a movie undermine brand credibility — eg, would James Bond really drink Heineken? This will help you assist your company in finding innovative solutions.

Case Study 8

Case Study TQM Supply Chain Brand 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. Don’t breach trust - you work far too hard to create a trust bond with your followers, so don’t blow it by not following through on your commitments.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 357

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Apple fuses technology with design. Each of these companies, in its own way, is a superior innovator. Innovating from the bottom up. Once he arrived at Google, Ng quickly bonded with two other researchers, Greg Corrado and Jeff Dean , who were also interested in a new brand of artificial intelligence called deep learning.

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8

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. Our research on major innovations finds that when disruption occurs, technologies don’t replace technologies; systems replace systems.

Business Model 10

Business Model Insurance Cost Bond 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

[A mini-glossary: beta is the amount that an individual stock fluctuates relative to the overall stock market, and the equity premium is the difference in expected return between stocks and a “riskless” asset such as Treasury bonds.]. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8