Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

Intrapreneurship has interesting power both to create opportunities for young people, such as myself, that are launching themselves into the social enterprise sector, as well as to spur significant innovation and growth within startups and existing larger companies. Recruiting motivated intrapreneurs can move this innovation forward.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

Broadcasters have had it tough in business model terms. Indeed, the New York Times recently noted that the profit model for broadcasters is under assault, citing "cracks in the citadel of TV profits." To understand just how disruptive this is, consider one of the more dramatic moments of the conference when News Corp.''s

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.” The innovation agenda.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

In traditional investing philosophy, the most innovative firms are potentially the most profitable. So, from business books to business schools and corporate boards, everyone is talking about innovation. But, copying others is a reality of doing business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The Wall Street Journal is out with a funny (and brutally honest) takedown of a word that has achieved almost-mythical status among business thinkers like me. That word is innovation, and it’s quickly losing whatever meaning it once had. an innovation, then what isn’t an innovation? What does the word even mean anymore?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

Business models are being transformed, lives are being upended, vast new horizons of possibility opened up. These are all pretty common assertions in modern business/tech journalism and management literature. But he's not alone in the judgment that we're not actually living in an era of great innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. “Why bother?”.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

I'm sitting at DLD , a new-media conference hosted by an old media company (German magazine publisher Burda) in Munich. Lots of industries have been turned upside down by innovation over the years. Several people I've talked to here in Munich expressed surprise, in fact, that Facebook hasn't seen its business model disrupted yet.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2014

A philanthropist and a magazine editor discussed new business models for publishing. And their conference was visibly diverse (I later learned the demographic ratios were 50% women, 30% people of color, 25% LGBT, with a range of ages from 20 to 70). All organizations are looking to increase their innovation success rate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. Headquartered in Philly, Lumiscape now had customers in nearly every U.S. state and a few European countries. .” ” The Next Morning. “Is the picture okay?”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

At a time when digital technology is transforming one industry after another, large companies tend to view innovation and disruption as the result of breakthrough discoveries or technological wonders. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. The business model WhatsApp has today is essentially the one it started with.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

We heard this leadership dilemma from multiple companies that participated in our research on the leadership perspectives of C-suite executives and millennial leaders, which was co-produced by our three organizations, The Conference Board, RW2 Enterprises, and DDI. What might business models of the future look like?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

In an effort to understand the new logic of change and the emerging rules of success, we convened a conference around the theme “How Do You Overthrow a Successful Company?” It was a great idea for a conference, yet it amounted to a hill of beans. Citigroup got caught up in the financial crisis and has never been the same.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

About Portfolio Resources eBuzz Blog Home Blog Main Page Dis-Incentives to keep things simple… RSS Feed Dis-Incentives to keep things simple… By Rajesh Setty on Mon 08 Sep 2008, 1:55 PM - View Comments I saw this notice at the TechCrunch50 conference (which is simply awesome) It says: “$500 replacement fee for lost badges.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

I have provided the entire feedback below: First, from the organizers: “Rajesh, the presentation was excellent and many people commented on it throughout the conference. Very nice opening to the conference. Set the stage for “connections&# and networking at this conference. • Very interesting issues.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

How long can a business model succeed that forces students to accumulate $200,000 or more in debt and cannot guarantee jobs — even years after graduation? We need transformational innovations to stop this train wreck. Driven by market forces, such new business models could emerge faster than we expect.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2017

The third playbook for an Apple vehicle is to create new categories , via breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation. What parent who could afford it wouldn’t pay a premium for a car like this? But it’s also clear that the minivan concept is due for an upgrade. Or a kitchen?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

At a recent investor conference, one of us heard a CEO proudly state that the new law would have no effect at all on how his company views investments. Investing in true innovation. Remember how Netflix transformed itself from a mail-in DVD business to an online streaming company with proprietary content?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Lecture : An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through ‘the minds of either’ Conference : The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present. Conference Room : A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Attending a conference in your field might be a goal for someone who is passionate about sharing their expertise with others. In fast-paced fields, staying up-to-date with the latest trends and skills lies at the core of their business model, and ensuring you bring relevant skills to the company can help you secure your position in the field.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Raj Raheja from Heartwood Studios pointed me to a video from the recently concluded NVision conference where the organizers made a “memorable&# statement about the difference between a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) Watch this video (it’s only about 2 minutes) and you will see.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

million workers — but is mostly comprised of entrepreneurial, family-run businesses with fewer than 500 employees. Obviously Dirk could have simply observed this phenomenon, commiserated with his clients, and continued to run the traditional work of his business. In the United States, wholesale distribution is a $4.8

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." And no sector is complete without its own conference.

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 28, 2008

She has worked with entrepreneurs, small businesses, companies in crisis, and corporate giants to uncover the high-touch connections that make business relationships long-lasting and unforgettably positive.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Makerbot structured and expanded this group through a series of projects, conferences, and events that built momentum for the product (phase 1). Hybrid business model management. The real challenge is to create the business model flexibility to iterate on a well-established product and turn it into a platform.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Way back in the first decade of the new millennium, when Craigslist seemed like the biggest threat facing newspapers, founder Craig Newmark paid visits to lots of media companies and media conferences. Sometimes it''s the opportunity to try out a new business model, as at the Orange County Register in California.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

iCharts was launched at the recently concluded TechCrunch50 conference. The Background: Here are the facts: * There are about 40 million charts online. * If that seems a lot, compare that to 900 Billion charts that gets printed worldwide in a year.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

Just last week, Kate called me in tears after attending a media conference with well-known industry bigwigs. This means you're pretty free from some huge barriers to innovation : sunk costs, self-interest, and bias.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. As CEO Dave Steiner put it, "When your company is called Waste Management, and your customers all talk about 'zero waste,' you better change your business model.".

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Productivity Products Christensen Document 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

The story goes back to January 21, 2009, during Cook's inaugural conference call with investors after Jobs announced his medical leave of absence. Sure, these and other organizations are built around strong business models, stellar products and services, and (of course) clever advertising.

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Banking Airlines Retail Advertising 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Tumbling transaction costs are altering the economics of organizations and, at a stroke, invalidating old business models. Share buybacks are preferred to investment in innovation, entrepreneurship, and value creation. Our ways of measuring success are reductive and backward-looking. This is a situation that cannot endure.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Even if business models, traditional processes, and long-standing industry practices are about to be broken up — and they are — when the dust settles one part of your business can and should be stronger than ever: the relationship you have with your customer. Branding Disruptive innovation Marketing'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

Most of us think of biotech as the province of multinational pharmaceutical corporations and well-funded ventures, but the founders of BioCurious believe (as they say in their mission statement) "that innovations in biology should be accessible, affordable, and open to everyone." But don''t let that loss of control frighten you.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have proven adept at channeling funding – millions of dollars in cases like the Pebble watch – to innovative new products and projects, often by previously unknown inventors and designers. Can larger companies employ the same type of system to find and fund internal innovation?

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