Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains. So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. Since joining the Harvard Business School in 2007 (after a long career at IBM, Kodak, Silicon Graphics, and other companies), I have visited hundreds of factories. When R&D and Manufacturing Must Be Near.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

has been an innovation superpower. Take a look at any significant innovation, such as an iPhone , and you’ll find that most, if not all, of the technology came from some government program. As Bush wrote in 1945: “New products and new processes do not appear full-grown. vincent tsui FOR HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. But innovation is an elusive beast. We can look to companies renowned for innovation — like Apple and Google — and try to learn from them. So what to do? But that's a flawed approach.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

As leaders, do physicians create a more sympathetic and productive work environment for other clinicians, because they are “one of them”? But we would argue that credibility may also be signaled to important external stakeholders — future employees, patients, the pharmaceutical industry, donors, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

Breaking down functional silos is key to everything from encouraging communication to building valuable connections to sparking innovation. arm of pharmaceuticals manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim (BIPI). But, as we all know, bridging interdepartmental chasms is far easier said than done.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Employees can manage their own careers and schedules, using on-line benefits management, job posting systems, training, email, scheduling, and so forth. A pharmaceutical company did something similar for safety scientists. IBM's innovation jams are also virtual thinking forums. Thinking is the core of most professional work.

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