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3 Ways to Break Out of a Zero-Sum Game of Growth with Your Competitors

Leading Blog

How true disruptors use innovation, including digital, to grow the market and create new business models. Or else, you took on the hard work of growing the entire market. It can drive new business models, open up adjacent products and help you grow the whole market. You took away share from competition or they took it from you.

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REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere

Marshall Goldsmith

My good friend and Dartmouth Professor Vijay Govindarajan (VG) reveals a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (HBR Press, April 2012): Innovation flows uphill and its future lies in emerging markets. Here are a few highlights: 1.

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Can AI Tell Us When To Use AI And When Not To?

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, a central theme of Lumina Foundation CEO James Merisotis’ latest book, Human Work , is that we often struggle to truly understand what skills we have, and indeed what skills we need to have in order to thrive in the modern labor market. Reinventing healthcare.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Non-profit CEOs. Former CEO, Covestor and CircleLending.

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The $300 House: The Performance Challenge

Harvard Business Review

The Marketing Challenge. Kudos to Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar for taking a moment to reflect on Affordable Housing Institute founder David Smith's observation that markets alone will never successfully house any nation's poorest people. The Financial Challenge. The Design Challenge. The Energy Challenge.

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The $300 House: The Corporate Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. is CEO and Chairman of Dow Corning Corporation. Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more.

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets. by Vijay Govindarajan. A lesson in accurately valuing yourself -- from the stock market. Penney's new CEO on how to create an irresistible retail experience. Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing. by Rob Wheeler. Better Time Management Is Not the Answer.

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