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BUILD AN A-TEAM: Introduction, Being the Kind of Boss People Love to Work For

Strategy Driven

The Rocket Chemical Company had a small lab and just three people, but they could see a major opportunity in front of them. In San Diego, California, in 1953, a new startup set its sights on the Space Age. 2,500+ Expert Contributor management and leadership articles. Expert advice provided via StrategyDriven’s Advisors Corner.

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The Spatial Transformation Of Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

The role of clusters and ecosystems in innovation has been well documented in recent years, with the likes of Silicon Valley and the City of London lauded for their ability to generate innovative startups. “This reallocation is remarkable and has not been documented in prior work,” the authors explain. “U.S.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it. Kodak created a digital camera, invested in the technology, and even understood that photos would be shared online. Why did this happen?

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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

In a new paper that’s already generated much discussion, economists Ian Hathaway of Ennsyte Economics and Robert Litan of the Brookings Institution document four decades of “ Declining Business Dynamism in the United States.” Yet now it is clearly faltering. In the guitar business , too. How does this consolidation impact entrepreneurs?

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You Can’t Collaborate Unless You Agree on the Problem

Harvard Business Review

This sort of collaboration has been well-documented in the B2C context (where it’s often called “crowdsourcing” or “co-creation”), but we see it in B2B companies as well. Recently, the German chemicals giant collaborated with another chemicals company.

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Why B2B Companies Struggle with Collaborative Innovation

Harvard Business Review

As we argue in a forthcoming article, in the April issue of Harvard Business Manager (the German edition of HBR), our experience of studying and documenting these failures suggests that nearly all can be traced back to a small set of traps organizations tend to step into. This was the experience of the chemical company BASF and Daimler Buses.

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There’s No Good Alternative to Investing in R&D

Harvard Business Review

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. This is precisely what Xerox did when it created Xerox Technology Ventures.