Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

A smart founder understands that there is often a trade-off between creating sustainable market value and preserving control. But how can founders handle that transition? I’ve seen founders stay on successfully as chief technology officer, chief marketing officer, or as a board member.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. The potential size of the worldwide online grocery market combined with these spin-off opportunities is why grocery really is the holy grail of online retail. One of the more popular business mantras to hit town recently has been: “Forget products, think platform!”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

” Here are some tips on how to make that transition as seamlessly as possible. “Talking to peers, coaches, and mentors about your feelings and fears of inadequacy” will help you feel less alone and may also give you ideas on how to handle the situation, says Wallace. Face your fears. Wallace agrees. Don’t.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

You cannot presume that packaging is simply a matter of clever design that helps your products fly off the shelves of a super market. Consider the chief technology officer of a company who is able to influence standards by being on an industry body – the revenue impact of such a thing can be immense.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

June's Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." Second, look at how P&G recognizes that any individual effort could fail and so creates a portfolio of innovation efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

In a recent article , I suggested that the role of the CIO needs to shift from Chief Information Officer to a Chief Innovation Officer, due to the massive, rapid, multiple technology-driven transformations that are occurring today.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

“Retailers are all using scanner data to track what happened at the point of sale ,” says Sam Hui, an associate professor of marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business. The redder the location, the more frequently it was trafficked: For chief technology officer Joe Lezon, the results were both helpful and surprising.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Sales and marketing were once disciplines ruled by emotions. But somewhere along the way, we recognized that they were based on definable pipelines and applied technology to manage those pipelines. After all, innovation, like marketing and sales, is a pipeline. Our research shows how to generate that steady stream of ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Ellison will remain chairman of the board and will still serve as chief technology officer. While research has found that the market seems to like the co-CEO arrangement, there isn’t a clear-cut answer on its effectiveness. Cue the Ellison retrospectives. But what about the company’s future? Can co-CEOs work?

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