Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Whether your objectives involve increasing business revenue, maximizing your profits, providing better customer service or improving the productivity within your workplace, if you use the right tools you’ll be able to accomplish it. For example: In the Finance Department, an objective could be to cut spending and improve profit margins.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The potential of new technology to fill the gaps in small business lending is high. Finance Small/medium business Technology'

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Companies that score high in the Trust Index will see lower turnover and greater productivity. I once hired someone with excellent “pedigree” i.e. fine university training, JA program volunteer, excellent work record in finance and extraordinarily enthusiastic about Junior Achievement. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The United States, which needed allies against the Soviet Union, not only tolerated Japanese protectionism but also transferred advanced technology to Japan and subsidized Japanese firms. China, by comparison, is rising in the WTO era. Today, by comparison, U.S.-China China, by contrast, is simply open.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product. But today there is a third approach, one that will become the dominant path for most entrepreneurs, especially those building information products. Microsoft, IBM, and Google offer similar services. Take a company like Airbnb.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

But virtually everything about its tools and technologies is in flux. No computational comparisons of time spent/managed in the immediate or distant past. My calendar(s) should be telling me where—and how—I’ve been spending my most productive time at work and leisure.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

Recent analysis by Bain and SAP found that only 7% of bank credit products could be handled digitally from end to end. banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

” Lastly, by looking at historical data on publicly traded companies, a team of finance professors set out to build an algorithm to choose the best board members for a given company. This is what economists call a Pareto improvement , where one policy beats out the alternative on every outcome we care about.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Technological challenges. A new consumer mindset. Financial challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

Technology companies have very few assets so they’ll often have high ROAs. Together those figures give you a general sense of the health of the company, especially in comparison with competitors. As with most ratios, there’s not one number you’re aiming for. Banks, Knight says, tend to have low ROAs around 1%.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The opposite characteristic – narcissism, as expected, kills morale, decreases engagement and ultimately lowers productivity and end results. link] mikemyatt Thanks for the great comparison between humility and narcissism. Thank you for continuing to share your keen insight. You are spot-on with your observations Ben.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. What knowledge and skills does Alice need to lead a technology venture? Juan Díaz-faes for HBR. Cofounders are crucial.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Due to the drop in costs for solar technology and increases in electric utility rates , solar photovoltaic-generated electricity is now less expensive than grid electricity, and adoption is rising rapidly throughout the U.S. For comparison, there are less than 100 nuclear plants in the U.S.) The results showed the total potential U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

By all accounts, the Chinese state is on all-out drive to move the country up the technological ladder. Yet, along other dimensions, the state is unwittingly hindering China’s emergence as a technological giant. Along some important dimensions, the state is clearly playing a major enabling role. in 2000 to 2.0%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Recently, I wrote about Akamai, a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet's fabric. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. It’s stated mission is to “focus on the development of infrastructure and other productive sectors in Asia.” technology and communications companies. In comparison, the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2019

While spreadsheets served a purpose for managing financials in the past, with how far technology has come in the last decade, you’d be hampering your operation by using Excel over tools like FreshBooks today. QuickBooks, on the other hand, is just one product of many whose parent company, Intuit, divides its time between.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. For comparison, they hold around 0.6%–0.7% on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment. jobs overall.)

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

I researched the cabinet members of our first 10 Presidents and compared them with our current cabinet members, and what I found simply confirmed the sentiments that I described above. Do you see the difference yet between politicians and statesmen? We simply need to restore principled leadership in Washington.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

By comparison, male directors are more than twice as likely to identify as Republicans than Democrats. Both Republicans and Democrats say the most effective board committee is audit/finance. Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management.

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