Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

New research from the McKinsey Global Institute simulates the potential global macroeconomic impact of five powerful technologies (computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning). We know that technologies often take a long time to diffuse and to deliver benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Higher carbon taxes would have a direct effect on encouraging households and firms to consume less fossil fuels and would accelerate directed research in green technologies such as electric vehicles, solar panels, and other forms of renewable power. They ensure that would-be climate entrepreneurs have less incentive to invent.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. So reducing investments in low-value care services means spending less on doctors, hospitals, and other health care technologies. rawpixel/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology. In theory, investor incentives align with what is good for the firm. for BMW versus -2.7B

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Consequently, if we want new medical innovations to be financially viable for the patients who need it most, health insurance markets need to be regulated to eliminate the perverse financial incentives that limit patients’ coverage. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. First, a little background.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

companies are outperforming their overseas counterparts: Clean-energy technologies. has underwritten much of the technological innovation behind clean energy's progress. Fracking technology has been entirely funded, researched, and commercialized in the United States, with strong federal support, and is now being exported worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs of large companies face a conundrum: they are confronted with a growing number of frugal consumers clamoring for affordable solutions, yet their existing corporate culture and incentive systems are designed to support a "bigger is better" business model — not to deliver more with less. In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Some observers have pointed out that blockchain projects may have an inherent incentive and strategic reason to be more aggressive in raising capital earlier in the experimentation process. One of the benefits of blockchain technology is that it is immune to centralized parties making changes of their own accord. How ICOs Constrain.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. Meanwhile, Subaru extends well-matched offerings at the right time in the consumer life cycle, from prepurchase targeting to end-of-lease management and loyalty incentives to repurchase. Make room for new technologies. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. Use the right digital channels.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation. It also requires setting up aligned incentives between city teams and business divisions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

That is a remarkable example of how technology will reshape how we organize to get work done at scale in the future. We needed to process reams of data using expensive and sophisticated software and computers to predict demand, know the capabilities of each aircraft type, and to understand each work group’s constraints.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?” ” Here’s one reason why: Startups can do anything. What Can a Company Do?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Scholars from a number of fields have offered explanations for this transition, including globalization, technological change, declining unionization, heightened product market competition, and the rise of finance. What if we changed some of those incentives? Since that time, however, the U.S. Presently, many U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

With new and substantial constraints on what had been largely unregulated data-collection practices, marketers will have to find ways to target digital ads, depending less (or not at all) on hoovering up quantities of behavioral data. What, then, will take the place of behavioral data collection to power ad-targeting?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

In careers and the workplace, this means that credit or blame for performance is likely to be assigned to an individual more based on his or her perceived character, personality, intentions or efforts rather than on the situation, context, opportunities or constraints within which that individual is working.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs of large companies face a conundrum: they are confronted with a growing number of frugal consumers clamoring for affordable solutions, yet their existing corporate culture and incentive systems are designed to support a "bigger is better" business model — not to deliver more with less. In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

Most of us assume that if we want to change people’s behavior, we need to change their incentives. And they faced big constraints. Some companies now use gamification technology to engage employees in collaborative actions ranging from meeting new colleagues to completing team-based business goals.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

The key resources were owned by another function that was not involved in the process and had no incentives to lend the resources. Nonetheless, innovating with customers should work well in B2B, as it should give companies a deeper knowledge of their customers and promote a trusting relationship.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Feature Triple-Strength Leadership Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Managing resource constraints, controlling health care costs, implementing smart-grid technologies — these are challenges that can’t be addressed unless government, business, and NGOs work together.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Pricing textbooks certainly all assume they do, or at least that they want to achieve a certain profit level under given constraints. Deterring new providers: A professional event technology firm offers rock-bottom quotes to special events to signal its pricing power to any potential new entrants.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

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. The team leaders could not offer more money, but they could offer employees opportunities to develop their careers, new technologies to work on, and new colleagues to work with.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

But workday pressures and time constraints often get the better of us. “You need to set expectations around what’s most important and create an incentive to focus,” she says. “You need to set expectations around what’s most important and create an incentive to focus,” she says.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

In a world with severe healthcare resource constraints, mobile digital technology can be a major " force multiplier." In this respect, health care is no different from other economic sectors that have gained enormous efficiencies and improved outcomes through the use of modern information and communications technologies (ICT).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. The HITECH Act also included constraints — many about timing. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Regulators would now decide how spectrum would be used, what technologies were permissible, and approve — or reject — the wireless services, networks, applications, and business models that might be introduced. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Charles Hensley''s perspective about tax inversion challenges us to think about ''national'' status, incentives, and the constraints of 20th C thinking. Economics is the study of incentives, so a good economist knows that to change the corporate system, you have to change corporate incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

The questions you ask of customers must be more profound and open-ended, with an intent not only to discover how your customers engage with your products or services but also to understand some of the broader parameters of the constraints they are facing in their own lives. Q: What are you working on now?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Irrigation is a big deal in many countries: in just the last 50 years, the world population has doubled and irrigation water is increasingly becoming a critical constraint in many parts of the world. But drip irrigation is not a new technology, it has been around for over 120 years, and many companies have developed and marketed it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

If solutions appear to impose unfair constraints on that population, they aren’t going to fly. For the energy industry, obviously, the discussion has been around a cap and trade system—or, more generally, a regulatory system that creates incentives for companies to emit less carbon dioxide. Tesla, for example.).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

What are the constraints?". IT [information technology] was an area where I think the president and his team understood that this was not only good for citizens in general, and good to enable government and healthcare and education, but it also provided an area where Rwanda could build economic activity. How do we upgrade?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The mega forces driving sustainability deep into business — such as climate change, resource constraints, and transparency — are getting stronger. The math and physics of a planetary constraints get clearer. The green supply chain gets some teeth: Walmart changes incentives for buyers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Deep in the golden corn fields of Iowa, technology is transforming life on the farm. But FarmLogs is not your typical technology start-up, and its founders, Jesse Vollmar and Brad Koch, are not your typical Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurs. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images. households lack a choice of broadband provider.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Over the last two decades, business leaders in the West have been responding to risks posed by profound changes in the global economy, in technology, and in demographics. They have used advances in information technology, which might have destroyed their businesses, to improve their offerings and cut their cost of production.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The end of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, relaxation of ownership constraints in 1996, and technological developments that reduced the use of radio as a medium for music also helped fuel the popularity of conservative talk radio. As with cable news, talk radio offered listeners a more partisan slant. publicly traded companies.

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