article thumbnail

Creating a New Approach to Engineering and Innovation at Hitachi Metals - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HITACHI METALS, LTD.

Harvard Business Review

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

article thumbnail

Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative. PE investors don’t typically invest in firms known for innovation. ” There were other limitations. .

LBO 8
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Africa’s Unique Opportunity to Promote Inclusive Growth

Harvard Business Review

Six years after the global recession began, many parts of the world are still struggling to achieve growth. But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. Innovating away from past exclusion. Using the bully pulpit.

article thumbnail

Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. While their job may have been setting or applying strict credit policies in the past, they may now start to wonder whether their traditional credit rating models are still effective.

article thumbnail

What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

To begin with, quite a few parts of it are heavily concentrated at a global level (the credit ratings business, for example, or global investment banking), and many more at the national level (just six financial institutions account for 46% of all U.S. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”). Economy Finance'

article thumbnail

What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

To begin with, quite a few parts of it are heavily concentrated at a global level (the credit ratings business, for example, or global investment banking), and many more at the national level (just six financial institutions account for 46% of all U.S. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”). Economy Finance'

article thumbnail

The Impact of the Blockchain Goes Beyond Financial Services

Harvard Business Review

At its most basic, blockchain is a vast, global distributed ledger or database running on millions of devices and open to anyone, where not just information but anything of value – money, titles, deeds, music, art, scientific discoveries, intellectual property, and even votes – can be moved and stored securely and privately.