Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

She had launched her career 12 years earlier with no connections — she just picked up a camera and started making small-budget films, including one she financed out of her own savings account. She had already developed a reputation for taking on daunting projects, and she knew these two executives admired her work.

Film 14

Film Engineering Budgeting Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

The worker must also possess robotics and controls engineering skills, according to our analysis of Tesla’s recent recruiting efforts. Just as the internet revolution ushered in completely novel jobs — for example, web designer and search-engine optimization engineer — so will the new era of AI.

Power 11

Power Engineering Analysis Training 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Attracting workers skilled in advanced analytics will become increasingly important for the company (as will the technology and processes required to translate these skills into real sources of advantage); industrial engineering and plant management skills will become less critical to fueling the company’s long-term growth.

Company 12

Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

We design and manufacture personal-scale energy appliances that enable our users to cook, charge, and light their lives off the grid. We serve two markets that are very different but united by the common need for reliable, safe access to energy: outdoor recreationalists and low-income households in emerging markets.

Marketing 8

Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Mine your backyard.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Says Comstock, “You have to believe that energy storage has a big future.”

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

In the United States, buildings consume 41 percent of the nation’s total energy use, through lighting, heating, air conditioning, elevators, and the thousands of items plugged into their sockets. However, we cannot take the resource-intensive path of simply building our way to a more energy-efficient future.

NPV 8

NPV Energy Efficiency Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

At present, the startup ecosystem's inability to differentiate mom and pop tech entrepreneurs from high growth entrepreneurs ready to build the next billion-dollar company wastes a lot of people's time and energy. In the past, the magic formula was two engineers or an engineer and a businessman. The formula worked. What gives?

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

At present, the startup ecosystem's inability to differentiate mom and pop tech entrepreneurs from high growth entrepreneurs ready to build the next billion-dollar company wastes a lot of people's time and energy. In the past, the magic formula was two engineers or an engineer and a businessman. The formula worked. What gives?

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

"Ten years ago we met in Saudi and said 'someday we'll be sitting in the middle of the desert talking about renewable energy.' The speaker was an academic at Sydney's University of New South Wales, and we met last week at a vast trade show in Abu Dhabi called the World Future Energy Summit. And here we are."

Industry 8

Industry Finance Energy Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Energy: How ambitious the team is, and how much it takes the initiative and maintains long-term momentum at a high level. The underlying premise is that it’s not enough to just hire the right people — those with strong values, great potential, and high competence — and develop them as individuals.

Team 8

Team How To Efficiency Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Other top executives at the American Energy Innovation Council are pushing for more funding for alternative energy research. US business already are spending heavily on research and development – data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) even shows an uptick in US business investment in R&D. The list goes on.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Google’s “20% time” acts as a human-powered search engine for new problems.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

The explosion of salaries on Wall Street has attracted many of the talented individuals who otherwise would have gone into research, design, and engineering occupations. This flight of talented students to work in finance harms all of us because it means that we have fewer "positive spillovers" from innovative activities.

Politics 16

Politics Innovation Incentives Credit Rating 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

The program pairs start-ups with government workers to improve government services in areas including transportation, energy, data services, and the environment. The Fuse Corps executive fellowship comprises one month of intense professional development and eleven months working on a public sector project. Just think about the U.S.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Budgeting Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

COO 13

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Our audacious challenge was followed by a spirited effort, in a series of HBR blog posts by experts in design, energy, finance and urban planning, to answer the following questions: How can organic, self-built slums be turned into livable housing? How can world-class engineering and design capabilities be utilized to solve the problem?

Govindarajan 8

Govindarajan Construction Workshop Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Being a successful corporate hacker thus requires an enormous amount of energy and persuasiveness. Through sheer force of will (her passion was contagious and her research was solid) she enlisted 20 technical experts at the company, including a number of engineers who worked on their own time to help her advance the idea.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 10, 2018

Although financing your business idea is the first milestone to overcome, once you’re up and running, it’s time to channel your energy into targeting your niche audience and marketing your product. Launching a startup is a challenging and often humbling venture. Automation.

Marketing 51

Marketing Software Marketing Strategy Budgeting 51

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Ageas contributes its expertise in insurance product design, marketing, finance, and risk management, while the partner, often a well-embedded local financial institution, contributes its customer portfolio, distribution channel, brand, and relationships. Model 6: Cofunding of a third-party asset.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao Paolo, Lagos, New Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta, and many others. As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. The best legacies are built moment-by-moment and day-by-day. Have fun with your father in law and congratulations to you and your wife on the upcoming birth.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 414

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow.

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digital startups had begun producing virtual products that ZF did not know how to compete against, and engineers in logistics, operations, and other functions were finding that their traditional approaches couldn’t handle the complex issues they faced. ZF, a global automotive supplier based in Germany, was no exception.

Company 10

Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. 3M, for example, has long allowed engineers to devote 15% of their time to skunkworks projects, without supervisor approval.)

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Just as we wouldn’t rely on a single marketing tactic or a single source of financing for the entire life of an organization, we need to build up a portfolio of innovation strategies designed for specific tasks. When that happens, innovating your products won’t help — you have to innovate your business model.

Innovation 22

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. Collins worked primarily on IT related work, such as systems integration and software development. Taking this path isn’t a cake walk, however.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For example, in the 1990s, leading businesses like 3M adopted concepts like eco-efficiency, focusing on saving and making money through the better management of materials, energy and waste. Today, we see growing interest in new business benchmarks and in potential breakthrough materials and forms of energy. The Moral Frame.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Sustainable Development Goals forecast to generate market opportunities of over $12 trillion a year by 2030 (and that’s considered a conservative estimate). Fundamentally, we have a hard-wired cultural problem in business, finance and markets. I see a bright ray of hope coming from the high-energy world of B Corporations.

TBL 11

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

“You might move from product to engineering to ops.” If, on the other hand, you’re older and have financial and personal commitments, you need to develop a process so that others in your life can help you make the decision.” “Startups are cauldrons of energy, stress, and joy.

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

That is, the importance of "research & development" to business innovation. Digital coupons aren't just "smart," they can be "brilliant" — linked to recommendation engines, GPS, supply chains, etc. It's easy to marry a WWWabsite with a contest, for example. WWWaboratories are about the real future of virtual value creation.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

trillion in wages are automatable by today’s technology, which could open the door to new ways to harness human energy as well as to displacing routine jobs and increasing social inequities. Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

” The bottom line is that most people don’t want to be “sold” by an ad anymore; they want to develop a relationship where a business earns their purchase by offering invaluable content. It leads to a higher search engine visibility through stronger online authority (links and social shares).

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

They include years of 15% to 20% annual increases in labor costs without compensating productivity growth in manufacturing titans such as China, cheap energy in North America unlocked by hydraulic fracturing, and the increasing complexity and cost of managing global supply chains. CY TOP has not been able to find U.S.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10