Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Aiming to jump start innovation in your organization? Innovation is a necessity, a way of life for mountaineers. Climbers plan meticulously then innovate their way through unexpected challenges to reach a summit. Matt’s team concentrated on developing a system to get aid to remote villages in the heavily-damaged Gorkha region.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. Research and examples published in HBR this year — including an account of a much more effective government agency’s approach to solving problems — prove how critical they are to innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

As the Internet of Things (IoT) spreads, the implications for business model innovation are huge. And when feature innovation eventually proved to be too incremental, price competition would ensue, and products would become obsolete. Design Disruptive innovation Internet' Competition was largely feature-versus-feature warfare.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

A new principal took over the leadership of an elementary school that had mediocre scores on the year-end achievement tests. Their job is to encourage merit, inspire innovation and provide encouragement…not big donuts. “Carrying the flag” is a leader’s preeminent responsibility. passed day-to-day leadership to Stew Leonard, Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects. That purpose is bigger than the company itself, providing natural cohesion, and it demands expansive thinking, driving innovation and progress.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

In most countries, both developed and developing, private employment and median family income have stopped growing at the same pace as labor productivity and real GDP per capita—mostly due, they argue, to technological advances. With the right leadership, I think so. Can other countries follow this model?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” Porter and colleagues adapt microeconomics to health care through their definition of output: patient-centered health outcomes. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It is indicative of a new generation of leadership emerging at the top of many of the world's largest organizations. Witness Chris Lazslo's work on sustainable value , and Michael Porter's theorizing about shared value. And not just me, our whole leadership team. We as a company will invest a huge amount of time.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Andy Wales' company, SABMiller, recently invited businesses, NGOs and other organizations to join a global water initiative, the Water Futures Partnership , in conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the German development agency (GIZ). They will avoid business disruptions and build more resilient enterprises.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. In the past, economic development has prioritized big businesses. But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. Shift the focus to include small companies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In November 1996, Michael Porter published What Is Strategy? We live in a world that seems short on leadership and long on complex problems and organizations. A Brief History of Inventing Innovation. Today, I realize that at least two-thirds of the gems in my "Great Articles" file emanate from HBR. More >>.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Jim Dewald is the dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and an associate professor in the strategy and entrepreneurship.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 21, 2016

Jim Dewald is the dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and an associate professor in the strategy and entrepreneurship.

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Strategy CPA Gordon Welch 70

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Scaling Up Manizales ( Manizales-Más in Spanish), an economic development coalition of local institutions and the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform (BEEP), which I created and lead, was launched in 2012 with the ambitious aim of revolutionizing the pursuit of opportunity. strategic hires).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

But these trends also had more negative consequences, as Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter have argued in their work as co-chairs of Harvard Business School’s U.S. The collaboration between Siemens and Central Piedmont Community College, aimed at skill development, is one example. Competitiveness Project.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Last year, we established a values-based care team, which seeks to eliminate unnecessary practice variation by developing evidence-based care paths across diseases and to improve comprehensive care coordination so that patients move seamlessly through the system, reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and ER visits. Health Operations'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. Each Mayo Clinic value-improvement project must: gain senior leadership support, including an approved charter.

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