Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Jeff Dyer is the Horace Beesley Distinguished Professor of Strategy at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School and an adjunct professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. When Edison developed a commercially viable light bulb, he was able to convince Morgan to advance him $30,000 for the Edison Electric Light Company.

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APRIL 4, 2014

And they love to pursue them, deadline commitments or old strategies be damned. They forget that the strategy which took them from small to midsize has already proven itself a winner. So they begin tinkering with their core strategy, burning up resources while their companies wander off their tried-and-true growth path.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu has stated "Promoting health literacy is a fundamental cost effective strategy." This means that nearly 23.5

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

In fact, the costs of developing seminal software algorithms continue to rise, too. Whilst technical innovators can hide behind trade secrets and patents, institutional innovators are condemned to test and develop their ideas in public. Similar dynamics seem to apply in institutional and business model innovation.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 4, 2010

Distraction…A Challenge to Good Leadership → January 5, 2010 · 1:37 am ↓ Jump to Comments When the Grasshopper Teaches the Master My son has been helping me learn more about Social Media. Distraction…A Challenge to Good Leadership → Like Be the first to like this post. Time for a revolution, I say.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. Strategies for growth in a connected world. The new game is to think about the business model and strategy for not just the company but the entire ecosystem. This is not guesswork.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. To do that, Merck formed a Strategy & Innovation Council with people from across the company.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

AT&T, for example, had to switch its focus from traditional telecom services to wireless services, and this shift required employees with different skill sets. ” CEOs also worried about whether their high potential employees were being properly developed. As David Thodey put it, “Leadership was pretty important.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. To deliver those returns, developers cater to the largest possible market: large urban and suburban K-12 districts.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. Most importantly, executives have to follow developments closely.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 31, 2010

Tell us why online and offline relationships and strategies matter. Imagine a weekend work retreat with these people totally invested. Would you write a blog post to get a chance to win a FREE SOBCon Weekend? An All-Expense Paid Ticket!! We want to celebrate how our relationships online help our lives and businesses online and off.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Ivan Seidenberg of Verizon was criticized by many — even his own people — for re-purposing the cash coming out of land-lines and phone books to support moves into wireless and entertainment businesses. I'm not talking about diversity in the politically correct sense.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Project Loon is such a moonshot project, providing internet access to remote regions by equipping balloons with wireless capabilities. So what can strategy-makers learn from Alphabet’s example? Allows each unit to deploy the right approach to strategy and execution.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Carter Professor of Business Administration, is Chair of the General Management Program, a unique program designed to accelerate leadership growth of cross-functional executives focused on driving change across their organization. Developing the Global Leader. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. Bottom Line.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate directors to date, we found that they were very worried about developing and enacting strategic plans that will enable their organizations to succeed. We might expect the regions with the lowest overall averages to be those dominated by developing or emerging economies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Strategies for growth in a connected world. A platform provider could provide incentives for a large component provider to exclusively develop solutions for its platform as Microsoft tried to do with Nokia by giving it a billion dollars to use the Microsoft platform on Nokia phones. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Taking a page from start-up strategy, large companies are embracing open innovation and integrating entrepreneurial behaviors with their existing capabilities. The effort also positions Medtronic to dramatically expand in those markets as it develops new technologies that lower costs. ( This was Keyne Monson.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

In doing so, they acquired extensive experience in developing sturdier equipment and materials – such as chew-proof wires — which helped them later on to gain several big business accounts in the Middle East, where similar problems stymied the multinational firms. These, too, have helped acquire useful knowledge.

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