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Leadership, Passion, And Transformation

Joseph Lalonde

Recently, I was listening to a podcast which shared how Texas A&M University has created a pilot program, combining engineering and a medical degree. Integrating these two disciplines can mean more precise medical procedures and other innovations. The outcome is oftentimes profit over meaningful transformation and innovation.

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Where Disruptive Innovation Came From

Harvard Business Review

After a long and successful run, the theory of disruptive innovation has come under attack of late. In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? Disruptive innovation is a parsimonious theory that explains many business failures.

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A Partial Defense of Our Obsession with Short-Term Earnings

Harvard Business Review

HBS professor Rebecca Henderson , along with Hazhir Rahmandad of Virginia Tech and Nelson Repenning of MIT, set out to explore that apparent contradiction. I spoke with Professor Henderson about their research. Henderson: To answer that, I need to tell you about two different research interests. It’s great.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. But to explain that, one needs to explain why some companies are so much better at developing software than others and why their innovations don’t seem to be diffusing to their smaller competitors the way Carr thought they inevitably would.