Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Since 1995, small employers have created about two out of every three net new jobs65%of total net job creation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

The prospect of urban innovation excites the imagination. The messy truth is that cities are not the same, and even the most innovative approach can never achieve universal impact. The opportunities to innovate will differ greatly by segment. Examples: London, Detroit, Tokyo, Singapore. Innovation in Cities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. “I a better place to be.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

The induced innovation literature has taught us that drug companies focus their efforts on researching and marketing new drugs for which there is expected to be great demand (think of aging baby boomers’ aching knees). Innovation in Cities. Real estate investors will have strong incentives to respond to these forecasts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Higher carbon taxes would have a direct effect on encouraging households and firms to consume less fossil fuels and would accelerate directed research in green technologies such as electric vehicles, solar panels, and other forms of renewable power. Consider the example of a new drug for curing baldness. and in developing nations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

While today’s basic technology is not necessarily revolutionary, the algorithms it uses and the results they can produce are. Today, for example, social media companies are expected to uncover and remove terrorist recruitment videos and messages almost instantly.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

However, the focus on Bitcoin as a currency may distract businesses and governments from its disruptive impact: as a technology. For example, in order to purchase a car from an individual seller, one has to engage a third party to transfer the title. In the next decade, we can expect significant innovation around the Bitcoin network.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, one CEO of a large technology firm oscillated between major expansions (e.g. For example, one large retail company has been starting and stopping a number of new initiatives as it searches for the magic solution to counteract more and more consumers shopping online.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Facebook’s News Feed stream is an incredibly valuable piece of digital real estate, without historical precedent. Still, we’re entering a brave new world where the creators of technology platforms can activate billions of users to specific political action of their choosing. Over 968 million people access it daily.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

New technology promises to allow retailers to beat online players at their own game, transforming the customer experience and dramatically improving their positioning. One of the most exciting areas of development is the marrying of mobile apps, location sensing technologies (e.g., However, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are prime examples of these tools, and all offer opportunities for two-way, collaborative communication. Build it yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

For example, Uber and Grab link riders and drivers, Airbnb links hosts and travelers, and Amazon links shoppers and sellers. Such knowledge is in fact the prerequisite to innovation. Though none of these tweaks can be claimed to be a technological breakthrough, they have collectively helped Grab win over local consumers.

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Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

The shifting energy equation, for example, sets the stage for growth. The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. Lower costs are already making some industrial sectors more competitive.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Technology and the Internet are enabling women to work and run businesses more virtually, often from their homes and often with help from angel funding. They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

It would be ironic indeed if a presidency that won because of information technology (effective digital campaigning) is laid low because of information technology (a website that failed to work). In merger integration, for example, IT systems integration often takes the longest, sometimes years.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

But recent technological advances and new business models are now allowing nimble players to compete and provide consumers with cost-saving alternatives. In both cases, the two goods (car and real estate) are given value-creating potential through a process of market fragmentation and consumer empowerment.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Thus, at this point, it is unable to develop and innovate the sort of software that could realize the full potential for customer advocacy and engagement on its platform. Needed: A Customer Advocacy Apps Exchange. That said, two major challenges exist: Facebook is a platform, with just a few thousand employees.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. Much of the economy consists of hardware shops, carpenters, plumbers, concrete makers, masons, even real-estate agents. For us, good business and social innovation are one and the same.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Creative retailers are using the new technologies to innovate just about everything stores do from managing inventory, to marketing, to getting paid. There’s too much physical real estate for the crowds, which is one reason why stores are downsizing and closing. But the gale is still blowing.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Still, there’s the example of great leaders for those who have “ears to hear&#.Ron Barbers, plumbers, real estate agents, and almost all trade personnel are required to meet established levels of trade skills and be licensed; none will have as bad an impact on a customer as a bad manager or supervisor will!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Real estate consultants are not business strategists, but the retail system gives them the say-so in establishing community presence. This is yet another example of niche consultants skewing the client in the wrong directions. Computer activity constitutes less than 1% of the technology picture. In 1999, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

They behave, in other words, like innovators. All three were times of exceptional innovation and creativity, for our clients and us. In fact, I'd argue that most of the great technology and design advances of the past few decades had their roots in recessions. For one thing, as these examples demonstrate, scarcity forces focus.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

We found that knowledge workers whose companies allow them to help decide when, where, and how they work were more likely to be satisfied with their jobs, performed better, and viewed their company as more innovative than competitors that didn’t offer such choices. Take the technology workers in our survey, for example.

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Real Estate Survey Motivation Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

For example, during one of the competitions, we provided students with data on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART), which included information about demographics, real estate, weather, station specifics, and fares. Why move so far beyond traditional HR assessment tools?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Cialdini's classic on the core principals of persuasion is a sterling example of the cross application of psychological principles to business life. Based on his personal experiences and interviews — with everyone from expert car salesmen to real estate salespeople — Cialdini's book is riveting and, yes, persuasive.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Cialdini's classic on the core principals of persuasion is a sterling example of the cross application of psychological principles to business life. Based on his personal experiences and interviews — with everyone from expert car salesmen to real estate salespeople — Cialdini's book is riveting and, yes, persuasive.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

billion purchase of Motorola Mobility has set the technology and investing worlds aflutter , with much of the commentary positioning it as a play by Google for Motorola's strong IP portfolio. For example, Gmail and Google Search and Google Maps work very well on iPhones (or Windows). Google's $12.5 It's a platform.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Building off US-inspired steel-based technology, we believe that it's possible to design, build, deliver, and erect affordable multi-tier tower housing, addressed squarely to lower class sections of the Indian demographic.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Q: Could you give an example? Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” How to Brand a Next-Generation Product. Q: What is an example of a company that has been on this journey? The focus is on technological excellence with some diffuse understanding of customers who may buy the product.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

For example, Walmart doesn't succeed just because of a strong operations group. It has built impressive capabilities that include logistics, inventory processes, buying standards, real estate practices and labor models — most of which it created for itself. Permanent cross-functional teams tend to fare better.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So, rather than take up valuable list real estate with these perennial favorites and big-picture drivers, I'll quickly list them in one big bucket of mega-trends: The rise of the consumer around the world, related to. Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

Cities are much more than the built environment of roads and real estate. Other divides include racial and ethnic enclaves that vary in opportunities — for example, minority entrepreneurs with promising business ideas who can't access mainstream sources of capital and support. Cities are one big dating game.

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Real Estate Class Education Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

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