Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team. Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. And every time you create a handoff, you risk dropping the baton.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Last year, I finished directing a documentary film called The Work of 1000. But executives can hurt their careers when they care about something too much. Sometimes the market's just too small (luxury vacation planning for couples honeymooning in Belarus). It's common wisdom these days that you should follow your passion.

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Wilde Film Career Marketing Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

This hand-off is a time of high risk and often fails because general management, human resources, marketing, communications, and sales teams haven't been informed along the way. Use skits, storyboards, and films to develop customer personas and scenarios. In most organizations different functional groups use their own languages.

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Innovation Brand Project Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it''s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. They illustrate the range of programs that companies should be implementing to stimulate innovation and shepherd ideas toward marketable products. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center. Get a Lawyer.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it’s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. They illustrate the range of programs that companies should be implementing to stimulate innovation and shepherd ideas toward marketable products. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Understanding and deciphering ecosystem-level disruption will be the key for executives in the coming decade. Kodak accepted the pain of shuttering plants and laying off tens of thousands of film-factory workers. 4 in the inkjet-printer market, where it joined the likes of HP, Lexmark, and Canon. By 2005, Kodak ranked No.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The story, which apparently has echoes in some other school districts around the country, is but one more salvo in the wars of educational reform (recently depicted in the film Waiting for Superman — dont miss it). No one would claim that new product design does not or should not involve wise judgment.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. Rather than incremental change, they wanted a true paradigm shift, so the group tapped me as Machine Shop’s Executive Vice President. I met the band at this inflection point. Photo by Lorenzo Errico.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Every February, businesses in India wait with bated breath for the country’s finance minister to announce the Union Budget. “One of the great things about India is its ability to over-celebrate everything from weddings to rain to the latest Rajinikanth film. Will taxes go up or down? Will new concessions be announced?

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