Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Intuit had many failures as part of their innovation process. Yet leaders of both companies persevered despite these headwinds, setbacks, and challenges.

Business Model 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Superior technical innovation is at the heart of its strategy and its organizational design.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

When big business leaders think about social media they tend to focus on three things: innovative technologies, marketing applications, and IPOs — the three factors that make Facebook and Twitter so hot. 15,000), a website, pirated films of wildlife massacres that were "youtubed", and a network of supporters in online forums.

White Paper 10

White Paper IPO Media Film 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

For example, a prescient report by McKinsey in 2005 showed that classified advertisement (the true driver of profitability for many newspaper companies) had decoupled from newspapers’ economic growth. Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share. Disruptive innovation Innovation'

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Marketers have long known that stories capture consumers’ attention and they commonly weave storytelling into their marketing messages. In fact, while the total tourism market in Amsterdam grew 19 percent from 2009 to 2014, the Heineken Experience grew 143 percent. The New Tools of Marketing. Consumers opt in.

Brand 8

Brand Storytelling Trout Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Intuit had many failures as part of their innovation process. Yet leaders of both companies persevered despite these headwinds, setbacks, and challenges.

Business Model 9

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

We expect the drone market to surge to nearly $7 billion by 2020 globally, driven by regulatory clarification, continuously decreasing component costs, and – most important– ongoing innovation that connects drone capabilities to big-data analytics.

Competitive Advantage 10

Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Natalia Georgio knocked on the door of her new marketing director's office. She'd hired Elizabeth, another former dancer, because of her decades of marketing experience, most recently at Violet, a fast-growing woman's athletic clothing company. Then, what you do here isn't really marketing," Elizabeth said cautiously. "It

Case Study 13

Case Study Audience Survey Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Collaborative activity is the "secret sauce" that enables teams to come up with innovative new products or creative, buzz-worthy marketing campaigns. Many managers have been fearful of using social media beyond marketing purposes. — can play a huge role in doing so. But that would just restrict the group's collaboration.

Team 9

Team Succession Hypercompetition Teamwork 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

Facebook created a PR firestorm last summer when reporters discovered a human “editorial team” – rather than just unbiased algorithms – selecting stories for its trending topics section. A hybrid of humans and AI is remaking retail, marketing, and customer service. Just how artificial is Artificial Intelligence?

Content 8

Content Trends Media Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Many have to measure their success in terms of stock price and market share, and when those slip, everyone sees it happening, reads about it in the business pages, watches it on CNBC. ” The backstory, according to press reports, is that Armstrong had been disappointed in Lenz’s performance. Out of here.”

Abell 8

Abell Armstrong Uncertainty CEO 8

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.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade. Now, we're beginning to see uses for drones in agriculture, 3D modeling, security (like saving rhinos in South Africa ), environmental analysis, news reporting, filming, human rights monitoring and more.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

There have always been friends and family we trust, journalists and film critics we find credible, and publications like travel guides or Consumer Reports that we know are reliable. Today, we add to that a great deal more. For Google, this was the perfect advice consolidation play.

Advice 9

Advice Review Reputation Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Pearl, his VP of marketing, had learned that their rival Berlinger was launching a line of gem-accented watches, which would be sold exclusively through Shanguang, China’s biggest jewelry retailer. . ” “And so we’re stuck with subtle marketing? . “If only it were ours.” In this city? This country?”

Case Study 8

Case Study Brand Simon Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

The radical democratization of business over the last decade created by open innovation, crowdsourcing, and co-creation is transforming how advertising organizations work. Meanwhile, V&S tracked the brief, moderated the entries, collected fan data, and reported it back to Harley.

Advertising 10

Advertising Brand Innovation Creativity 10