Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Since the 2008 financial crisis, policy makers, professors, politicians, and others have expressed concern over America’s best and brightest minds electing to work in finance instead of pursuing potentially more socially valuable careers in science, medicine, and engineering. of MIT graduates taking jobs in finance after graduation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Recent, well-documented examples include Progressive Insurance''s use of predictive modeling in the property and casualty insurance space and the many industrial manufacturing companies that are generating almost all their margin and profit from after-sale, value-added services based on information generated by embedded sensors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In many industries, drones are poised to generate what Paul Nunes and I call Big Bang Disruptions, with the FAA itself estimating $100 billion in new business growth. of what George Mason University’s Adam Thierer calls “ permissionless innovation.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Finance teams, which are not known for their flexibility to begin with, often have trouble changing their traditional planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes to accommodate radically new IoT business models. My favorite example of this is iRobot , the maker of the innovative Roomba vacuum. Engineering.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. Entrepreneurship Health Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

Cognitive computing and artificial intelligence (AI) are spawning what many are calling a new type of industrial revolution. While both technologies refer to the same process, there is a slight nuance to each. How it will impact business, industry, and society. A cognitive system can perceive and infer, reason and learn.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Throughout the news and business coverage, the feeling that sustainability is crucial to the future of the country and its industries is palpable. China Hi-Tech Fair ready to highlight emerging industries ," which describes Chinas largest tech show going on this week in Shanghai. And on and on. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. The program is most often associated with the tech industry, where H-1B workers hold about 12%–13% of jobs , according to a Goldman Sachs report. jobs overall.)

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. A similar dynamic of redefined processes and constant iteration is happening with industrial products. ” The shift to “cloud native” organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Build your strategy on a foundation of continuous innovations, both new products and new processes. Test those innovations quickly, and pursue only those that work. It also produces better business results, particularly in highly dynamic industries. Once you have discarded the myths, what would be a better approach?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. Investing in innovation capacity. billion).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2012

We should expect good, innovative companies to hire smart, aggressive people who "push the envelope." The Economist cites one chief executive who believes this could be the industry's "tobacco moment." Neither companies nor the industries can thrive and grow under a cloud of mistrust.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

How can we share insights and innovations that allow our employees to be more productive? Once the shining example of call-center customer service, they dropped to nearly last in the industry in customer satisfaction in 2007. So early on, Finance and HR collaborated to simplify the process, reducing the number of data metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The same investment logic holds for Apple's innovation ecosystem; the flow and fortune of its third-party apps development alone would yield valuable insight. Does our data suggest exciting investment options in adjacent or complementary industries? Who would want to invest with us? Would we do better as traders or investors?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

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