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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

MIT Technology Review didn't pick a winner, but on its recent list of top 50 "disruptors," the magazine mixed stalwarts such as General Electric and IBM with up-and-comers, Square and Coursera. Financial leverage (assets over equity). The editors of Fast Company say Nike. But there are some measurements that try.

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I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Harvard Business Review

But there our story deviates from the norm because our turnaround wasn't based on cost control, financial leverage, or manufacturing efficiencies. It calls on manufacturers to design products that can be disassembled at the end of their product life and recycled at a high level. We did that.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

MIT Technology Review didn't pick a winner, but on its recent list of top 50 "disruptors," the magazine mixed stalwarts such as General Electric and IBM with up-and-comers, Square and Coursera. Financial leverage (assets over equity). The editors of Fast Company say Nike. But there are some measurements that try.