Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

They also do not represent sustainable, long-term change. Modest reductions in the cost of borrowing and in supply costs achieved in mergers are often washed out by higher executive compensation, more layers of management, and information technology outlays, leading to higher, rather than lower, operating expenses. As the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Business System: Organizational models, software investment, proprietary process, franchise rights. It is easy to see how a trust deficit will ultimately slow long-term growth prospects, regardless of favorable macro indicators. Technology has also changed the picture for many brands in terms of building trust.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We’ve hit a point of acceleration in video and wearable technologies that provide us with information that we’ve never had in the past about how to optimize player performance. Where do you think the NBA should be focusing in terms of digital coverage? Clippers for $2 billion. The NBA seems to have lagged.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Looking at the merger in terms of continued consolidation within the cable industry, however, misses the bigger picture.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

However, even as a nonprofit, we believed in running the organization as a business; we would sell the product at a margin, and any "profits" would be reinvested back into the company to fulfil our longer term goal: to create a line of affordable medical devices that could save the lives of millions of at-risk babies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

I fundamentally believe that a machine can tackle and succeed at freeing insight from data to provide the last mile in making big data useful, and this belief was the driver in building out a technology platform that makes it real. Information & technology Technology' Because the value of big data isn''t the data.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

IT professionals need to recognize and embrace the Serendipity Economy in order to better understand the impact of technology investments, improve employee engagement and drive business transformation. Technology investments work the same way. Serendipity into Performance. The measure of value requires external validation.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Commitment - While technology is a natural accelerant helping to catalyze new opportunities and extend relationships, creating trust and influence will still take time. So long, [link] mikemyatt Hi Justino: Thanks for your comment. Long road ahead. While there are exceptions to every rule, don’t expect overnight success.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Everyone is familiar with the primary methods Gillette used to grow: It innovated via technology (with the Sensor, Mach 3, and Fusion razors), and in 2001 it formally expanded into the women''s leg shaving market with a new brand called Venus. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

If we’re to prevent the enthusiasm for entrepreneurial ecosystems from also fizzling out, we need to get a better grip on what the term really means. Well-known entrepreneurial hotspots such as Israel, Route 128, Silicon Valley, Austin, Iceland and others, had significant entrepreneurship long before there were courses in it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Long-awaited bulk shipments of medical gloves can arrive full of holes, unusable. This is essential to developing services she will use and, longer term, putting into place solutions that will have a lasting impact. In some countries, what passes for an ambulance is a donkey cart. Measure and evaluate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Long before "think global, act local" was the conventional wisdom for how corporations should operate in the international interconnected marketplace, we at Children's Television Workshop (CTW), as it was known then, pioneered the development of a flexible global brand. Taking The Long View.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This was a break from the previous decade, when technical improvements and competing technologies meant constant upgrades , advancing from dial-up through early cable-based broadband, DSL service offered over the analog phone network, early fiber-based deployments (notably Verizon FiOS) and cable’s last major upgrade, known as DOCSIS 3.0.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I did a quick Google search for the term business coach and received 116 million returned results – if that doesn’t scare you it should. That workshop in coaching skills is a long way from the world of the factory floor. Probably the same as mine - not so good. Ultimately, I agree with Peter. Its about results.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

mid-term elections staring us right in the face, I thought it would be an interesting time to examine the difference between statesman and politician. I have long been an opponent to term limits, believing that "we the people" are smart enough to figure out who should serve. Now is the time for term limits.

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