Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

The innovations are endless, from peer-to-peer payments to automated portfolio managers and trading platforms. Streamlined Processes Fintech innovations have transformed the financial sector, fostering inclusivity, enhancing operational efficiency, and facilitating personalized customer experiences.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Second, the main goal of PE investors is to increase a firm’s value so that it can be sold for profit. And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. They know the local market, promote their offerings in the community, and often serve as community leaders. Here’s an example to put this into context. What’s unique about this company’s leadership?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

For example, Google’s restructuring into Alphabet highlighted just how much the company is spending on new businesses, from self-driving cars to space exploration and more. economy is not just the opportunity for raw innovation, but the ability to scale new technologies within large global companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

One path to this third goal — call it Type 1 feedback — is closed-loop communication with customers. Gathering Type 2 feedback lets you take a fundamental look at whether your repeatable model remains competitive and whether there are discontinuities in the market that could undermine it. For that you need Type 2 feedback.

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Merchandising Metrics Restructuring Library 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. Some have decades of experience in their industry.

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Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. People are also being asked by their bosses or HR to attend conferences, read case studies, watch videos, and try their hand at simulations, all with the goal of picking up new ideas and techniques.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Restructuring a company to focus on sustainability doesn’t happen overnight, so how long did it take to get everyone on board and how did you deal with any resistance to change? If the ultimate goal is to create both economic value and social value, how do you strike that balance? It can be difficult to measure and compare.

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CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

This initial lack of commercial players and interests was critical — it allowed the formation of a network architecture that shared resources in a way that would not have occurred in a market-driven system. Regulators could remake the financial system by rethinking the best way to achieve policy goals, without diluting standards.

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Banking Media Decentralization Technology 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. The company will also eliminate a key chipset in the difficult tablet and smartphone market. Conversely, superior user experience designs frequently inspire insight into innovative use-case opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

“Organizations need to keep changing, adapting, and innovating,” he says. If your new initiative involves, say, improving employee health, zero in on a particular goal, such as decreasing employees’ back pain or helping workers quit smoking. “That’s the language of marketing,” says Butman.

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Project Restructuring Hotels Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company. Innovation, customer delight, and profits would all follow from it. But it is only half of his or her performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Here at Machine Shop , the wholly owned innovation company of the alternative rock band Linkin Park, we identified the need to think differently years ago. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate. of course). Photo by Lorenzo Errico. Enter Harvard Business School.

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Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Imagining the same ad for a healthcare provider in 2018, even an innovative provider, is a stretch. First, what strategic goal would virtual care help achieve today? There are solutions to this problem, but they require material restructuring and can be costly. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Health Care Retail Strategy Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Some of the largest companies of recent times by market capitalization, such as Facebook, Alphabet, and Alibaba, carry dual class-shares. MSCI’s recent analysis shows that unequal voting stocks outperformed the market over the period from November 2007 to August 2017. and The New York Times Co.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

It seems that every week, one or another announces a new “Center for Health Care Value” or “Center for Health Care Innovation.” Outcomes define the goal of the organization and set direction for its differentiation. Few health care organizations have made it their explicit goal to deliver excellent outcomes.

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Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Still, the essential concepts behind holacracy offer perhaps the best hope of easing top managers’ stranglehold on companies and, by extension, on innovation. Misconception 2: The goal justifies any means. And what if Hsieh’s successor someday turns away from holacratic principles?

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Interestingly, it is not strictly a “plan,” in the sense of a precise sequence of actions leading to pre-determined goals. To achieve this target, however, China will need to find new engines of growth, such as consumption, innovation, and entrepreneurship, all of which are emphasized in the plan.

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