HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” It can help them innovate. The HR Digest: Can you share with The HR Digest readers some innovative recruiting strategies that allow Mastercard to compete for talent in America and abroad?

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 19, 2021

It’s tempting to think that venture capitalists are taking punts on particular technologies in the hope that the few investments that reach the big time adequately compensate for the many that wither on the vine. Supporting innovation. The projects were collectively backed by 764 different VC firms.

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Efficiency Innovation Venture Capitalist Hedge 126

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others.

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 333

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

This is perhaps its greatest asset and preserving it requires Apple to make sure the ecosystems, technology, product design all meet a much higher standard than any of its competitors. The iBeacon technology sets them for some big stuff in revolutionizing the retail experience (as does the hiring of Musa Tariq from Burberry).

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Creativity Supply Chain Hedge Brand 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Innovators more intent on inventing the future than predicting it should look hard at how cutting-edge scientists now computationally massage their big data. AH, not AI, will increasingly inspire tomorrow’s breakthrough innovation. The breakthrough innovator’s hypothesis doesn’t have to come from a human.

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Engineering Core Competence Information Technology Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. They simply would have confirmed their existing concerns. Science fiction can help.

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Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

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. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

What impact will terahertz frequencies have on communication technologies? But overreliance on these firms leads to industry groupthink, and complexity-theory research tells us that it's impossible to predict the behavior of a large system (such as the world of tech innovation) beyond the next few moves.

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CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Fatigue may be setting in for some Western investors’ interest in African innovation, particularly those that have yet to reap rewards to brag about. Another reason is that investors are myopically infatuated with snazzy technology. Innovation in Distribution. Top of the Pyramid.

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Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The auto industry is facing a trio of disruptive technologies: electric batteries, autonomous vehicles, and the mobile phone. The idea is to create a new and separate division that meets competition while ensuring that new innovations are as minimally disruptive (in the old sense of the world) to the core business as possible.

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Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. “I But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hedge against uncertainty. Intrigued by technology and innovation, Achan took the initiative to develop two iPhone apps. Indeed, the Center for Talent Innovation’s research on sponsorship shows that one of the best ways to attract a coveted senior-level sponsor is to develop a strong personal brand.

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Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. John Fedele/Getty Images. These advances all point toward the total automation of our lives, including the way we work and do business.

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Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible.

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Bond Education Finance Video 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

While big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things garner the lion’s share of media attention, using data to its full potential is much more about management than it is about technology. Innovate products, services, and processes. Exploit asymmetries. Test options and learn quickly!

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Company Insurance Content Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. ” Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits, and raise the dividend. Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. How should companies hedge against the practice of copying your products as you go into those markets? IKEA is a great example of this.

Marketing 13

Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 13

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. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility.

Business Model 9

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Tech-world denizen Jesper Andersen tweeted a similar sentiment: “Change ‘startup’ to ‘hedge fund,’ ‘ecstasy’ to ‘cocaine’, and ‘douche-bag’ to ‘douche bag’ and you too can see SF is just another Wall St.” Tech startups play a critical role both in driving technological innovation forward and in bringing it to market.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

One professional service firm told us how a senior partner sold only technology implementation services &38212; an area he was personally passionate about — to his clients in South America. The second approach is to salvage ideas or technologies that didn't solve the problem they were intended to solve. Rehabilitate a misfit.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people. Autonomy is both the organizational and the operational center of gravity for innovation and growth.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 309

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

They are dealing with the environment; successfully making the shift from an infrastructure state to a consumer society; becoming an innovative economy; having a positive impact on the world order; and finally, and perhaps most importantly, making the transition from Xi Jinping’s “Seven No’s” to a more sustainable political model.

Education 8

Education Politics Globalization Hedge 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. Small businesses are starting to demand banking services that have engaging web and mobile user experiences, on par with the technologies they use in their personal lives.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

.” But absent “demonstrable harm to competition and consumers,” the DOJ is “reluctant to impose special duties on digital platforms, out of [its] concern that special duties might stifle the very innovation that has created dynamic competition for the benefit of consumers.” Loss of trust.

Company 11

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

In an age where so much technology feels magical, the map should be no exception. Those innovations are changing modern-day exploration. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? It's about access to real-time information about everything around you, from deals to popular places to where your friends are. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

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Directory Hedge Content Hotels 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Companies would do better at satisfying and retaining customers if they spent less time worrying about big data and more time making good use of "small data" — already-available information from simple technology solutions — to become more flexible, informative, and helpful. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? More >>.

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CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system. For most established players, the technology and skill gaps are intimidating, and it take years of effort to close them. Starbucks stopped accepting the Square payment system in late 2014.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

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Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

The coverage suggested that the man who gave us QE2 held shockingly anachronistic beliefs about basic research's role in promoting innovation. I thought this would be a wonderful gateway to post on how poorly economists and economics understand and measure innovation in global markets. Bernanke's quotes were truisms and clichés.

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Due Diligence Disintermediation Micromanagement Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Jim,” as he is known to all, not only did pioneering work in mathematics; he also founded Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that relied on scientists to make predictions and trade in global markets. BONUS BITS Countering Intuition Has ''Disruptive Innovation'' Run Its Course?

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Brand Simon 8