Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Imagine you are the CEO of one of Britain’s oldest and possibly least innovative insurance companies, The Prudential. Or you are a supervisory board member of Mannesmann, a solid German engineering company, and your executive team suggests that the company bid for a mobile telephone license. When Innovation Is Strategy.

Licensing 8

Licensing Competitive Advantage Proposal Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

For instance, in the early 1990s, the Mahindra Group faced a forgetting problem of nearly gargantuan dimensions: the end of the so-called “License Raj” system. Under License Raj, the Indian government licensed and tightly regulated domestic businesses while excluding foreign competitors.

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Company Licensing Incentives Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

"Open source" refers to the fact that users of the software are given free access to its source code and, depending on the terms of their license, can also modify and redistribute that code. At Gartner, we consider any software to be open source that is released under licenses and terms defined by the open-source initiative.

Software 15

Software Tips Licensing Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

For over 50 years, Wal-Mart has pursued essentially the same strategy of “offering the lowest price so its customer can live better.” Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else. How Boards Can Innovate.

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Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. A misunderstood story.

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