Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

Terran Lane, a former comp-sci professor at the University of New Mexico, recently left his tenured position for a gig at Google, and he doesn’t mince words as to why in a spirited, anti-academia apologia on his Ars Experientia blog. Of course, the private sector is fraught with innovation problems too. LET THE GAMES BEGIN.

Sports 9

Sports Peer Review GDP Cooper 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The Reproducibility Project found it could substantively replicate the results of fewer than 40% of 100 high-profile experiments published in peer-reviewed journals. Tomorrow’s most important discoveries into why people do what they do will most likely come from business innovation than university research.

Company 8

Company Peer Review Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Before addressing that question directly, let’s start with some basic premises: Consumers need an ample choice of innovative, well-priced insurance products. The pitch goes something like this: “Synergies will reduce overhead by eliminating duplicative management positions and spreading IT and marketing costs across more members.”

Insurance 8

Insurance Company Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

In research I’ve conducted with colleagues, we have found that dominant leaders are also easily threatened by other talented team members who might be in a position to outshine the leader. This creates a safe environment where team members feel respected and free to innovate and generate creative solutions.

Leadership Styles 8

Leadership Styles Leadership Peer Review Influence 8

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 20, 2020

Data was sourced from a wide range of peer-reviewed sources, to give them a full picture of the pandemic. It’s also important to note that none of the scenarios produced a positive outcome, and all were instead dealing with a least bad scenario.

Short-term 81

Short-term Peer Review Long-term Sharpe 81

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo''s CEO, ended the company''s work-from-home policy to foster a more collaborative, innovative environment. These 80 or so people became free agents looking for the position that was best for them. Such decrees are risky; by forcing people out of their daily routine, you are bound to upset a few of them.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

But my peer-review literature search revealed no similar ways to assess how willing leaders are to be influenced or how transparent they are about how they can best be influenced. For example, we assess whether leaders are able to generate compliance with or genuine commitment to their plans.

Influence 8

Influence Six Sigma Open-book Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. To date, these innovations have saved an estimated $4 million in annual medical expenses while decisively improving quality. But it needn’t always be. Here’s how we did it.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8