Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2014

To answer those questions, the authors look at the share of value in manufacturing captured by high-skilled workers (those with a college degree or equivalent), medium-skilled workers (high school degree), low-skilled workers (less than high school), and capital.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Skills Intellectual Capital Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

You can read about it in recent issues of The Economist , The New York Times , and in the book The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. True, emerging market countries are getting better at what they do, and even Europe is on the upswing. The arguments are familiar.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Magazine Pharmaceuticals Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Three-quarters of the world's CEOs say more emphasis should be placed on measuring the value of non-financial assets such as intellectual capital and customer relationships. Rackspace went public in 2008 — shortly before the financial markets went belly up.

Customer Loyalty 14

Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It governs an organization's cultivation of its intellectual capital—how it leverages what it already knows how to do, and how it evolves its offering based on changing market demands. With hardware markets, money is spent upfront to develop a system. Then, the hardware company does the same thing again.

Software 14

Software Intellectual Capital Maturity Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

If you think about how new products and services are hatched and brought to market today, it isn't usually the doing of just one entity — least of all the corporate R&D labs that once served as our engines of tomorrow. The sector has entities, too, to improve the flow of intellectual capital. First, why is it a sector?

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

When a company misses the future, the fault invariably lies with a small cadre of seasoned executives who failed to write off their depreciating intellectual capital. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. If they are unwilling to adapt and learn, the entire organization stalls. He was right.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

When a company misses the future, the fault invariably lies with a small cadre of seasoned executives who failed to write off their depreciating intellectual capital. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. If they are unwilling to adapt and learn, the entire organization stalls. He was right.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

McKinsey responded that it was actually investing more on intellectual capital, but on the industry-specific variety of more use to consultants and clients.) Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

While the technology giant's second-quarter revenue increased by 3%, its relatively new CEO, Leo Apotheker, was forced to lower the forecast for revenue for the fiscal year. He blamed the Japan earthquake, the anemic PC market, and a troubled services organization. The technology market is the epitome of creative destruction.

Software 13

Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2012

Most organizations, however, still view social media as a threat to productivity, intellectual capital, security, privacy, management authority, or regulatory compliance. In just a few years, social media has come to dominate many of our personal communications. We collaborate daily, sometimes productively, sometimes not.

Media 17

Media Organization Intellectual Capital CIO 17