Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

Target predicts customer pregnancy in order to market relevant products accordingly. Nothing foretells consumer need like predicting the birth of a new consumer. Student essay grade prediction has been developed for automatic grading. The system grades as accurately as human graders.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 21, 2011

Here are some wise guidelines that Verizon Wireless has used to promote effective, efficient and responsible e-mail use within its company. Strigl, former CEO and President of Verizon Wireless. You can find these guidelines in the new book, Managers, Can You Hear Me Now? written by Denny F.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Linda’s team had decided to launch a new product that involved many moving parts. Karin Hurt (Baltimore, MD) is a top leadership consultant and CEO of Let’s Grow Leaders and co-author of Winning Well : A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results – Without Losing Your Soul. A former Verizon Wireless executive, she was named to Inc.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. Innovation Capital. A great idea may not be enough to build a great business.

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CO2

JULY 6, 2010

We have gone back to our labs and retested everything, and the results are the same— the iPhone 4’s wireless performance is the best we have ever shipped. It has been judged by reviewers around the world to be the best smartphone ever, and users have told us that they love it.

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Tony Mayo

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Shure PGX Series Wireless Microphone System – Includes: PGX4 Receiver, PGX1 Bodypack Transmitter and WL93 Lavalier Microphone (H6/524 – 542MHz) PR 30 Dynamic Super Cardioid Studio Microphone — I love the warm, intimate sound of this microphone for podcasts and videos. (Of

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Combining the second-largest wireless carrier with the fourth-biggest entertainment company — one whose impressive assets include HBO and CNN — is likely to create an unassailable mobile-entertainment business. Broadband has made the experience of consuming content far better than it was with dial-up. Rejuvenating the core.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. billion cell phone users around the globe, and 90 percent of the world's population is covered by a commercial wireless signal. There are now more than 5.3

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2012

If you’re old enough to have been in the working world 20 years ago, you have seen many evolutions: cell phone, computer, laptop, software, internet, email, wireless connection, the rise and fall of CompuServe and AOL, car phones (remember them?) Allocate productive use for each hour of the day. and the rise of China to name a few.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. The new president thought Cellairis should not only sell accessories, it should sell wireless phone service as well. After nine months, AMP’d filed for bankruptcy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Carter Professor of Business Administration, is Chair of the General Management Program, a unique program designed to accelerate leadership growth of cross-functional executives focused on driving change across their organization. How to Brand a Next-Generation Product. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

Apple continued to run with little discernable change, except that Cook's black open collar shirts substituted for Jobs's black turtleneck sweaters on the product announcement stage. Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg appointed Lowell McAdam, head of Verizon Wireless, as COO and successor. Except for one thing.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2017

A higher level of thinking in cybersecurity leadership is needed to effectively thwart future financial losses. The plethora of wired and wireless connections has created a fast moving and ever changing security landscape (posture). People Component of Cybersecurity Investing. Technology Component to Cybersecurity Investing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco's leadership is very smart and Wi-Fi is part of the firm's core competence. The proof is Cisco's own 2009 new product promise. Perhaps Flip could never have succeeded as a standalone "good enough" digicam in competition with an Apple and an Android, but it didn't have a hope in Hades without a wireless connection.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

People were asked about GM products, upholstery textures, colors, vehicle designs, and technology, and their feedback was incorporated into GM vehicles. This practice ensures any issues are communicated properly to the product development and manufacturing teams, fixes are made to current products, and lessons are applied to future ones.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Some of this may just be the product of the high regulatory costs in pharmaceuticals, but research by Harvard's F.M. But when it does come, it will not demand costly breakthrough innovation either in wireless technology or digital marketing. Another take: consider Emotiv 's quest to make brain scans a mass consumer product.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

chemicals, metals and mining, paper and forest products), made out worst, scoring poorly on "firing" and "leveraging diversity," and not much better on "assessing talent" and "developing talent.". What would this leadership look like over time? food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Where was its leadership bench? Why are so many companies struggling with a crisis of their leadership bench? food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., computers & peripherals, electronic equipment & components, semiconductors, wireless telecommunication services); and Materials (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Successful firms have an established customer base, most of whom are satisfied with the products they are purchasing. But Apple has a good track record when it comes to its consumer products, and that's because of how they define "insanely great products." In other words, Apple makes products that they themselves want to use.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Project Loon is such a moonshot project, providing internet access to remote regions by equipping balloons with wireless capabilities. It also allows Google to employ different leadership styles and develop different cultural variations for each. Lowers the hurdles to acquiring and growing companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

It’s not just products. From Edison to Jobs, we’ve tended to associate innovation with products, and nowhere is that more true than in pharma, where new products are key to success. With the right interactions, large companies can add customer value and augment products with recurring revenue businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

While my client was impressed by the schools with extensive libraries and physical facilities, her son was focused on the extent to which the institutions were enabled with wireless capability, video streaming, readily available collaboration tools, and more. Business education Leadership development Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Although it expanded into new markets, these moves were based on the company’s existing knowledge: Cisco’s storage-area network products were modified versions of its routers, and even its move into consumer wireless internet relied on mature Cisco technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Foundations typically fund projects, not products. Wireless Generation, an innovative assessment company, stepped in to help.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Leadership & Managing People Book. That could be as simple as tethering to your phone, and using it as your backup connection, or buying a USB stick from your wireless company so you can access cell data from your laptop. Managing yourself Productivity Technology' Further Reading. Add to Cart. Screen sharing. Best Practices.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. The platform allows the exchange of digital information, services, and products across the power grid, allowing much greater efficiencies industrywide. This is not guesswork. Tom Watson, Jr.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 31, 2010

Celebrate how they have made your life easier, better, smarter, more productive, more meaningful. Imagine a weekend work retreat with these people totally invested. Would you write a blog post to get a chance to win a FREE SOBCon Weekend? An All-Expense Paid Ticket!! Cosell note his passing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

What’s not clear, however, is how the IoT’s complex ecosystem — a loose network of interacting products and services, pictured below will evolve and proliferate and which companies will emerge as leaders. The red nodes represent platform companies; the gray ones are companies that provide a product or service. /i,"");}

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

The Mississippi-born former IBM salesman, FedEx COO, and CEO of AT&T Wireless and Netscape Communications argues that funny sayings, especially if they involve animals, stick with people in a way that PowerPoint strategy slides usually don’t. If it works, it’s a product. If people hit on it, it’s a product.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Potential future customers can't scream about not getting a product they don't know they would love.) Makes perfect sense in a world of steady-state production. Sometimes the company faces a cash or a profit squeeze, and the folks with budget scalpels go looking for something to cut. It's easy to ax innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

AT&T, for example, had to switch its focus from traditional telecom services to wireless services, and this shift required employees with different skill sets. As David Thodey put it, “Leadership was pretty important. Leadership Competition' Currency really had a big effect.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.) For example, after opening its first store in 2014, fast-food chain KFC recently opened its fifth branch in the country.

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