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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. So, even if the outposts manage to absorb local value they usually fail to propagate it back to the organization, which means they fail on the ultimate reason for their existence.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

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Accountants Will Save the World

Harvard Business Review

We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders — or be held accountable to keep doing it. Make no mistake, I am a capitalist: Someone who puts capital to work, and wants something back. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

The rise of Tata in India, Koç Holding in Turkey, and Grupo Carso in Mexico have some management thinkers contending that the conglomerate is back at the expense of the focused firm. In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. in the U.S.,

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Accompanying these peer economy companies are others (like Zipcar) which simply leverage technology and lower transaction costs to make flexible renting a viable alternative to asset acquisition.

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What to Do Before You Fire a Pivotal Employee

Harvard Business Review

As noted in research by Paul Adler and Seok-Woo Kwon at the University of Southern California, a well-designed employee network essentially makes up the “social capital” of a company, due to all the assets or resources that can be mobilized through the network. They’re the glue that holds the network together.

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The Five Stages of Disruption Denial

Harvard Business Review

Technology changes. You would hope that we were getting better at understanding and managing change. It turns out there are lots of people who don''t get the new technology and now social life is a little like a competition to show that we''re not "falling for it." Markets change. Consumers change. Channels change.