Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Simon McGill/Getty Images. Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. In theory, investor incentives align with what is good for the firm. In practice, we find important differences.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

They are low-powered radio transmitters that can send signals to smartphones that enter their immediate vicinity, via Bluetooth Low Energy technology. For marketers in particular, beacons are important because they allow more precise targeting of customers in a locale. Simon Malls.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. Not surprisingly, they advocate bringing marketing and monetizing concerns much further forward in the R&D process.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.”. Customers Decision making Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer technology are causing us to think again about some really basic questions: what is a firm? What can firms do better than markets? The incumbent therefore needs to invest in the invasive technology before it is definitively needed. Tintan/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Higher carbon taxes would have a direct effect on encouraging households and firms to consume less fossil fuels and would accelerate directed research in green technologies such as electric vehicles, solar panels, and other forms of renewable power. The small market size would lead the company to not invest in baldness medication.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It's a powerfully proven fact based on the study of the human brain, which Simon Sinek explains here. Traditional advertising and marketing leads with the what, such as, "We make desirable cars with great gas mileage." This isn't my opinion. Then it moves to the how, such as "We do this with great engineers and the best materials."

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Media Advertising Simon Engineering 22

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

First, in a world in which labor markets are fluid, leaders must inspire and impart purpose. And at Red Hat , where one of us is CEO, the organization’s mission is a powerful catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners for creating technology the open source way. This requires intensive, one-on-one work.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

New workplace technology makes possible an unprecedented degree of control over working (and sometimes private) life – the New York Times’s account of tough working conditions in Amazon’s offices is a recent example. More and more of human lives are marketized and commodified on technology platforms.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

For the last 200 years, entrepreneurial prowess enabled by financial capital has powered a long surge of economic growth. Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It's a powerfully proven fact based on the study of the human brain, which Simon Sinek explains here. Traditional advertising and marketing leads with the what, such as, "We make desirable cars with great gas mileage." This isn't my opinion. Then it moves to the how, such as "We do this with great engineers and the best materials."

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Media Advertising Simon Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

This diagram presents examples of a number of problems ordered by their predictability given the current state-of-the-art in machine learning and AI technology. Of course, the location of a particular problem on this two-dimensional representation also changes as a function of technological and societal changes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

For instance, in October 2010, Biocon struck a $350-million marketing alliance with Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, to commercialize four of Biocon's insulin biosimilar products in non-overlapping markets globally. Invention is a novel idea or new technology that can be patented or copyrighted as intellectual property (IP).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade. The business and civilian adoption of military technology is nothing new; we had mass adoption of the wristwatch after World War I when soldiers began attaching their pocket watches to their wrists for more practical purposes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Forbes I have truly had my fill of let’s-use-technology-to-fix-U.S.-health-care United Therapeutics, which was founded after her daughter was diagnosed with a rare disease, aims to do nothing less than use “blue-sky technology to extend life.” This seemed “a powerful use of the medium,” she says. So now the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

There are countless other examples of family firms that have brought innovations to market. Family firm owners can use their powerful shareholder positions to ensure that managers engage only in prudent investments. They need to gather as much information on technology developments and customer demands as possible.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Facebook’s proven power to affect voting turnout alarmed some, but that concern was largely hypothetical. Still, we’re entering a brave new world where the creators of technology platforms can activate billions of users to specific political action of their choosing. And Facebook is by no means the only example.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

In China, high inequality threatens to undermine the Communist Party’s key justification to unchecked claim to power. But they can be usefully divided into three groups: technological progress, globalization, and economic policy. With the election of Ronald Reagan to the U.S. Which leaves us with economic policy.

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