Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The tsunami it unleashed caused devastating damage whose effects are still being felt. Instead, a mere three seconds after the earthquake struck, a sophisticated early warning system kicked in. Corporations should have early warning systems to detect emerging competitive threats that have long-term potential to affect their business.

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System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2018

In fact, it began in the early 2000s, but was little noticed until recently. In recent years, we’ve come to associate the practice of innovation with speed and agility, but accomplishments that truly move the needle can’t be achieved quickly or through mere iteration. This is not a new effort.

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Agility Innovation Long-term Project 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

Many of these entrepreneurial lessons have been codified in books, the new bibles for innovation — not just for entrepreneurs but also for managers looking to create new and innovative innovation businesses inside existing corporations. But it doesn’t always work.

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Company Advertising Business Model Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

We've all been in conversations on the topics of creativity and innovation when Henry Ford's most famous adage is (excuse the pun) trotted out, usually accompanied by a knowing smirk and air of self-evidence. Battle lines are quickly drawn. Having grown weary of both sides of the debate, I was curious; did Ford utter those words?

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Innovation Mass Marketing Price Market Segmentation 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

One of the challenges of being a CEO is that you rarely are asked to choose between a wrong or right answer. Pick the slightly worse one and the consequences can be far reaching. ” Failure to grasp such disruptions — and adapt quickly — can be fatal. .” Today, this tension is perilous for CEOs.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2012

and 57 females for every 43 males in the UK, according to data from the Center for Talent Innovation. and 57 females for every 43 males in the UK, according to data from the Center for Talent Innovation. The lack of women in the C-suite and corporate boardroom has been making headlines on both sides of the Atlantic. In both the U.S.

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Competitive Advantage Loyalty Innovation Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

We’re also facing a new and perilous generation of drug-resistant pathogens. Fixing this should be one of the top public health priorities today for leaders in science, government, and private industry. When the Blizzard of ’78 hit the Northeast, it caught the region by surprise. Not all the stranded people would survive.

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Project Disaggregation Globalization Comparison 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

One of the things that characterized the early days of that industry was experimentation. So, if impact investing is still within this early stage of experimentation and iteration, what lessons learned from the formation of the venture capital industry might we apply? We would never get Intel, Apple, or Amazon.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Core Competence Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Samsung's journey from low-cost OEM producer to a global brand name synonymous with innovation is an admirable one. The process of turning away from the basic elements responsible for your original success is a perilous and brave move. August 2011 HBR.

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Globalization Mentor Project Power 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It's hard to survive in modern India without being an entrepreneur. And that is why despite mounting reasons to be concerned about its problems — corruption, inflation, blackouts affecting hundreds of millions of people — I believe in the country's long term potential. You are either very early or late." We pushed.

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Incubator Banking Hotels Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

But with their focus on clinical disease management and research, training programs actually offer little in the way of true leadership training – authentic experience that helps young doctors develop the leadership skills they will need. When I describe this program I get a lot of questions about the military portion. Why reach out to the ROTC?

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Training Health Care Leadership Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

At the beginning of 2017 Experian predicted that the health care sector would be the most heavily targeted vertical industry. These stats should be a wake-up call for the entire industry. How the most innovative providers are creating value. First, health care data can be monetized. billion per year. Insight Center.

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Health Care Supply Chain Insurance Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

How could this be?, Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Shouldn''t CMOs and all marketers be shocked by this? Sure, an ample pile of dollars can be attributed to big spending on a few analog media channels, like Super Bowl ads, for example.

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CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Their current vogue might lead you to believe that they’re a 21st-century tech innovation. Their current vogue might lead you to believe that they’re a 21st-century tech innovation. Venture capitalists are head-over-heels in love with platform markets these days. They’re not.

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Venture Capitalist Long-term Marketing Travel 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Often, it withers and dies an early death. StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. Often, it is assumed that some protector or regulator will adequately address the issues.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

When an epidemic is imminent, vaccines can’t be developed quickly enough because assuring their efficacy and safety requires trials that take months to years to complete. Candidate vaccines for Zika won’t begin large-scale trials until 2017 and, assuming they work safely, would not be available until 2018 or later.

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Decentralization Sample Incentives Development 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

I wasn’t convinced, but when he wrote to me that “holograms are coming fast and are here to stay; ignore them at your distinct, proximate peril” I reconsidered my dismissiveness. million adults in the US that have the ideal combination of attributes that makes them early candidates for HoloLens. McQuivey: Yes.

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Forrester Technology Execution Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

When we started building online communities six years ago, we told our early clients that they had a limited window for launching their own customer or supporter communities. My answer: There will always be a next thing, but there may not be a Next Big Thing. Facebook proved us right, and then Twitter proved us wrong.

Media 15

Media Creativity Bottom-up Tools 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

The game, 40 years old this month, appears to be about Orcs and warhammers, but, says Mims, it''s actually about the experience of growing older — and that''s what''s so appealing about it. Its ordered universe.is catnip to teenage geeks who are trying to make sense of the adult world." "Its ordered universe.is A whole bunch of them.)

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Management Engineering Hammer Advertising 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2016

It animates us as people and fuels organizational innovation, value creation, and growth. Whether or not they understand the forces driving it, the smartest organizations are putting purpose at the top of their agendas—and those that ignore it, do so at their peril. No matter which way you turn, the focus on ‘purpose’ is everywhere.

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Hedge Long-term Restructuring Maturity 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. Once a transaction is entered in the database and the accounts are updated, the records cannot be altered, because they’re linked to every transaction record that came before them (hence the term “chain”). Distributed Database.

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Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Antitrust activity was rare since administrations generally preferred industry-government cooperation (and, during the early New Deal, economic planning and industry codes of fair competition ), over robust antitrust enforcement. Tim Evans for HBR. What happened to the antitrust movement ? Fifty years later, the U.S. That needs to change.

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Policies Politics Stephenson Industry 8