Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

might lag behind in the race for AI technology for three reasons: AI remains off the high-level national agenda; there has been a reduction in national funding for science and technology; and strong regulations add barriers to innovation. The rise of AI has been compared to the Cold War space race. Pundits argue the U.S. How will that work?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We’re used to thinking of high-tech innovation and startups as generated and clustered predominantly in fertile U.S. But as with so many aspects of American economic ingenuity, high-tech startups have now truly gone global. Jakal Pan/Getty Images. ecosystems, such as Silicon Valley, Seattle, and New York. A number of U.S.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Estimated to be valued at around $50B as of July 2015, Uber has experienced a rapid (to say the least!) The company prides itself on its innovative, forward-thinking culture, and believes that its work is a reflection of that culture. Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Uber.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Big businesses struggling in an era of rapid transformation can learn a lot from the experiences of social entrepreneurs finding and adapting innovative solutions in difficult contexts. WISH and WISE. Empower Bottom-up Solutions. “Maybe what you think is the best idea you’ve ever had actually isn’t.”

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

Large cities like New York and Los Angeles, as well as leading tech and knowledge hubs like Seattle and San Francisco, have experienced gentrification, economic segregation, and a disappearing middle class. Inclusive prosperity is the idea that the opportunity and benefits of economic growth should be widely shared by all segments of society.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Forty years ago, two companies were known for aggressively recruiting minorities on college campuses: IBM and Xerox , both considered hot tech companies of that era. The job began my long career in the high-tech industry. An innovative model developed by the Ascend Foundation provides special insight. The Numbers.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

Help to increase tech literacy in Washington. This lack of knowledge — despite the millions of dollars that the tech industry spent on lobbying Washington in 2017 — shows that technology literacy among lawmakers still needs to be improved. Digital Service , and the Presidential Innovation Fellows.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

From this innovative and noble seed came a company that birthed management consulting as we know it. Today we’re going to be looking at Booz Allen Hamilton, a firm with a great name and a confusing history. Headquartered in the Greater Washington DC area, BAH are most well known for their governmental work. Booz Surveys; Edwin G.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. . “A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise output per worker.” And wages are stagnant.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2018

magazine as the founders of the fastest-growing startups in 2015, the average age at founding was only 29. In general, these finer-grained analyses do not modify the main conclusion: The average age of high-tech founders falls in the early forties. It’s widely believed that the most successful entrepreneurs are young.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5

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Management Consulted

MARCH 28, 2016

Today we’re going to be looking at Booz Allen Hamilton, a firm with a great name and a confusing history. Headquartered in the Greater Washington, DC area, Booz Allen Hamilton is well known for its governmental work. From this noble seed came a company that birthed management consulting as we know it. Booz Surveys; Edwin G.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2014

In the wake of a widely unexpected, huge oil price decline, I have received many questions and comments. Some speculate US pressure on Saudi Arabia to punish Russia. Others think "big oil" is out to punish the frackers. I responded to a friend today that the explanation is simple. No conspiracy theories needed. This was my proposal. Did that happen?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 2, 2018

When PwC asked CEOs to name the most important ingredients for successful innovation, 31% said having the capability for creativity. PwC’s 2017 Risk in Review report revealed that 47% of corporate officers said they track their risk appetite – up from 36% in 2015. That means you need to be willing to try–and fail.

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Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2016

The rapid pace of digital change has put companies in the unenviable position of trying to decide which tech trends to invest in and when. All too often, much-touted “revolutionary” innovations offer only incremental benefits at best; at worst, they are a costly distraction. Insight Center. Insight Center. The result?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Operationalize digital innovations while focusing on effective change management to ensure buy- in from clinical and non-clinical staff. Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. Four Steps for Digitalizing Healthcare. Generate high-quality imaging, laboratory, and operational data.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2016

The most recent study, conducted in October 2015, surveyed 933 U.S. “Explorers” are the most innovative and optimistic about technology and are early adopters; they make up 41% of on-demand consumers. The on-demand economy is large, and getting larger. since 1999. adults sampled at random from a consumer research panel.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

In 2015 the Army informed Riley that, because of his time away, he was not being promoted alongside 90% of his peers to the rank of 1st lieutenant and he would soon be facing a board to determine whether he should be separated from the Army altogether. That was where the trouble began. Today he continues to wear the uniform.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2016

The fight for new recruits is intense — not just in the tech sector, but across all industries. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. So venture out.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

At Pinterest, we understand that diverse teams yield smarter , more innovative results, which are essential in the competitive, dynamic tech industry. The tech industry joined the diversity movement to diversify their workforces far later, after being scrutinized for its stark lack of gender and ethnic diversity.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. YouTube offers paid parental leave to all of its employees as an effort to keep more women in tech. And many diversity programs fail. I chose eleven CEOs: Art Peck (Gap Inc.,

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

These have certainly contributed to the company’s problems, and his resignation is probably appropriate. Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. But others did this, too.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2018

According to Constellation Research , businesses across all sectors will spend more than $100 billion per year on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies by 2025, up from a mere $2 billion in 2015. For businesses looking to keep pace with innovation and leverage AI, there are steps they can take today. Insight Center.

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Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

BCG’s clients typically include many of the world’s 500 largest companies – BCG Boston is no exception, but in this office the focus is on healthcare, financial services, industrial goods, retail, and high tech. We bring to you the Top 10 consulting firms in Boston area and the MC reasons as to why they made it to this list.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2016

True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation. Similarly, Facebook’s Blueprint courseware initiative launched in 2015 champions new user capability. What really makes them work? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C Shana Novak/Getty Images. °C (3.8°F) °C (3.8°F) °C (2.7°F).

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

understands both hiring math and competitive strategy when it comes to filling entry-level jobs in its 3,000-plus Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy stores. Across the U.S., nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For women, the spread 10 years out is 16%.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Following a long stretch of fawning coverage from business and technology journalists, The Wall Street Journal reported in October 2015 that the company’s flagship blood-testing technology was a near-total failure. Humanity’s strange, ardent love affair with story has always fascinated me.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This means significant growth potential for multinationals who have core competencies in high-tech infrastructure solutions such as jet engines, turbines, CT scanners, and satellite communications. While India remains a formidably challenging market, there are at least three reasons why global firms cannot overlook India without consequences.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Fortune counted more than 170 of the mythical creatures , with an average of one unicorn born every week during 2015. Meanwhile, tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Facebook have continued to grow impressively, especially considering their large size. Back in 2009, there were just four companies that fit the bill.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

They’re also more profitable, more innovative, and they pay better. He excluded tech industries from the analysis since his aim was to study how IT adoption was helping firms, rather than industries that produce IT-related products.) They’re more productive, as the chart below illustrates.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 9, 2017

In the escalating Google-Uber dispute, Anthony Levandowski, a key engineer working for Google’s self-driving car arm, Waymo, allegedly downloaded in 2015 more than 14,000 confidential files, or 9.7 The case is complicated, but in this piece I’ll lay out the facts as we know them, and explain what’s at stake.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2018

Silicon Valley, with its proximity to Stanford and University of California, Berkeley, has long been the paradigm for innovation ecosystems. R&D headquarters to Cambridge in 2015 from Westchester County, New York, where it had resided for the preceding 67 years. Here’s what that entails.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 9, 2018

GDPR also bears more than a hint of the kind of protectionism that has featured prominently in EU technology policy since the 2015 release of the plan for a “Digital Single Market,” including recent announcements of new taxes for U.S.-based companies doing business abroad. In the U.S., What Is GDPR? GDPR Explained (CNET).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2018

While there is no doubt an intent to strengthen India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, its state support is more limited and less sophisticated than China’s in addressing the voids that impede innovation and entrepreneurship. Third, the Chinese ecosystem intermediaries (e.g.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. David Garvin, who died earlier this month, was by all accounts one of the great Harvard Business School teachers, lighting up the classroom and the minds of his students over the past 38 years. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.

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