Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

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. Investors affect innovation investments. Simon McGill/Getty Images. In theory, investor incentives align with what is good for the firm.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

Innovation abounds (especially in technology) and new value is being created hand over fist — yet the resulting wealth gains go to the few, while the many wind up financially worse off. This vexing global challenge causes me to wonder, “What if the world’s innovators turned their sights on solving this problem?

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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. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2018

A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs. Penney, and Barnes & Noble. Maxx and Marshalls—which compete aggressively on price.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

HEB, Costco, Trader Joe’s, and QuikTrip all made Glassdoor’s 2017 “Best Places to Work: Employees’ Choice” list , released in early December. For Craig Boyan, HEB’s president and COO , creating a culture of “restless dissatisfaction” drives customer service, employee engagement, and innovation.

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Confessions of a Consultant

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

We’ve been oversold on ‘tech’ so many times that it’s hard not to be skeptical. PWC Conference: All of these thoughts were generated during the PWC annual business conference (November 2017) where one key messages was hammered home : stay open to new ideas. Technology Denier: I’ve always been a bit of an Ostrich around technology.

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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

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 18, 2017

Many large companies yearn to rekindle the innovative magic of entrepreneurship, but very few actually succeed. The reasons have been well documented and include: Large, established companies answer to investors who value predictable, consistent financial results, and so are intolerant of the risks inherent in bold innovation.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The traditional drivers of brand premium are being joined (and to varying degrees supplanted) by newer, tech-enabled variables: software, interactive products, digital interactions, immersive experiences, and predictive services, to name a few. Product: mechanical vs. interactive. Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The obvious consequence from these trends is that the big tech firms will find it increasingly difficult to legally use the personal data they collect. One obvious possibility is that a few big tech companies — such as Apple, or maybe someone new — could become consumers’ data guardians. Mark Wilson/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. In our survey, we found that one-fourth of high-tech companies are on the offensive, 2.5 joshua sortino/unsplash.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. At the end of the 19th century, New York City stank. One hundred fifty thousand horses ferried people and goods through the streets of Manhattan, producing 45,000 tons — tons! — of manure a month.

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 15, 2017

On May 25, 2017, the Wall Street Journal’s tech column was about how almost all of us have personal information exposed online, much more than we realize. The June 1 column had more on how to reduce information exposure. I mention these articles because it’s not nearly so easy for the rest of us.

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SkillQuo

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Article Credit: CB Insights. High deductible plans and new technologies are turning patients into savvy healthcare consumers, with higher expectations around service and experience. Companies are positioning themselves to take advantage of this shift. In healthcare, that change has come more slowly. TABLE OF CONTENTS. MOBILE TAKES OFF.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

For example, in 2017 the profits of the 30 largest South Korean conglomerates rose by 48%, compared with one year before, but the number of workers employed by those companies decreased by 0.4% In late August, Lee Jae-yong, the heir apparent of Samsung, South Korea’s largest conglomerate, was sentenced to five years in prison.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

You don’t have to be a programmer in Silicon Valley or a gene splicer in biotech to unleash exciting innovations and create huge value. Yet little did I know that some of the most extraordinary innovations I’ve seen would take place in the pizza business. The scale of the changes at Domino’s are remarkable.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 30, 2018

The digital industry is riding an important—and turbulent—wave of change right now. As Facebook and others grapple with tough questions about data privacy and security practices, trust in social platforms appears to be plummeting. I disagree with this argument. ” Wait, What's GDPR Again?

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

SOURCE: Accenture Strategy 2017 study, “Tech-Led Change in M&A”, a survey of 1,100 C-Suite executives representing 13 industries in seven countries. More than half of U.S. companies logging M&A activity described themselves as primarily acquiring digital companies or assets.

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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. The structured interviews were conducted by me over the phone, Skype, or in person, between February and June 2017. And many diversity programs fail. I chose eleven CEOs: Art Peck (Gap Inc.,

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Here are some of our initial findings, drawn from the study, “Digital Planet 2017: How Competitiveness and Trust in Digital Economies Vary Across the World.” Fanatic Studio/Getty Images. The year 2018 is barely underway and, already, digital trust initiatives have captured headlines. ” Trust Eases Friction.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

For example, Susan Fowler’s 2017 blog about Uber detailed not only her recollections of being repeatedly harassed, but what she described as a “game-of-thrones” environment, in which managers sought to one-up and sabotage colleagues to get ahead. Masculinity Contest Cultures. We surveyed thousands of workers in the U.S.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

2nd Lieutenant Riley’s background is any employer’s dream, and his retention in the armed forces is a good thing for the Department of Defense, the organization I had the honor to lead from 2015 to 2017. That was where the trouble began. Today he continues to wear the uniform.

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QEmploy

JULY 16, 2019

This guide contains everything you need to know about being a freelance consultant, answer the questions you might have, and tell you what to be aware of. How to start? What are the steps? And what can you get out of it? Jump right into it below and find the answers. This is just to name a few – there are an abundant amount of other fields.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation. But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation. In 2017, DJI’s sales were around $2.7 Western media has been quite critical of the Chinese miracle. Unlike in the U.S.,

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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

MARCH 24, 2017

For example, the cryptocurrency used for the Ethereum network, called Ether , saw its value double in just a few days in March 2017. While the price of Ether has been rising , Bitcoin has dropped 20% to $1,000 dollars from a record $1,290 on March 3, 2017. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2018

The so-called tech unicorns, private companies in the tech sector whose value exceeds $1 billion, are playing the same game. Today’s digital world is organized around two centers of gravity: the U.S. West Coast and the east coast of China. A Concentration of Wealth, Value, and Power. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If 2017 was the year that tech became a lightning rod for dissatisfaction over everything from the last U.S. Innovation and its discontents are nothing new, of course, going back at least to the 18 th century, when Luddites physically attacked industrial looms. Alberto Manuel Urosa Toledano/Getty Images. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The context for sustainable business in 2017 may center on the competition between these two stories; that is, how will Trump and his team impact or impede progress on climate and other sustainability issues? In 2016, two dwarf the rest: the election of Donald Trump and significant action on climate change. This is all promising. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

Therefore, one of the main questions to ask of our fractured state-level climate policy is whether it can unleash the same level of innovation. It depends, in part, on what states and cities do next. For the time being, U.S. climate policy will be fractured by political geography. The Background. Blue States. Blue States.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Vincent Tsui for HBR. Trade is in trouble in U.S. Both the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, have blamed U.S. trade agreements for loss of jobs and a rash of economic ills. Democratic support for trade in Congress has withered over the years, and now more Republicans in Congress are hesitating, too.

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