Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

A winning pitch starts with a winning logline — a valuable lesson for innovators in any field. The most valuable innovations offer novel solutions to challenging problems. But without the support of investors, even the best ideas might never get off the ground. What does your startup or product do? What’s your idea?

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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. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. Then it wasn’t.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 6, 2011

For most of us it would be impossible to imagine using a PC without a mouse, but this is just one of the innovations that were introduced and popularised by Steve Jobs, the visionary. Apple has often been criticised by the tech-purists for selling shiny products which contain ordinary technology. source: New York Times ).

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

Later, they would partner with VentureWell , a nonprofit that focuses on accelerating innovation. This, of course, was not an entirely new idea. The result, a program called I-Corps , is helping hundreds of scientists become successful entrepreneurs. An Idea Takes Shape. Now there was a plan in place.

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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

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. In STEM fields, the ideas that spark innovation are currency, markers of exceptional colleagues. How did they do it?

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the present-day dynamic business environment, you should stay on top of all recent trends and be ready to implement innovations in your work. Experienced healthcare professionals will share insights into ensuring effective risk and resource management and timely project delivery thanks to applying project delivery innovations.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Even in the startup world, where a talent gap means tech employees are in high demand, a solid resume is no guarantee of employment. These days I’m spending a lot of time in conference rooms interviewing prospective candidates, from engineers to salespeople to a new director of marketing. What are they?

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The Nonprofit Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

I''ve been thinking about this for a while, but it was brought to the fore for me last week when I attended Social Innovation Summit 2013 at Stanford University. And it will fail to improve our failing schools, wasting time, resources, and money in the process. But I have a different issue with Common Core: it attacks the wrong problem.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation. As the example of DJI demonstrates, Chinese companies are busy innovating based on three valuable and difficult-to-imitate advantages that will allow them to compete effectively with, and, in some areas, even overtake their Western rivals.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

The executives included heads of HR, innovation, IT, and diversity, and they represented a range of industries and sectors (tech, manufacturing, retail, professional services, education, startups, and others). times as often in Forbes’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies, 4.4 How is that possible?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation. There is no one “true” path to innovation. There is no one “true” path to innovation.

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Harvard Business

JULY 21, 2016

This is where the opportunity lies — in collaboration that includes the final approvers, embedding legal teams in the design and innovation process. Ironically, not including lawyers in the collaborative process perpetuates the idea that they smother innovation. I hear these stories all the time. Here’s how.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s the project for a major client, the opportunity to build out a new team, or the chance to represent the company at an industry conference. It’s the project for a major client, the opportunity to build out a new team, or the chance to represent the company at an industry conference. And not all assignments are equal.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I went into the tech industry, where I saw firsthand that male executives preferred to promote the ideas and innovations proposed by the female colleagues they happened to be having sex with. This is especially true in the modern, digital , social economy : ideas are essential for growth, innovation, and ultimately prosperity.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 12, 2014

While pondering that question, please consider Google catches up in technology patent wars Google was awarded nearly 2,000 patents in the US last year, almost double the number of all previous years combined, catapulting it into the top ranks of technology companies building stockpiles of legally-protected innovations.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. ” Antitrust deserves the attention it’s getting, and the tech platforms raise important questions. Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger. Those who work for the competition aren’t. IT Does Matter.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

According to executives surveyed by the Collaborative, access to difficult-to-find technical or functional expertise, speed, flexibility, and innovation are the top five drivers of using talent outside your organization. Today’s workforces are designed for speed and flexibility.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Early in the video, Kent discusses the all-too-frequent sexism and racism I also see in tech. A half-dozen of us sat around the conference table. He says later, “Stop making it harder.” ” He focused on women and handicapped/disabled people and the problems they described or he saw at work. The closer to the right?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The Economics of Clean Tech. If we take the incoming president of the United States at his word, things look dire for the cause of sustainability. Donald Trump and many of his advisers appear hostile to action on climate change and to progress on many social issues that companies have already embraced, such as diversity and LGBT rights.

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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.

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