Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

When Apple launched the iPhone in 2007 with AT&T as exclusive service provider, telecom giant Verizon decided to launch its own smartphone. But then the CEO zeroed in on volunteer champions who stepped forward to realize the vision through innovations in products and customer relationships. Dan Kenyon/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. Microsoft entered the 20 th century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. Sixteen years later, that dominance is looking threadbare. The result?

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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

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. The team began by identifying 57 companies that have made substantial progress toward transformation.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2016

In 2007 such young enterprises created almost two-thirds of the nation’s 12 million new jobs. ” In less mature economies and fragile regions of the world, entrepreneurs are just as, if not more, critical to livelihoods and development.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. More people are working in big, bureaucratic organizations than ever before. By our reckoning, the cost of excess bureaucracy in the U.S. Here’s the arithmetic. of the U.S.

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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

JUNE 6, 2017

greenhouse gas emissions peaked in 2007, and by 2015 had declined by 10%. emissions from electricity generators fell 20% from 2007 to 2015, while emissions from other sectors fell more modestly. 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.

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