Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. That’s the question that has dogged the company from the beginning, inspiring heated debate among Wall Street analysts, fanatical customers, and tech-related online communities. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide. ’” he said recently.

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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. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. The result?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Fatigue may be setting in for some Western investors’ interest in African innovation, particularly those that have yet to reap rewards to brag about. In 2014 we described what Western investors want from African entrepreneurs. A realistic approach to making money might strike some as humdrum. Factors of Production.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2017

The decisions, which were both unanimous, significantly scaled back the ability of patent holders to slow innovation by competitors, tipping scales that many legal scholars believe have become badly imbalanced. Taken together, the two cases will improve the innovation environment for companies in fast-changing industries.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

How has the stock market responded to the guilty verdict? In late August, Lee Jae-yong, the heir apparent of Samsung, South Korea’s largest conglomerate, was sentenced to five years in prison. Now, Lee Jae-yong’s conviction has surprised some observers in the “republic of Samsung.” Two factors contributed.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The remainder work for Orange (née French Telecom), which launched VBN in 2014 to teach its programmers and engineers how to work with and learn from people outside of the company. It’s not alone in trying to jump on the trend of shared workspaces, of which there are now around 19,000 worldwide.

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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. True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2016

Possibly, but the concrete synergies are hard to see, especially considering the $9 billion premium that Microsoft is paying over LinkedIn’s market value as of last week. Beyond that, there are vague tech-speak promises of how LinkedIn’s social network might help Microsoft’s enterprise businesses.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

But Slack is generally aimed at the enterprise market and doesn’t specialize in intimate relationships. In the traditional media industry, some outlets differentiate themselves through quality, but social media hasn’t gotten there yet — there is no “ New York Times of social media.”

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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 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The team began by identifying 57 companies that have made substantial progress toward transformation.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While India remains a formidably challenging market, there are at least three reasons why global firms cannot overlook India without consequences. India has expanded her solar generating capacity eight fold since 2014 and achieved the target of 20GW of capacity four years ahead of schedule.

Engineering 28

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The pressure on large companies in today’s equity markets is enormous, with expectations they will continue to produce outsized returns as PE ratios climb daily. Once one of the most innovative in its segments, the company lost its way in recent years. The organizational barriers to profitable growth are foreseeable and can be managed.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein have introduced a bipartisan bill that would require all tech companies to decrypt customer data at a court’s request. The debate over encryption—and decryption—has heated up as U.S. ” Opponents have criticized the bill, focusing on the privacy implications. Insight Center.

Government 28

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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. million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. More people are working in big, bureaucratic organizations than ever before. of the U.S.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. ICOs present both benefits and disadvantages, as well as threats and opportunities, to the traditional venture capital business model. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

Twitter’s market cap just plummeted after a bad earnings report. Given that news, it seems that businesses that have dominated their markets are learning that the magic elixir of network effects and winner-takes-all advantages are about as reliable as cures for baldness. What markets have these companies actually won?

Advertising 28

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers. Insight Center.

Company 28

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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.

Agile 28

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

His pick for Labor Secretary is staunchly opposed to covering overtime pay or increasing minimum wages (something many leading companies have been doing on their own since 2014. In 2016, two dwarf the rest: the election of Donald Trump and significant action on climate change. The early signs from the Trump team are not promising, in my view.

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