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

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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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.

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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 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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Real Estate Engineering Transportation Industry 52

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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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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SkillQuo

OCTOBER 10, 2018

They’ve focused on improving product experience and creating customer-friendly policies in an effort to appeal to an increasingly informed, internet-savvy audience. Article Credit: CB Insights. Companies are positioning themselves to take advantage of this shift. In healthcare, that change has come more slowly. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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Healthcare Insurance Insurance Retail 53

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

To make digital acquisitions a success and have them contribute to scaling new business opportunities, digitizing the value chain, or providing digital products and services, companies need to transform their M&A approach. More than half of U.S. Forty-nine percent use a different playbook.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

What these stories underscore is that our digital evolution and our productive use of new technologies rests on how well we can build digital trust. 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.”

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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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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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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Survey 64

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.

Engineering 28

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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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Finance Financial Government Software 40

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.,

Enterprise 28

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a productive 12 months, to say the least. 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? Then came 2016. Trump Shocked the World. This is all promising. In the U.S.,

Energy 28

Energy Chemicals Banking Financial 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

Investors in the green economy would face less risk because of the federal government’s subsidies for basic energy research and its encouragement of cleaner products. 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. The Background.

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Energy Transportation Government Policies 28

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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