tech-and-innovation 
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 29, 2016
particularly high tech start-ups. Every week, an old French farmer would also peddle through London with strings of onions hanging from his bicycle. I thought the arrangement was unbelievably cool and more than romantic. The England I knew as a child was a fascinating place. He answered “ The Blitz.”. He answered “ The Blitz.”.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 17, 2016
You accept your first job as a manager in a fast growth tech company, thinking: “How much different could this be from my former company—a financial services firm? We at VitalSmarts wanted to uncover whether differences between the cultures of tech and non-tech companies are simply a matter of degree or of kind.
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 24, 2016
Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.
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?
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 11, 2016
On the one hand are the tech start-ups, who advocate for open office plans that emphasize chance encounters. ” Their new building “is really designed to spark not just collaboration but that innovation you see when people collide.” What type of office design is best for productivity and engagement?
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2016
This is comparable to what we see in innovation and patent filings, where immigrants also account for about a quarter of U.S. Immigration is one of the most divisive and polarizing topics today. Do immigrants take American jobs, or help our economy grow? One argument you tend to hear in the immigration debate in the U.S.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 18, 2016
They told and re-told Holmes’s story until she began to seem less like an actual person, and more like a living symbol—of progress, of innovation, of female empowerment. Humanity’s strange, ardent love affair with story has always fascinated me. But it also attracted an unanticipated audience of business professionals.
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