Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

For many business leaders — 85%, according to a recent Accenture survey — such open innovation is critical to their strategic plans. That doesn’t sound all that unreasonable, perhaps, but consider this: Only 38% of those who took this approach said they believed the innovation partnership had achieved its strategic goals.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

New, growth-hungry businesses are disproportionately likely to innovate and to create jobs. They disproportionately fund white male entrepreneurs, mostly clustered in tech hubs such as the Bay Area, Boston, or New York. I’m skeptical that it will succeed. Allocating more resources to the startup economy probably is a good thing.

Finance 33

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Cheryl Cran

MAY 11, 2016

If we look at this optimistically we can see the merits of having robots do the mundane stuff and we humans get to focus energy on the fun aspects of work such as collaborating, creating and innovating. Recently I came upon an experiment by Georgia Tech on artificial intelligence that you dance with. What’s to gain?

Trends 31

Trends Engineering Energy Media 31

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. When Apple launched its latest iPad, experts and nonexperts alike expected it to be dubbed “iPad 3,” a natural follow-on to the second-generation iPad 2. Join the conversation. John Gourville, the Albert J.

Education 29

Education Productivity How To Research 29

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

Economists developed the theory of network effects in the 1970s and burnished it in the 1990s, and business gurus, entrepreneurs, and the tech media enshrined it as one of the guiding lights of the new economy. Yahoo’s core business is worth next to nothing, and buyers are struggling to see if there’s any there there.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2016

In the new world of “work without walls,” work happens in brains instead of factories, in open floor plans instead of private offices, and at soccer games, beaches, and coffee houses in addition to corporate headquarters. Four mistakes in particular come up again and again. Inadvertently tethering your employees to their email.

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