Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2018

To help organizations meet today’s challenges, managers must move from: Directive to instructive: When robots driven by artificial intelligence (AI) do more tasks like finish construction or help legal professionals more efficiently manage invoices , there will be no need for a supervisor to direct people doing such work.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2016

Northwest University has reimagined an old, musty, on-campus parking garage as an incubator space for budding entrepreneurs, complete with 3-D printers, interactive screens, and loads of software. His newly reimagined facility opened a few years later to widespread critical acclaim and loud popular applause.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Evidence shows that when people understand and care about those they serve, they solve problems more creatively and provide better service. For example, leaders at IBM , Medtronic , and Microsoft have sent their people out to meet customers and see their products in use. What’s the best way to cultivate empathy?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

If all went well, AI-powered robots would enable the company to achieve a weekly production of 5,000 Model 3 electric cars to keep up with burgeoning demand. If all went well, AI-powered robots would enable the company to achieve a weekly production of 5,000 Model 3 electric cars to keep up with burgeoning demand.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2018

Sell more of the same stuff to the same people: Increase retention and share by powerfully connecting with customers. Sell enhanced stuff to the same people: Add improvements that drive incremental purchases. Juj Winn/Getty Images. These bets on the next growth engine often depend on luck more than insight. Michael Maddock, Luisa C.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. We’ve all seen some eye-bulging numbers in recent years about the internet of things (IoT).

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2017

Hiring the right people. Today’s leading organizations are using machine learning–based tools to automate decision processes, and they’re starting to experiment with more-advanced uses of artificial intelligence (AI) for digital transformation. Last year alone saw $5 billion in machine learning venture investment.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In health care that means reimagining the role a building can play in the health of its inhabitants and the locale in which it is situated. mathisworks/Getty Images. A key determinant of everything that matters when it comes to health interventions — the experience, cost, and results — has been hiding in plain sight.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

In an era of transformative cognitive technologies like AI and machine learning, it’s become obvious that people, practices, and systems must become nimbler too. In an era of transformative cognitive technologies like AI and machine learning, it’s become obvious that people, practices, and systems must become nimbler too.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2018

After all, every innovation somehow recombines or reimagines things that already exist. After all, every innovation somehow recombines or reimagines things that already exist. HBR STAFF/wragg/Getty Images. What’s the best way to boost creativity on your team? There’s really no simple answer.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 9, 2023

Today, we’re talking again about burnout and the CURE. I had a fantastic conversation with burnout expert Rachelle Stone and Lori Smith a few weeks back. I had a sense then I should open up about my struggle with burnout and what I learned from it, but then I chickened out. I realized it was time for me to do the same. So here it goes!

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Energy Exercises Consulting Sales 156

Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

EDENS wanted to play a role in making DC more inclusive, while also creating meaningful investment value, reimagining the project as an economic ecosystem rather than a collection of brick-and-mortar buildings. Most cities fall well short of that ideal. A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S. This needs to change.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

A building surrounded by razor wire. A guard tower looming over the perimeter. Weeds and overgrowth flanking the grim exterior. Inside — drab colors, peeling paint, and dead plants decaying in the common areas. Was this a prison? This was the headquarters of Campbell Soup Company when one of us, Doug Conant, took the reins as CEO in 2001.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Periodically, a client and accountant would meet, review financial materials and status and, at the end of the encounter, make an appointment for the next meeting. Increasingly, in-person accountant visits have been replaced by phone or web meetings and do-it-yourself software like TurboTax. Barriers to Transformation. Provider workload.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 7, 2016

But in hierarchical, high-power-distance markets like Asia — specifically Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand — this policy created unintended conflicts among leaders and sent confusing signals to the rest of the organization regarding who was more powerful and higher-ranking within the organization. In another case, a U.S.-led

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

For billions of people around the world, sports are a matter of passion, touching lives by offering a depth of human engagement unparalleled in other activities. In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

But the most powerful drivers of change are not necessarily technological; radical improvements increasingly also come from applying new innovation methodologies like design thinking that focus on developing a deep understanding of patient experiences and invite patients and partners into co-creation processes. Hero Images/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

GE, which decided to double down on coal , despite its much-vaunted “Ecomagination” platform, is now caught in the same market riptide , eliminating thousands of jobs from its power division. Such market dynamics behave like vortices — a whirlwind in the air, or a whirlpool in water.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2017

He expressed frustration that the people who would most benefit from constructive change returned only blank stares when he asked them questions such as “What would make your job easier? When channeled successfully, these attributes represent the lifeblood of entrepreneurship and market disruption. The answer is, they can’t.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

It can be summoned in all sorts of industries and all walks of life, if leaders can reimagine what’s possible in their fields. It can be summoned in all sorts of industries and all walks of life, if leaders can reimagine what’s possible in their fields. There’s a difference between being creative and being reckless.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A famous but possibly apocryphal tale about Albert Einstein is that he dreamed up the theory of relativity when riding his bicycle. Warren Buffett is on record as saying that he reads for six hours per day and has very few scheduled meetings. Both of these examples stand in stark contrast to the ways in which most leaders use their time.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

For a long time, the Silicon Valley funding model has been hailed as a powerful alternative to the stifling way corporate America works. Despite this surge, the reality is that disruption doesn’t always happen as quickly as people assume. Many are betting on the new generation of technology firms to unsettle the old guard.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

There are more mobile connections than people on the planet, and more people have access to a mobile phone than to a toilet. Digital players wield outsize market power. Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Today’s Digital Landscape. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

This is especially true in health care, where people’s hopes and fears tend to get magnified quickly. On balance, are people more glass half-full or half-empty? When it comes to privacy of medical data, of course people don’t want their records hacked by criminals. Consumers Want What Works. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. Improbable advances are now real possibilities.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

” digital iconoclast Jaron Lanier, who was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine and is now a Microsoft employee, once pointed out that people should own their online data profile and be compensated if they choose to share some of it. In his book “Who Owns the Future?”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Design thinking privileges the designer above the people she serves, and in doing so limits participation in the design process. Design thinking privileges the designer above the people she serves, and in doing so limits participation in the design process. When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2018

Still, it wasn’t until 50 years later that Edison opened his first power plant, and then 40 years after that, during the 1920s, electricity began to have a measurable impact on productivity. First, people need to change their habits, and then secondary innovations need to come into play.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In response to Trump’s election and his statements doubting climate change, many countries that signed the Paris climate accords in 2015 made it clear they would power on (China in particular — see story number three, below). In 2015, the world pivoted in a historic way toward sustainability. Then came 2016.

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