Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. If you are creating a technology empire, you will need a customer care department. One of the issues that tech innovators find is the mad-genius paradox. Customer Service Rep. You are the linchpin of the company.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The researchers believe their findings are important, as this decline has often been attributed to factors such as global trade, reduced union power, or technological change (or a combination of all). And that, in turn, shrinks the economic surplus available for workers.” ” Gauging the market.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 12, 2019

The research, which was published in Science and Public Policy , quizzed over 1,000 researchers and other staff from research facilities who had previously reported to Brazil’s National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) that they collaborate with the private sector between 2002 and 2008.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2014

From internet commerce technology has sprung forth the Bottom-Up Economic Revolution. Enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over 1 million employees between 2002 and 2012 while enterprises with less than 25 people gained over a 1.5 There’s a revolution in full swing that is changing the way ordinary Americans make a living.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

In 2002 he published Creative Destruction , which argues that globalization created much of the art and music we might consider "native." And Creative Destruction points out that the global markets that spur innovations in art can also, eventually, build a demand that discourages further changes. "I for 15,000 words.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The researchers say that due to the forces technology and economic change are imposing on the nature of work, our current models for understanding the workplace are simply not fit for purpose. So says new research from the University of Washington, which explores how important employment conditions are to our health. Healthy work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

As you can see from the chart, innovations introduced more recently are being adopted more quickly. This second graph, by Michael DeGusta of MIT’s Technology Review, presents similar results. Innovation Strategy' It took five years or less for cellphones to accomplish the same penetration in 1990.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. What are the critical levers for change that could be enhanced through technology?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. innovative alternatives. Individual empowerment. We Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges! '.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. In 1999, the U.S.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002). One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures. These are just a few examples.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

This ongoing struggle raises an issue that is endemic in such acquisitions: In search of innovation, big companies often buy other companies whose most innovative days are almost at an end. An acquirer looking for innovation would have been likelier to try to buy Gateway, a company that is almost an after-thought now.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

ISRO used indigenous components and technologies that are far cheaper than foreign imports. Converting these non-consumers into consumers will require breakthrough innovations — quality products at affordable prices. The starting point for such innovations is a big idea, a big dream. Indian engineers cost less, for sure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The concept of open innovation has moved from business phrase to business reality over the last ten years. When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 As the impact of the labor bonanza and capital-led phases begins to fade, productivity growth in China must increasingly come from the quality of innovation and management expertise at the organizational level.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

But it was an inevitable consequence of the value chain strategy that the company pursued in a highly constrained innovation space — one in which the hardware platform is defined by Intel and the software experience is defined by Microsoft. This constrained innovation space is a direct result of Intel's commoditization strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Employment in high-skill occupations increased between 1977 and 2002, but the paper found that, among the groups studied, all of that growth was in jobs that required both analytic and social skills. But others have studied how technological innovations affect workforce skill requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights. Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But HP is no longer a values-driven, family-like, innovation-oriented company that inspires commitment. A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. HP needs to broaden perspectives beyond technology to learn from other giants, many of them customers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. But the A's didn't win the World Series in 2002, or any year since.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

would shift toward work that was more valuable and innovative. companies to become more innovative? manufacturers exposed to competition from Chinese imports became far less innovative. The first takeaway from this paper is that more competition, from trade or otherwise, doesn’t necessarily lead to more innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. Prior to 2002, when Sam Palmisano became CEO, IBM had a series of feuding fiefdoms — 170 country units — each with its own policies, procedures, and processes. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

August 2002: HBR's special innovation issue hits the street, and my contrarian article about the fickle nature of corporate innovation sits sandwiched between stories by the likes of Peter Drucker, Henry Chesbrough, John Seely Brown, and Richard Florida. Breaking Out" stood proudly at the lunatic fringe of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more." Palmisano believes the technology industry requires "a high-performance, in-your-face, speak-your-mind culture."

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We studied Omada’s program as part of our Harvard Medical School initiative to identify and share knowledge about innovative approaches to major health challenges that primary care providers play the lead in treating. Design the service for the patient.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The story of how technological progress is affecting employment — whether, in other words, the robots are eating our jobs — is clearly an important one. I believe that technological unemployment (and underemployment) is a real and growing phenomenon. But who's telling it correctly?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

This hugely expensive venture (which I actually mention in the article) attempted to import Google's technology to the world of radio advertising and make money the same way the company does on the Internet. Google Answers (April 2002 to November 2006). Google Audio Ads (January 2006 to February 2009). That didn't work out so well.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. This may sound as though we’ve got our facts backward, but your company can significantly increase its knowledge output by cutting R&D spending.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The shutdown will be completed by early 2014, bringing to a close a dramatic story of rise and fall at the hands of disruptive technological innovation, or what we have called “ big bang disruption.” As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion. For years, Blockbuster seemed unbeatable.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

They’re also more profitable, more innovative, and they pay better. One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Technology is clearly part of it, as is the trend toward intangible investment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. The most notable characteristic of those technologies is their accessibility — to customers, employees, partners, and competitors. But guess what?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. This convergence hypothesis is reassuring on many fronts.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

So the question is really whether the current, mostly hands-off regulatory regime for broadband has led to faster growth and more investment than if Powell, as chairman of the FCC, hadn’t decided in 2002 to classify cable broadband as a lightly regulated “information service” instead of a common-carrier “telecommunications service.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Similarly, the rivalry between Intel and AMD is thought to have helped advance computer chip technology. ” We then collected nine years of play-by-play data (2002 – 2010), totaling almost half a million unique plays. technology), rivalry could be an important lever for managers to pull to incentivize risk-taking.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Demand and supply are not growing in tandem: from 2002 to 2012, inpatient days per capita decreased by 12% while the workforce in hospitals grew by 11%. As Ari Hoffman and Ezekiel Emanuel argue in the Journal of the American Medical Association, reengineering is very different from implementing new technologies.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

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