Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

Why do some innovations flourish while others flounder? Atul Gawande tackles this question in The New Yorker , using the medical field — arguably one of the places where innovation is most important, given its life-saving capabilities — as ground zero. You have to use mentorship to make an innovative idea the norm.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

A lot of small-firm owners and managers feel that way, and in many cases they’re justifiably proud of their competitive intangibles—a gut sense of the market and the flexibility to change quickly. They were able to envision long-range innovations, rather than reacting to competitors’ or the retailers’ actions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

There was Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, delivered at the age of 34, and Neil Armstrong walking on the surface of the moon at the age of 38. New infrastructures have arisen to support it, from the Stanford Social Innovation Review , TED and Good , to the Social Enterprise Program at Harvard.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The second story comes from AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, who last month hosted a meeting and call to address the 1,100 employees of Patch, a unit that had been losing money and was about to face some layoffs. Repeatedly Armstrong told his staff that anyone not fully invested in Patch should leave. .”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. Armstrong’s Killer App. Edwin Howard Armstrong was a science prodigy. All Armstrong needed was a radio spectrum for his radios. ” It was not established AM, but FM.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

We propose that older approaches to advancing surgical safety, focused on technical and structural improvements, have passed their peak; attention must now turn to innovations in how people enact their work “on the ground,” or how they organize in real time for reliable surgical performance. Standardizing procedures.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

Consider the "My Dell hell" diatribes by prominent blogger and journalist Jeff Jarvis, or Heather Armstrong's "Maytag Nightmare" that she described in vivid detail to her 1.5 Both launched media and customer firestorms; both shook top management to its core. million followers. Put customer issues front and center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

For 2012 fellow Rachel Armstrong it was when she was forced to give up her childhood dream to become a farmer in rural Minnesota due to crippling cultural and environmental poverty and a growing lack of connections between rural neighbors, urban eaters, and farmland. Career planning Managing yourself Social enterprise' As will you.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

She planned to entrust him and his family to manage his dressing changes, as well as his tracheostomy and drain care, with the support of frequent outpatient nursing visits — all very routine protocol, especially for someone who seemed alert and capable. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

There is no questioning the fact that Musk’s talent for entrepreneurship, defined as the ability to translate original and useful ideas into practical innovations, is truly outstanding. In fact, it’s far more likely that exceptionally talented people like Musk, Hughes, Jobs, Getty, and Armstrong succeed despite these traits.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

Yet, all too often, our organizations end up being less innovative than the people within them. The dozens of in-the-trenches innovators who responded to our Innovating Innovation Challenge embody the first assertion and are working relentlessly and fearlessly to overturn the second. Making Innovation part of the DNA.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Most companies put innovation at the top of their agendas. But how many devote the energy and resources it takes to build innovation into the values, processes, and practices that rule everyday activity and behavior? Not many, as we argued when we launched the Innovating Innovation Challenge in October.

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