Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Instead of passive subscribers, it created “communities of friends” who generated new story ideas and collaborated with Fast Company staff to develop themes of the “new management revolution.”. At Best Buy in the early 2000s, Julie Gilbert was in charge of an internal network aimed at developing female leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Yale School of Management Professor Dick Foster notes that a single firm cannot innovate faster than the market in which it participates. The end result too frequently is the market speeds ahead of the autonomous organization. A large company just can't innovate faster than the market. Why is that?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market. Big companies began to attempt to manage innovation in a systematic way.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

In the business world, marketers use enchantment all the time. But as employees, most of us still have to put up with quaint, joyless systems for enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, or expense reports. We often find it when we experience nature, art, or entertainment, and, of course, when we fall in love.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions.

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