Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Avis has taken an interesting (and bold) step by acquiring Zipcar, absorbing an innovative but struggling competitor at what is likely to be seen as a bargain price while acquiring a small but desirable customer base and gaining a foothold in the rapidly growing world of collaborative consumption.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

companies are outperforming their overseas counterparts: Clean-energy technologies. This healthy, innovative sector holds out vast promise, but missteps now could cost the United States its lead. has underwritten much of the technological innovation behind clean energy's progress.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Because innovation requires it. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? MISTAKE #2: Underestimating the impact of small acts of dishonesty. There can be no reward without risk.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

When I grab a hammer to install shelving, the distinction between “hand” and “tool” recedes into the unconscious, while completing the job becomes the main object of my thinking; in function and thought, the tool is the extended hand when it works properly. Information & technology Internet Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement. Most missionaries of the BPM religion come from a heritage in information technology. Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. In transition periods, during big technological shifts or the ends of recessions, companies often turn their aspirations to growth through innovation. As the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge. Innovation Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Every serious technology company now has an Artificial Intelligence team in place. As with earlier technologies, we are now hearing advice about “AI strategies” and how companies should hire Chief AI Officers. The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. The businesses most at risk from platforms powered by rapidly improving online technologies aren’t, in fact, traditional businesses that sell products and services to consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

And the beauty of innovative sectors such as impact investing is that we can experiment, collaborate and try to — even in a very small way — reconcile some of what didn’t work previously. If you start seeing everything through the impact investing lens, it starts looking like you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

— who use targeted technical innovation to cheat to compete from home against human contestants. People will constantly revise, enhance and extend their devices in a never-ending Red Queen's Race of innovative effectiveness. They turn their devices and themselves into Jeopardy cyborgs — Jeopborgs?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Last September some of the world’s foremost technology industry leaders met in Seattle with Xi Jinping, president of China. You could certainly apply that to the fateful photograph of Xi Jinping and the top technology CEOs — the one where Kalanick is out of the picture. ” Here is the takeaway.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. Instead what he says is let’s have financial innovation that is actually helpful. They tend to be followed by declining prices.

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