Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 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. The challenges of urban K-12 education in the United States, and indeed globally, are at a crisis stage. This raises an interesting question.

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Education Innovation Stage-Gate Software 15

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. Bill Gates’ vision for Microsoft (“A computer on every desk and in every home”) would have been a lot less tangible had he written it as: “Becoming a world leader in the software industry.”

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. Bill Gates’ vision for Microsoft (“A computer on every desk and in every home”) would have been a lot less tangible had he written it as: “Becoming a world leader in the software industry.”.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

Second, they take a few basic ingredients — brand, marketing, technology, and service — and combine them in just the right ways over the course of five stages. In each stage, they ask themselves what gaps need to be filled. Stage 1: Is there a recognition gap? Stage 2: Is there a brand-personalization gap?

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Stage-Gate Airlines Brand Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Incremental innovation can be pushed down into the organization where the strategy is clear, decision metrics are understood, and management models like Stage-Gate create a level playing field. So Stage-Gate models can unintentionally kill potentially big ideas. However, for game-changing innovation it's the opposite.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

In contrast, my client, the CEO of a new biotech company walks on stage, rolls up his shirt sleeve, and stops at the center of the stage. And venture capitalist John Doerr, who has invested in green technology, likes to say, "We can bail out the economy — we cannot bail out the environment."

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Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist Reis Sports 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Gates’ original quote contended that the dinosaurs can be ”bypassed.” The glacial pace at which banks have moved SME lending online has left them vulnerable.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

This is both because the resulting knowledge might walk out the door, as employees join other firms or start their own, and because you can acquire firms who have the needed technology. Although the setting was law firms, rather than technology firms, all the assets in those firms reside in human capital.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In some cases, companies’ moats have enabled them to survive multiple technology disruptions and industry shifts over time, making their founders some of richest people in the world: think Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, Amancio Ortega, and Larry Ellison.

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Stage-Gate Kaplan Intangible Assets Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs) is the single most important technological development of the millennium so far. The first stage is when it does what was being done before but better. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. Bill Gates. I say this for two main reasons. That's what is happening now.

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Education Stage-Gate Insurance Class 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

India has numerous small retailers and service providers who are shining examples of scrappy entrepreneurship at its best, but the information technology startups that are my primary interest typically require outside funding. India has done well in the last twenty odd years to build its technology industry through services.

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Incubator Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

The data also shows that younger founders and founders with prestigious educational backgrounds or prior experience in large technology companies tend to be more successful. Good investments are increasingly coming from burgeoning technology centers in Texas and North Carolina. Of course, some caveats are in order.

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Succession Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

following a traditional stage-gate process). Bringing together people, technologies and skills from within and outside the company under the same roof, the Merck Innovation Center is a building made to inspire. In 2018, Merck opened its new Innovation Center at the company’s Darmstadt headquarters.

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Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

R&D investments have been made, stage/gate processes have been built, creativity training courses have been run, and yet the outputs — exciting new products and services — don't seem to be falling into place. Consider, for example, the UK software company, Red Gate. So a more focused approach may be more worthwhile.

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Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one. stage to the next. ” Putting a number on that understanding of new markets and technologies — whether it makes sense for one’s employer to enter them, and how — is difficult. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline. The vision thing.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

One financial services company we know reviews the viability of the business case at every major stage gate. That effort will get technology into people''s hands sooner — and accelerate the speed at which the business accrues benefits from IT. IT management Information & technology Strategy'

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CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently. On the phone front, I was at my home office desk phoning execs before 7 am and well after 5 pm to avoid their Gate Keepers, AKA, executive assistants.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

To understand the work, first you need to understand an airport's business model: its real customer isn't travelers, but the airlines that rent the gates and terminals, much like a mall owner leases space to retailers. The primary research also identified six underlying passenger needs and desires.

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B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 15

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

One myth for me is that creating unique content for a matrix of each stage of the buying journey for each distinct customer segment is simply not sustainable for most companies. Not every company should be focusing on a blog right out of the gate. Stay on top of all technological advances pertaining to marketing.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data quality and data governance: tools, processes, guidelines to ensure data is correct, gated and monitored, documented, standardized. To answer that question, first decide what stage you are in with your data operation, and second ask how vital data is to your product. This includes tools for data lineage and data security.

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Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Always keep up with emerging trends and technologies in your specific sector. The goal is not the label, or tile at this stage, but the fulfillment of even more values, alignment of strengths and the opportunity to bring out more of who they are. June Angus ( Raven’s Gate ) The number one thing I look for is perseverance.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The same could well be said of Bill Gates, who has left mere connectivity behind in his quest to eradicate major human diseases. At some point in the future, however, as it moves more assuredly onto the global stage, China will need both a new generation of dreamers and new dreams, especially in business.

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Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

.” But their participation in cleantech deals also peaked in 2011, and as the authors note, “These companies, with legacy businesses to protect and sustain, are unlikely to expand their involvement and pick up more of the slack in funding disruptive clean technologies.” But the bigger problem is in Washington.

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Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

And he has assembled a high-powered Western fan club consisting of, among others, Howard Schultz, Bill Gates, and Tony Blair. Broadband access is really quite unique for a country at this stage of development. In other circles, Kagame is not so popular. The next areas of growth partly are ones that are connected to the first ones.

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

In practice, a start-up is in its early stages is not making a profit and is therefore not paying income tax — making it ineligible to use the R&D tax credit under current law. Supporting small incremental steps — the reality of innovation and technological change — are what the R&D tax credit is about.

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Stage-Gate Committee Entrepreneur Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

In practice, a start-up is in its early stages is not making a profit and is therefore not paying income tax — making it ineligible to use the R&D tax credit under current law. Supporting small incremental steps — the reality of innovation and technological change — are what the R&D tax credit is about.

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Stage-Gate Committee Entrepreneur Innovation 8