Innovation 360
DECEMBER 11, 2010
The most trendy right seems to be innovation. Companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Google has created a wave of management literature, lectures and theories that will help others to think as creatively. Innovation has long been recognized as key to getting businesses to achieve success. Innovation creates new markets and opportunities for improvement.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 3, 2010
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Innovation 360
DECEMBER 11, 2010
The most trendy right seems to be innovation. Companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Google has created a wave of management literature, lectures and theories that will help others to think as creatively. Innovation has long been recognized as key to getting businesses to achieve success. Innovation creates new markets and opportunities for improvement.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 13, 2010
Are you working longer hours, attending more meetings, taking shorter vacations, answering more emails and eating lunch at your desk, if you eat lunch at all? Does demand in your life just keep getting higher, so you're struggling more and more just to keep up? Are you utterly sick of hearing the phrase "do more with less?" Does the word "unsustainable" sound about right?
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The modern hotel room is no longer just a place to stay—it’s an experience to remember. Today’s guests expect seamless connectivity, personalized comfort, and high-tech convenience. From AI-powered smart room controls to keyless entry, in-room entertainment, and app-based services, technology is redefining hospitality from the inside out. In this new session featuring industry pros Jady West and Chris Bennett, we’ll explore how high-speed, high-bandwidth connectivity powers the innovations that
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 6, 2010
It was a banner year for social media growth and adoption. We witnessed Facebook overtake Google in most weekly site traffic, while some surveys reported nearly 95% of companies using LinkedIn to help in recruiting efforts. In my outlook for last year , I cited that mobile would become a lifeline to those looking for their social media fixes, and indeed the use of social media through mobile devices increased in the triple digits.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 21, 2010
The year end is a busy time for almost everyone. As we use our smartphones to confirm online gift orders, we're also trying to wrap up those work tasks we should have finished in November. We feel overwhelmed but also productive, pleased with our ability to juggle so many things. In reality, however, that sort of behavior makes us less effective in our jobs and our lives.
Business Innovation Brief brings together the best content for business innovation and strategy professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 14, 2010
Rohit Deshpandé , Harvard Business School professor, describes ways that emerging market companies can overcome consumer bias against their products. He is the author of the HBR article Why You Aren't Buying Venezuelan Chocolate.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 21, 2010
Years ago a colleague left my firm and went to work for the enemy, so to speak, during a time of great personal challenge and difficulty for me. I was hurt and felt betrayed and unable to trust him. Years later we began working together again. But for me, every subsequent interaction with him occurred within the context of "I can't trust him." No matter what he was saying to me, the background commentary in my head ran, "He's not telling the truth, be careful, watch out, you can't trust him.".
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 8, 2010
I recently saw the movie The Last Samurai for the second time. Set in Japan in the 1870s, it tells the story of an American civil war veteran who was captured by samurai fighters and, over time, learned to honor their ways. The first time I saw the movie, when it came out in 2003, I was enthralled by the beautifully choreographed fight scenes. . But this time, I was most moved by a scene I don't even remember seeing the first time: a samurai drinking tea.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 8, 2010
Rather than seeing WikiLeaks through the lens of morality or national security , let's look at it through an institutional lens. To those of you who've been reading this blog for a while, that may be second nature. But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean. Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. And unfortunately, it's also one of the most in need of radical institutional innovation.
Speaker: Kevin Burke, Founder & Managing Director at Digital One and AI & Automation Consultant
AI and automation are currently transforming the way sales and marketing teams operate. Generative AI crafts personalized outreach at scale, while conversational AI bots are engaging prospects in real time. Robotic process automation streamlines manual workflows by triggering tasks the moment a prospect takes a key action, and advanced AI analytics surface hidden patterns in the pipeline, improve forecasting, and help teams make data-driven decisions with confidence.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 2, 2010
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 2, 2010
At Ford Motor Company, we've spent the last few years engineering a well-recognized turnaround. One of the key tools we've used to accomplish it is something we call the 24-Hour Rule. It's a management practice based on a favorite saying of Ford's CEO, Alan Mulally. As Alan puts it: "You can't manage a secret.". Enormously complex undertakings—such as planning, designing, developing, manufacturing, marketing and selling a full line of high-quality vehicles—inevitably come down to tac
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 1, 2010
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 27, 2010
One of the simple ways that I try to make experimentation an everyday activity is to always try at least one new thing each time I give a presentation. One such recent experiment I called "choose your own presentation." I looked back at the 20 or so talks that I'd given this past year, and I tried to group material into the questions that I most commonly get asked.
Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar
Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 23, 2010
Social networking is the most significant business development of 2010, topping the resurgence of the U.S. automobile industry. During the year, social networking morphed from a personal communications tool for young people into a new vehicle that business leaders are using to transform communications with their employees and customers, as it shifts from one-way transmission of information to two-way interaction.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 3, 2010
This post was co-authored with Ripa Rashid. Hardly a day goes by, it seems, without India making global economic headlines. But there's one aspect of the "India Inc." miracle that remains a well-guarded secret: the rapid rise in the workplace of educated, ambitious Indian women. Many Westerners continue to view India as a place where women are poverty-stricken, oppressed, and marginalized.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 21, 2010
Dr. Edward M. "Ned" Hallowell outlines the five steps necessary to excel at work: select, connect, play, grapple and shine. He is the author of Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 13, 2010
A number of years ago I did my doctoral research on the balance between professional achievement and successful family life , using academic physicians as my study group. Not surprisingly, the most successful medical professors in my sample group — those with tenure, extensive research, and national awards — also tended to have the most instances of divorce and estrangement from children.
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 15, 2010
A few weeks ago was my birthday. I turned 43. 43 doesn't mark a new decade. It's not one of those birthdays people usually celebrate in a grand way, and mine was no exception. No one threw me a lavish surprise party. I had a few small dinners with close friends and family. I opened two presents. And yet as I emerge from this birthday, I can't imagine feeling any more appreciated, respected, and loved.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 14, 2010
Two points: PayPal founder (and billionaire) Peter Thiel is offering grants to 20 students under the age of 20, luring them to leave school and become entrepreneurs. He thinks that getting teenagers to start thinking big early will help them become innovators. Rather than take on education debt, Thiel wants these kids to get $100,000 from a mogul and start a business.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 13, 2010
Let's start off with a pop quiz: Who is the CEO of your career? If you answered with any pronoun that is not in the first person, then guess again. I was reminded (once again) of this just last week. I spent a day on the Harvard Business School campus, my old stomping grounds, for a bunch of meetings with professors, students, my book editor, some Deloitte folks, etc.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 1, 2010
Management experts have long predicted the demise of the standard 9-to-5 workday. Thanks to internet and mobile technology, we can now work where and when we want, they argue. So, why are so many people still sticking to those traditional hours, or more likely an extended version of them? The reality is that while flexible work arrangements have become more popular, few companies have an official policy or program.
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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 1, 2010
My wife Eleanor and I came home from dinner the other night, and found our babysitter, Leslie*, in tears. "Is everything OK with the kids?" I asked. "Yes. They've been sleeping the whole time. It's not that.". "Do you want to talk about whatever it is?" I asked her. "He broke up with me in a text message." she said, holding her phone. She had been dating Ned for a few weeks and they had grown close quickly.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 20, 2010
Bob Bowman, longtime coach of swimming phenom Michael Phelps , was once asked why Phelps. ">did not swim the languorous distance sets that were part of some other competitors' regimens. "We don't want him to swim slow in meets," he said, "so why would we have him practice swimming slow?". I am often reminded of this distinction when I'm asked about the difference between communicating with a client and communicating internally, with your team.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 1, 2010
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 13, 2010
Why do some leaders drain intelligence and capability from their teams while others leaders amplify it? That question prompted me to spend years researching the two types of bosses I now classify as "diminishers", who get less than 50% of the capability of people around them, and "multipliers" who get virtually 100%, as outlined in my May 2010 HBR article.
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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 3, 2010
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 3, 2010
First YouTube, now Groupon — Google seems intent on buying up some of the web's most lucrative social-media sites. But a closer look shows that Google may be targeting a much less attractive business this time around. The key issues: Groupon's business model is less appealing to its key constituents than YouTube's, and the resilience of Groupon's future pool of potential revenue-generating partners seems in doubt.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 3, 2010
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 22, 2010
From where I sit as an economist, it's still all about the economy and the long-term impact of the problems laid bare by the Great Recession. During the financial crisis, the world came to the apparently shocking realization that debt financing entails risks. Financial institutions, households, and governments all suffered because they had too much leverage.
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