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The Reality of What Makes Silicon Valley Tick
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5 Lessons from Penn Medicine's Crisis Response
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Solve America’s Employment Crisis With a Netflix Prize
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How NFTs Create Value
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The Risky Business of Diversification
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A Leap Year Lesson on Correcting Leadership Drift
Managing yourself Digital ArticleWe all know why leap years exist, right? Our calendars get out of synch with the solar system so we must periodically get our human calendars back on track with the celestial ones. In other words, February 29th is all about correcting drift. Without those corrections, things become more and more out of synch. Not […] -
The Secret to AI Is People
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Polycentric Innovation: The New Global Innovation Agenda for MNCs
International business Digital ArticleRecently I delivered a talk a the Council on Foreign Relations titled “Managing the New Trajectory of Global Innovation” explaining why and how multinationals must revamp their Western-centric innovation strategy in order to effectively leverage global ideas, talent, and markets. In our increasingly multi-polar world characterized by the inexorable rise of emerging markets like Brazil, […] -
Reaching the Rich World’s Poorest Consumers
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Is Your Innovation Problem Really a Strategy Problem?
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The Science of What We Do (and Don’t) Know About Data Visualization
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5 Ways to Boost Creativity on Your Team
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Afraid to Innovate? Create an Airlock
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Productive Friction: How Difficult Business Partnerships Can Accelerate Innovation
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Innovation Lessons from Amazon
Innovation Digital ArticleWhen I started using my new Amazon Kindle, it became clear to me that CEO Jeff Bezos is trying to dominate the entire value chain in content, from author to consumption. At a svelte 10.3 ounces, my Kindle, through its free Whispernet connection, can download from 115,000 books, 327 blogs, 18 newspapers, and 15 magazines. […] -
To Solve a Tough Problem, Reframe It
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Ten Ways to Diversify an Inbred Network
Collaboration and teams Digital ArticleNetworks are essential for collaboration, innovation, and career development. But too many executives have networks that, while they may be large, don’t have enough diversity to be effective. For the past fifteen years, I have asked the executives I teach to list the people with whom they have discussed important work matters over the past […]
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Winning at Influencer Marketing
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Why Has the EV Market Stalled?
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GenAI Could Make Online Conversations More Civil
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Overcoming Common Challenges to Disruptive Innovation
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United We Thrive: How The Guardian Media Group Returned to the Black
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Tencent
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Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case study is set in September 2016 to April 2021. It describes how Abhilash Murthy used the Digital Product Management (DPM) framework to create... -
Giving Data A Voice: The Rise of TalkingData
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the genesis and development of a Chinese data analytics startup, TalkingData, from 2012 to 2017. It highlights the strategies pursued... -
Kellogg Company/eighteen94 capital
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Doubling Down: Elon Musk's Big Bets in 2022
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details 2021 was a banner year for Elon Musk. CEO of the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla, the aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, and a few smaller startups, Musk... -
Blackstone's Julia Kahr at the Summit
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Renova Toilet Paper: Escaping the Commoditization Trap - Abridged
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Renova, a Portuguese toilet paper manufacturer, is battling to survive in a stagnant, commoditised market dominated by international giants and private... -
Systems Infrastructure at Google (A)
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Smile Again! Applying Design Thinking to Improve the Dental Patient's Experience
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Sustainable Development at Shell (C)
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IBM in the 21st Century: The Coming of the Globally Integrated Enterprise
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IBM and the Reinvention of High School (B): Replicating & Scaling P-TECH and Partners
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Tesla Motors: Disrupting the Auto Industry?
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Aston Martin: A Second Century of Performance and Luxury
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Starlab: Transforming Ideas into Business
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Adaptive Engineering, LLC
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Xiaomi 2015: A Homegrown Apple in China?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The Xiaomi case explores how this Chinese startup leveraged ubiquitous connectivity and open innovation to revolutionize the mobile phone industry in... -
The Design of Experiments
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TikTok and Kuaishou: A Tale of Two Short-Video Sharing Apps from China to the Globe
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Short videos are the new trend in entertainment and social networking. TikTok/Douyin is the undisputed leader of short video-sharing apps. Less than four...
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The Reality of What Makes Silicon Valley Tick
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United We Thrive: How The Guardian Media Group Returned to the Black
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Almost three-and-a-half years after a turnaround strategy for the UK-based loss-making Guardian Media Group (GMG) was launched, it had finally managed... -
5 Lessons from Penn Medicine's Crisis Response
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Tencent
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider... -
Developing Products on Internet Time
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleThe rise of the World Wide Web provided one of the most challenging environments for product development in recent history. The market needs that a product... -
Changing Face of Chinese Executives
Global Business Magazine ArticleResearchers have identified four cultural tensions that will influence how Chinese leaders develop over the next 15 years. -
Visualizing Hip-Hop Lyrics as Cultural Indicator
Design thinking Digital ArticleGraphics aren’t just an alternative to representation in words. -
Bus Uncle Chatbot - Creating a Successful Digital Business (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case study is set in September 2016 to April 2021. It describes how Abhilash Murthy used the Digital Product Management (DPM) framework to create... -
Solve America’s Employment Crisis With a Netflix Prize
Innovation Digital ArticleAn entire generation’s prosperity vanishing, food stamp use exploding. Welcome to the jobless future. This month’s jobs numbers drive home the point. The unemployment rate fell at the fastest rate for years — great news, right? Wrong. The lion’s share of the gains came from (wait for it) “temporary help services.” See what just happened? […] -
How NFTs Create Value
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleUnderstanding this new - and often confusing - asset class.