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Your Favorite HBR Articles of 2023

Harvard Business Review

We heard from readers in a variety of different industries, writing in from various corners of the world. They called out articles ranging from a 2001 classic article about managing your energy as a worker to a recent magazine piece on storytelling for leaders. And how specifically did it change the way you operate?

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The Next Supply-Chain Challenge Isn’t a Shortage — It’s Inventory Glut

Harvard Business Review

Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst. And now, the high-tech industry is feeling the weight of a volatile market that has led to excess component inventory. Inventory challenges aren’t new. In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped.

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What Formula Made Steve Jobs as an Innovation Leader So Successful?

IdeaScale

Steve Jobs as a leader offers a simple set of lessons on innovation: You need to accept failure as part of the process; have a tight focus with clear and simple goals; ensure leadership takes ownership of the entire process, to think ahead of the current industry; and have high standards. And until 2001, that was it.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

First launched in October 2001, Apple ‘s portable music device has revolutionised how we all listen to and download music. This lightweight, technologically proficient reinvention of existing MP3 players was an global phenomenon that has since sold more than 400 million units since 2001. Take the iPod for example.

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Don Draper is (Finally) Dead

Innovation Excellence

I graduated from college in 2001. If you wanted to learn Marketing at that time, you had two options: join a consultancy firm or work in FMCG, ideally in the food industry. David Bruel – Marketing, as we learned it, is dead. We were Kings. I had the privilege to be selected by one.

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Business model innovation: a core capability for disrupting your industry

hackerearth

In 2001, Apple introduced an array of products and services beyond hardware and software. The company’s new offerings, such as the iPod, the iPhone, and the iTunes skyrocketed Apple’s growth all over again, taking it to the zenith of its industry. Finding the dominant business model in your industry. Source: McKinsey.

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Business model innovation: a core capability for disrupting your industry

hackerearth

In 2001, Apple introduced an array of products and services beyond hardware and software. The company’s new offerings, such as the iPod, the iPhone, and the iTunes skyrocketed Apple’s growth all over again, taking it to the zenith of its industry. Finding the dominant business model in your industry. Source: McKinsey.