Stanford Breakfast Briefings: Managing Risk and Reward in an Innovation Portfolio

Presents: George Day

Professor of Marketing, Co-director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation, University of Pennsylvania

How do growth leaders such as GE, PG&E and Amazon consistently achieve above average organic growth?

This talk will focus on how they manage their innovation portfolios with:

- a disciplined innovation process with visible and vocal top management support

- a full spectrum search for opportunities along multiple dimensions that yields;

- a portfolio with a greater proportion of high yield adjacencies and breakthrough initiatives and,

- systematic approaches to containing - but not avoiding the greater risks to be taken

 
Date and Time:
 Wednesday, November 12, 2008.  7:30 AM.
Approximate duration of 1.5 hour(s).
Location:
Stanford Faculty Club 439 Lagunita Ave  [Map]
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Audience:
Faculty/Staff
Alumni/Friends
General Public
Students
Category:
Lectures/Readings
Sponsor:
Office of Public Affairs
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Admission:
$58.00 General Public $48.00 Stanford Faculty, Staff, Students, Alumi
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November 6, 2008