Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Is that smart? Not really, suggests our analysis.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Household income and savings are ultra-low in most global markets.

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

In the past four years, we've witnessed the worst financial market meltdown in decades, the sharpest global slowdown since World War II, an existential crisis in Europe, and a wave of unrest across the Middle East. Any one of these events would send shockwaves through global markets. This trend is by no means a thing of the past.

Politics 8

Politics Marketing Class Globalization 8

Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Philosophy: Although agile is originally a methodology developed by software programmers. Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. We think clearly and adapt quickly to customer/market needs (aka reality). Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

Agility 71

Agility Project Software Short-term 71

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

labor market is like an aging athlete; it is taking longer and longer to recover from recessions. The next recession, which came in 2001, was short and mild (GDP barely fell), but it took four years for the job market to heal, prompting the Federal Reserve to administer the economy a long course of low interest rates.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Merchandising GDP Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

When it comes to e-commerce across the globe, I''ve noticed a very interesting trend. Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. Moving slowly meant losing markets and, later, having to buy our way back in.

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

We believe that organizations need to explicitly develop two parallel management systems: the operational system that manages the short-term execution of work — what we call the "Surface System," and a second system that focuses externally on sensing and driving strategic change — what we call the "Deep System."

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

No matter how you look at it, there have been terrible, unintended outcomes from the introduction and marketing of next-generation prescription opioids. How did the making and marketing of drugs like OxyContin go so terribly wrong? has quadrupled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Commercial.

Incentives 8

Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Over time, Rob Arnott and Peter Bernstein demonstrated in a great 2002 article in the Financial Analysts Journal , stock market returns should and do trail economic growth. stock market returns outpace economic growth, that money has to come from somewhere. Then there are the other tradeoffs inherent in investment returns. So when U.S.

Bond 8

Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Nokia is still struggling to find a future beyond going head to head with the Android and iPhone platforms in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. The result: the Nook debuted in 2009 and leapfrogged the Kindle in key features, capturing nearly a third of the e-reader market and probably saving the company's life.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

And as you can see in the chart below, the long-term trend in the percentage of workers who are self-employed actually appears to be downward: But isn’t this the age of Free Agent Nation , as Dan Pink declared back in 1997 ? On Thursday, EMSI published a nice roundup of developments since 2006.

MBO 9

MBO Survey Human Resources Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

And after that, when China and India’s spectacular growth in the first decade of the new millennium proved Rohwer right in spades, he wasn’t around to say I told you so because he’d died (in a sailing accident) in 2001.

Globalization 9

Globalization GDP Long-term Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

Sending sound through the airwaves, received in a radio, furthered this trend, enabling people to hear live sound remotely, or hear a wider variety of pre-recorded music. Market disruptions typically combine a simplifying technology with a business model that runs counter to the industry norm.

Business Model 8

Business Model Wireless Disruptive Innovation Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

As the dot-com bubble heated up in the early 1990s, a number of thinkers turned their attention to developing frameworks to help executives answer those questions in HBR, and their work forms a solid foundation for navigating the digital transformation that’s still playing out. It’s still worth a look now.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. Many conjectures have been offered to explain this controversial trend. stock exchanges.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. Below, I’ll expand further on these trends and explain how reversing them would reduce short-termism and revive growth. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs. MirageC/Getty Images.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

The result, at least in developed nations, is a highly unequal corporate landscape, where some firms are incredibly productive and the amount of money a person makes is tied to the company they work for, not just the job that they do. ” Evidence of this trend toward greater corporate inequality has been trickling in for a while now.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

The Bush cuts also gradually raised the estate exemption and lowered the estate tax from 2001 until 2010, when the estate tax disappeared for that year only. Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011. Stay tuned for more excitement!

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Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. Research by one of us (James) links this trend to software.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. Our argument has been that a number of trends have leveled the playing field around the globe.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

As decades passed, the general trend was toward higher tariffs to protect northern manufacturing; the trend culminated in the highly restrictive Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. trade barriers remained relatively high in the 1930s, but the trend was now in the downward direction. Free trade ’ s evolution.

Politics 8

Politics Policies Globalization Trends 8