Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

The declines in manufacturing jobs during the downturns of 2001 and 2007, which totaled over 5.8 The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. First of all, it turns out that the productivity explanation for sector trends is incomplete. million, were the largest in U.S.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. For this reason, it is adaptable to almost any workflow or operational situation. We think clearly and adapt quickly to customer/market needs (aka reality). We adapt quickly and effectively to changes in the market.

Agility 71

Agility Project Software Short-term 71

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 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

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The employment shift from occupations that require mid-level skills toward those at the high and low ends is one of the most important trends in the U.S. labor market over the past 30 years. Until recently, economists thought of this trend as a gradual phenomenon that didn’t depend much on the ups and downs of the economy.

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

The model is designed to enable fast response to fashion trends, which allows Zara to ensure that its store shelves are always stocked with the trendiest clothes. Zara was founded in 1975 and its parent company, the Inditex group went public in 2001. We have long been fans of the Zara business model.

Business Model 9

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

This changed after Peter Dolan (Dartmouth, 1980) took the helm in 2001. Despite the general trend across schools toward becoming more finance-oriented, there could have been considerable variation in what’s taught. HBS education still had a strong negative effect on diversification only after Jensen’s arrival.

Influence 12

Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 12

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

To reverse these ominous trends we need to dial back our achieve-aholic tendencies to pursue wealth, power, and fame, and spend more time and energy connecting with others in supportive relationships. When global marketing firm McCann Worldgroup surveyed 1,000 individuals in the U.S.

Stress 150

Stress Mentor Competitive Advantage Long-term 150

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

Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

The term “mindset” conjures the image of a single setting, like a TV channel or a prearranged machine operation. Some data-driven insights will understand customer preferences, identify market trends, and optimize internal processes. However, human cognition is far more complex. Jossey-Bass. Stacey, R. Griffin, D.,

Open-book 78

Open-book Shaw Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 78

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For many companies, a shrinking middle class means a shrinking top line, as their traditional consumer base migrates to the lower end of the market. In 2001, Smucker's acquired Jif and Crisco from P&G, which no longer saw them as a strategic fit. But Smucker's might be the company most emblematic of this troubling trend.

Brand 13

Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

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. This trend, we claim, is the single largest cause for decline in listed firms.

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

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

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Years later, it took on bigger players by introducing new innovative packaging to the market, and subsequently carving out a double-digit share when few thought it could be done. competitors are entering the market. Within two years, the brand went from a small share to 25% of the Canadian market,” notes Bell.

Brand 100

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

It is the second smallest market in Latin America — a sharp difference compared with only a few years ago, when it used to compete with markets such as Argentina, Chile, and Colombia as the third largest market in the region, after Brazil and Mexico. Venezuela represented only 1% of total revenues.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Price Politics Supply Chain 8