Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. And that satisfaction leads to a more attractive work environment in a competitive talent market. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 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

OCTOBER 20, 2016

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Without that, he is ill-equipped to make the right organizational, business model, and product bets to bring those innovations to market.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

AT&T's recently announced acquisition of T-Mobile will invite hellfire from telecom regulators who fantasize over a different market structure, in which 17 mom-and-pop carriers serve the masses with tender love and care. Wireless telephone prices are falling, a sign of competitive markets. It's the Prices, Stupid.

Wireless 12

Wireless Price Marketing Survey 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

In today's tumultuous environment, we believe that the work of sensing and responding to the market is too important to be left to random projects and a "volunteer army"; the processes of external sensing and driving enterprise-level integration needs to be designed, staffed, and owned just like all other processes.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 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

DECEMBER 12, 2013

As with all major trends, this one has been underway for a while, but it has been given a push by five years of relentless cost-cutting. Recruiting—the gathering of candidates—was long ago turned over to websites and software to simplify the process for finding good candidates in a tight labor market.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Software Cost Human Resources 9

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

MAY 11, 2016

By ignoring the distribution, that statistic masks a more important trend: As the McKinsey Global Institute has documented , variance in corporate earnings has increased substantially as well. ” Evidence of this trend toward greater corporate inequality has been trickling in for a while now. Others will try and fail.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. Back in 1979, Daniel Bell didn’t have much sympathy for people who felt helpless in the face of technological innovation. It’s still worth a look now.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 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.

Press Release 178

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

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