Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

I was fascinated with the platform this company was building and wondered what its business model might be. In 2003 there were no tech IPOs at all. There were lots of companies who started around the same time and never found a sustainable business model. Even after I gave up wondering, I kept adding links.

IPO 15

IPO Advertising Business Model Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

The Brazilian company AmBev, already at 20% EBITDA in 2000, increased its margins to a whopping 36% in 2003. Then Interbrew bought the company, and the effect was like yeast in bread dough: The EBITDA of the new company, Inbev, rose from 21% in 2003 to 37% in 2007. Something was working at AmBev.

EBITDA 10

EBITDA Globalization Depreciation Open-book 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Product and business models are evolutionary by nature, but we see four things a young company must get right: The founding team. With the possible exception of Google from 1998-2000, an extraordinary product, absent a strong business vision early on, is not enough (e.g., Crystal Pepsi; MySpace 2003-2007).

Company 16

Company Short-term Engineering PR 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

At least one Italian entrepreneur is showing that it's possible to meet both criteria in an intensely competitive business: Italian food and wine. Since it's beginning in 2003, Davide Oldani's Ristorante D'O has managed to stay profitable in a sustained fashion. Why can't more companies do the same?

Quality 13

Quality Working Capital Price Open-book 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Consistent with the philosophy espoused in HBR way back in 2003 in the article The Myth of Secure Computing , business leaders will need to decide which of their information assets are so valuable that they want to invest a lot to protect them, and which they can’t afford to protect vigorously.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage PR Information Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

One specific manifestation of the interest in platforms has to do with the notion that, as a business model, they represent a silver bullet for all the time and treasure that globalization takes. A cautionary tale from the past: After acquiring EachNet.com, eBay controlled 80% of the Chinese e-commerce market in 2003.

Network Economy 8

Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation.

Industry 9

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

With the ad market under $70 million, many of our local competitors were rapidly experimenting with new types of revenue and business models and were far ahead of us. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2011

iTunes debuted in 2003 and Tower Records closed in 2004 and Musicland folded in 2006. What is the digital company or the new technology that will force you to change your business model? Perhaps it won't be digital technology that will change or crush your business model. FYE is shriveling. Or expand, or morph?

Business Model 61

Business Model Bottom-up Industry Focus Group 61

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. The company was in free fall.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. I thought about all this when I heard Karim Khoja's story. (It Because Roshan is in Afghanistan. Seventy percent of the people in Afghanistan are illiterate.

Innovation 15

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity. Bharti has enjoyed compounded annual growth in sales revenues of 120% and growth in net profits of 282% per year between 2003 and 2010. to $0.005 per minute, perhaps the lowest rates in the world.

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Others have cautioned against starting companies with business school friends as a strategy for eventual success, but the data care to differ. Of the 39 companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1B by private or public market investors, almost half were started by founders who met at school.

IPO 9

IPO Insurance Entrepreneur Self-aware 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. I thought about all this when I heard Karim Khoja's story. (It Because Roshan is in Afghanistan. Seventy percent of the people in Afghanistan are illiterate.

Innovation 11

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The introduction of Amazon Prime , which provides two-day delivery on many Amazon orders for a fixed annual fee, represented a huge shift in Amazon’s early business model. The beauty of the business model was that it did not need to know that. Making routine transactions seamless and reliable.

Health Care 10

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

And I believe developing more resource-efficient business models will be the largest single financial opportunity of the twenty-first century. Some businesses are already adapting. automaking industry currently employs 786,500 people , down from 1,136,500 in 2003. Cell phone repair is also exploding as an industry.

Resources 8

Resources McKinsey Globalization Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In the early 2000s, the notion of open innovation was still reasonably fringe stuff in business circles. Henry Chesbrough's seminal book on the topic wasn't published until 2003. I spent four years in Australia and another in Europe discovering the ways my theory worked — and didn't work — in the real world.

Game Theory 8

Game Theory Open-book Innovation Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

By taking an adaptive approach that focuses on monitoring the environment, strategic experimentation, and organizational flexibility, Tata Consultancy Services has grown from $155 million in revenue in 1996 to $1 billion in 2003 and more than $13 billion in 2013 to become the second-largest pure IT services company in the world.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The adventure predictably included scrapping for cash, overhauling the business model, rebranding, refocusing, redirecting resources, shifting tech platforms, praying, seeking counsel and wisdom, etc. Dan Cooper co-founded ej4, a video-based online training company, in 2003, and was its CEO until selling in 2012. DAN COOPER.

Cooper 50

Cooper Groupthink Leadership Styles Servant Leader 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2003, then-HBR-editor Nick Carr wrote an article (and later a book) titled “IT Doesn’t Matter.” Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. IT Does Matter.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

Of perhaps even more interest is Amazon’s business model. Market disruptions typically combine a simplifying technology with a business model that runs counter to the industry norm. When Apple launched the iPod in 2001 it was interesting, but when it added the iTunes music store in 2003 an industry changed.

Business Model 8

Business Model Wireless Disruptive Innovation Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

By default, the two gold coasts have a self-sustaining edge: They have accumulated massive value, wealth, and power through the winner-take-all economics that govern many digital business models. For the 274 companies started in 2003 or later that have reached unicorn status , half are in the U.S.,

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

A recent KPMG global survey of 3,000 leading executives across 20 industries found board leaders were twice as likely to focus on short-term efficiencies as they were to prepare for major business model change. This consistency, twinned with early successes, has made wider change possible.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Far from indicating that using external talent for R&D is a doomed business ploy, our autopsy revealed four major lessons from Quirky’s downfall that can help companies harness the power of successful open innovation and avoid its very real pitfalls. Quirky produced a lot of good new products, but few home runs.

Case Study 8

Case Study Innovation Core Competence Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

In 2003, the Bush Administration pushed through the Homeland Investment Act , which provided a one-year-only tax break on repatriated profits, with the stipulation that these profits had to be used in the U.S. We’ve seen this movie before. for investments that create jobs. billion on buybacks and $31.2

Hedge 8

Hedge Proposal Pharmaceuticals Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

Even the term “net neutrality” was coined not by an engineer but by a legal academic, in 2003. Verizon, whose business model has changed substantially since 2010, now supports aspects of the 2015 Order with which even some of the advocacy groups took issue.

Objective 8

Objective Engineering Content Open-book 8