Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. Platforms are supposed to enable rapid, asset-light globalization. Are there really global network economies?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

It boasts 85 companies in the Global Fortune 500 list of the world’s largest corporations. percentage points in 2003-2012. Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). China, too, needs more technological innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Without a doubt, providing members of linguistic minority groups with access to technology in their native tongues is very important. Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use. Communication Customers Global business GDP' billion in 2030. One of those conditions?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Indian engineers cost less, for sure.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Industry players have realized the marketing and cost-saving potential, too: automaker BMW powers the plant where it manufactures the i3 and i8 electric vehicles with a 10 MW wind park, and discount retailer Aldi Süd has installed photovoltaic panels on 1,000 supermarkets. Thus markets entering “Energiewende 3.0”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5 million records).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Then-chairman Glenn Hubbard, for example, pushed for and got a reduction in taxes on dividends in 2003. If, in a free market, the wages and salaries paid closely approximate the actual value of the work done, then minimum-wage laws and unions can only get in the way. So when a chairman does have a clear impact, it gets noticed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

from 1994 to 2003. But by the end of the decade, the advocates of more rapid growth had pretty much won out in the name of better serving clients in an increasingly globalized world. Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets. billion to $3.4

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

telecom carriers face daunting challenges from device makers, content providers, social networks, and an array of disruptive technologies. Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. telecoms are classified as a high technology industry: "Network is their business." In the U.S., The trend is spreading.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. At this point, the commercial viability of a market-based approach to providing good quality housing in urban areas at prices affordable to low income customers is beyond question. The Use of Available Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The problem cuts much deeper than that; it's systemic and it's global. The McKinsey Global Institute reports that price volatility has hit a high , second only to the energy crisis of the 1970s. And current recycling technology is limited. automaking industry currently employs 786,500 people , down from 1,136,500 in 2003.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Founded in 2003 with $40 million in venture capital funding, Splunk was among the first companies to target the “big data” space. This approach is best supported by simulations, assessments, onboarding programs, and other means that technology is making less costly. There are ways to avoid these blind spots, however.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Founded in 2003 with $40 million in venture capital funding, Splunk was among the first companies to target the “big data” space. This approach is best supported by simulations, assessments, onboarding programs, and other means that technology is making less costly. There are ways to avoid these blind spots, however.

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Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. Market focus. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one. Mars, the global manufacturer of confectionery and pet food, successfully executes a classical approach to strategy. This approach works when the visionary firm can single-handedly build a new, attractive market reality.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

In 2003 a doctor with SARS unknowingly infected several guests while staying at a Hong Kong hotel, and overnight the virus reached across the globe. With the advent of genome-editing technologies, bioterrorists could artificially engineer new plagues, a threat that Ashton Carter, the former U.S. Greater Global Coordination.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger. “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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. Some of those so-called liquidity events are small by global standards, like the $30 million that customer service chat provider Zopim fetched. Global investors are increasingly taking notice.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. Greenspan was never a hardline believer in the rationality of financial markets. It’s true of all commodity markets. The same goes for the new ideas Greenspan has been coming up with since June.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

In 2002 the Commission switched course again and ruled that broadband access provided by cable TV companies was an information service — the reasoning being, in part, that cable broadband had ended the DSL monopoly and created a competitive market once again. The counterargument, made in economist Joseph Farrell and legal scholar Philip J.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

A former campaign manager, Strasma started his company in 2003 to find a better way to predict who the true persuadables are in a campaign, and to find smart ways to target messaging towards them. What were some of Obama's key features that you would use to market him, to tell a story based on the data you had? Predict faster.

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