Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. By dedicating a small amount of space on every page viewed and allowing companies to display ads, the social networking giant has developed a multi-billion dollar advertising business. display advertisements online.

IPO 13

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 13

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. The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

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. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking "lean startups" from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. Scaling Lesson 1: Focus On Finding A Great Business Model. Magical, really.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

There is mounting evidence that buybacks bear substantial blame for the extreme concentration of income at the very top and the disappearance of middle-class jobs in the United States over the past quarter century — a topic I discussed in a recent Harvard Business Review article. From 1986 through 1993, during the Sculley era, Apple spent $1.8

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications. In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9