Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

A decade ago, there was no market at all for low-cost electric bikes. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4% Audi now sells more luxury cars than any other manufacturer in China. Meanwhile, agile Chinese manufacturers such as Geoby have taken the market for cheap transport by storm. Innovative business models may be required.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. 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. ” Improving risk management. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

At the same time, as the BP example makes clear, for some of these cultural organizations, corporate benefaction comes with a cost. But if donors and recipients manage these new partnerships well, both sides can benefit. It is particularly noticeable in the countries with a long history of state patronage.

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Reputation Project Comparison Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Back in 2011, in Citrus Lane’s first six months, its small founding team worked in a house and ate lunch together every day around a big table. We studied how Wyeth, the large Pharmaceutical firm (now part of Pfizer) made dramatic improvements in cost and quality across its manufacturing operation. After raising $5.1

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Pharmaceuticals Seminar Learning-by-Doing Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team. When Knudstorp took over as CEO in 2004, he quickly settled on a course of action: return the company to its core. Build a Re-Founding Team. By 1993 the company had $1.3

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Greece has only managed to wrest the four-month extension of a stability program. Soon, the newly elected Alexis Tsipras administration will have to start implementing the cost-cutting measures that it had promised voters it would avoid. A managed exit from the common currency could alter that. Worse could happen in Greece.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Let’s look at the key errors. Insight Center.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Manage the arduously long sales cycle. When an opportunity arose to work on a financial audit and accounting contract, IBM helped Collins broaden its skill set and diversify its offerings into financial management. Innovate and invest, even when it hurts.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

For example, at The Fat Duck in the UK (which has had three Michelin stars since 2004, except in 2016 when it closed for refurbishment, and where I worked on the innovation side), cooking temperatures are systematically controlled to 0.1°C, This means achieving precise standardization and strong quality control.

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Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

After a few weeks of watching no click throughs, Kaufer executed his second pivot: a cost per click model (now known as CPC). When the company saw that user reviews were getting all the traffic, they adjusted to focus on user reviews, such that fresh, authentic content was always available and didn't cost the company any money to produce.

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EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Careerbuilder was initially a service that helped companies launch job listings and then managed the inbound application volume. million cost of the ad. (Interestingly, Dice’s founders had moved the company far from Silicon Valley – to Des Moines, Iowa – before the late 1990’s crash.). Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996.

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Price IPO Content Marketing 101

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Per capita annual health care costs are roughly $4,500 for people age 19 to 44; they double for people age 45 to 64; and they double once again for those 65 and older. In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. More than 3,000 apps are now available to help manage diabetes alone.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

That’s not just a hunch — among public companies since 1990, returns to shareholders were three times greater at firms where the founder is still part of the management team. Companies still run by their founders have a certain magic. The result is a slide into mediocrity. Insight Center. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term.

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Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

I interviewed more than 50 executives and mid-level managers who had worked for HP in the 2004-2007 timeframe, many of whom reported to Fiorina and subsequently worked with her successor, Mark Hurd. ” Fiorina attacked many different aspects of the company, including reorganization, cost cutting, and vision setting.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

And the FASB did give it up, until the corporate scandals of the early 2000s changed the mood in Congress , giving the accounting standards-setters cover to get stock-options expensing through in 2004. And so far its proposal to force companies to rotate auditors can best be described as a trial balloon.

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