Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

I have used the social network for eight years and continue to be impressed with Mark Zuckerberg's focus on product and his vision for the internet. When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. But equity investing and product use are very different things.

IPO 12

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Slowing Chinese economic growth coupled with confidence-sapping tumult on the stock market have set alarm bells ringing at companies about their future growth prospects in China. Meanwhile, agile Chinese manufacturers such as Geoby have taken the market for cheap transport by storm. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4%

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector. Ghosn recounts with humor how Dr. V.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

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.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The center of gravity for jobs, wealth, and market opportunities is moving, disrupting the world economic order as we have known it. In some ways business leaders in the South have an edge: They are a product of scarcity. He went on a tear of expansion in Latin America, then in 2004 undertook a merger with Belgium-based Interbrew.

Globalization 15

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

After all, he has asserted since 2004 that global oil production was nothing to worry about, and that there would be few effects on the economy. Conventional crude ended its 150-year-long growth trajectory in 2004 and flattened out around 74 million barrels per day. And we must correct some of Mr. Yergin's assertions.

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. In 2011, the U.S.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The idea is as simple as this: why not have a mobile demonstration van for products, to take a fully-equipped, immersive selling experience to customers’ own sites? Take the demonstration vans now being used in the UK by Tyco Security which makes products like security cameras, monitors, and access control systems.

B2B 8

B2B B2C Education Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. In India there''s Flipkart , in Russia there''s Ozon , and in Thailand, Indonesia, and other South East Asia markets there''s Lazada. In some cases this is true.

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The center of gravity for jobs, wealth, and market opportunities is moving, disrupting the world economic order as we have known it. In some ways business leaders in the South have an edge: They are a product of scarcity. He went on a tear of expansion in Latin America, then in 2004 undertook a merger with Belgium-based Interbrew.

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Some 650 people had already joined, and thus began the company’s wild ride toward becoming a social networking site with over a billion users, thousands of employees, and a market capitalization well north of $100 billion.

Engineering 11

Engineering Class Software Mentor 11

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 team then turned to the product line. billion in revenue.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions. But by early 2015 they stopped accepting new submissions to their open market and discontinued their API support for external developers. Failure to launch the right side.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. In 2011, Havens’ collaboration with IBM procurement paid off, winning Havens four significant projects.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Public shareholders, including Carl Icahn, do not invest in Apple’s productive capabilities.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Recently, I wrote about Akamai, a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet's fabric. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

I heard him say in real time many of the things he repeats in the book: "This philosophy of treating the customer as a hapless victim to be exploited was endemic in American corporations, and it cost us dearly" or "Is profit an integral part of the business equation and a God-given right, no matter how compromised the product or service?

Company 12

Company Franchising Fixed Costs Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. The pipeline for new drugs is bursting, and new devices and tools in the rapidly emerging digital health space will come to market more quickly. Today nearly nine in 10 physicians regularly employ EHRs.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Every day they make a conscious choice to be world-class at the few extraordinary capabilities that make it possible to deliver a better product or service to customers. Once a government monopoly, the company was privatized, in 2004, and bought by a set of construction entrepreneurs, for $292 million.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8