Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment. In 2000, labor-intensive products constituted 37% of all Chinese exports; by 2010, this fell to 14%. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 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

MARCH 22, 2013

In some ways business leaders in the South have an edge: They are a product of scarcity. They are fiercely focused on operations, because they know that's how money is made or lost. The objective of most Chinese enterprises is to export products and earn foreign currency," he told Harvard Business School researchers in the 1980s.

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

A year ago, the Royal Opera House in London staged a production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni in several locations thanks to the sponsoring of British Petroleum. Corporate support enabled the Royal Opera to dramatically increase its reach and presence. ” Several renowned artists decided to cut their ties with the institution.

Reputation 8

Reputation Project Comparison Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Take Citrus Lane CEO Mauria Finley, whose company was experiencing some growing pains, appropriately enough; the startup sends monthly packages of great baby products to moms. 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. After raising $5.1

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Seminar Learning-by-Doing Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Leaders who succeed at the job usually do so by combing through the company in search of noncore assets to shed, businesses to sell, activities to stop, functions to eliminate, and product lines to simplify, as Steve Jobs did when he took back the reins at Apple in 1997, and as Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego, did in 2004.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

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. In 2004, the residual assets were sold off for a mere $7 million, a tiny fraction of the $500 million auto manufacturers had invested.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

As early as 2004, research from Elizabeth Wolf Morrison and Frances J. Milliken for the Academy of Management Review and Stern Business pegged fear — and the resulting silence when employees operate within a culture of fear — as the biggest roadblock to innovation. Fear of dealing with difficult customers or clients.

Innovation 9

Innovation Survey Policies Loyalty 9

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