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. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

Despite spending twice what other developed nations spend on a per capita basis for health care, the United States has a longstanding trend of having lower life expectancy, greater prevalence of chronic disease, and overall poorer health outcomes. One example illustrates this well. Our pilot effort was supported in part by a federal grant.

Health Care 8

Health Care Transportation Cost System 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. He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash , a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital. The chart below shows their financial performance over the last few years, with forecasted 2012 revenue of $767M and EBITDA of $339M.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Fifty-eight percent of patients referred to Virginia Mason, our medical center in Seattle, for back surgery would be more appropriately treated without an operation. Intermountain Healthcare, a system that serves patients in Utah and Idaho, has developed many such guides and is working to embed them into EMR workflows.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue. Then they went deeper.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Quarterly profits have only increased 5% since 2012 , but investors’ valuations of those profits (as measured by earnings per share) has increased 59% over the same period. From 1970 to 2004, the percentage of CEOs hired from outside the firm increased from 12% to 39%. What’s behind the disconnect?

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 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, books and cooking gadgets), developing brand partnerships, and opening more restaurants.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Inadequate transport infrastructure is the biggest impediment to the development of India’s manufacturing capacity. In 2012, when the United States imposed tariffs of 31% to 250% on solar panels produced in China, Chinese manufacturers quickly moved their final assembly operations for U.S.-bound bound panels to Malaysia.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8