Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

I synthesized Innosight's writing, notably Seeing What's Next (my 2004 book with Clayton Christensen) and a 2009 Harvard Business Review article about transformation in clean-tech , with my own field experience to highlight three areas to asses. Apple with iTunes, $0.99

Trends 15

Trends Christensen Business Model Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Prahalad and Stuart Hart’s seminal book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid gained a wide audience when it was published in 2004 and has continued to be widely read ever since. This zero-based design approach also avoids a reliance on preexisting business models.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Prahalad Bottom-up Price 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Agile development laid the intellectual groundwork for the Lean movement in entrepreneurship, which further pushed business leaders to organize their business model and product development work around a series of experiments, testing critical hypothesis along the way.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

That’s nearly double the rate from 2004 to 2007. “The level of discontinuous change — when companies need to change their business model or do something they’ve never done before — is driving the desire to bring in outsiders,” says Neilson. one of the authors of the study.

CEO 8

CEO Company Telecommunications Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

They get stuck making incremental improvements that are rooted in existing competencies, markets, and business models. The real trick is that even if competitors can eventually understand your core insight, their ability to respond is often constrained by their own competencies, customers, and business model.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4% Innovative business models may be required. Property insurance is a good example. Despite growing personal wealth and a taste among the rich for expensive cars, jewelery and art, the penetration of property insurance in China remains very low. Take consumer credit.

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

From small business to large, executives confront a constant tension between managing what is and creating new growth. In April 2004, HBR published "The Ambidextrous Organization" by Charles A. In an article this past January in HBR titled " The CEO's Role in Business Model Reinvention ," I offered a framework for this step.

Long-term 14

Long-term Definition Innovation Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

It is based on the idea that a business model can readily be transported from one country to another. They look to the proven business models from the U.S. They are not just taking business models, but tailoring them for success. firms should jump on acquiring the business, the know-how, and the teams.

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

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

AUGUST 19, 2011

HP's sudden departure from a business model that has sustained the company since inception is symptomatic of the passing of an era. Companies like HTC, Apple and RIM were embryonic in their device businesses vs. Goliaths like Microsoft, HP and Dell. But they grew, at first slowly, but at all times profitably.

Software 9

Software Maturity Resistance Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

While former management consultants are not frequently chosen as CEOs — our research noted 28 former management consultants with five-plus years of consulting experience out of a total of 541 CEO transitions between 2004 and 2010 — the evidence we’ve uncovered here would suggest that, as a class, they are fully worthy of consideration.

Consultative 9

Consultative CEO Management Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. “I’m so glad we read that case — I’m NEVER going to start a company.”. But the company had almost failed several times, and even success was brutal.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

As I explain in my recent Harvard Business Review article, “Profits Without Prosperity,” open-market repurchases that represent the vast majority of buybacks in the United States reward value extraction and undermine value creation. trillion on buybacks (51% of net income) and another $2.3 trillion on dividends (35% of net income).

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

In 2004, the European beer company Interbrew, itself a product of several mergers, acquired a majority stake in AmBev, creating InBev. In our book, Repeatability , Chris Zook and I describe how companies with repeatable business models grow sustainably and profitably. In 2008, InBev bought Anheuser-Busch, the leading US brewer.

EBITDA 10

EBITDA Globalization Depreciation Open-book 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Discover suffered a similar setback in 2004, when Walmart shifted its credit card partnership to MasterCard. Thus American Express had an extremely valuable “one-hit wonder”– an exclusive arrangement for years with the CostCo retail chain in the U.S., which permitted no other card in its popular stores.

IAM 11

IAM Productivity Products Company 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Traditional business models aim to create value for shareholders, often at the expense of other stakeholders. Sustainable businesses are redefining the corporate ecosystem by designing models that create value for all stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, supply chains, civil society, and the planet.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

I stored my first bookmark on October 14, 2004, on the day I wrote my very first blog post. Good faith means that when a company decides it can no longer sustain its community of users, it does its best to preserve the value they have created by giving the community its best possible shot at a new business model, a new owner or a new home.

Media 15

Media Competitive Advantage Software Follow-up 15

Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2011

iTunes debuted in 2003 and Tower Records closed in 2004 and Musicland folded in 2006. What is the digital company or the new technology that will force you to change your business model? Perhaps it won't be digital technology that will change or crush your business model. FYE is shriveling. Or expand, or morph?

Business Model 61

Business Model Bottom-up Industry Focus Group 61

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

MAY 9, 2018

Our data shows that from 2004 to 2014, WPP made a staggering 271 acquisitions — which averages to more than one every two weeks — 60% more than the next busiest acquirer during that decade, Google (now Alphabet). In 2004 PCC was in a poor position. Strength of productivity program. Improvements in differentiation.

CAGR 8

CAGR Due Diligence Industry Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

I first met Dediu when we did an engagement with Nokia back in 2004. Seemingly everyone has seen the results of the book project that Osterwalder led — Business Model Generation — and has seen his "business model canvass" in action. Horace Dediu. His website, 15inno.com , is a useful read.

Innovation 15

Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Alternatively, you could expand the pie by staking out some sustainable position based on a unique advantage you create with a clever, preferably complicated and interdependent set of activities (which some thinkers also call a value chain or a business model).

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 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

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. It is currently at less than o.5% 5% of the federal budget.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Another telltale sign of category creation is that it comes with a distinctive business model and profit model. Few growth strategies match the economics of category creation. Our analysis showed the top 20 firms in Fortune 's 2010 list of fastest-growing companies received $3.40 of revenue growth. coffee sector. Yet total U.S.

B2C 13

B2C Strategy B2B Waterman 13

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

MARCH 14, 2016

Palantir, a B2B company founded in 2004 and offering a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, and analysing data, has around 1,500 employees worldwide and is valued around $20 billion today. But to realize this potential, established companies will need to fundamentally revisit their business models and cultures.

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. But traditional business models focused on and serving third-party reimbursement continue to struggle with how to monetize digital health tools. Today nearly nine in 10 physicians regularly employ EHRs.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Leaders must have the vision and forward-focus to anticipate how technology could disrupt the business model and the skill to mobilize the organization for change and drive a culture of collaboration. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

corporations responded by bringing back $299 billion in profits in 2005, compared with an average of $62 billion from 2000 to 2004 and a subsequent decline to $102 billion in 2006. As I have detailed elsewhere , Pfizer’s business model is to merge with companies with proven blockbuster drugs, and then, with drug prices in the U.S.

Hedge 8

Hedge Proposal Pharmaceuticals Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s not that the media sets out to be sensationalist; its business model leads it in that direction. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Voluntary efforts at restraint by well-meaning journalists won’t work, because of advertising-based business models and competition.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11