Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The annual number of venture capital deals expanded from 8,500 in 2010 to 14,800 in 2017, for an increase of 73% in just seven years. The amount of capital invested in those deals surged from $52 billion in 2010 to $171 billion in 2017 — a gain of 231%. The second factor is economic. The third factor is political.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Globalization Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

million university graduates entered the job market in 2010 , up from one million in 1999. China's news services reported that in 2009 a record 1 million people took the national civil service exam , up from 775,000 in 2008 and 500,000 in 2005. But that's no longer the case — especially for some of China's smartest women.

Travel 9

Travel Survey Marketing Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. The diverging fortunes of two recent spin-offs in the energy industry illustrate how financial markets value autonomy from the parent. has its former parent deprived it even from basic maintenance investments?)

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

By 2005, Kodak ranked No. It dominated the ultra-profitable, digital-photo-kiosk market, even pushing archrival Fuji out of Walgreens’s retail-pharmacy juggernaut. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No. 4 in the inkjet-printer market, where it joined the likes of HP, Lexmark, and Canon. digital-camera sales (No.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Nokia is still struggling to find a future beyond going head to head with the Android and iPhone platforms in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. The result: the Nook debuted in 2009 and leapfrogged the Kindle in key features, capturing nearly a third of the e-reader market and probably saving the company's life.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 27, 2009

But nothing continues in a market over time without continued demand. In fact, I think that the quality of the customer service probably influences the decision of WHERE I buy something more than anything else. First is the dying of the local shop here in America, replaced by the big box. Ok, so why is this the case?

Open-book 311

Open-book Price Blog Learning-by-Doing 311

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Company Development 8

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. Since then its stock has more than doubled.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. The first involves cost reduction through improved data quality. My friends in the industry tell me that bogey was met by 2005.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

My “growth outliers” project looked at publicly traded firms with market capitalizations of greater than US 1 Billion as of 2009, using data from Capital IQ. In the 2004 sample, roughly 20% of the firms came from emerging markets. By 2010, the typical S&P company was 16 or 17 years old.

Company 8

Company Sample Competitive Advantage Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Some have pointed to savings and quality improvements in the first year as evidence that the program is off to a promising start to improving the value of care. Both programs reward ACOs for reporting and performance on quality measures. All ACOs were rewarded for reporting quality measures. The First Year’s Results.

Organization 8

Organization Health Care Insurance Quality 8