Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Nike is a leading example of how both anti-sweatshop campaigns and labor standards in trade agreements can be good for innovation and growth in developing countries. Without changes to this scheme, the cutters bore the increased labor cost and saw none of the much larger benefits of reducing waste of material. Not necessarily.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Just a few examples illustrate some of the pressing issues: South Africa''s power distribution network has an estimated maintenance backlog of $4 billion — equivalent to half of the country''s total investment in electric power generation and distribution in 2011. an estimated $100 billion per year. We need to streamline delivery.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Evolutionary psychology hypothesizes that people follow because the benefits of doing so outweigh the costs of going it alone or fighting to become the leader of a group. Followers who were happy with the costs and benefits of membership stayed with the group; those who were not either left to join other groups or battled for the top spots.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Closing the AMP’d stores cost millions. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three. Revenue in 2011 was $59 million.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Today, a hundred hours of new video is uploaded every minute to YouTube alone , much of it from individual producers using technologies that would have cost a fortune only a few years ago. This is a true golden age for consumers, who are demanding innovation in both the packaging and pricing of content.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

It is in the first 15 minutes of a medical encounter—which, studies show, is the average amount of time that patients meet with their primary care physician—that up to half of all medical costs are set in motion. Medical technology is often perceived as a driver of health care costs, and there is certainly some truth to that.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care System Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

billion leveraged private equity buyout in 2005, with the aim of turning the chain around, but the resulting debt has proved to be unserviceable. As Darrell Rigby argued in a 2011 HBR article , every 50 years the retail industry goes through a major disruption. In their 2005 book, W. Yet the struggles at the company are not new.

Retail 9

Retail Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Comparison 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. ” By 1926 some 4 million households had radios, often large consoles costing well over $100. Soon, carriers everywhere — and, by 2011, all four national networks in the U.S.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. We interviewed leaders in 37 private for-profit and non-profit primary care programs identified in the Center for Health Market Innovations database and operating in over 25 developing countries. He followed this with a focus on system optimization to reduce costs.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture.

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

In 2011, Netflix announced it would split into two businesses, then retreated after only three weeks. In 2005, a single post by blogger Jeff Jarvis led to a customer uprising now known as "Dell Hell." In 2010, Gap announced a brand new logo, then retreated after a week. They are collaborators, conspirators, and co-creators.

Brand 15

Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

For perspective, in 2011 carbon intensity improved just 0.8%. 260 billion : Global clean energy investment in 2011. Dow Chemical has reduced energy costs $9 billion since 1994. Walmart has improved the fuel efficiency of its distribution fleet by 69% since 2005. But constraints drive innovation. It's not so crazy.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey GDP Cost-Benefit Analysis Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Others cite the nine organizations leaving the program and the humbling results of a prior ACO experiment in Medicare — the Physician Group Practice Demonstration (PGPD) that ran from 2005 to 2010 — as reasons to be pessimistic. ACOs are one of the main ways that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tackles costs.

Organization 8

Organization Health Care Insurance Quality 8