Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

This ongoing struggle raises an issue that is endemic in such acquisitions: In search of innovation, big companies often buy other companies whose most innovative days are almost at an end. An acquirer looking for innovation would have been likelier to try to buy Gateway, a company that is almost an after-thought now.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

This term is just what it sounds like: external constraints are market, environmental and/or consumer conditions forced on any company doing business in their space — something from outside the company that it has little or no control over. If customers couldn't get to opticians in urban centers, why not bring them to the customers?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive. Can he do it?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Just as the courageous, skillful sea captain of long ago took up a compass, charted a course, and led others across the unknown, so must today’s captains of business and industry. Discover how industry leaders get ahead and stay there and apply the same skills and strategies to your business and personal lives. Prepare and Adapt.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We’re used to thinking of high-tech innovation and startups as generated and clustered predominantly in fertile U.S. The only other factor that was slightly more important was high-tech industry concentration, which is what entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are aiming to create over the long run. Jakal Pan/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative. that didn’t undergo buyouts.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Despite the technical nature of these innovations, there are a few broad managerial lessons that have emerged from this prominent patent case. The first one is the marketing effect of IP litigation. And this is particularly interesting given the aggressive marketing strategy implemented by Samsung in the past few years.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 23, 2008

The 2008 PS Maturity Model has become the industry standard for professional service organizations. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) Both the maturity concepts and the benchmark have met with incredible success. Posted in the Announcement category.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Consider Southwest Airlines, which shook up the airline industry with its low-cost, high-customer service approach to air travel. That’s why leaders of large healthcare companies are looking over their shoulder and thinking, “What is that small startup that is going to shake up our industry? Who is that David to our Goliath?”.

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Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Her fields of experience span from hard core technology disciplines like semiconductors to sophisticated consumer marketing industries including fashion and education. And for those in all the emerging markets. In later volumes, I will be zeroing in on more specific themes like Bootstrapping, Positioning, Innovation, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. Adding to this angst are the feverish predictions of industry pundits who believe today’s corporate dinosaurs are about to be wiped out by giant unicorn-shaped asteroids.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing. In the interim we might also look at piloting an Affiliate Marketing Strategy. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Readers in industries where the pace of change has slowed and ambiguity has decreased , please stop reading. For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S. newspaper industry. This post isn’t for you.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

We typically define disruption as a low-end product or service that eventually upends an industry. Or as thought leader Jennifer Sertl writes, "innovation ultimately begins on the inside.". The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. Time to disrupt myself. Columbia University professor Amar V.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. billion ten years ago, some in the industry thought he was crazy. This strategy has been, in itself, Disney’s great breakthrough innovation. In fact, WB does have a history of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. As business tycoon Richard Branson has proclaimed in 2012, “our only option to stop climate change is for industry to make money from it.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. How do you get back on top? For more background on the potential deal, click here.) So will it work?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%. Fostering innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

On the one hand, there is widespread fear that innovation will lead to a loss of jobs and rising income inequality — the “race against the machines” narrative. On the other, the slowdown in productivity growth across advanced economies has led some economists to argue that new innovations have no impact on growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

While there are numerous factors in such a massive shift away from business formation, one of the most powerful has to be the consolidation of multiple economic sectors toward a handful of firms with hegemonic power over their industry. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. In the guitar business , too.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The Eastman Kodak Company was an iconic industry leader. To survive, it has stopped selling film cameras, focusing on the digital ones that dominate the market. In 2005, IBM sold its PC division to its former competitor, Lenovo. Organizations such as IBM and GE have adapted over the years to remain competitive in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze." Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. For now, the blended models based on personal scores and business-specific data continue to be the industry standard.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

.” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels. The program delivered $1.6

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

For a news industry addicted to page views, Apple is the gift that keeps on giving. Given its current approximate market cap, we could call this the $640 billion dollar question.). Yes, Apple's marketers are being coy. course we know that, as research by Booz [pdf] back in 2005 demonstrated, "Money doesn't buy results."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. For now, the blended models based on personal scores and business-specific data continue to be the industry standard.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

He also emphasized in a 1999 book that “the wrong structure can doom all other market-driven initiatives in the organization to failure.” ” A good example of customer-centricity is Tumi , the innovative U.S.-based Low industry profitability. In his 2006 survey of U.S. managers , he said the proportion of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. They''re rethinking their economic relationships with the rest.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

So it’s consistent with market forces. After the initial rush of enthusiasm and energy, established routines and networks can smother the drive for innovation. Some argue that CEO narcissism, organizational inertia, or even rigid industry dynamics prefer maintaining the status quo. And a 2013 study by Xueming Luo, Vamsi K.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

invests vast amounts in innovation – $135 billion from federal government sources alone in 2015 – yet it lacks a coherent intellectual property strategy to ensure that the investment pays off. Is the U.S. naïve? It’s puzzling. Whatever the reason, the U.S. should move quickly to address this shortcoming.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

For one thing, thanks to a long history of exclusive municipal franchising regulations that didn’t end until 1992, the two companies don’t overlap in any market—TWC customers will become Comcast customers (and get arguably better technology and service in the process), but no local market will see a decline in the number of competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Kauffman research has shown that in some years (1985-2005), young firms have been responsible for as much as two-thirds of new American jobs. Entrepreneurs tend to be like-minded folks who get along with one another because they value innovation, product development, and business over social and political differences. While the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

When these things work together, they create what we call a capabilities system: examples include Frito-Lay's direct-to-store delivery, Disney's genius for developing and commercializing family-friendly characters, and 3M's incremental innovation machine. Happened in 2005 and was unquestionably the right move. IBM-Lenovo.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

The researchers measured performance using Tobin’s Q, which compares a firm’s market valuation to the value of its assets.) decrease in firm value for public companies in the S&P 1500 between 1993 and 2005. decrease in firm value for public companies in the S&P 1500 between 1993 and 2005.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

It then leapt suddenly to 14% by the 2005–2007 period. So although you might expect that in a hypercompetitive environment, ambitious companies would constantly wrest market share from the leading firms, the reality is quite the opposite. The proportion rose slowly and relatively steadily, reaching 5% by the mid-1990s.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2011

Despite bold proclamations of industry transformation, legacy technologies often last for a very long time. DVDs replaced video cassettes in many markets seemingly overnight. It is likely to start relatively slowly in established markets. And remember when banks went online, how waves of local bank branches shut down?

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