Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Yet in retrospect it was far better to exit early rather than struggle ( as Dell and HP have ) with pricing pressures, commoditization, and supply chain issues.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Looking for innovations they could reapply, Essilor built upon the model of mobile cataract surgery vans that first made these surgeries affordable to the masses. But before rolling out more, Essilor — both for profit and social mission reasons — decided that the price was still too expensive for many.

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Constraint Marketing Travel Innovation 15

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. ” So while businesses are major contributors to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, they are also presented as offering innovative ways to decarbonize our economies.

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Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Acquisitions always get a lot of senior management attention and, for those who want it, there is no shortage of outside advice, including a lot in the management literature. Happened in 2005 and was unquestionably the right move. billion) price tag: Did IBM wait too long to sell this PC-making unit? And it's a shame.

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Due Diligence EBITDA Health Care Gordon 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The cost of solar and wind are falling rapidly ; in fact, a few days before the new EPA announcement, Xcel Energy, which provides power to the American heartland, revealed that it was acquiring extensive wind and solar assets, “all at prices below fossil fuel alternatives.” Government Risk management Sustainability'

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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. For example, in the late 1980s, a U.S. An estimated 80% of the value of U.S.

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Licensing Technology Participative Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Yet in retrospect it was far better to exit early rather than struggle ( as Dell and HP have ) with pricing pressures, commoditization, and supply chain issues.

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Indeed, when the news broke that Volkswagen had been accused of cheating emissions standards tests last year, its share price fell by almost 35% in the next two days of trading. Apply world-class management. Walmart is one example of a company embedding a clear societal purpose into the aims of its management team.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. A Short History of Dell. This simple strategy proved wildly successful.

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. A misunderstood story. 3 globally).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

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. For much of the past 15 years, almost anyone with a spark of adventure was eager to leave a career in a state-owned enterprise (SEO) for the chance to get rich, travel, and innovate.

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Travel Survey Marketing Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 26% (to 28% below its 2005 level) by 2025, the EU will cut emissions 40% by 2030 compared to 1990, and China will hit peak emissions by 2030 (or earlier), lower its emissions per unit of GDP by 65%, and increase use of renewables to 20% of energy consumption. For example, the U.S.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. That''s a big change from only five years ago, when UX wasn''t on anyone''s radar outside the tech world. A few years ago, this characterization would have seemed like a step down for a senior executive.

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Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Creative retailers are using the new technologies to innovate just about everything stores do from managing inventory, to marketing, to getting paid. Among large traditional retailers, Walmart recently reported the best results, leading its stock price to surge, while Macy’s, Target, and Nordstrom’s nosedived.

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Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

How can incumbents manage through the monumental changes currently under way? In 2005, Netflix’s Hastings told INC Magazine, “I don’t want to get into production. While online accounts soared, customers expressed increasing frustration at not being able to order through any channel at the same price.

Business Model 8

Business Model Constraint Technology Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 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. Massive big-box stores, providing lower prices and greater selection, crushed small-scale retailers in town squares and shopping malls. In their 2005 book, W.

Retail 9

Retail Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Comparison 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Organizations have always depended on data — to manage operations, to communicate with customers, to pay employees and suppliers, to plan their futures, and so forth. Similarly, Fitbit counts steps and provides some simple summaries that help people better manage their fitness. But how, and at what price? Think Google.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

My understanding is that you''re in a bubble when the price of an asset becomes completely detached from its intrinsic value. A price of $198 per bitcoin is surely not justified by the fundamentals. But neither is a price of 10 cents. But maybe asset pricing is the wrong lens to be looking through here.

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Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 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 2005 smartphones were already popular, but the Cupertino visionary saw something much cooler than a “Crackberry.” The smartphone’s iconic social significance has been duly noted.

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Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

It seems that every week, one or another announces a new “Center for Health Care Value” or “Center for Health Care Innovation.” In 2005, when Prof. Comparison of outcomes is essential to disseminate innovations from one individual or team to another. For more, see this HBS case.).

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Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

To succeed, therefore, managers have to learn when and how to abandon the strategies they have grown up with. Its story starts like many success stories do: An innovative concept coupled with a first-mover advantage, enabling a rapid physical expansion and generating increasing returns to scale.

Strategy 14

Strategy First-mover Advantage Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 14

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. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

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Organization Health Care Insurance Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2015

Though these services and their innovative business models win acclaim from consumers and investors, their approach to the law is troubling — both for its implications for civil society and in its contagious influence on other firms in turn pressured to skirt legal requirements. That may be.

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Business Model Transportation Licensing Video 8