Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

While I'm not above the feverish speculation about what exactly will be unveiled, the phrasing of the message struck me as having something to say about Apple's approach to innovation deeper than just one product launch. course we know that, as research by Booz [pdf] back in 2005 demonstrated, "Money doesn't buy results." measures of.

Press Release 15

Press Release Technology Productivity Products 15

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 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, New Orleans was a place where too many people accepted that the city’s zenith had passed over 150 years ago. Now, New Orleans is being recognized as a hub of innovation, with a rate of business startups 64% higher than the national average.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Transportation Price Education 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

In 2005, IBM sold its PC division to its former competitor, Lenovo. It sold this money-losing division systematically evolved itself to become, once again, a respected technology competitor. They have gone through different cycles of disruptive innovations, leaving some businesses, and creating new ones. But it arrived late.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Prahalad Film Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. When a company had dozens of potential competitors in various geographic regions, there was an incentive to innovate before the other guy does.

Pharmaceuticals 10

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. inch vs. 3.5-inch

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 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 22, 2016

One answer is to take a cue from pivotal technology companies leading the change. Many of the companies leading today’s technology-driven transformations across industries are leveraging transitional strategies, or more specifically transitional business platforms. Businesses able to most cost-effectively provide it will win.

Business Model 8

Business Model Constraint Technology Transportation 8

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. The Case of IBM.

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

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.

Travel 9

Travel Survey Marketing Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

I recently met a top executive at a major enterprise technology firm who runs an $8 billion dollar product line and describes himself as the "Chief Product Designer" for his division (even though his title is SVP and General Manager, and he has never before considered himself a "designer"). He was right there in the middle of it. All of it.".

Leadership 10

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 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.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

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.

Retail 8

Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. Consider the differences in various shares of the top ten emerging markets in comparative perspective.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. So, to achieve higher performance, should company boards and investors choose CEOs with the expertise that would better qualify them to lead innovation? For the rest, we found that other factors besides innovation drove strong shareholder returns.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

When the company started in 2005, so-called “Greek” yogurt made up only a tiny sliver of the yogurt market—less than one-quarter of one percent. Innovations that catch on mix familiarity and novelty, old and new. When Apple introduced the iMac in 1998, it featured only minor technological improvements.

Productivity 10

Productivity Products Succession Transportation 10

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.

Price 9

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. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate. The smartphone’s iconic social significance has been duly noted. FM was destroyed.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 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. My friends in the industry tell me that bogey was met by 2005. But how, and at what price? That’s changing. Think Google.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Few of these rules were made with computing, or even technology, in mind. VCs provide the funds that fuel every significant innovation in the region and beyond. or even Silicon Valley, has figured out every legal hack that would make innovation flourish. And quickly. consumers take for granted.

Policies 8

Policies Offshoring Engineering Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2014

This includes a new open innovation program that encourages ideas to reduce greenhouse gases from Canadian oil sands production — the same controversial, greenhouse-gas-heavy source of fossil fuels that environmental groups are fighting against when it comes to the Keystone XL pipeline. Is it a marketing campaign? A corporate strategy?

Energy 8

Energy Globalization Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8