Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Google''s 2005 purchase of YouTube fits into this category. But when you buy a company for its promising business model, it''s vital to keep it intact — by running it under a separate management structure. CEO Marissa Mayer acknowledged the long odds of making the $1.1 Mergers & Acquisitions Social media RBM LBM'

Advertising 10

Advertising Business Model Audience Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. — National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress, Technology and the American Economy, Volume 1, February 1966, pg. in 2005 to 15.8% Humans have always shifted away from work suitable for machines and to other jobs.

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Or that little book retailing site that opened its online door in 1995 and became the world’s largest online retailer. In 2005, McKesson invested in a David called RelayHealth that was in the connectivity business before connectivity was hot. What makes it work for our company?

Health Care 12

Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Shockingly, about half of all managers hold the view that people don’t change over time, ASB professor Peter Heslin has found in numerous studies.This view demoralizes even the people who hold it, Heslin finds. the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds" to the unexpected "I would trade all my technology for an afternoon with Socrates."

Sample 8

Sample Retail Resistance Tips 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

When it comes to technological development for safer guns, it is a task assigned to the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security — not to the U.S. Remington sells to both federally licensed wholesalers and directly to some federally licensed retailers (Walmart being its largest retail account).

Licensing 8

Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. They had the epiphany that they could use cheap retail space – the carts that sit in the middle of shopping malls – to sell mobile phone accessories, mostly cases.

Strategy 14

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 14

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

JULY 15, 2013

Technology makes reviewing, refining, redesigning and revising both jobs and job descriptions as dynamic as a commodities trading desk. Just ask anyone working in the health care, financial services, automobile, retail, media, publishing, education, advertising, real estate or defense industries. Have people been commoditized?

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The book retail platform was not yet burning. The HBR article describes how B&N moved on multiple fronts at once: It aggressively reduced costs in its core retail business while refocusing its stores around consumer needs. It's only this year, for the first time, that services revenue surpassed technology revenue.

EBITDA 11

EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 11

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. Dell''s success can be attributed in large part to its "direct model."

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 68

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 68

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

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. There was no strong association between CEO background and firm performance in high-tech and fashion retail.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

They like technology, they have an Xbox, they have children, and they have an annual household income of more than $100,000. And going into 2017, just two years from now, the momentum they will have generated will force executives at your company to sidestep drones, self-driving cars, and robots to focus on this technology.

Forrester 8

Forrester Technology Execution Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

“This is not happening just in retail, or in IT-producing sectors,” said Chiara Criscuolo, an OECD economist and coauthor of the report. If you’re, say, an HR manager who happened to take a job at Chobani early on, your compensation suddenly looks considerably better than many of your peers. Others will try and fail.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

A 2005 survey of more than 500 freight interests from the public and private sectors carried out by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) revealed deep divisions on freight traffic congestion causes and solutions, and an alarming lack of communication between the two sides.

Planning 10

Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 10

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. Think Google.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Property managers forecasted an 8% increase in rents in 2016. Department of Agriculture reported that food prices rose 31% from 2005 to 2014. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Online retailers, like Amazon, employ about one-third the number of employees per dollar sold as conventional retailers do.

Retail 15

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

There are a staggering 250 collective management organizations overseeing digital content, according to a 2014 EC press release. By many measures, the UK is ahead of the others in terms of its digital foundations and sophistication; for example, the proportion of retail in the U.K. Transparency and governance issues abound.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8