Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

However, all hope is not lost for Canadian businesswomen. In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1% of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% That means some of those women could be on the right path to move into corporate executive positions in the future.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Goes With What It Knows: Making Stuff,” centers on how Immelt is leading the company away from financial services and “soft services” like broadcasting and back to its historical roots of technology driven manufacturing.   Seeing that clean energy was going to be a growth market, Immelt launched ecomagination in 2005. 

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. I longed to spend my days being left alone by the “powers that be&#. However, they will rock even louder on my terms as an entrepreneur and professional coach. No longer a company creature; my job was surely destroying my soul.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. This is the generation of mobile technology, wireless communication, and clouds of constant content. Mobile technology. Cloud Computing. hours a day.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Same reason your own company might be forcing customers to use other clumsy technologies. Marketing groups like to think of themselves as technically savvy and feel a need to prove it. The result is implementation of technologies that customers don't like. Tesco in the UK pioneered an RFID-based approach to checkout in 2005.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. How do we unleash the power of networked learning? How do we conceive and harness the power of networked learning in this context?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. Many insurers simply exit a market once a rival negotiates an MFN. In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. Johns Hopkins is not alone.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Often, managers think about patent litigation as a “narrow” strategy to protect a particular technology against a specific infringer. The Apple-Samsung battle shows that patent litigation can be a much broader and powerful strategy. The first one is the marketing effect of IP litigation. billion requested).

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Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

It is a collection of in-depth interviews with movers and shakers in the technology world. 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.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Spotting disruptive business models early is very powerful but arguably difficult. This post isn’t for you. Everyone still here? Thought so.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

The relationship between technology and jobs is center stage in the policy and academic debate. Upskilling technologies, a partnership between humans and smart machines, can augment workers’ abilities, resulting in dramatically improved performance, greater safety, and higher worker satisfaction.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. It is the continuous obligation of economic policy to match increases in productive potential with increases in purchasing power and demand. in 2005 to 15.8% Humans have always shifted away from work suitable for machines and to other jobs. Insight Center.

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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.

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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. Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

My recent Harvard Business School Working Paper on small business credit explores new technology-driven entrants in the world of small business lending. It is early days in the use of predictive modeling to reduce risk and create new markets for small business loans. But the likelihood for some success seems good.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

After all, if acquisitions pay off they can provide a transformational antidote to a slowing core market and declining margins. Helping customers complete their “journey” An example of a stunningly successful merger was Procter & Gamble’s 2005 acquisition of Gillette.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Conventional wisdom has it that the traditional arrangement raises hackles because it is a dated relic of the bipolar Cold War Western power era. Yes, with regard to what the emerging powers are asking for. Consider the differences in various shares of the top ten emerging markets in comparative perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The first is technological, as the confluence of high-speed internet, mobile devices, and cloud computing has made it possible to start and scale digitally-enabled businesses at a fraction of the cost. Techies and entrepreneurs around the world can count on greater opportunities in their home markets. The third factor is political.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

My recent Harvard Business School Working Paper on small business credit explores new technology-driven entrants in the world of small business lending. It is early days in the use of predictive modeling to reduce risk and create new markets for small business loans. But the likelihood for some success seems good.

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Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

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. As of November 2016, the market value of the world’s 179 unicorns was estimated to be $646 billion. The economic power of large corporations is growing, not shrinking.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

In leaving Wall Street, I was not only walking away from the money that came with my position, but from a certain level of prestige and power as well. Because disruptive innovations are in search of a yet-to-be-defined market, we can't know the opportunity at the outset. The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Numerous countries, from Singapore to Japan, have established intellectual-property strategies aimed at achieving the greatest possible public benefits from their companies’ innovative ideas, primarily by ensuring that home-grown technologies become globally dominant in their fields. For example, in the late 1980s, a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Why did an observed technology boom coincide with a prolonged slump in the productivity data? and Japan between 1995 and 2005. As many economists have noted, productivity figure are often quite difficult to calculate in new technology categories, and could be larger or smaller than official estimates.

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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. Step one is for manufacturers to adopt the role of steward for the entire gun marketing system, all the way to the buyer. I see at least three steps to take.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability. Susan Cain: The power of introverts. According to Susan Cain and her incredibly popular book from last year, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking , you may not be alone. I hope they do the same for you. Like to read? Seth Godin: The tribes we lead.

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Godin Open-book Mass Marketing Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

My Bain colleagues and I estimated the odds of success of investments in major adjacency moves using a sample of nearly 200 companies’ experiences including “close-in moves” like expansion into a neighboring country and “distant” moves like a new business to new customers using new technologies. What has changed?

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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. Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow.

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

In the 1980s, and even the early 1990s, rural life focused on farming, and it was a hard existence: most people were grindingly poor and lacked basic amenities, including decent schools and health care, paved roads, and a reliable power supply. In 2005, average income was $407. But the rural markets have pockets of rising wealth.

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Health Care Policies Information Technology Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Nokia is still struggling to find a future beyond going head to head with the Android and iPhone platforms in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. The result: the Nook debuted in 2009 and leapfrogged the Kindle in key features, capturing nearly a third of the e-reader market and probably saving the company's life.

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EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

So not only do we have to learn how to use analytics technology, we need to become more data fluent and confident in how to go from a collection of insights to action. Muret is known as the “father” of GA, having founded Urchin, which was acquired by Google in 2005 and helped build the analytics tool we know today.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

which bought the company from its founder in 2005. While searching for other people using Delicious to organize their professional networks, I discovered Marnie Webb, who had introduced the use of the nptech tag into the community of nonprofit technology users; Marnie became a client and a friend. On the face of it, Yahoo!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

He admires Uber’s technology, but he sees the influx of non-occupational drivers as a threat to his livelihood: “Competition is always good for everyone, but again, it should be reasonable, not that you just flood the market.” “You know how many people went to the dealer and buy new cars?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The Power of Scale. To get a sense of the power of patient-reported outcomes data that’s collected on a large scale, consider the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial ( SPORT ). ” Furthermore, current systems do not compare treatments or providers in a head-to-head fashion.

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Health Care Report Sports Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

But, my friends, one of the best things I’ve done, in summer of 2005, was start painting the wall. Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%. Apple owned 0%.

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