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. Insight Center.

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

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. Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share. This post isn’t for you. Everyone still here? Thought so.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 8

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. Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We insisted that the local team follow Yahoo reporting, systems, and governance requirements.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

When IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo in 2005, many people questioned the wisdom of divesting a successful business, especially one that IBM had worked so hard to create. Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow.

Business Model 15

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 15

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. And early reports from the architects of these newer algorithms caution how long it takes to thoughtfully incorporate new metrics into the models.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism. Philippe Intraligi/Getty Images.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 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. ” Those fears are not entirely unfounded.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

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. And early reports from the architects of these newer algorithms caution how long it takes to thoughtfully incorporate new metrics into the models.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

That was the main takeaway from our recent report, Rise of the Global Startup City , which documents the global state of startups and venture capital. As these technologies have fallen in cost, they are within reach in more markets, meaning that it’s easier to create and grow these high-growth, high-tech businesses in more cities.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Globalization Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

million university graduates entered the job market in 2010 , up from one million in 1999. 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. More than 6.4 The number of high-skilled, high-paying jobs has not kept pace.

Travel 9

Travel Survey Marketing Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

In 2005 A.G. Lafley, who at the time was CEO of the world’s largest advertiser, Procter & Gamble, introduced a marketing concept he called “the moment of truth” for building brand loyalty. Customers can also sign up for SMS notifications and find FAQs without needing to leave the branded experience.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Loyalty Reis 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Google''s 2005 purchase of YouTube fits into this category. They have the capital that Tumblr needs; they also have sophisticated advertising technologies and scale that Tumblr couldn''t match on its own. CEO Marissa Mayer acknowledged the long odds of making the $1.1 We call such deals "leverage my business model" (LBM) acquisitions.

Advertising 8

Advertising Business Model Audience 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.

Human Capital 13

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

When IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo in 2005, many people questioned the wisdom of divesting a successful business, especially one that IBM had worked so hard to create. 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

JUNE 2, 2016

I looked at quarterly earnings call transcripts for Yahoo and two of its competitors from late 2005 to the first quarter of 2016 and counted mentions of “mobile,” “phone,” or “smartphone.” That could be coincidence, but it fits with reporting on her priorities upon coming aboard.

CEO 8

CEO Content Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

But there are big differences separating those who are more financially reliant on gig work (56% of workers surveyed) and “casual” gig workers (42%) who report that they could live comfortably without the additional income. Other reports have found that most independent workers (in the.

Motivation 8

Motivation Survey Incentives Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

And in the years that followed, conventional retailers’ confidence in the future increased as Census continued to report puny online sales. Creative retailers are using the new technologies to innovate just about everything stores do from managing inventory, to marketing, to getting paid. And then the gale hit.

Retail 8

Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

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

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) Because the "unmentionable" subject of menstruation is taboo, the market failure — supplying cheaper pads — had never received the attention it deserved. 11/pad) for the cheapest imported sanitary pad can often be simply unaffordable.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

In almost every sector, there are once-dominant enterprises that find themselves on the wrong side of a shift in customer demand or the emergence of a disruptive technology. In 2008, the coffee chain was struggling to maintain its market position and to ward off a growing set of competitive threats. Research in Motion (Blackberry).

Company 8

Company Video CEO Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. Companies, by contrast, still go through the nerve-wracking ritual of performance evaluations, during which executives set goals for direct reports.

Cooper 15

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global. For instance, before the crisis, the three largest German banks had two-thirds of their total assets in foreign markets; today it is only one-third.

Banking 8

Banking McKinsey Finance Globalization 8

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 78

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 78

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. Companies, by contrast, still go through the nerve-wracking ritual of performance evaluations, during which executives set goals for direct reports.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. stock exchanges.

IPO 9

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The process was said to protect against “etheric bedlam,” as a navy report warned, or a “cacaphony of competing voices,” as the Supreme Court later described, and misspelled, it. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate. FM was destroyed.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

“Not only are profits rising,” write the authors of the McKinsey report, “but in some industries, the leading firms are winning bigger than ever before.” “This is not happening just in retail, or in IT-producing sectors,” said Chiara Criscuolo, an OECD economist and coauthor of the report.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. ” What was reported to happen as a consequence of this shift was a steady decline in firms’ R&D intensity (R&D/Sales) and a corresponding decline in firms’ R&D capability. MirageC/Getty Images. Why do these shifts occur?

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

This idea of prospect theory, developed by Tversky and Kahneman and reported in a classic 1979 article (for which the Nobel prize was awarded) demonstrated that individuals do not make decisions rationally by selecting options with the highest expected value, because they are risk-averse and 'losses loom larger than gains.'.

Kahneman 14

Kahneman Tversky Company Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL Technologies, the German division of online auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Willing to Take Chances. “That (assumption) made him crazy,” Hill says.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL Technologies, the German division of online auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Willing to Take Chances. “That (assumption) made him crazy,” Hill says.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How can we create $12 trillion a year in market opportunities by 2030? But a recent report concludes that meeting the goals in just four out of 60 sectors (food and agriculture, cities, energy and materials, and health and wellbeing) could indeed open up market opportunities worth up to $12 trillion a year in less than 15 years.

Chemicals 9

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Take Dell Technologies, for example. Caesars Entertainment has built test-and-learn into its marketing investments. Take Google.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. Market focus. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Most of them focus on digitalization specifically and on communications technology, though some attention continues to be paid to transportation infrastructure (e.g., For more than 150 years now, new technologies have been touted as making the world one. Parag Khanna’s Connectography ). Related Video.

Globalization 8

Globalization Offshoring Tacit Knowledge Intangible Assets 8