Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

When insurers or health care providers have to battle one another to attract customers, they must differentiate themselves by charging lower prices or providing better service. But if an insurer dominates a marketplace, it can raise prices and lower service standards with impunity. In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co.

Crisis 63

Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. In 2005, they launched a U.S. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

If you've ever had anything to do with business initiatives among the world's poor — the so-called bottom of the economic pyramid — you've no doubt heard the advice that enterprises in this space need to aim for low prices, low profit margins, and high sales volumes. At a price equivalent to 10 U.S. It was laid down by C.K.

Microfinance 13

Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 13

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.” California is also delivering some big results.

Power 8

Power Planning Proposal Energy 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 were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Today, businesses often operate on short-term objectives of profit maximization and shareholder return. We get back to core stuff.”

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

In 2005, when Prof. For example, in 2008 the network discovered high rates of complications in bariatric surgery patients who had deep venous thrombosis (DVT) filters placed during their operation. Paying for results and packaging payment into a bundled price will create a fundamentally different marketplace dynamic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. New, small entrants into the market will be at pains to form relationships with such firms, and the power imbalance is effectively a monopsony — sell to us at our price, on our invoice terms, or get lost. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market.

Pharmaceuticals 10

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Such companies should pay close attention to the different ways in which the Justice Department claims egregious BP behavior and prevent such actions in their own operations. In March, BP settled civil claims by private plaintiffs for $7.8 No criminal charges have been filed against the company.).

Industry 15

Industry Operations Report Globalization 15

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. My friends in the industry tell me that bogey was met by 2005. But how, and at what price? Think Google.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

billion to acquire the webOS operating system, Hewlett-Packard discontinued its webOS-based series of smartphones and line of Touchpad tablets — losing its bet on a webOS-everywhere future. In 2005, News Corp was lauded for its $850 million purchase of MySpace — later sold off for peanuts.

Innovation 13

Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

By contrast, since 2005, the importance of meaningfulness in driving job selection has grown steadily. The height of the price tag that workers place on meaning surprised us all. Often, the people “in the trenches” (retail floor clerks, assembly line workers) have valuable insights into how operations can be improved.

Creativity 15

Creativity Report Conference Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

In 2005, Essilor launched its first "refraction vans" — mobile vans that allowed an optician to offer on-the-spot diagnosis and prescriptions for visual problems with a limited range of spectacles ready for immediate sale. If customers couldn't get to opticians in urban centers, why not bring them to the customers?

Constraint 15

Constraint Marketing Travel Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

of employment in 2005 to 9.6% These truck drivers, misclassified as independent owner-operators, were forced by companies whom they worked to purchase new vehicles to comply with more stringent emission restrictions. Society at large pays a price, too.

Document 13

Document Insurance Construction Cooper 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

Well, Burrows was converted to the stores, at least: in a glowing 2005 piece, he professed that Apple had discovered what surely must be the future of retail. But this strategy comes at a price. Advantage instead went to the horizontal layers of chips and operating systems (cue Wintel).

Competitive Advantage 14

Competitive Advantage Software Health Care Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

A brand’s difference gives consumers an easy rationale for choosing it, and a ready justification for paying a price premium. Research by Millward Brown finds that brands with a meaningful difference command a price premium 13 percent higher than weaker category alternatives. For example, look at Lululemon.

Apparel 8

Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 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. However, in a situation such as this, trust is only built when you are willing to step out of your comfort zone and operate with radical transparency.

Company 8

Company McKinsey Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

This cost is also disproportionately borne by mom-and-pops, many of which operate in poor neighborhoods and rural areas. However, this proportion is not growing; it has remained relatively static over the period 2005-2011, even as Mexico’s economy has grown. Each of these countries pays a price for the heavy usage of cash.

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

The largest, glaring gap in the speech was any mention of a price on carbon, by far the most effective action we can take to tackle climate change. We''re operating in a "what can we get done" mentality, which is what passes for vision in Washington these days. Talk about the need to price carbon so our markets can function correctly.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period Energy Politics Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Many firms operating brick and mortar stores are in trouble. B2B commerce, for example, didn’t move mainly online by 2005 as many had predicted in 2000, nor even by 2016, but that doesn’t mean it won’t do so over the next few decades. What’s the real story? But the gale is still blowing.

Retail 8

Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

They are different from the standard independent contractor in that they are high-priced free agents with extremely valuable, 
and rare, expertise that a company doesn’t possess. That makes retaining them very different from retaining someone who wants to scale the corporate hierarchy by managing increasingly larger operations.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

I’ve had the opportunity to participate with many large, self-insured employers in three such marketplace collaboratives: one led by Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle in 2005, another led by Intel in Portland, Oregon, in 2009, and the Robert Bree Collaborative , created by the Washington State legislature in 2011. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

This is a true golden age for consumers, who are demanding innovation in both the packaging and pricing of content. The average cable subscriber’s monthly bill, for example, includes $5 the operators must pay Disney just for ESPN, whether they want it or not. Since 2005, cable companies have lost ten million subscribers.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Walmart has improved the fuel efficiency of its distribution fleet by 69% since 2005. A large consumer products company — which tells me it will be going public with this story very soon — has already cut carbon in its own operations by 80%. We will need strong global policies and a price on carbon.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey GDP Cost-Benefit Analysis Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Private investors, unlike government funders, operate at lightning speed. And then there was the serendipitous 1960s convergence of computing and the counterculture. VCs provide the funds that fuel every significant innovation in the region and beyond. And quickly.

Policies 8

Policies Offshoring Engineering Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

By 2005 smartphones were already popular, but the Cupertino visionary saw something much cooler than a “Crackberry.” Soon, multiple players were in the mix, offering “digital one-rate” plans and driving mobile prices from expensive to cheap (and bumping long-distance carriers from the market altogether).

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Webvan promised to deliver the best quality groceries at the cheapest price by the click of a button. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. Since 2005, Google (and more recently, its parent company, Alphabet) has invested in countless new ventures. Think of strategy as a portfolio of options, not bonds. Take Google.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Since Knudstorp took over, Lego’s revenues have increased by 400%, and its operating profit margin has increased from -21% to 34%. Because Leica made cameras at the top end of the price range and didn’t adapt to these changes, it lost money throughout the 1990s. The results were amazing.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8