Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Most of Steve Jobs' most quotable quotes come from that famous 2005 Stanford commencement speech, but there are better ones, CNN's Brandon Griggs maintains, offering up a sampling from George Beahm's new collection, I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words. They range from the lyrical: "The computer is to me.

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Sample Retail Resistance Tips 14

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

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.

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Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Google''s 2005 purchase of YouTube fits into this category. Although Geek Squad appears to be operating within Best Buy''s retail shops, it remains a service business, managed separately from the retail operation. CEO Marissa Mayer acknowledged the long odds of making the $1.1 Mergers & Acquisitions Social media RBM LBM'

Advertising 8

Advertising Business Model Audience Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Most of Steve Jobs' most quotable quotes come from that famous 2005 Stanford commencement speech, but there are better ones, CNN's Brandon Griggs maintains, offering up a sampling from George Beahm's new collection, I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words. They range from the lyrical: "The computer is to me.

Sample 8

Sample Retail Resistance Tips 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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Airlines 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. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

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 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 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

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 9

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

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

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.

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EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

In 2005, average income was $407. She is a 58 year-0ld farmer who has seen a dramatic increase in household income as a result of the factory job her son has and the retail earnings of her daughter in law. Greater use of information technology and mobile communications to empower farmers. Approximately $6.2

Health Care 8

Health Care Policies Information Technology Retail 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. Dell''s success can be attributed in large part to its "direct model."

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

It’s widely believed that Modi, just as he did in Gujarat, will try to tame India’s sclerotic, corrupt, and self-serving bureaucracy by eliminating archaic laws and regulations, and by using technology to eliminate their discretionary powers. Given his nationalist zeal, Modi will do his best to capitalize on that opportunity.

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Bureaucracy Policies Globalization Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

of employment in 2005 to 9.6% And it’s vitally important we pay attention to this shift in mindset because the use of platforms to help consumers perform tasks and make purchases is likely to increase as brick and mortar retail and service jobs disappear. This has been true throughout economic history.

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Document Insurance Construction Cooper 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

About the Research We looked at the background and performance data of 297 CEOs leading the largest companies in three different industries which are widely regarded as innovative: pharmaceuticals, high-tech, and fashion retail. There was no strong association between CEO background and firm performance in high-tech and fashion retail.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 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.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

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.

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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. The competition story revolves around digital technology. Firms concentrate on what they’re good at, adopt new technology, and deliver products and services more efficiently.

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 8

Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

My friends in the industry tell me that bogey was met by 2005. Insurance companies are developing new understandings of risk, retailers are better stocking their shelves, and human resources is finding new sources of talent, just to name a few. Think Google.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Department of Agriculture reported that food prices rose 31% from 2005 to 2014. Online retailers, like Amazon, employ about one-third the number of employees per dollar sold as conventional retailers do. If online retailers gained an additional 10% in market share, that would eliminate another 1 million jobs.

Retail 9

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Ultimately dubbed the Technology Incubation Scheme (in Singapore, a scheme is a good thing), the program helped bring a flood of diverse investors into the country by offering to put up 85% of the capital in a start-up when investors put in 15%. One year later, we partnered with the government to prototype a new program under the NFIE.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

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. based corporations – prominent examples being Skype, founded in Estonia, acquired by eBay in 2005 for $2.6 billion in 2014. in Sub-Saharan Africa and 27.7% in Latin America.

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8