Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible.

Bond 11

Bond Education Finance Video 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. Back in 2014 a leading automaker worked with an ABS marketing analytics platform to plan the launch of a new model. But is the pendulum starting to swing too far? Sponsored by Accenture.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain Tools Article 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. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What happened in 2006? Note: This post is adapted from my remarks at Babson College’s 2014 Lewis Institute Social Innovator Awards. And is this kind of rapid growth good news? You can find the answer to the timing question nestled among the facts that David Bornstein lays out in the preface to his book, How to Change the World.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Microfinance NGO Mission Statement 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 We think so.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

With the acquisition of Pixar by Walt Disney in 2006, Catmull became president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar. Does this create pressure to adopt the same technology or the same processes? Pixar announced in September that the release of The Good Dinosaur , originally scheduled for 2014, would be postponed to 2015.

Creativity 10

Creativity Film Management Short-term 10