Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

For example, Gillette has successfully encouraged consumers to trade up again and again by continually introducing razors with the latest and greatest shaving technology. In 2015, for example, small food and beverage manufacturers drove nearly half of category growth , while the top 25 manufacturers could only take credit for 3%.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Marketing Price Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

The idea of creating a fresh new product, the prospect of increasing market share with brand new offerings, or the vision of disrupting some slow-moving incumbent with a radical new technology – these have an inherently strong appeal for companies keen for growth. billion in 2009, Gatorade hit $5.6 In 2015 it had $1.3

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Innovation Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. New workplace technology makes possible an unprecedented degree of control over working (and sometimes private) life – the New York Times’s account of tough working conditions in Amazon’s offices is a recent example. To take just three examples: Dehumanization.

Film 8

Film Drucker Technology Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. Critical contractors.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 has emerged as a leading adopter of smart meter technology for power utilities, approaching 50% penetration of 150 million total endpoints. Information & technology Internet'

Early Adopters 9

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

multinationals, while increasingly harassed by Beijing , have many leading market share positions in China, especially in high-tech and sophisticated capital goods such as U.S.-made but the latter’s volume of exports is so much larger that the bilateral trade deficit has risen by roughly 50% since 2009 and stood at $366 billion in 2015.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

In 2009, Wilson was part of a Wall Street team that the Obama administration hired to structure the bailout of GM, after the company, once the world’s largest automobile producer, sustained over $88 billion in losses in the previous four years. Taxpayers and workers should demand that open-market repurchases by all companies be banned.

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Instagram is an exciting marketing channel; GoPro’s account helps keep users engaged with the company and lets GoPro know how people use its products.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2018

Faced with labor shortages, companies will accelerate their investment in automation technologies. An $8 trillion investment boom would result in average annual US growth of about 3% and roughly 60% more economic output in 2030 than in 2015. times higher than today.

Analysis 8

Analysis Constraint Industry Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. By 2030, the BPC predicts , utilities in the United States will need to hire 150,000 additional workers in information-technology intensive roles. While the labor challenge is especially stark in the U.S., In the U.S.,

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

After the deepest recession in a generation, the United States labor market has seen a steady and strong increase in jobs, with the unemployment rate falling from 10% in 2009 to 5% in December 2015. That’s where wage insurance comes in. What wage insurance does.

Insurance 8

Insurance Offshoring Long-term Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

And while only 34 percent of the rural population earned more than $882 per year in 2009, this proportion is expected to reach 54 percent in 2015. Our analysis shows that by the year 2020, the combined consumer markets of China and India will amount to some $10 trillion annually. Approximately $6.2

Health Care 8

Health Care Policies Information Technology Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

On September 29, 2015, Techdirt posted “ You Can Now Turn Off Ads On Techdirt ,” explaining all the reasons why they were granting readers the power to not see ads. According to PageFair and Adobe’s 2015 Global Adblocking Report , “there are now 198 million active adblock users around the world.”

Advertising 8

Advertising CRM Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

Media 9

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C

Efficiency 9

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the use of commercial drones in United States airspace could become official starting in 2015. But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Those in Clinton’s camp include the venerable Aspen Institute, which produced a 2009 call to arms arguing that corporations’ short-term objectives corrode the “foundation of the American free enterprise system.” years in 2009. ” A Review of Relevant Studies. .” ” A Review of Relevant Studies.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Shipment volumes through North American ports, which fell 20% in 2009 from a record peak in 2007, are now higher than they were in 2007, and port-expansion plans from Vancouver to Los Angeles/Long Beach are bogged down by political wrangling. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. At first, we worked with RIC as a consultant but then became its partner in 2009. Only time will tell.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

For example, solutions provider Oracle built huge market share by supporting multiple platforms like Windows and Linux. In many cases, the decision was influenced by the platform’s incentives, success in attracting a following, and technological superiority — something that should happen in the IoT ecosystem as well.

Software 8

Software Industry Incentives System 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Since Uber was founded, in 2009, its workforce has continued to grow exponentially: 400,000 drivers are considered “ active ” on the Uber platform today, and 1.1 Uber Technologies , a pending class-action lawsuit by Uber drivers in California, which alleges that drivers are misclassified as independent contractors.

Management 8

Management Price Disaggregation System 8