Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

At its core, reverse innovation describes solutions adopted first in poorer, emerging nations that subsequently—and disruptively—find a market in richer, developed nations. In 2009, two bright, young entrepreneurs in India saw a key pain point with local retailers, who had no ability to engage with their existing customers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The full report is available as a free download and, to whet your appetite, here are some of its most striking findings: • Global connectedness declined sharply at the onset of the financial crisis from 2007-2009, and despite modest gains has yet to recapture its 2007 peak.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

The beautiful thing about your story is it makes for a wonderful case study. No One Should Have To Work Under The Adverse Conditions Of A Poor Manager Or Supervisor! link] Mike Myatt Hi James: Thank you for the transparency of you comment. Congratulations to you Sir.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Nokia is still struggling to find a future beyond going head to head with the Android and iPhone platforms in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. The result: the Nook debuted in 2009 and leapfrogged the Kindle in key features, capturing nearly a third of the e-reader market and probably saving the company's life.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

And the advocacy vendors who've been serving these companies for years can kick start a vibrant apps market for Facebook's platform. They use targeted surveys and software that not only compile results, but also generate a variety of marketing communications such as testimonials, blog posts, success stores and the like.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2014

Case Study #1: Keep the door open. When Jane McIntyre became CEO of the United Way of the Central Carolinas in 2009, she stepped into a scandal. Case Study #2: Meet bad news head on. He also gave his marketing team a high level of autonomy. There were no questions, no expressions. There is camaraderie.”.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

In Jakarta, from 2005-2009, the number of cars rose by 22% annually, while the distance of usable roads actually declined (PDF). Department of Transportation estimates that 15% of the country''s roads are in an unacceptable condition and says that road congestion costs the U.S. an estimated $100 billion per year.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

In cases where the boss is insecure, "you should not bring that new hire in without a plan to promote him in the near term," says Fernández-Aráoz. Although it's tempting in a bad job market to buy top talent on the cheap, Fernández-Aráoz disapproves of the strategy. Case Study: The hiring risk pays off.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2015

” A 2009 study found that people who had their sleep restricted to five hours a night for four days in a row showed the same loss in performance at a simple cognitive task as people who had a blood alcohol content level of.06. Case study #1: Mining energy in mindfulness. Ryan Hulland was dog tired.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

So many brilliant people have been writing, speaking, and sharing case studies over that length of time, that if I only listed a few, I'd miss some really important thinkers. But despite this outpouring of expertise, many organizations still find marketing in the social era ridiculously hard to do well, if at all.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Savage is the author of The Flaw of Averages (Wiley, 2009) and of an HBR article with the same title , chairman of Vector Economics , Inc (VectorEconomics.com), an adjunct faculty member at Stanford and Cambridge, and a frequent lecturer on risk modeling.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The share price has nearly tripled since 2009, and it has become, for the first time ever, a billion-dollar enterprise in terms of market value. Recently, WD-40 shares were approaching $120 apiece and its market value was nearing $1.7 It’s free, but you do have to enter your email address to get the case study.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

Ford’s success with social media is well documentd in numerous case studies, and can largely be attributed to Scott’s efforts. However increasing your personal brand equity is good for adding value to your company’s brand, leveraging your earning power, and improving your job security and/or marketability.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Take a look at all of her duties and try to benchmark them against other jobs in the company or in the broader employment market. Case Study #1: A new role for the firm and the employee. Case Study #2: Job sculpting to prepare for the next step. Create a job description for the new role.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions. It’s been my experience that regardless of the subject, it is precisely when the noise becomes the loudest, that it’s most difficult for the consumer to extract quality and value from the market. D from Columbia. And he was considered an expert!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

For those who believe in the promise of open innovation, the 2009 startup Quirky was an exceptionally exciting company. In theory, user assessment should predict market demand, but that’s not what happened in practice. In addition, the broad range of categories made it hard for marketing to establish what Quirky was.

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