Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2020

A croquet picture of the American outlaw valued almost around $5 million in 2015. A unique Pikachu Illustrator Card has only six copies left in the world, and each one will cost you a hundred thousand dollars. In 2010, the only known complete version of Atari’s Air Raid made a sale of $33 thousand. MOVIE POSTERS.

Video 65

Video Books Marketing Trends 65

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. costs quite dramatically over the next decade. Forus brought down the cost of 3nethra by locally sourced mechanical components, PCB, and shell. There is a healthcare crisis in the U.S. In 2016, the U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015. billion in 2010, predicting it would grow at 20% a year for a decade. President to visit India twice.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

By one estimate , the number of international migrants worldwide reached 244 million in 2015, up from 222 million in 2010, and 173 million in 2000. In fact, whether cultural diversity carries more economic benefits than costs is still a hotly disputed question among scholars. International migration is on the rise.

Long-term 10

Long-term GDP Diversity Construction 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

There are four essential elements to the formula: revenues, cost structure, margins, and resource velocity. For an example of digitally-enabled business model transformation, consider Domino’s Pizza, which has experienced a massive turnaround since 2010.

Business Model 14

Business Model Technology Advertising Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Attitudes have changed since 2010, the last time Washington debated serious climate action, and not only because most of us have connected the dots between climate change and the extreme weather events that ravage our communities. In Colorado, the state renewable energy mandate was bumped up from 20% to 30% in 2010. And the U.S.

Power 8

Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Organizations such as Blue Cross Blue Shield have used their considerable databases about chronically ill people to target and influence their care, reducing to some extent the total cost of care, much of which is concentrated in helping a small portion of their total consumer base.

Budgeting 10

Budgeting Information Technology System Library 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. Driven by economies of scale, container ship size has been increasing for decades, with the largest ships now costing roughly $200 million.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Organizations such as Blue Cross Blue Shield have used their considerable databases about chronically ill people to target and influence their care, reducing to some extent the total cost of care, much of which is concentrated in helping a small portion of their total consumer base.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting System Library Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. Morgan Stanley projects that 3G penetration will reach 22 percent by 2015. A leapfrog effect will mean that three of every four Net users will do so by 2015. Part of what's fueling growth in Net penetration is an explosion in mobility.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

"You have to deliver $300 million in incremental growth by 2015," the business unit head told the leader of his innovation team. As recounted in Kahneman's recent book, Thinking, Fast and Slow , one study found that the typical homeowner expected their home improvement projects to cost about $19,000. The average actual cost?

Innovation 14

Innovation Planning Kahneman Tversky 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A decade ago, the Mach 3 razor was Gillette’s premium offering for men, until the Fusion line was launched in 2006 at a 40% price increase, followed by the Fusion ProGlide in 2010 and the Fusion Proshield Flexball in 2016—to name a few of the brand’s major releases. times the cost of mainstream ice creams.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Marketing Price Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Harnessing Big Potential While Minimizing Risk.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

In 2010 the “New GM” did one of the largest initial public offerings in history, with share sales to the public of $23.1 The UAW made big sacrifices, allowing GM to reduce labor costs by $11 billion. billion from 2010 through 2013), it would probably still be bankrupt but for the booming Chinese market. Instead, U.S.

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In boom times, companies may face adjustment costs that deter them from adapting to technological change. Moreover, the vast majority of this “upskilling” persists through the end of our sample in 2015. Recessions, in contrast, can produce large enough shocks to overcome these frictions.

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The annual number of venture capital deals expanded from 8,500 in 2010 to 14,800 in 2017, for an increase of 73% in just seven years. The amount of capital invested in those deals surged from $52 billion in 2010 to $171 billion in 2017 — a gain of 231%. The second factor is economic.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Globalization Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C Can we invest in public-private R&D to bring the cost of batteries down even faster?

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships.

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

And it's just the latest in a series of Chinese commitments, which include the following: July 2010: 5 trillion yuan , or $800 billion, alternative energy plan over 10 years (this is like the part of the U.S. August 2012: 40% increase in solar target (21 gigawatts by 2015). The costs of inaction are rising, which brings me to.

GDP 8

GDP Energy McKinsey Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

For example, on the Indonesian archipelago, supply chain and distribution logistics present serious challenges — with logistics costs at 24% of GDP, compared with the regional average range of 9-11%. Quantifying the impressive rise of the middle class, FSG calculates private consumption in Peru is set to grow 54% between 2010 and 2015.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

In fact, China is already experiencing a labor shortage: Wages are rising and it is losing its labor-cost advantage to other developing countries. This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. A shrinking labor force will be a drag on growth. Such investments might not be sustainable in the long term.

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

But an important caveat here is cost. We must assume that low costs – both in purchasing and in operations – are not the biggest strengths of Whole Foods. Amazon may successfully implement some of its outstanding process and logistics know-how, but the cost side is still liable to limit pricing latitude.

Price 8

Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 2, 2020

This year, the cost of new wind and solar generation dropped below the costs of coal and nuclear energy. Prices for battery packs have dropped 87% since 2010. Global malaria mortality has dropped by 60% between 2000 and 2015. Coals shipments in the U.S. In April, the U.S. did the same.

Globalization 94

Globalization Report Energy Sample 94

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Vanguard carved out a niche by managing low-cost index mutual funds in 1975. Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

But by the company’s launch, in 2010, most urban taxi fleets used modern dispatch with GPS, plus custom hardware and software. Uber was wise to use smartphone apps (not telephone calls) to let passengers request vehicles, and it found major cost savings in equipping drivers with standard phones (not specialized hardware).

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Understanding the implementation plans for the health care law passed in 2010 is a complicated job for even the most seasoned policy wonks. These logistics took a sharp new turn last week when the Obama administration decided to delay enforcing mandatory employer and insurer employment requirements until 2015.

Health Care 8

Health Care Parcell Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 11, 2019

The proportion of patents involving IT in some way has grown from around 5% in 1990 to 40% by 2015, with this a general reflection of the role IT plays as a general purpose technology with applications across sectors. Software has grown to be especially powerful in this time, which has placed a premium on software engineering skills.

Innovation 70

Innovation Human Capital Software Globalization 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

In 2010, Florida Power & Light estimated that 65 percent of its workforce was near or eligible to retire. Other utilities and businesses are partnering with local colleges to raise awareness about smart grid job opportunities and start training talent to replace those departing boomers.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The American climate activists who have flocked to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week tend to have one thing in common: many own the “it” car for their tribe, the VW Jetta Wagon TDI. At 49 MPG, the Jetta does better than many hybrids, and drives German, too. It arguably started with BP.

PPM 8

PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. Given the rising cost of urban land, real estate markets cannot satisfy this need on their own. A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S. This needs to change.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

invests vast amounts in innovation – $135 billion from federal government sources alone in 2015 – yet it lacks a coherent intellectual property strategy to ensure that the investment pays off. Chinese manufacturers benefited immensely from lower licensing costs while IP licensors saw decreased revenues. Is the U.S.

Licensing 8

Licensing Technology Participative Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010. Our clinical partnerships allow us to offer academic expertise in a lower-cost setting, an excellent value for consumers as they shop for health care services. The program includes access to Advocate’s data warehouse and data registries.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Would you rather drive productivity that way or increase your labor costs by 10 percent? percent who are actively disengaged—who alone cost the United States $450 billion to $550 billion in lost productivity, according to Gallup. People go the extra mile and may be willing to stay a little late because it is fun.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. in 2015 and is on track to reach a targeted 2.5% By all accounts, the Chinese state is on all-out drive to move the country up the technological ladder.

Innovation 8

Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Big Bang, a Korean pop (K-Pop) boy band, earned $44 million in 2015, making it among the highest paid in the industry. K-Pop entertainment companies are particularly good at using YouTube and other social media to raise awareness of new artists and music, interact with fans, and distribute music at relatively low cost.

Globalization 11

Globalization Succession Talent Management Media 11