Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

There are four essential elements to the formula: revenues, cost structure, margins, and resource velocity. These include manufacturing, budgeting, planning, sales and marketing, and customer service. Forbes hailed it as a veritable case study “on how digital transformation leads to business value.”

Business Model 14

Business Model Technology Advertising Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. 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. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 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.

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

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

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. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. Bye-bye to the clunkier and more costly PC.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 14

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

OCTOBER 4, 2017

labor market over the past 30 years. 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. And that’s just what we find.

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 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. Top startups already have market leading solutions.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 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. The third factor is political.

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

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. EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

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

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). In fact, China is already experiencing a labor shortage: Wages are rising and it is losing its labor-cost advantage to other developing countries.

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

I see Amazon’s price strategy with Whole Foods, fueled by constant testing and experimentation, to evolve in three steps: changing price perception, growing the market for healthy foods, and then applying insights to other offline retail sectors and services. But an important caveat here is cost. Changing price perception.

Price 8

Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 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

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

AUGUST 29, 2013

New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. In 2010, Florida Power & Light estimated that 65 percent of its workforce was near or eligible to retire. 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

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

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

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. Indeed, market share in each service line has grown substantially.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. So when I asked Mark Krolick—managing director of marketing and product development at United Airlines—about the hypothesis that having more superconsumers as leaders or employees enhances business performance, he smiled. Sales & Marketing Adapted from.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

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

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. to Kazakhstan, and selects a few trainable and marketable individuals out of more than 300,000 applicants. Rather than market performers in a one-way manner, they nurture relationships with customers via social media.

Globalization 11

Globalization Succession Talent Management Media 11

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

OCTOBER 26, 2016

All told, current estimates indicate the recall’s cost will exceed $6 billion (with one estimate even higher ). In 2009 and 2010, Toyota recalled over 8 million vehicles globally after defects led to dozens of driver fatalities and serious injuries. Soon after, it halted production and scrapped the product entirely.

Long-term 8

Long-term Crisis Brand Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. A large part of the problem is profit shifting to tax havens; I estimate that the cost of such profit shifting for the U.S. Further, U.S. There is no doubt that U.S.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

For instance, CMS reported a reduction in inpatient venous thromboembolisms (VTEs) from 28,000 in 2010 to 16,000 in 2014, meaning that 12,000 fewer patients had potentially fatal blood clots in 2014. The change to performance-based payment and market share requires tenacity and patience. Returning to fee-for-service is not an option.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Report System 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. The digital talent market in the UK is already tight. billion as compared to $4.4

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

But it’s important to understand the underlying elements of this debate: one level rests on the heavy use of H-1B visas by outsourcing firms; another rests on the disagreement over whether the program increases companies’ access to scarce skills, or merely helps them minimize costs. A literature review by Yi Xue and Richard C.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 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

OCTOBER 27, 2015

” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 The EC’s pronouncements signal the beginnings of a “Digital Maastricht Treaty.”

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

The question of whether the United States will have functioning markets where individuals can buy health care insurance lies at the heart of the current debate about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). First, these insurance markets were distressed before the enactment of the Affordable Care Act. health care system.

Insurance 12

Insurance Marketing Health Care Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. It focused its efforts on earning a majority share of Europe’s digital classified advertising market (a product that connects buyers and sellers). Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

But since outsourcing has become an increasingly common approach to cutting costs, many producers now rely heavily on globally dispersed supply chains. We analyzed every conflict minerals report submitted to the SEC in 2014, 2015, and 2016 (though our paper only includes results for the first two years). stock markets.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Productivity Products Company 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

With the current sub-par availability of resources and infrastructure for a community that has grown 43% between 2000 and 2010 , there is great cause for concern. Unfortunately, this total market strategy approach completely ignores the the rapidly-escalating economic impact of Hispanics, whose purchasing power is estimated to reach $1.5

Policies 15

Policies Short-term Diversity Education 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The cost to build and produce solar and wind power, for example, has dropped 60%–80% since 2010 , making it cheaper than grid electricity in most states. These things are not theoretical and are costing business and society today. The Economics of Clean Tech. In short, Trump cannot stop all momentum on the clean economy.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8