Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this. Under new ownership (Volvo was sold to China’s Geely by Ford in 2010), the Swedish automaker decided to transform its product line by becoming a premium player. The company sold 571,000 cars last year, up from 373,000 in 2010.

Engineering 8

Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. But Netflix’s globalization strategy, and many of the challenges it’s had to overcome, are unique. For example, its earliest international expansion, in 2010, was to Canada, which is geographically close to and shares many similarities with the United States.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. But Netflix’s globalization strategy, and many of the challenges it’s had to overcome, are unique. For example, its earliest international expansion, in 2010, was to Canada, which is geographically close to and shares many similarities with the United States.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 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. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Firms have been developing models that predict how their customers will behave for years. Decision making Information & technology Strategy' This in turn gives us a better vantage point into the behavior of the whole system, in turn enabling better strategic decision-making. This idea is not new, of course.

Budgeting 10

Budgeting Information Technology System Library 10

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. Policy makers and scholars generally agree that China must rebalance its economy toward a consumption-driven development model. This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan.

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

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. didn’t have a coherent global strategy to encourage large-scale adoption or promote acceptance of its technology.

Licensing 8

Licensing Technology Participative Globalization 8

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. Smaller brands have been picking up the slack.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Marketing Price Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

In 2010, the Seilers surveyed all officers and social services staff. Army staffers now develop individual strategies to overcome these barriers, connecting families to community services to achieve self-sufficiency. The results corroborated their concerns. Habitat has thereby transformed the nature and scale of its impact.

Microfinance 9

Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 9

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. Do we need to increase focus on acquisition as a growth strategy, at least as a way to "buy time" for organic efforts to develop? But the basic pattern continues.

Innovation 13

Innovation Planning Kahneman Tversky 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The “turnaround plan” recently announced by McDonald’s includes an aggressive program to manipulatively boost its stock price via stock buybacks, an activity that has become the major focus of its corporate strategy over the past decade. billion in buybacks in 2015 under its current board-authorized repurchase program. .”

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 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. After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010. Willingness to compromise.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For example, in 2015, Maersk and MSC, the world’s two largest liner shipping companies, established 2M, a 10-year vessel sharing agreement covering 193 vessels. For example, in 2010, Corelio and Concentra, two European media companies, established Coldset Printing Partners, a joint venture (JV) for their newspaper printing assets.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. That’s why it’s imperative to ensure your strategy deeply resonates with your organizational culture. They need to feel valuable and that they are being developed.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 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. As the company’s vision became the new normal, it was easy to forget that the strategy was, at the outset, plainly illegal. Uber’s Fundamental Illegality. Rotten to the Core.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. ” Keeping it simple, with five core strategies in his long-term plan, helped people remember his message.

CEO 9

CEO Short-term Long-term EPS 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

Thanks to hit radio ads—developed by Vikram and featuring his and Rohit’s voices touting the health benefits of eggs—the father-son duo had even become minor local celebrities: expat entrepreneurs made good. Yolk-ay’s 2010 turnover had been two million dirhams. I could put Arundhati on it.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Survey Course Class 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Hispanic leaders want both government and business to invest in developing a relationship with the community that embraces their cultural relevancy. 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.

Policies 15

Policies Short-term Diversity Education 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Two developments bear noting. ” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. JC Penney spent no money on television advertising during the 2015 Super Bowl, yet its “mittens” campaign was one of the most watched.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Hispanic leaders want both government and business to invest in developing a relationship with the community that embraces their cultural relevancy. 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.

Policies 8

Policies Short-term Diversity Education 8