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Open India: Considerations for Retailers

Harvard Business Review

How can we improve the businesses of our suppliers and local partners? Business Model Innovation. How can multinationals develop innovative business models with "small store" formats to promote convenience, yet give consumers lower prices through economies of scale in purchasing and supply chain efficiencies?

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Unilever’s Big Strategic Bet on the Dollar Shave Club

Harvard Business Review

And it’s a telling tale about whether the consumer products industry can get a digital business model right. billion in 2020. Dollar Shave Club has shown that the shaving market can still be transformed – thanks to an online subscription model, a memorable brand, and a strong consumer experience.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

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.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Back before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, MedStar’s leaders decided they needed a strategic plan to reimagine the company in 2020. Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. billion in 2010 to $4.9 Competing in New Ways.

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business Review

Consider some of these numbers: In 2010, Ericsson set the bar for much of the subsequent IoT hype by predicting there would be 50 billion internet-connected devices by 2020. The traditional business model is based on identifying a need and meeting it, or defining a problem and solving it.

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4 Things Successful Change Leaders Do Well

Harvard Business Review

Advanced technology is at the core of virtually every company’s business model today. For example, when Hess Corporation launched its 2020 Change Initiative, CEO John Hess challenged his entire leadership team to come up with solutions that would make the company more agile, cost conscience, and faster at decision making.

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The Changing Role of Global Leaders

Harvard Business Review

In November 2010, to big fanfare at Unilever's London headquarters, chief executive Paul Polman boldly articulated a new strategy. Unilever's strategy for 2020 is formulated in direct response to that quest for improved quality of life in a much more resource-constrained context. And of course, more pressure on climate.