Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

He has challenged Indian companies to come up with inclusive business models that deliver more value at less cost for more citizens — be it in agriculture, healthcare, education, energy, or financial services. Today, however, that old model is being retired.

Business Model 15

Business Model Bottom-up Entrepreneur Incubator 15

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. ” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 The winners. ’ ” The losers.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

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Tips 29

Tips Licensing Newsletter Godin 29

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Related Posts: Ways to distinguish yourself #198 – Don't focus on the "derivative" at the expense of the "core" The competition dilemma Get a bargain but not at the price of mindshare How can you cut your marketing budget? © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

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Licensing Newsletter Creativity Comparison 29

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

On the other hand, if you try to do something that nobody has ever done ( almost saying you have no competition) then the question is “whether there is a market for what you are doing&#. 25 Creative "Site Maintenance" Messages Prices are always relative… Posted in the Main Page category. Have a great morning!

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Licensing Newsletter Creativity Comparison 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

And it’s a telling tale about whether the consumer products industry can get a digital business model right. While Dollar Shave Club represents a growing share of the razorblades market, it is still tiny, it operates with low margins, is made up of an irreverent albeit engineering-savvy team – and is, as yet, unprofitable.

Business Model 8

Business Model Retail Brand Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Here are some considerations for businesses contemplating a Go-to-India strategy: Market Selection. How do you build trust and verify the integrity of the market participants? How will your business impact the mom-and-pop kirana stores? What can you learn from other emerging markets (Brazil, Mexico, Kenya, etc.)?

Retail 15

Retail Supply Chain Business Model Globalization 15

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing. In the interim we might also look at piloting an Affiliate Marketing Strategy. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

It has doubled its market cap in the five years and sales reached almost $1.5 What's more, these are markets that traditional developed market firms are increasingly targeting for their own growth goals. and other traditionally developed markets. and other traditionally developed markets.

Company 11

Company Pharmaceuticals Business Model Fixed Costs 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Here's what I've learned about market demand in three-and-a-half years and (now) 200 posts. At the end of 2010 the combination of an unusual presentation and work on The Little Black Book of Innovation inspired a post that was a long list of one-sentence answers to common innovation questions. Headlines matter.

Blog 14

Blog Innovation Long-term Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Prahalad, put it there), the struggle to understand its role as a market and as a source of innovation continues. Yes, there are notable examples of BOP innovation from global corporations (such as the GE portable ECG machine ) and emerging market companies (such as the Chotukool refrigerator) that have broken through in global markets.

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Prahalad Business Model Early Adopters Innovation 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. Growing an Entrepreneurial Business : Concepts & Cases by Edward D.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

The market leader is a dead man walking. Short them (assume that their share price will fall). Of the top 25 corporations listed in Fortune in 2000 , only 12 were still there in 2010. Let's put this another way: in the decade between 2000 to 2010, half the winners lost. The competition forces a new business model.

Company 14

Company Price Agility Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

How long can a business model succeed that forces students to accumulate $200,000 or more in debt and cannot guarantee jobs — even years after graduation? According to the American Institute of Physics (PDF) , as of 2010, there are about 9,400 physics teachers teaching undergraduates every September in the United States.

Education 11

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 11

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

JANUARY 3, 2013

A prosumer camera is one that is borderline professional grade but a price point in between a consumer camera (few hundred dollars) and a professional camera (few thousand dollars). Prosumers can be the guide to finding unmet demand on the price/value curve. They also are finicky about marketing ("how you market it").sometimes

Price 8

Price Mass Marketing B2B Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

If you've ever had anything to do with business initiatives among the world's poor — the so-called bottom of the economic pyramid — you've no doubt heard the advice that enterprises in this space need to aim for low prices, low profit margins, and high sales volumes. At a price equivalent to 10 U.S.

Microfinance 13

Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Technology-based companies can drive transformation in many existing markets of course – just look at the battles brewing between traditional taxi companies and Uber, a mobile app that connects passengers with drivers. In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

But it's this set of beliefs that explains why Western companies fail to succeed in emerging markets where middle class consumers demand good quality at low prices, and why these companies struggle to develop value-for-money products for their home markets during slow growth times like these.

Quality 13

Quality Working Capital Price Open-book 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

For example, in 2010, Microsoft —one of the world’s best product innovators for the last two decades — launched a social phone called Kin. To achieve sustainable growth, companies must better integrate product innovation with business model, process, and service innovations. The product was a complete disaster.

Innovation 9

Innovation Productivity Products Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

Africa’s recent economic growth rates and rising youth population have meant more and more entrepreneurs are looking there for potential business opportunities. The typical strategy is to introduce new companies by recreating foreign business models on the continent. In 2010, my company created an app store.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Open-book Marketing System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. The $19 billion sale of WhatsApp’s to Facebook made Koum and Acton, overnight, vastly wealthier than their next door neighbors.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

The fact that any of these theories could be true – and based on the share price movement, all of them are being applauded – says three important things about the nature of industries and competition today: Industries are increasingly irrelevant; it’s now the ecosystem that matters. Personally, we don’t presume to know Elon Musk’s mind.

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

What’s emerging is what I call the “StoreHouse” — a hybrid model that merges the physical benefits of a real-world store with the convenience of home. To embrace this market shift, retailers will need to experiment with a range of technologies and strategies across marketing, supply chain, and merchandising.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Merchandising Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. Put aside, for the moment, that Cisco spent $590 million during a recession to buy into the camera business. If the "innovation obvious" answer is "cut prices," that speaks volumes about your firm's innovation culture. What happened? This was obvious.

Wireless 11

Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Kodak invested the rich proceeds from this critical intellectual property in creating a strong position in the digital-image-production technology — printers, papers, and inks — that was disrupting its historic analog business. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

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. Creating the Venture Client Model. In addition, top startups are heavily oversubscribed, and competition to get into a deal is fierce.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

If you think about how new products and services are hatched and brought to market today, it isn't usually the doing of just one entity — least of all the corporate R&D labs that once served as our engines of tomorrow. FailCon 2010 took place on October 25th in San Francisco. First, why is it a sector?

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. But the critical asset in that value chain is the viewership data that Nielsen provides, which sets the price for advertising.

Industry 9

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. It wasn''t profitable, or scalable, but it was a brilliant way to learn what the business would really need. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. Patient capital.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It's easy to see why VCs have soured on the sector: the traditional VC model is based on high-risk, capital-efficient business models with the potential for huge exit valuations. Even if most of their investments fail, a few spectacular successes can "make the fund" for a VC.

Energy 10

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. Pure content providers , which capture new or novel data, or data that simply had not been captured before, and build a business around it.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Here's my take on the 10 big stories in sustainability and green business this year: The usual sustainability drivers got stronger. Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). Business as usual is no more.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15