Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2012

Online sales of everyday items — soap, orange juice, toothpaste — more than doubled between 2006 and 2010, and are expected to double again by 2014. It was a simple business model distinction — either you sold online, or you sold in store. The day of e-commerce is finally here. Amazon.com), home delivery (e.g.,

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Company Retail Business Model 15

Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Her fields of experience span from hard core technology disciplines like semiconductors to sophisticated consumer marketing industries including fashion and education. She has a particular interest in Media and Retail companies and their transition to a Web-centric world. And for those in all the emerging markets.

Entrepreneur 28

Entrepreneur Licensing Newsletter Books 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. Yet almost all health care innovation funded since 2000 has been for sustaining the industry’s business model rather than disrupting it.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. They spent a lot of time "testing the waters," "experimenting," and "building prototypes," while younger, nimbler companies took to the web with ease, shattering established business models along the way. Think of Yahoo!,

Brand 12

Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 12

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

It’s that time of year again: time for business owners and senior executives to take stock of the past twelve months. What did 2010 look like for you and your company? OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?) Did you struggle to regain your post-recession footing?

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them. In a 2010 survey, a record 36% of women ages 25-29 had attained a bachelor’s degree compared to 28% of men of the same age.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

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. My third innovation obvious is equally obvious: Why not a daily QR code in a 7-11 or other retail outlet to promote a product or service of the day?

Wireless 12

Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 12

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. So is inequality, when it is directly created by entrepreneurs, good or bad?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Professional athletics certainly fits the bill with the emergence of professional race car driving schools ($2,000 for the day) and professional athlete fantasy camps (Michael Jordan's basketball camp cost $15,000 in 2010). As might retail investor services, which has led to the rise of Schwab and E-Trade.

Price 8

Price Mass Marketing B2B Quality 8

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. Apple quickly became the largest music retailer in the U.S. Doing so would require some nifty regulatory maneuvering.

Industry 9

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Nokia is still struggling to find a future beyond going head to head with the Android and iPhone platforms in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. To see why, please check out "Two Routes to Resilience," an article from Innosight-affiliated authors in the December issue of Harvard Business Review. Look at profit margin trends.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. Accordingly, it consists of a collection of broadly defined markets (“where to play”) and strategies (“how to win”), rather than a group of more fully defined businesses.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. And they’re sure to have great ideas about how to improve your products and business. Sales & Marketing Adapted from. I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

McDonald’s is the world’s largest fast-food chain: It has 36,200 retail outlets in 119 countries, 6,700 of which are owned by the corporation; the rest are run as franchises. million in 2010, when (dominated by the gains from exercising stock options) stock-based compensation accounted for 70% of total compensation.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Once again, he had turned around a struggling company, transformed its business model and made its operations hum. Before long, Blockbuster was gaining nearly half of all new subscribers in the online rental market. He then launched Total Access , a service that allowed customers to use the Web and retail stores interchangeably.

IT Strategy 8

IT Strategy Strategy Operations Resistance 8

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

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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Since then its stock has more than doubled.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

According to a new book by Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. Please describe the business model of looking “outside-in” versus “inside-out.”

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

market share of more than 80%, with Schick a distant second. The blade cartridges for its latest-and-greatest razor, the top-selling Fusion ProGlide , retail for around $4 each, leaving Gillette with what must be incredibly lucrative gross margins. But dominant market share creates its own growth challenges.

Innovation 14

Innovation Glocalization Supply Chain Retail 14

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 ). Right now, the U.S. Nuclear on the outs.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

Last week, I moderated a "Super Session" at this year's annual National Retail Federation " Big Show." The panel made one thing clear: just when any sensible person might have concluded that e-commerce business models had finally reached maturity, we are witnessing a veritable explosion of new ones.

Retail 15

Retail Fashion Merchandising Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win? trillion.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s not that the media sets out to be sensationalist; its business model leads it in that direction. Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off. Apple learned this the hard way.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11