Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

°F) since pre-industrial times, holding the world to 1.5°C ” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. auto industry. This week, the report came back, and it’s not pretty. °C (1.8°F) °C (2.7°F) Getting to 1.5

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). In 2010, Embrace entered into a partnership with General Electric to help scale the technology around the globe.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Increasingly, customers demand more after-sale service; this is the norm now in business-to-business sales, but will spill over to consumer goods, too, thanks to some of the technology advances we'll talk about below. All over the world, automakers are mastering new drive train technologies.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

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

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. My husband was one of the earliest investors in alternative energy technologies in the U.S.,

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

If outside help is truly needed, doesn’t that say something pretty negative about the CEO’s own staff and existing supply chain? By contrast, consider the 2010 Chilean mining disaster, which resulted in the triumphant rescue of 33 miners trapped underground. As Faaiza Rashid, Amy C. Edmondson, and Herman B.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Automotive Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. In October 2010, when its founders launched their website to the world, 25,000 web viewers overwhelmed the site. As a result, most are singularly unprepared to deal with them.

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

trillion spent on health care in the United States in 2010 was wages for health care workers, and labor productivity has historically worsened at a rate of 0.6% To reverse the decline in health care labor productivity, we must transform the system both on the supply and on the demand side. Over half of the $2.6

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Compliance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Here's my attempt to capture what I see as the most important stories affecting the greening of business in 2010. And I could write a book on the topic of rare earth metals, those precious elements that make nearly every green technology possible and go into every iPhone. The floods in Pakistan helped double the price of cotton.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

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 ). From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. More important, WWWabs symbolize the substantial shift in one of the dying innovation anachronisms of the post-industrial era. Think of them as part of the global supply chain. That's right.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In The Age of Hyperspecialization (July-August 2011, co-authored by Tom Malone of MIT and Tammy Johns of Manpower), we note that the division of labor, a development that transformed the way physical work was accomplished during the industrial revolution, may now be poised to redefine how knowledge work gets done in the 21st century.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

economy as a whole, rather than the narrow, specific slices of technology or communication, the first decade of the 21st century did not generate expected growth in jobs, revenues, profits, or stock prices. There was little in the way of new industries, companies, jobs, profits, or taxes. When viewed through the lens of the U.S.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

A potentially catastrophic technological problem, an incomplete crisis response plan, misleading early information, divided private and public authority, ineffective initial actions. But, it also describes what happened after the April 20, 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Businesses with dealings in China that either offend authorities or offer opportunities for industrial — or post-industrial — espionage have come under attack. Remember the May 2010 "flash crash" where the stock market plunged nearly 1000 points in a matter of moments?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

has created no net new jobs for those whose highest educational level is a high-school degree (or less) since the job market bottomed out in 2010, but it has created 4 million jobs for people with a bachelor’s degree. service industries like higher education, publishing, design, and consulting. But the lower end of U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

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. The “clean label” movement is shaking up these industries, forcing companies to reduce ingredients and use fewer processed and artificial inputs.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8