Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

By 2011, it had become apparent that Brazil’s recent prosperity depended too much on China’s appetite for commodities and on the Brazilian government’s ability to fuel consumer spending through direct transfers and credit expansion. times; and during the first half of 2015, valuations have continued to fall, to 4.4

Strategy 8

Strategy Depreciation EBITDA Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

That you would be paid peanuts compared to your old, more comfortable job, and you would be harassed and bashed in the media constantly? After the toppling of Dictator Ben Ali in January 2011, whose stifling reign lasted nearly a quarter century, the country faced a rocky start to a new ruling order.

Politics 11

Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 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. Moreover, it has been highly praised by startups, VCs, and the media.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

He hired salespeople and marketers from Google, who transformed Volvo’s use of technology and social media in those disciplines. Between 2011 and 2015, the company added 3,000 new people in engineering and development. Sällström mapped outside industries, looking for people with pertinent skills.

Engineering 8

Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

It's been interesting to watch computer companies go after the entertainment business, Internet time-wasters competing with televised time-wasters, and games played on social media sites scooping up revenue that traditional game companies might at one point have called their own. By 2011, data revenue had jumped to $59 billion.

Analysis 8

Analysis Industry Wireless Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

There are jobs today that didn’t exist 10 years ago — data scientist, social media manager, app developer — and in five more, there will be new roles with new requirements that don’t exist now. Over the past decade, business has changed dramatically. As a result, workforce skills and requirements have also changed.

Education 8

Education Industry Technology Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. Communicate often so the board, investors and the media understand the steps you are taking to become a new company. Find new ways to motivate the legacy people.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 billion in discretionary assets under management — more than the above competitors combined.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 In 2015 the 10 largest shareholders in a typical S&P 500 company held almost half of the company’s stock.)

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

She has learned to perform amid chaos through past postings: the former Soviet republic of Georgia during the 2008 Russian invasion, Cairo during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, and Indonesia at the time of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Due to the magnitude of the disaster, international media attention was extensive.

Stress 14

Stress Learning-by-Doing Report Project 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

The latter promptly announced plans to launch a third trilogy of Star Wars films in 2015, a move that will keep the brand alive and serve as a platform for selling products to a new generation of fans. For those needing a refresher on "the story so far," Star Wars' creator George Lucas sold his empire back in November for $4.05

Franchising 8

Franchising Licensing Merchandising Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. We’ve all seen some eye-bulging numbers in recent years about the internet of things (IoT).

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Wireless Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Big Bang, a Korean pop (K-Pop) boy band, earned $44 million in 2015, making it among the highest paid in the industry. ” Customer relationships built via social media. K-Pop fans regularly use social media to give feedback on music and concerts, which allows companies to better gauge the market demand. The answer is no.

Globalization 11

Globalization Succession Talent Management Media 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

It is clearly part of the larger asset remix that started several years ago with deals in biopharma, such as Sanofi-Genzyme (2011), Novartis-GSK (2014), and a couple of failed attempts by Pfizer to merge and move its headquarters abroad. The remix in media took a similar path. What we watch. That battle will be joined next year.

Automotive 8

Automotive Retail Restructuring Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Fortune counted more than 170 of the mythical creatures , with an average of one unicorn born every week during 2015. More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. In 2015, Alon Halevy, a former Google research scientist, joined the company to help guide this effort.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

On World AIDS Day 2015, we can celebrate tremendous strides globally in the fight against HIV/AIDS. As of 2015, over 2 million people still become newly infected with HIV every year, and an estimated 22 million people remain untreated. Around the world, 15.8 But HIV remains a global threat. A 2014 CDC report found that of the 1.2

Project 8

Project Health Care Learning-by-Doing Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Technology is making it easier to connect with rural consumers in so-called media dark areas. As of 2015, the initiative had grown to 70,000 sales agents serving 165,000 Indian villages, and HUL had equipped them with smartphone apps to help them manage inventory and other aspects of their business. Worldwide, there are 3.4

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Cost Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

between 2011 and 2015 found that most were confined to the wealthiest 20% of zip codes in the country. As for the people who actually provide those affordable consumer goods and services? In the U.S., the “recovery” exacerbated the 40-year rise in economic inequality and insecurity.

Class 9

Class Bottom-up Arkes Technology 9

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Fast forward to June 2015, legacy and newer brands alike, such as American Airlines, BuzzFeed, Honey Maid, Ketel One, MasterCard, Spotify, Target, and Uber, flew the rainbow flag for marriage equality. Lyft pledged $1 million to the American Civil Liberties Union as it denounced the ban and the hashtag #DeleteUber trended on social media.

Brand 250

Brand Politics Letter Participative 250

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

And it certainly doesn't help matters when Hispanic leadership voices are lacking in the mainstream national media. trillion by 2015, according to a recent Nielsen report. The candidates' idea of the "Hispanic Brand" needs to expand and become more inclusive of the variety of voices and issues that need to be heard.

Policies 15

Policies Short-term Diversity Education 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

And it certainly doesn't help matters when Hispanic leadership voices are lacking in the mainstream national media. trillion by 2015, according to a recent Nielsen report. The candidates' idea of the "Hispanic Brand" needs to expand and become more inclusive of the variety of voices and issues that need to be heard.

Policies 8

Policies Short-term Diversity Education 8