The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2020

They believe the key is the growth rates of companies that adopt very different strategies, with those whose investments focus more on capital than workers seeming to enjoy greater success than those whose investments are more people-oriented. In manufacturing, for instance, the ratio fell from 18% in 1981 to 12% in 2011.

GDP 74

GDP Outsourcing Retail Finance 74

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. But they will need to adopt the more hard-headed way that Silicon Valley companies evaluate acquisitions for their deals to pay off.

Company 8

Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. billion to $8.6

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Consumers go to retail stores to find out what is available at what prices—in other words, in large part, to get information. Rather than having stores in shopping centers, retailers will construct massive warehouses and home-deliver products directly. So robots will play a more important role in retail’s future.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Transportation Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

State after state enacted laws to tax chain retailers , to prohibit price discounting, and to protect small merchants and the wholesalers who served them against the onslaught of the chains. A group called the Anti-Monopoly League, which claimed to represent 80,000 independent merchants, announced its intention to drive chain retailers out.

Retail 11

Retail P&L Price Advertising 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Slowing Chinese economic growth coupled with confidence-sapping tumult on the stock market have set alarm bells ringing at companies about their future growth prospects in China. But while the power to initiate a transition to a consumption-led economy lies in government hands, what the government unleashes, companies can nurture.

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

“Meaning is the new money, an HBR article argued in 2011. Our Meaning and Purpose at Work report , released today, surveyed the experience of workplace meaning among 2,285 American professionals, across 26 industries and a range of pay levels, company sizes, and demographics. That’s good news for companies and employees.

Creativity 15

Creativity Report Conference Mentor 15