Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Vanguard carved out a niche by managing low-cost index mutual funds in 1975. Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. The company delayed entering the robo-advisor market until it had results from two years of testing. Second, Vanguard tested the waters before diving in.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. Non-tech companies need to start asking the same revealing questions that tech acquirers do, such as: What would it really cost to recreate a technology service? Defensive Moats.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

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. and spends it in international markets. How did this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

While bundling can increase revenues, it can also add costs for consumers and doesn't necessarily fill seats. To avoid this problem, the committee let the ticketing of every sport stand on its own, creating 26 different pricing plans detailing how tickets should be promoted and sold to the appropriate target markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

The average breach costs around $4 million. For an example of the kind of disruption such an attack could cause, consider the 2011 Japanese tsunami. ” The tools to accomplish attacks are increasingly available on the dark web at decreasing costs, including troves of cyber tools stolen from the NSA and CIA. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

These rooms are entirely manufactured off-site at an assembly line and transported to the hotel site. As a result of these decisions, citizenM’s construction costs are 40% lower than other 4-star hotels and staffing is 40% lower too, but occupancy rates (consistently above 95%) are considerably higher.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

has been trumpeted as a major reversal of the trend of sending jobs abroad to lower cost locations, and has been characterized in the press as a kind of " onshoring " story. Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. Dirk''s answer was: "We can save on transportation and be closer to our customers.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves. link] Diploma in Digital Marketing Qualification – MMC Learning | Digital Marketing [.] Our Freedom.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

that the nation’s transportation infrastructure urgently needs investment. For proposed projects to gain traction, various stakeholders must be aligned; chief among these are the companies that rely on transportation systems to connect them to customers and suppliers, and the government planners responsible for building these trade arteries.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

This delightful tour through the history and marketing of the “amber restorative” is a blueprint for how to use our aspirational desires to sell us lots and lots of stuff — all over the world. The psychological toll may be even more dire: one man, Rafiqul Islam, cut eight people out of the wreckage with a hacksaw blade.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

But in addition to such familiar jobs such as engineer, consultant, or financial analyst, we’re increasingly seeing new job titles emerge: forensic technologist, digital storyteller, and marketing automation manager. Labor market data tell us that these “hybrid” jobs are rapidly on the rise.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

We interviewed leaders in 37 private for-profit and non-profit primary care programs identified in the Center for Health Market Innovations database and operating in over 25 developing countries. Market focus. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa. Management and leadership skills.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

India's leading IT companies, for instance, have developed their infrastructure themselves: They operate transportation systems round the clock, generate huge amounts of power, and run gigantic training operations to remain competitive. Since then, it is reported to have grown revenues eight-fold and raised two more rounds of funding.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Walmart went from a 3% share of the general merchandise retail market in 1982 to over 50% today. IT Does Matter.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

According to a recent JPMorgan/GIIN report , impact investors invested nearly $11 billion across 4,900 deals in 2013, up 250% from 2011. Joel Jackson (a 2011 Echoing Green fellow) launched Mobius Motors as a social purpose car manufacturer to democratize transportation in East Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

in February 2011, it became clear that machine learning could go beyond this single-minded focus and handle unstructured, ambiguous data. The cost of implementation will continue to fall. 2) How much of my organization’s managerial expertise is entirely dedicated to market coordination? Natural languages.

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