Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

shale oil and gas producers have been ramping up production to take advantage of rising crude oil prices — prices that had been rising in the wake of a deal between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia, and other non-OPEC producers to reduce oil output. The soaring U.S.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2011

Our understanding of pricing has come a long way since 1890 when Alfred Marshall published his treatise on the economic scissors of supply and demand. Pricing is no longer a purely economic challenge to be addressed through studies of market elasticity. Rather, pricing today must be focused on value exchange. Smith, PhD.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

As a result, engineers and developers had a greater incentive to compete with each other than they did to collaborate with each other. By early 2011, CEO Reed Hastings had concluded that maintaining the company's existing product and pricing options wasn't a viable long-term strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Listen to the words of a finance manager in a large consumer products company, whose efforts to improve his business team's profit margins were repeatedly undercut by people in the sales department: "I learned that pricing for one of our key accounts has already been confirmed to the customer, without any prior approval or review. [.]

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I hope your inspiring and heartfelt thoughts cause others to reflect on the great price that has been, and is continuing to be paid to protect our freedom. At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Best wishes Bo… [link] mikemyatt Thank you Mark.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

And some do get the value of shopping for talent now: Engine maker Cummins Inc., jobs in 2011, many requiring engineering or other technical skills. Similarly, Sony gave sound labs engineer Ken Kutaragi enough latitude to progressively develop the Sony PlayStation gaming platform. now with about 14,800 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Shorten that product development cycle! After learning exactly how quiet the car had to be in order to be recognized as such by customers, the engineers saw that they couldn't just add sound insulation. The story was similar when Procter & Gamble first developed Pampers. In which case, we should all be watching how it's done.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. increase in stock price on the announcement day. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. We identified a total of 359 SaaS product introduction events using the Dow Jones Factiva search tool.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The company has responded aggressively to criticism in the past, suing the BBC show "Top Gear" in 2011 over a 2008 review of the car; the case was tossed out of court. The controversy will continue, as these things do, and Tesla's stock price will dip and recover and dip again. Tesla is run by visionary engineers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the cold hard truth…if you cheat your family to invest into your career, you and your loved ones will pay a very heavy price. I'm looking forward to learning from you in 2011. I'm looking forward to 2011 and I appreciate your advice and friendship. Best regards, Dan scottgould Mike, This is so good.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. Comparing the five years between 2012 and 2016 to the period between 2007 and 2011, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

In both 2010 and 2011, TripAdvisor voted citizenM “The Trendiest Hotel in the World.” In contrast, citizenM accepts no such corporate clients, but prices all their rooms in real-time, dependent on supply and demand. You can’t] create a boat that has an engine, is a row boat and a sailboat all in one.

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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. What’s more, that percentage generally goes down the lower the price of a product.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Already in 2011 the Chinese spent more time on the Internet than watching TV , while in the U.S. The third set of reasons why the Internet is so big in China is that it connects shoppers to businesses in unique ways: You can find a large selection at low prices. How Chinese Companies Can Develop Global Brands. Brands are weak.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

It consumes 20% less fuel than an equivalent 767; which, given today's increasing fuel prices and airlines' diminishing profit margins, should make it an extremely desirable aircraft. While the first 787 was originally scheduled to be delivered back in 2008, a string of delays and cost overruns meant that deliveries didn't start until 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In Science , a team of Harvard-affiliated researchers published their findings that GFT has over-estimated the prevalence of flu for 100 out of the last 108 weeks; it’s been wrong since August 2011. They don’t matter.” Or, “Since Facebook has a billion accounts, it has substantively everyone.”.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I really do," she said to Eugen, the Oryx's chief engineer. This story was inspired by " Forecasting private consumption : survey-based indicators vs. Google trends," by Simeon Vosen and Torsten Schmidt, in the Journal of Forecasting (September 2011). I want to believe the Google data. But it's — it's — Google.".

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Strategy development requires the mining the gold within any organization and seeking new outcomes via creative applications of ideas. Business development. price verification, inventory control). Janitor | custodian | sanitation engineer. Housewife | homemaker | domestic engineer. Running the business. Bar coding.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Business development. Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). In budgeting for and pricing consulting services, budget for consulting at the start of the fiscal year, averaging 10 percent of gross sales.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Business development. When they want to do so, company leadership will provide leadership for change management and re-engineering… two of the many worthwhile concepts that should be advocated every business day. Unprofitable pricing. Training and development of people. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

While successful innovations are often a hit-or-miss proposition, the emergence of cutting-edge research known as price pack architecture (PPA) has helped take the guesswork out of the process, allowing consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies to design new product variations based on consumer demand. What is Price Pack Architecture?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The McKinsey Global Institute reports that price volatility has hit a high , second only to the energy crisis of the 1970s. Taken together, it's not a matter of whether resource prices will go up — it's a matter of when, and by how much. The domestic remanufacturing industry grew by 15% between 2009 and 2011 to "at least $43.0

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Engineers gave it rave reviews, and investors were lined up. Armstrong returned to service, developing FM radios for the Army, and was promoted to the rank of Colonel. The FCC quickly developed a “public interest” rationale for the move: sunspots. He then maneuvered nerdy engineers to build his sexy devices.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2012

In the past year, the technology has managed to dip to a price point and the functionality has become attractive enough that a consumer market is really materializing. In the realm of healthcare , things have reached the point that even human tissue can now be printed, and plans are being developed to produce whole organs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

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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. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat. Narrowly focused.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Winning an argument isn’t particularly difficult, but it may come at a very expensive price. Don’t let your intellect stand in your way, but rather use it as an asset to develop those around you to their full potential thereby increasing your chances for long-term success. Thanks Brian.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Yet, in an economy whereby 60% of GDP and 85% of exports are derived from oil and gas, the need to diversify is evident, not least due to the decline in oil prices since 2014 that many believe is the new normal and the political and economic blockade that was imposed by some neighboring countries in June 2017.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. What’s Driving Industry Concentration.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

In contrast, when Samsung and Sony were deciding whether to launch LED TVs, which offered better picture quality than plasma TVs at a slightly higher price, there was lower uncertainty about demand because customers were already buying TVs. Companies that excel at resolving technological uncertainty often develop a broader technology palette.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

These lawsuits have been enabled in part by the efficient-market teaching that “in an open and developed securities market, the price of a company’s stock is determined by the available material information regarding the company and its business.” This debate is happening because in Halliburton Co. John Fund, Inc. ,

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