Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. By 2011 , only three out of the top 10 industries that received 90% of PE funding were industries that tended to build products in the United States. based labor. The result has been the loss of millions of U.S.

Finance 10

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Deservedly vaunted venture capitalist Tom Perkins’ callous, arrogant and elitist recent comments should not serve as an expedient excuse to overlook an important “dirty little secret” about entrepreneurship, the acknowledged engine of economic growth: successful entrepreneurship always exacerbates local inequality , at least in the short run.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These new capabilities connect to the work we’ve done over the past several decades inside our enterprises to automate processes with tools — such as accounting systems, supply chain, call center, and such. That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. The key to making these organizations work is integrating the work of discovery-driven researchers, applied scientists, and engineers in the private sector. The Era of Big Science. Innovating the Innovation Process.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. The soaring U.S. output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy. These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The greening of the supply chain. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. Was a year like 2011 likely ? But please.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. That process incorporates operations, customer service, R&D, clinical specialists, sales, supply chain operators, and service teams. Who should lead our transformation?

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. Where professionals once wrote memos to be read, 2011 begins an era in which documents are written with touch both in mind and on fingertips. 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 13, 2013

In the aftermath, companies like Walmart, Gap, and Disney scrambled to identify whether their supply chain partners conduct work in the country, promising to reform an unwieldy system. "I came in one day and there were clowns that were passing out balloons," said the current Zynga principal engineer.

Class 8

Class Health Care Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

In 1987, a Portuguese audio engineer named Fernando Duarte took a friend, South African entrepreneur Robbie Brozin, to a small takeout restaurant in a suburb of Johannesburg. In 2011, TPG sold it to Diageo, for about $2.1 I want my supply chain team fighting to rationalize, to look for scale benefits.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” But Walmart changed not only how supply chains, product decisions, and pricing worked, but how they related to each other. In fact, research suggests that big firms are dominating through their use of software.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

That’s like an aircraft that can fly faster and faster without the help of an engineer. in February 2011, it became clear that machine learning could go beyond this single-minded focus and handle unstructured, ambiguous data. How can that be possible? The past, present and future of machine learning. Structured data.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Core Competence System 8