Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

To name some obvious examples, eBay, Google, Amazon, and Orbitz have each in their own way reversed traditional requirements that the customer travel – to a garage sale, library, bookstore, or travel agency – to obtain a good or service. Today, information and communications technologies remove the need for such proxies.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Transportation Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

The customer group they envisioned consisted of frequent travelers. So they also crossed out restaurants, bars, and conference facilities — amenities most travelers rarely use. These rooms are entirely manufactured off-site at an assembly line and transported to the hotel site. It ain’t happening.

Industry 8

Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

A few years ago, pharmaceutical giant sanofi-aventis sponsored an anonymous, Web-based survey of 4,200 workers at four health care, transportation, and manufacturing companies. How well you sleep, or how poorly, is influenced by many factors: stress, health, work, travel, medications, alcohol, smoking, even weight.

Cost 15

Cost Absenteeism Pharmaceuticals Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

On average, Americans spend twenty-eight minutes a month travelling to get cash, but that time isn’t evenly distributed. It can be difficult to transport and is inherently insecure. These cash-dependent small businesses cannot afford sophisticated security and cash transportation services. How can this be?

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The sharp recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis and the uncertainty created by the 2011 debt crisis have fundamentally reset the world. Since patients can't travel, Aravind sends well-equipped mobile eye clinics out to rural villages in order to generate demand. The new reality is austerity.

Company 12

Company Succession Constraint Sharpe 12

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. Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting.

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

It is based on the idea that a business model can readily be transported from one country to another. It has moved into other product categories such as travel with Ozon.travel. Moving slowly meant losing markets and, later, having to buy our way back in. But first mover advantage is a simplistic tenet of global strategy.

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

The Idolbuster

AUGUST 5, 2014

I continued to race as an amateur for all of 2010 and 2011, but at the end of 2011 I quit my job and began competing professionally full-time. I was able to travel to some amazing places and do business in so many developing nations. Cabs were my mode of transportation. Now I walk or take public transportation.

Training 70

Training Sports Learning-by-Doing Banking 70

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves. For instance, I am traveling to Seattle to work with leaders soon, and will use several profound notions of Dr. Doidge’s applications about rigid routines that could change with a few adjustments to the brain’s plasticity. All my best Jim. So here are my books 1.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2018

Our research , based on interviews with 89 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees and their managers a decade after 9/11, suggests that increased monitoring can lead to a cycle of increasingly coercive surveillance. What’s less obvious, though, is what other behaviors such surveillance might promote.

Travel 9

Travel Airlines Transportation Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

From 1979 to 2011, though, Henwood calculates that U.S. billion (in 2011 dollars). And it clearly had come to stand in the way of innovation — the most innovative thing in air travel at the time was probably Southwest, which had kept its business entirely within the borders of Texas to avoid the strictures of the CAB.

Airlines 8

Airlines Transportation Travel Industry 8