Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

We call this ever-moving frontier of AI’s development, the paradox of automation’s last mile : as AI makes progress, it also results in the rapid creation and destruction of temporary labor markets for new types of humans-in-the-loop tasks. Who are these workers behind the AI curtain?

Content 8

Content Trends Media Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Worse still, the real issue, which is the possibility of lightening the real debt load by rescheduling payments and extending maturities (but without affecting the nominal value due to Greece’s official creditors), has been pushed away, and some in Germany would want to renege on a 2012 deal which reduced interest rates and extended payments.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

What’s important is that your management team is aware of these issues and can use that understanding to develop a solution that fits your business and allows you to deliver the most value to your customers. Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

Business development. There is the need to develop better information to help management make better decisions. There is a sense that company operations are out of control. Branch 4: Training for diversity, team building, professional education and development, motivational and executive development-mentoring.

Review 57

Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Business development. This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Advertising fulfills many essential niche needs. Business-to-business publication advertising. ‘Develop the Drive to Accomplish Anything.’ My analysis: Beware of that phrase in advertising.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Drive down a typical highway and you'll see a succession of billboards, each one a stand-alone advertisement for a single brand. Now think about how companies approach their community development and CSR programs. My company understands that we do not operate in a bubble. Move forward to 2012, and those days are long gone.

Development 12

Development Porter Banking Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Quarterly profits have only increased 5% since 2012 , but investors’ valuations of those profits (as measured by earnings per share) has increased 59% over the same period. This means all R&D is subtracted from operating income in the year it’s expended, while the payoffs to R&D don’t occur until future periods.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The 15th Annual PWC Global CEO Survey (2012) section titled "The Talent Challenge" focused on the impact talent recruitment and retention has on business growth and competitive differentiation. In June, it was reported that Apple's new mobile operating system, iOS6, will include gay and lesbian couple icons as emoticon selections.

Advertising 16

Advertising Market Segmentation Diversity Chemicals 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Congress, however, wisely left the internet out of that experiment , letting fixed and mobile broadband access markets to develop largely on their own. This has helped contribute to the development of innovative Internet-based businesses , where 11 of the top 15 Internet businesses, most started in the last decade, are U.S.

Price 8

Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

When he saw TripAdvisor.com start to pick up traffic, he decided to pursue an online advertising based business model with banner ads. Advertisers are brought to the site and driven mainly through self-service channels, so there is no need for a large sales force or account management team.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Women on Business

MARCH 18, 2013

Without understanding CLV or analyzing the ROI of customer acquisition, you’re essentially operating in a marketing vacuum. According to BrightLocal’s Local Consumer Review Survey (2012), 72% of consumers trust online reviews just as much as personal recommendations. This leaves your probability of success up to chance.

Efficiency 259

Efficiency PR ROI Loyalty 259

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Academics and practitioners have built on Christensen's work to develop robust frameworks that can help leaders to spot disruptive developments early and respond appropriately. Sifting through this work highlights three seminal moments in any disruptive innovation's development: Conception.

Trends 8

Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Some observers suggest deeper changes to the platform: making the experience much more user friendly, developing better algorithms for surfacing interesting content, or improving search functionalities. Twitter has operated in this market since 2006, so almost everyone who wanted to try Twitter has tried it. Then there is the U.S.

Advertising 8

Advertising Strategy Marketing Globalization 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Most companies—especially the 75 percent of all US companies with less than $1 million in annual revenues—will never be able to invest enough into research and development to deliver a revolutionary innovation based on technology, except through dumb luck. It comes down to respect and fairness, and many leaders fail the test.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Greg Koch tells the story of how plant managers around the world have absorbed their connection to the communities in which they do business, and work hard to earn the "social license" to operate. Story by Gib Bulloch, Accenture Development Partners. It's not enough to change one company. It's crucial to advance the entire ecosystem.

Organization 13

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

We have developed a framework to help boards make decisions concerning corporate political spending — decisions that are informed; consistent with company strategies, policies, and values; and that mitigate risks as much as possible. million in the 2006 off-year cycle to more than $300 million in the 2012 presidential cycle.

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

According to Ars Technica, the whole program "was hardly a model of stability, having been developed in just seven months on a lightning schedule following the Republican primary elections." Messina was also given good resources to work with: according to the article, he hired an analytics department five times bigger than the 2008 operation.

Advertising 8

Advertising Report Technology Metrics 8