Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. But they also risk alienating the longstanding partners that companies count on for their core business. The auto industry is a case in point. For example, Cree Inc.

Strategy 10

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. They are paying up for strong business models with scale and access to valuable new markets, users, and distribution capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

How long can a business model succeed that forces students to accumulate $200,000 or more in debt and cannot guarantee jobs — even years after graduation? But when it comes to core classes which don''t require labs or much in-person faculty interaction, does the current model justify the value-price equation?

Education 10

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

Over the past few years, business school administrators — like other university officials — have been losing sleep over Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs), worrying that these low-cost digital alternatives will cannibalize their business model. This includes a demographic survey with over 65,000 responses.

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Education Course Class Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization. If the venture is an acquisition, keep it separate from your company’s main business.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. from 2012 through 2014. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5

P&L 13

P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

When I met Lane, in 2012, he had just returned from a Medtronic-sponsored skills-based volunteering trip to Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Center in Chennai, India. Big businesses bypass crucial unmet needs, such as monitoring a child’s blood glucose while they’re at school or asleep, because they operate based on current assumptions.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Business Model System 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

The result of all this was that, while the decline of American newspapers (especially the big regional papers) was probably inevitable in the age of the Internet , the reluctance and at times inability of newspaper companies to transition from high-margin business models to low-margin ones has made things much worse. Scripps 6.9%

Advertising 8

Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

In 2012, Cabot became a certified B Corp. B Corp certification encouraged more “whole-systems thinking” around our social and environmental practices, which led Cabot to develop even more robust customer and consumer programs, cut operating costs, and strengthen our brand reputation as a sustainability-minded company.

Cooper 8

Cooper Benchmarking Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Many companies are taking advantage of this opportunity to steer emerging African economies toward a mobile-driven, cashless (or cash lite) future by introducing a slew of new products, services, and business models. More people have mobile money accounts than bank accounts in at least nine African countries, up from four in 2012.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Some senior leaders simply lean harder on their operating units, increasing their targets and demanding more growth. He instituted a policy of continuous productivity improvement, but also allowed — even encouraged — his operating units to use the savings to fuel future growth. 3: Make your company growth-friendly.

Retail 11

Retail Long-term Short-term Apparel 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Buffer builds tools to help businesses manage and analyze their social media activity. One of Buffer’s practices is to default to transparency — it is relentlessly forthcoming about its operations, its learning, and its performance. billion dollars in sales (a 50% increase over 2012) in the Etsy marketplace alone.

Company 9

Company Business Model Workshop Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In this month's HBR, Professor Clayton Christensen and I have an article that describes how to develop core business strategy in the face of disruption. The article, " Surviving Disruption ," represents our first attempt in two decades to outline the other side of disruption — how to manage legacy businesses.

Price 9

Price Retail Business Model Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Business models that can prosper at structurally lower price points are the engines that power true market disruption.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Sue Decker, Yahoo’s former president, describes how the deal came about and what Yahoo learned from doing business in China. With the ad market under $70 million, many of our local competitors were rapidly experimenting with new types of revenue and business models and were far ahead of us.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

In 2012, according to the State of Women-Owned Businesses Report from American Express Open, there are more than 8.3 million women-owned businesses in the U.S., In 2012, over 50% of dentists are women, as are 47% of medical students. These women are testers, trying new ideas and experimenting with new business models.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It recognizes this new reality will spell decline for some commercial activities, but growth for others who find better ways of operating. In research led by Ashridge Business School and the International Business Leaders' Forum to be published later in 2012, we've been exploring this emerging new approach to leadership.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

The work of this one man is said to have touched 40% of eye care patients in the developing world to date. You can make CSR the strategy or even the end goal for your business growth. Businesses should focus on the customer, not on profit or business model. Aravind now makes 7% of all IOLs in the world.

Self-aware 15

Self-aware Franchising Quality Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Traditional business models aim to create value for shareholders, often at the expense of other stakeholders. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Levi Strauss, intriguingly, has used biomimetic techniques in developing new production techniques for jeans. In a 2012 poll of 1,600 sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) experts, 81% saw activists as central to further progress in the environmental agenda. Breakthrough Activism. Breakthrough means taking a stand.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

. “If there ever were an antitrust case where the parties had a dramatically different assessment of the current state of the relevant market and a fundamentally different vision of its future development,” Judge Leon began his decision, “this is the one.” million viewers since 2012.

Media 8

Media Content Video Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It’s why the service, launched in 2012, had grown so popular with users. But it was also potentially a business model weakness — it was the impossible problem that had prompted the contentious discussion at the office and then driven VV and Reza onto their bikes. “And we’re free.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Entrepreneur Business Model Follow-up 8

Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

Computer programmers in India will communicate with designers in Italy to help develop products that are manufactured in Indonesia and sold in Brazil. Technology can help break down barriers to global business. Many present leaders still view technological savvy as important for staff people and operations, but not for them.

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Competitive Advantage Globalization Diversity Technology 140

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

For instance, the institute has launched a bone health program to reduce the likelihood of patients developing fragility fractures and to manage osteopenic patients preoperatively before elective surgery to improve outcomes and decrease complications.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Health Care Cost Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

Giving Pledge members described impact investing as the “hottest topic” at their May 2012 meeting, and Prime Minister David Cameron extolled the potential of the sector at the most recent G8 summit. Note: Each circle represents a business and each color represents a business vertical (e.g. sanitation, housing, mobile banking).

Development 8

Development Microfinance Biotechnology Exit Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

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. business continuity"). Perhaps the most heartening business story of the year came from perennial thought (and action) leader, Patagonia.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Regulators would now decide how spectrum would be used, what technologies were permissible, and approve — or reject — the wireless services, networks, applications, and business models that might be introduced. Armstrong returned to service, developing FM radios for the Army, and was promoted to the rank of Colonel.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking "lean startups" from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. Scaling Lesson 1: Focus On Finding A Great Business Model. Magical, really.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

” A 2012 study cited by the study’s authors estimated that the self-management of a chronic illness demands, on average, two hours of patient work each day — work that is often poorly supported, stressful, and frustrating in nature. Intentionally Design the Patient’s Job into the System. So what does this look like?

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Technology Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

For RIM, is it the small base of application developers, or the lack of a handful of key applications? It's important to create strategic options through mechanisms such as partnering or incubating new business models. Heins needs to pay attention up front to defining the challenges carefully.

Strategy 15

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

No wonder, then, that executives have placed predictive analytics at the top of the executive agenda since 2012, according to a recent Accenture survey. The most forward-thinking companies are developing new business models to create value from these kinds of information exchanges. (2)

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Information Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

No wonder, then, that executives have placed predictive analytics at the top of the executive agenda since 2012, according to a recent Accenture survey. The most forward-thinking companies are developing new business models to create value from these kinds of information exchanges. (2)

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Self-aware Diversity 8