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. Supporting downstream partners’ business can also reduce the risk of retaliation.

Strategy 10

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. Grab, which launched its service in 2012 with 40 drivers in Malaysia, came late to the ride-hailing game, only after Uber had established a formidable position in the United States.

Transportation 9

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

business ended 2014 with 39.1 million subscribers, not far off our 2012 prediction that there were at least 40 million U.S. Converting consumer certainty into consumer cash flow is a key part of making money from digital business models, many of which use subscription models. Business models Internet'

Business Model 8

Business Model Loyalty Brand Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

The ever-growing digital wave is washing over just about every facet of our personal and organizational lives, our consumer experiences, and across every industry and sector in its impact on business models and processes. According to recent research , it appears not.

Business Model 8

Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 8

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

MAY 28, 2018

Second, companies are attempting to pick up talent they suspect they cannot recruit directly – often as a catalyst to a broader digital transformation, or as a challenge to their existing IT operations. They are paying up for strong business models with scale and access to valuable new markets, users, and distribution capabilities.

Company 8

Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

The scrappy startup, launched in 2012, offered a blades-by-subscription service for as little as $3 a month and quickly grew to a team of 45 engineers and 3.2 And it’s a telling tale about whether the consumer products industry can get a digital business model right. million subscribers.

Business Model 8

Business Model Retail Brand Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

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. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. It sold the site to Shutterfly as part of its bankruptcy plan for less than $25 million in April 2012.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

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. Open, online business courses are reaching them in droves.

Education 10

Education Course Class Short-term 10

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. Instead, what they should have done is innovate a new business model.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

When his son, Hayden, was diagnosed with the disease, in 2009, Lane was a product manager at GE Energy. Like so many others living with diabetes care, he stayed awake late into the night managing his son’s blood sugar, checking and adjusting every few hours. That was enough for Lane. He left to pursue the ideas on his own.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Business Model System 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Starbucks invested in and partnered with Square in 2012 to bring mobile payment systems into its stores using Square’s Wallet app.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

That''s partly because, as Clayton Christensen, Stephen Kaufman, and Willy Shih wrote in the 2008 HBR article "Innovation Killers," standard financial metrics make new investments look much less attractive than existing business lines. The Washington Post operated at a 9.2% 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

JANUARY 17, 2012

2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". It's the business model, stupid.

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Some senior leaders simply lean harder on their operating units, increasing their targets and demanding more growth. This realization — which came from a headroom analysis, just one method companies can use — made the retailer more focused and dramatically reduced the number of initiatives its managers had to support.

Retail 11

Retail Long-term Short-term Apparel 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Insurgent startups, such as Instagram and Snapchat, manage to operate with far fewer resources than legacy companies in the same industry in the “pre-digital” era. Instagram had only 13 employees when it sold for $1 billion to Facebook in 2012, and Snapchat has approximately 350 employees. Look at Yahoo or even eBay.

Company 8

Company Engineering Technology Bureaucracy 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 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 8

Company Business Model Workshop Metrics 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

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The article, " Surviving Disruption ," represents our first attempt in two decades to outline the other side of disruption — how to manage legacy businesses. To survive disruption, managers of legacy businesses need to change the game. It should be competing differently.

Price 8

Price Retail Business Model Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

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. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 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. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Often, managers think about patent litigation as a “narrow” strategy to protect a particular technology against a specific infringer. Plenty of management books describe patent litigation in such a narrow way: you file a suit to recover damages from someone who is copying you. The answer is Google’s business model.

Marketing Strategy 8

Marketing Strategy Strategy Marketing Licensing 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. 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. million in 2011.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

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

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. On the contrary, academic research and business experience point to quite the opposite.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The Center for Orthopedic Research and Education (or CORE Institute ) — a group of musculoskeletal, neurologic, and rehabilitative physicians in Arizona and Michigan that includes orthopedic, spine, and pain-management physicians and a number of other types of clinicians — is pioneering an approach that represents a middle ground.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Health Care Cost Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

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. But activism isn't just the prerogative of NGOs, as business leaders begin to pursue agendas that go far beyond commercial lobbying. Breakthrough Activism.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 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. ” “For that, we need a revenue model.

Case Study 8

Case Study Entrepreneur Business Model Follow-up 8

Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

Future leaders will have to learn how to manage global production, marketing, and sales teams to achieve competitive advantage. Many present leaders still view technological savvy as important for staff people and operations, but not for them. Know how to make and manage investments in new technology. 1-858-759-0950.

Competitive Advantage 140

Competitive Advantage Globalization Diversity Technology 140

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. The change has not gone unremarked by management's leading thinkers. So in one sense, Polman is only being a good businessman.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Wise leadership does not fit the strict patterns of smart analysis, but instead taps into an intuitive part of who you are at the core, unearthing counterintuitive principles: Compassion doesn't have to come at the cost of efficiency — it can actually drive systems and operational excellence.

Self-aware 15

Self-aware Franchising Quality Globalization 15

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

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. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., business continuity").

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

As payment and care delivery models shift in the United States from episodic, fee-for-service care toward population health and value-based reimbursement, health care leaders are focused more than ever on patient engagement as a key to driving down costs and improving outcomes. We know from classic management theory (e.g.,

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Technology Survey 8