Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. Adobe’s radical transformation from a product-based business model to a service-based one raised eyebrows in the industry, with many software vendors now wondering how radically they should approach the SaaS model. Collaborate and partner with cloud platform providers.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. Ernst & Young Purpose Is Deeper Than Profit Small to midsize businesses often have a good understanding of why they do what they do.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. But we know very few successful entrepreneurs who set out to start their business with the primary purpose of money. higher operating profitability.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The key for every firm — regardless of size — is to figure out how to consistently create value in a demanding, ever-changing market. If we're to actually get better at innovation, we need to understand the operating conditions that lead to it and move past the bigotry and biases.

Operations 15

Operations Innovation Industry CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Unlike their industrial peers, managers of asset-light businesses focus little on the balance sheet. Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability. We need to mark our information assets to market or depreciate them as they become obsolete.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

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. market for personal computers. The auto industry is a case in point.

Strategy 8

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

The first one is the marketing effect of IP litigation. The case was not only mentioned on specialized business press; it was front page news material for major newspapers around the globe. And this is particularly interesting given the aggressive marketing strategy implemented by Samsung in the past few years.

Marketing Strategy 8

Marketing Strategy Strategy Marketing Licensing 8

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 8

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 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. billion in 2020.

Business Model 8

Business Model Retail Brand Henderson 8

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.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

DNA genetic testing company 23andMe fell behind on its communications with the FDA, resulting in a temporary ban on marketing the company’s personal genetic screening services to the public. We often observe a wide-ranging set of initiatives and investments operating independently, and in some cases, even competitively.

Innovation 9

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

When a disruptive idea is first born, typically far away from the market's mainstream. In these early days, there typically are a range of companies experimenting with a new model, fighting to figure out a sustainable business model. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age. Coming of age.

Trends 8

Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 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

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. But recent technological advances and new business models are now allowing nimble players to compete and provide consumers with cost-saving alternatives. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Increasingly, the largest retailers in markets across the country are employing sophisticated personalized marketing and thereby becoming the primary shopping destination for a growing number of consumers. The biggest retailers are investing accordingly. But it is fast becoming cannon fodder.

Retail 15

Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

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 8

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 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. Instead, what they should have done is innovate a new business model.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Instagram is an exciting marketing channel; GoPro’s account helps keep users engaged with the company and lets GoPro know how people use its products.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The evolution of African markets faces significant barriers: cost, distance, and a lack of infrastructure. 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.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. After all, scaling is hard.

P&L 12

P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 12

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.

Education 9

Education Course Class Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

Africa’s recent economic growth rates and rising youth population have meant more and more entrepreneurs are looking there for potential business opportunities. The typical strategy is to introduce new companies by recreating foreign business models on the continent. But for e-commerce start-ups, it’s not that easy.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Open-book Marketing System 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. The results were amazing.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures make up one of those variables, provided they average at least one deal per year in a program that cumulatively amounts to more than 30% of a company’s market capitalization over 10 years, with no single deal being more than 30% of market cap. Take marketing giant WPP.

CAGR 8

CAGR Due Diligence Industry Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Yet, when the marketing team suggested that Cabot become a certified B Corporation, I was skeptical. In 2012, Cabot became a certified B Corp. ” Benchmarking and Operational Cost Savings. “It helped us do things we couldn’t do ourselves, like creating benchmarking models and a template for our employee manual.”

Cooper 8

Cooper Benchmarking Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

An estimated 250 funds are actively raising capital in a market that the Global Impact Investing Network estimates at $25 billion. 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.

Development 8

Development Microfinance Biotechnology Exit Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

While "running out" isn't really the right phrase, it's clear that delivering many commodities to market is getting harder and more expensive (we don't dig for oil a mile under the ocean for the heck of it). Markets have a remarkable way of sorting the wheat from the chaff. business continuity"). Right now, the U.S.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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

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. Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

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. By reaching new customers in current markets? By stealing share from current competitors?

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Many chase market share they'll never get. A lot of companies throw money at the problem — more R&D, more marketing, more sales people. Some senior leaders simply lean harder on their operating units, increasing their targets and demanding more growth. 3: Make your company growth-friendly. The right language can help.

Retail 10

Retail Long-term Short-term Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

More importantly, the IMF predicts strong 4% growth for the region in 2012 and Gulf Cooperation Council countries could set a torrid 7% pace. Over the next decade, the world will add a billion new middle-class consumers in emerging markets, and the MENA region will have 60 million of these new shoppers.

Class 14

Class Globalization Survey Cooper 14

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

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.

Company 8

Company Engineering Technology Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Trend lines, market sizing, and competitive benchmarks that served companies well during periods of gradual market evolution do little good in industries where new technologies create seismic shifts, demand is uncertain, and rivals emerge from left field. The company could merge with Dell.

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14