Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. Writing in the Sloan Management Review, Boston College professor Gerald Kane noted that 87% of executives surveyed indicated that digital technologies will disrupt their industries to a great or moderate extent.

Strategy 10

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As mobile devices and borderless technology networks like Facebook, Google, and Tencent increasingly connect billions of people around the world, everything about the pace, profile, and application of modern media is changing. In 2012, Amazon reported that one second of latency in page loading cost the company an average of $1.6

Advertising 8

Advertising Brand Marketing Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

So, naturally, watching their profit margin drop precipitously as customers flock to these other retail centers, Best Buy is trying to figure out a way to compete. 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.

Price 8

Price Retail Business Model Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Informal retail and cash purchases are the norm, and that has its risks and costs. More people have mobile money accounts than bank accounts in at least nine African countries, up from four in 2012. The second is the need to lower the costs and risk of retail and trade based primarily on cash transactions.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

Starting in 2012, my colleagues and I began taking a closer look at the hands-on experience of data scientists. At Stanford, I conducted 35 interviews of data analysts from 25 organizations across a variety of sectors, including health care, retail, marketing, and ?nance. IT management Technology'

Analysis 10

Analysis Agility Tools Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In 2012, $10 billion in sales were made through mobile channels. This trend has created an opportunity to develop engaging content that increases brand awareness. In 2012, it delivered 200 million rewards, with redemption rates of 10 to 25 percent per reward. Advertising Technology' "Mobile first."

Advertising 8

Advertising Loyalty ROI Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In 2012, $10 billion in sales were made through mobile channels. This trend has created an opportunity to develop engaging content that increases brand awareness. In 2012, it delivered 200 million rewards, with redemption rates of 10 to 25 percent per reward. Advertising Technology' “Mobile first.”

Advertising 8

Advertising Loyalty ROI Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Here in the Guardian , two business professors offer a practical solution to all three problems using developing nations’ supply chains. But that’s not what HHL Leipzig management school and BCG found when they looked at 225 start-ups that PE firms bought from one another between 2006 and 2012. — for temporary warehouse sites.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain EBITDA NGO Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

In the three years since December 2012 (the date of the Sandy Hook killings) the U.S.-based When it comes to technological development for safer guns, it is a task assigned to the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security — not to the U.S. For some, guns are a great business.

Licensing 8

Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

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 In 2012, over 50% of dentists are women, as are 47% of medical students. They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Apparel Incentives Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. Participating retailers are promoted on the Silver Cross website, at health fairs, and on all marketing collateral.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. The nature of disruption is changing. inch vs. 3.5-inch

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. What these stories and hacks offer are well-developed, highly-detailed, and battle-tested roadmaps for making that assumption a reality. Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 You can read all of those here. But don't take it from me.

Management 11

Management McKinsey Letter Retail 11

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Corporate executives must develop themselves for the next level and to be useful to their companies and communities in the future. Business development. Push paper, systems, technology. Base-Level Sellers (door-to-door, telephone, clerks and checkers, retail sales). Science-Technology Provider. by Hank Moore.

Business Development 50

Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

Indeed, the creation of human tasks in the wake of technological advancement has been a part of automation’s history since the invention of the machine lathe. A hybrid of humans and AI is remaking retail, marketing, and customer service. They are the new world of contract labor hidden underneath a layer of AI.

Content 8

Content Trends Media Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

Almost every CEO I’ve talked to, before and after the polls, believes that Modi is a shrewd, pragmatic, and decisive leader, who can kick-start economic growth and development in India by fostering a more business-friendly policy environment. What exactly does that mean in a mixed economy like India’s?

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Policies Globalization Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

In 2012, Electrolux leadership decided this had to change. These teams include consumer insight, brand, product, retail, digital, social, and consumer care specialists who now closely work together to create integrated consumer experiences and launch plans. Capability building puts an emphasis on developing “transformation champions.”

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Globalization Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

We audited a range of sites and platforms to see how CEOs are engaging socially and compared these results to its 2010 and 2012 findings. Research has shown that executives with social CEOs say their CEOs’ social media presence makes them feel inspired (52%), technologically advanced (46%), and proud (41%). Develop a thick skin.

Media 8

Media CEO Video Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Business by now has a well-developed playbook for dealing with such sustainability issues. Between 1976 and 2012 the share of US income earned by the top 1% almost tripled, rising from 9% to 24%. It’s time to recognize that income inequality is a sustainability issue, too. And directly, the trends are literally unsustainable.

Golden Parachute 10

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Grose quotes IbisWorld researcher Jocelyn Phillips as pointing to the high-tech aspects of Clearblue’s test, also noting that young women might be more willing to shell out more money for such technology — the digital version costs about $5 more than the boring old blue and pink line version. Customers Global business Marketing'

Market Segmentation 8

Market Segmentation Marketing Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Ask anyone in technology. 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. Among other things, managers also need to manage the development of ecosystems.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Ceasing CD production will harm an already ailing music industry, where technology is not the answer: Analyzing the music industry and changing technologies. Business development. Focusing only on the technology, not on the creative output. Failure to understand and nurture relationships with the retailing industry.

Download 54

Download Industry Trends Technology 54

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

In the meantime, retail and wholesale markets have stalled around the country. Indeed, since the chaos erupted, the prime minister has tweeted : “Time has come for everyone, particularly my young friends, to embrace e-banking, mobile banking & more such technology.” India uses a lot of cash by any measure.

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every day, online retailers use computer-based transactions to guide us through stepwise sequences to buy a pair of jeans, apply for a credit card, or book a flight. Information technology has come late to health care delivery. Electronic medical records can help correct these systemic defects. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

These tried-and-true tools of the retail trade might not be as sexy as other forms of marketing. These instruments share a common objective: to influence purchase decisions by equipping consumers with incremental spending power for specific brands and retailers. What does this mean for retailers and brands? Gift cards.

Brand 8

Brand Loyalty Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

The former states that digital technology and robotics are advancing at such a pace that: “Professions of all kinds — from lawyers to truck drivers — will be forever upended. In developed economies, they have even sparked a trend toward the return of jobs from overseas, or “botsourcing.” Technology'

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Outsourcing Technology Short-term 9

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Business development. They take what is said at face value because they have not or don’t care to develop abilities to discern what is hyped by others. Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. ‘Develop the Drive to Accomplish Anything.’

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In The Age of Hyperspecialization (July-August 2011, co-authored by Tom Malone of MIT and Tammy Johns of Manpower), we note that the division of labor, a development that transformed the way physical work was accomplished during the industrial revolution, may now be poised to redefine how knowledge work gets done in the 21st century.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics. The marketing and sales team of one major technology vendor, for instance, partnered with risk to assemble a range of financing packages to help its mid-market clients fund upgrades, manage invoice payments, and smooth cash flows.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

India has numerous small retailers and service providers who are shining examples of scrappy entrepreneurship at its best, but the information technology startups that are my primary interest typically require outside funding. India has done well in the last twenty odd years to build its technology industry through services.

Incubator 8

Incubator Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist How To 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice). The greening of the supply chain.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Enamored by these numbers — and encouraged by a new wave of reforms to retail, airlines, broadcast, and power sectors — executives who previously ignored India are making a dash for it. Nor will India follow the same path of economic development as China. Let's Select a Distributor. Jay is From India, Let's Send Him There.

Marketing 15

Marketing Market Segmentation Retail Travel 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

Companies are vacuuming up data to make better decisions about everything from product development and advertising to hiring. How Data Visualization Answered One of Retail’s Most Vexing Questions. Decision making Information & technology' Why data matters. Persuading with Data. An HBR Insight Center.

Management 14

Management Metrics Information Technology Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Brands are using Snapchat to provide exclusive, limited-time opportunities to fans, closing the gap between virtual and in-store retail experiences. When Hostess declared bankruptcy in 2012, Twinkie fans mourned the loss of the classic American snack. More apps of this nature are surfacing every day.

Media 8

Media Tactics Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

in 2012, are now likely to occur four times as frequently due to ­human-induced climate change.”. Swedish retailer H&M recently said it would pay a “living wage” to 850,000 workers in its supply chain by 2018 – a somewhat vague, but important announcement. So what’s really new this year? Let’s dive in. The Big Picture.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 9