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. In this war for customers, the ammunition is data — and lots of it. Retail has entered the era of Big Data.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Take for example RackSpace , an open-source operating system for the cloud. Since early 2012, Sodexo, the 20th largest employer in the world, has turned its recruiting focus from job boards to mobile applications. Mobile Recruiting Apps. Build an online relationship with them now so they can find you later.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

The optimism about Africa clouds some obvious challenges any operator in the continent will confront. With the high cost of bandwidth, video-based internet businesses in Africa struggle; the market leader, Irokotv, relies on the diasporas for most of its revenue. postal system to serve their customers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Entrants are judged not only on their flight's distance, but the creativity and showmanship of the designs and the people operating them. The Red bull web site has humorous cartoon videos, video games like the Red Bull Soapbox Racer, and connections to the music world such as the Rock Report on music news plus sections on movies and TV shows.

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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. Action camera manufacturer GoPro maintains a much-followed Instagram account where it, and its users, share exciting photos and videos created with GoPros.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Today’s model is using African diasporas where companies hire native Africans living abroad and then send them to the continent to expand their operations. With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012. Education drives technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

In the meantime, retail and wholesale markets have stalled around the country. billion annually in currency operations costs. The disruptive action did not originate in a small segment of the market; it was launched nationwide. Related Video. According to our study, the Cost of Cash in India , these institutions spend $3.5

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. Challenges. Enlist project managers and ensure clear roles and responsibilities for all centre employees.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

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. Buffer builds tools to help businesses manage and analyze their social media activity.

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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. A hybrid of humans and AI is remaking retail, marketing, and customer service.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Mocidade Alegre , which danced away with first place in the parade this year and in 2012, brings almost 4,000 people to the parade. What can large corporations operating in Brazil learn from all this? This is especially true in emerging-market countries where the workforce has experienced great change and dislocation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Your neighbor might post a YouTube video of a raucous party in your backyard , after all, but only law enforcement uses have the potential to put you in jail. In a 2012 case, for example, the U.S. To introduce some rationality to this debate, it''s probably a good idea to separate private uses of drones from use by law enforcement.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

Maybe the passage of time has dulled my memory of what it was really like, or maybe the wonderfulness of the phone rep led me to believe that this was a different sort of operation. If that''s right, the cable operators will only get more aggressive about this as the years go by.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

There is a sense that company operations are out of control. Branch 5: Sales strategy, sales training, marketing strategy, customer service, advertising, direct marketing, public relations, special events, video production, promotional specialties, graphic design-production and website design-production.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

The recent Kony2012 viral video offers proof that something special is happening as a result of all this connectedness: digital collaboration has come of age. But no less planned or executed than another viral blockbuster — the OMGPOP team's March 2012 breakout of Draw Something , a Pictionary-like game. Emergent, yes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. At least for voice services, the U.S. As a result, the U.S.

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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. That’s the power of shrinking to grow.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

A 2015 report by the International Labour Organization covering more than 180 countries and over 84% of the global workforce warned of “widespread job insecurity in the global labor market,” finding that only one-quarter of the world’s workers have a stable employment relationship. Related Video. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Feeling that he needed an experienced operating and marketing partner, the then 29-year-old Jobs lured Sculley to Apple with the now legendary pitch: "Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Not knowing the right market for NeXT computer. billion in 2012. Recruiting John Sculley as CEO of Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

When a disruptive idea is first born, typically far away from the market's mainstream. Sometimes this shift results in the whole-sale replacement of the previous market leader; sometimes it creates a completely parallel market (which typically ends up being larger than the previous market due to the democratizing power of disruption).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

This video explains the different types of crowdfunding.) In connecting creators and entrepreneurs directly with customers and funders, it transforms the opaque and oligarchical market for early-stage fundraising into a more democratic, open one. However, crowdfunding is more than another way of raising funds.

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