Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

As business tycoon Richard Branson has proclaimed in 2012, “our only option to stop climate change is for industry to make money from it.” Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015.

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

The business media have had no shortage of these. In the same survey, 42% of the executives said that digital was helping them to enhance their existing products and services and 29% said that digital was helping to launch new products and services. These products were available through a specialized mobile app.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

To this day, Cook continues as one of the best when it comes to operational excellence. It's fascinating to watch where Cook has spent his time at work so far in 2012. Cook's public face is deeply and publicly connected to Apple operations, ranging from supply chain challenges in China to eating with employees in Apple's lunchroom.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail PR Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

On the surface, it's a simple customer service issue: Someone has a problem with your product. Earlier this week, besieged media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who by all accounts is actually the man behind 140 characters , responded on Twitter to a person in Kentucky who had an all-too-common newspaper complaint: @ esbarr_ Yes. Where are you?

Media 8

Media CEO Brand Corporate Accountability 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? In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 And what lessons can be applied to the early decisions you make as a start-up? After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.

P&L 13

P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

million subscribers, not far off our 2012 prediction that there were at least 40 million U.S. For that to happen, consumers must know their demand for a product or service is predictable and likely to go up. Americans’ demand for media is very high. This allows you to better manage operating and capital expenses.

Business Model 8

Business Model Loyalty Brand Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. 3721’s core product was essentially an early form of search: a browser download that helped users in China go directly to destination web sites. We were ready to do things differently when we purchased 3721.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms. SHRM reports that 84% of organizations use social media for recruiting, and 82% of them use it primarily in the hunt for passive candidates. If so many companies are using social media, it must be effective, right? Well, not necessarily. 1 form of self-expression.”

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

By buying Whole Foods, Amazon gets virtually limitless possibilities to test products and services, test price points and assortment interactions, redefine the price perception for organic and healthier foods, merge offline and online shopping experiences, and perhaps test home delivery or store pickup with ideal early adopters.

Price 8

Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Redmond's three-years-in-the-making answer to the iPad, the Surface, is a high-risk product that is self-cannibalizing, says Sarah Rotman Epps on her Forrester blog. And the timing is so awkward: In January 2011, a survey showed that Windows was the most-desired operating system among consumers intending to buy a tablet, with 45% of U.S.

Forrester 8

Forrester Survey Policies System 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

AUGUST 13, 2014

Contrast this with 56 percent in 2012.) It was 77 percent in 2012.). This is a 16-point jump over 2012. Both marketing and IT leaders agreed that the top five marketing IT priorities include customer experience, customer analytics, social media, corporate website, and other web application development.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7%

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

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. It’s the operating system, applications, and, of course, the access to data.

Advertising 8

Advertising Brand Marketing Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

million customers and an annual revenue of 4 million dollars, social media service Buffer has grown by introducing useful products and exemplary customer service. Buffer builds tools to help businesses manage and analyze their social media activity. Last year, these practices led to 1.3

Company 9

Company Business Model Workshop Metrics 9

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 9, 2017

These AI-assisted augmented services, delivered by people quietly working in concert with bots, are poised to enhance our daily productivity but they also introduce new social challenges. Remember that classic moment in the 2012 presidential campaign when Mitt Romney uttered the phrase “ binders full of women ”?

Content 8

Content Trends Media Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Now, however, they are being augmented by demographic data, in-store video monitoring, mobile-based location data from inside and outside the store, real-time social media feeds, third-party data appends, weather, and more. Today's data sophistication enables surgical strikes aimed at specific shoppers and specific product purchases.

Retail 15

Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

” Social media and digital platforms giving local start-ups global reach increasingly facilitate “born global” start-ups. from 2012 to 2014. “Born Global” is becoming the new “Born Digital.”

Globalization 8

Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 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. It sold the site to Shutterfly as part of its bankruptcy plan for less than $25 million in April 2012. People went from printing pictures to sharing them online.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

In the beginning, the profiles were of interest only to those websites, which customized our consumer experience by offering us products congruent with our preferences and values ("if you bought this movie, you may want to buy."). Indeed, 1 in 6 job seekers credits social media with helping them find a better job.

Reputation 11

Reputation Hotels Media Advertising 11

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

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. That process incorporates operations, customer service, R&D, clinical specialists, sales, supply chain operators, and service teams. Who should lead our transformation?

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

For the Globe and its counterparts, the competition is not one rival or game at a time, like baseball; it is multiple digital media offerings and others-to-be-named-later. For consumer products company Procter & Gamble, it is improving lives, translated in the baby care group into helping babies thrive. Think small as well as big.

How To 9

How To Airlines Open-book CEO 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. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. Take, for example, a large media company we work with that invested in an internal social-networking platform for the commercial organization. In one account alone, the improvements have driven $3.5

Team 10

Team Metrics Compliance Attrition 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The proliferation of cheap bandwidth is making it easier than ever to consume media via download instead through the purchase of a physical good. And pretty much every product you can buy at Best Buy, you can get at Amazon cheaper and with free delivery — so people do. It's just not a good decade to be Best Buy.

Price 9

Price Retail Business Model Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

After weeks of media frenzy around the Greek election and the new government’s once-ambitious plans to renegotiate with the Eurozone over its debt crisis , the searchlights of publicity are shifting. And although it has been given a temporary lifeline, little has been resolved. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Our 2012 survey, in partnership with WomenCorporateDirectors and Heidrick & Struggles, of more than 1,000 corporate directors across the globe, found that only 48% of the boards had a formal process of determining the combination of skills and attributes required for their board and, therefore, for new directors.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Despite the inevitability of this “smart” future, today only a small portion of businesses regularly merge data and physical products. Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability. It’s as simple as that. The challenge? Consider the 2.4

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Then Josep “Pep” Guardiola-i-Sala, the former Spanish footballer who is currently the manager of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich, further evolved the idea when he was the coach at Barcelona FC between 2008 and 2012. They must launch new products, for instance, at shorter intervals.

Cooper 16

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Then Josep “Pep” Guardiola-i-Sala, the former Spanish footballer who is currently the manager of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich, further evolved the idea when he was the coach at Barcelona FC between 2008 and 2012. They must launch new products, for instance, at shorter intervals.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Some companies claim that purchasing their product is the ‘be all, end all’ panacea for life’s dilemmas. Their words overstate, get into the media and are accepted by audiences as fact. It must also focus upon people, products, processes, procedures and potential. ‘Products for Healthy Living.’

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In June, the New York Times declared a warming world hostile to food production. It certainly has become a media darling for clean tech skeptics. The extreme weather seriously disrupted coal production , one of the most important economic engines in the country. What can one say about the failure of solar company Solyndra ?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

I fundamentally rejected that assumption, so I began a tour of our operations. I refused to accept that fatalities were an inevitable by-product of mining. We had an initial public summit to which we invited industry heads and the media. Change management Operations Organizational culture' That was it.

Operations 8

Operations Industry CEO Bottom-up 8