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. When we asked why marketing and IT should collaborate more, the most cited reason was a simple one: Marketing is more about digital now, which requires more technology..

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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 10

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Using our robust data archive system which captures electronic health record, medical and prescription claims, and other information, we create dashboard displays for use by leadership, operational teams, and clinicians to reveal population-level trends and identify patients and clinicians for targeted interventions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Social media certainly connects us to whoever is on the other end of the line, and so extends our social networks in amazing ways. Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. Especially for operating around the globe, electronic communication has become essential.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

In the ensuing years, the technology ecosystem enabling the new ad medium would steadily unfold, while digital devices proliferated and network connectivity became ubiquitous. After all, the shift from print to electronic media had already taken hold, as advertising extended from newspapers and magazines to radio and television.

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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. Remember that classic moment in the 2012 presidential campaign when Mitt Romney uttered the phrase “ binders full of women ”?

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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.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

” Social media and digital platforms giving local start-ups global reach increasingly facilitate “born global” start-ups. This globality phenomenon is itself surprisingly global: the Berlin and Beijing startup scenes, for example, appear almost as technologically transnational as Boston’s and the Bay Area’s.

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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

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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. How much would it cost to have similar media coverage through a traditional advertising campaign? AdvertisingAge reports that in 2012, Samsung increased its U.S. billion requested).

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Marketing Strategy Strategy Marketing Licensing 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. Culture That Drives Performance. An HBR Insight Center.

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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. Wholesalers do not have shopper data, and do not have sophisticated technologies or expertise in mining the data.

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Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. Zhou reportedly felt that the original Yahoos were overpaid and lazy, whereas the Yahoo team felt bullied and believed Zhou wasn’t focused on the Yahoo operations. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Others need a course correction while still profitable (Microsoft), or a momentum shift because of disruptive new technologies (newspaper companies). 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.

How To 9

How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

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.

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Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Indeed, 1 in 6 job seekers credits social media with helping them find a better job. Most recruiters are already using social media to identify talented employees outside their usual networks. According to a 2012 survey by Jobsite, 54% of recruiters use Twitter, 66% Facebook, and a whopping 97% LinkedIn, as recruitment tools.

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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. Because Amazon is inherently advantaged in the low cost, commodity, transaction due to the very technology the store is built upon, Best Buy shouldn't be competing with the e-tailer head to head.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. “Our instructors were teaching better, and our students were learning better,” Webb noted in The Red Circle , his 2012 SEAL memoir.

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Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

From the moment I stepped off the bus at the rowing venue, I felt reassured that the London Olympic Games were operating like a well-oiled machine. Games always take place in a context, and much about that context (for example, available technologies) can change in the course of several years. Language barriers. Contractual commitment.

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Committee Knowledge Management Project Learning-by-Doing 12

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 ).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Ask anyone in technology. Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability. Some companies will expand into new industries using the information they naturally collect from their traditional business operations as a foundation. The challenge?

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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. As a result, companies operate below their potential.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

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. As a result, companies operate below their potential.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

On paper, the project seemed like it would be a hit: The investment by the mining company would bring jobs and 21st-century technology to an economically poor area and tax revenues to the government. For example, the delays associated with social conflict at large mining operations can run in the vicinity of $20 million per week.

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Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

Increasingly, our clients are coming to us as they realize that in order for these disparate initiatives to thrive, they need to undergo an end-to-end transformation, the success of which demands dramatic operational, structural, and cultural shifts. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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CEO Strategy Maturity Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

Everyone and everything is connected or soon will be by social media, on mobile platforms, and in the cloud. But no less planned or executed than another viral blockbuster — the OMGPOP team's March 2012 breakout of Draw Something , a Pictionary-like game. Common Operating Pictures. Achieving those effects is no accident.

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Team Self-aware Media Download 12

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Their words overstate, get into the media and are accepted by audiences as fact. Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. When one media insists upon having exclusive name rights to a special event, that’s the kiss of death. ‘Products for Healthy Living.’

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

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. It certainly has become a media darling for clean tech skeptics. Looking Forward to 2012 and beyond: New business models coming.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

If you want to win their hearts and minds, you have to master the latest technology, assimilate vast quantities of data, engage and delight your customers, and deliver products and services that surpass expectations. And yet today’s top marketers are combining technology and teamwork to generate extraordinary results.

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Marketing Teamwork Technology Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

I wrote about this trend in the November 2012 issue of HBR.) When I returned to work at an investment firm at age 42, after 11 years out of the full-time workforce, I was the grandmother of the operation. It provides a cost effective and low-risk way to engage with mid-career professionals seeking to return to work. (I

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Career Learning Curve Middle Management Reference 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

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

In some ways it’s only natural that we see an increase in discussions on potential challenges for organizations in operating under a multi-generational workforce. And that is the issue of how to effectively manage a multi-generational workforce.

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P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 243

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

After some searching, TripAdvisor found a magical business model, representing social media and user-generated content at its best. In the hyper-competitive world of technology and consumer Internet, it is hard to find a company that is pound for pound as profitable as TripAdvisor. billion market capitalization as of this writing.

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EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

So much for the lazy, hazy days of summer: If any of us needed one final reminder that the competitive logic of business and media and branding are being reshaped before our very eyes, that the merciless advance of technology upends every institution it touches, well, we got it. Yes, technology changes everything it touches.

Media 10

Media Magazine Creativity Brand 10

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

They tend to think of innovation as a shiny new product or service that incorporates a major advance in technology—something like the Model T or the iPhone. Because it takes an enormous amount of money to find a truly revolutionary technology or product. Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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