Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The story was picked up by CNN Money , which reported that Lyft’s internal data suggesting 5,560 canceled rides between October 2013 and August 2014. Strategic talent constraints are typically described in vast interconnected global supply chains and high-tech knowledge jobs like software engineers and research scientists.

Industry 8

Industry Supply Chain Engineering Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Since leaving Netflix in late 2013, I’ve served as a consultant, both to startups and to growth companies that are moving well beyond the startup stage (including Warby Parker, Harry’s Grooming, and HubSpot). So I’m well-versed in the challenges of recruiting (and retaining) top technical talent in a tight market.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Constraint Policies Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

A 2013 survey shows the median earnings for men outside of refugee camps (where they’re not allowed to work) was $160 per month, much less than the Turkish minimum monthly wage of around $400. A long-term framework for integrating Syrian refugees is a pressing domestic policy to head off tensions like these.

Long-term 8

Long-term Safe Harbor Planning Constraint 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 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role.

CFO 9

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

In other words, business leaders have been dealing with the direct, market-based risks presented by major economic, technological, and demographic trends. Yet this time really may be different, not in the long-run effect of technological advances on rates of employment, but in the political response to short-run labor market disruption.

Politics 8

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

David Carr, at The New York Times , summarized the industry’s precarious position as follows: “Producing serious news is an expensive enterprise with a beleaguered business model, one that remains tied to the tracks as a locomotive of splintered audiences and declining advertising hurtles toward it.” ( The New York Times ; October 20, 2013).

Price 8

Price Content Reputation Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. Financed by VC firms. Uber alone has raised more than $10 billion from VCs and similar financial backers to date. Narrowly focused.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , a 2013 dollar has one-tenth the purchasing power of the 1950 version. Instead, supply is determined once and for all by artificially-arranged resource constraints.". The question, really, is whether you can pick the right "resource constraints" ahead of time.

Price 8

Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven. Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. It is probably the best, most well-trained workforce at the cheapest labor-market price that any international investor could find anywhere in the world. In 2013 in U.S.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

“Your biggest constraint is how many hours you have to devote to this side project, so commit to an end-date [when you’d ideally like to leave your job] and solve backward from there,” he says. Or pay a freelance consultant to do market research? For instance, can you hire someone to help you code? Patch weak spots.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Lee’s essay “The Word that Shall Not Be Spoken” in the November 7, 2013 New England Journal of Medicine.). Those that can accurately categorize, measure, and mitigate their patients’ suffering most effectively will be rewarded with greater market share as well as the loyalty and retention of clinicians and other personnel.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Constraint System 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. A 2013 Pew Research survey found that business executives ranked ninth out of 10 professions in terms of social contribution, only placing ahead of lawyers. This is not just true for the U.S. in the U.S., but our exports may decline. Perhaps U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8