Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Social media acts as both sound-check and amplifier for traditional media, so CCTV News, though still mandatorily aired across the nation, can no longer assume that its audiences are believers. In October 2013, an incident involving Starbucks unfolded, when CCTV aired a segment “exposing” its relatively higher prices in China.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Beyond the media splash it caused, though, the event was viewed as a breakthrough on many fronts. In January 2014 IBM announced they were spending $1 billion to launch the Watson Group , including a $100 million venture fund to support start-ups and businesses that are building Watson-powered apps using the “ Watson Developers Cloud.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Many such “Rocket” companies are poised to become the Alibabas and Amazons for the rest of the world: Jumia, which operates in nine countries across Africa; Namshi in the Middle East; Lazada and Zalora in ASEAN; Jabong in India; and Kaymu in 33 markets across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

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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. So venture out.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

This continues a trend The Association of National Advertisers first reported in 2013. We want to leverage social media, content marketing, and integrated models but every time we ask our agency for a proposal, it comes back as advertising. I’m sick of it. Continuity has become more important than campaigns. Who owns the data?

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

We say the big bang disruption is this better and cheaper product or service that enters, and then because it’s better and cheaper, rational consumers who can spread information now much more easily among themselves through social media and so on, they’re going to tell each other, hey, don’t buy a standalone GPS navigation device.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. Nobody can truly understand the ecosystem they operate in without getting out and wading in it. Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

As Johnson had described it in much more depth in a Time cover story a few months before, what made Twitter so promising and interesting and important was “the fact that many of its core features and applications have been developed by people who are not on the Twitter payroll.” billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

As a long-time business journalist in the mainstream media, my professional and personal reputation was on the line. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. One day, I have no doubt we will see household brands develop. Impressive, but that’s only the start.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Please note that titles used here reflect the positions the individuals held in 2013, when we conducted the interviews for a separate article ). Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. Operating in a Global Marketplace. Ken Powell of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. Unfortunately, the follow-through never transpired after the media coverage died down. Business development. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. The process of strategy development is not esoteric. Business development.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” ” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. will be more likely to pay off a debt.)

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? out of a possible 990 in February 2013. What do you do? Hire interpreters? That sounds easy, but the bigger you get, the harder that is to manage.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise. Why is this so challenging?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Despite glowing media reports, Tesla is not disruptive , and it will have trouble scaling as it seeks to grow. For short trips around a development, they are actually more desirable than cars; they don’t create tailpipe or noise pollution; they’re slow, increasing pedestrian safety; and they’re cheap to buy and charge.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Operations in a Connected World. Spot surveys become snapshots of limited customer input.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

But as Netflix and online media channels developed, Blockbuster was no longer unique in fulfilling that purpose, and the way it fulfilled it became anachronistic.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. With so many parts of the organization needing to come together to deliver on a customer journey, the CMO has to operate as the “glue” across the organization.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Business development. Or, the organization can bury its head in the sand and hope media attention dies down… thus becoming a generic tagline for troubled communities. It became incumbent to communicate openly to media about the crisis and what was being done. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

So when I asked Mark Krolick—managing director of marketing and product development at United Airlines—about the hypothesis that having more superconsumers as leaders or employees enhances business performance, he smiled. I spoke with Patty McCord, the former chief talent officer of Netflix from 1998 to 2013. Adapted from.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. These developments, while promising, are not without risks. But the strength of small business is dependent on the availability of bank loans, and the evidence suggests this critical funding may be drying up.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business development. Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. The media circus jumped on all facets of the conflicts, as well as lawsuits filed. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Running the business. The Big Picture.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Business development. Perrier utilized media opportunities to advocate for environmental protection and sought to educate consumers about product purification processes. This industrial development program carried the theme, “You Can Believe/Puede Creer.” Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The band was distributing its self-produced first album, having created buzz for it in online forums and chat rooms and building a community there (this was several years before Facebook and Twitter transformed social media). Our business now operates like a tech startup, with less hierarchy and far more agility. and Harajuku Lovers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Demand is predicted to expand by as much as 40% in 2013. Free wifi places are fine as social gathering spots, but the random non-working others who share that space surely won't help you find new colleagues or generate development leads. And for good reason.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

On the other hand, you have the media pointing out the country’s shallow middle class, growing inequality and joblessness, and a trail of multinationals frustrated by the lack of China-like success in India. India has added new customers at the fastest rate for Amazon in its history of operations across the world, including the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

If you''re marketing to women through social media, imagine your conversations mediated by a smartphone screen. According to a 2013 survey by Nielsen, "Nearly 60% of women use Facebook/access Facebook multiple times a day on their device/computer compared to approximately 45% of men."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As the new CEO of Google, he has been handed the keys to one of the world’s most valuable brands , the top website to open to get to other websites , the most popular operating system for smartphones , and the most desirable employer for engineering or business graduates. And third, his belief that technology is an equalizing force.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. ” More than 1 billion jobs and $14.6

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Academics and practitioners have built on Christensen's work to develop robust frameworks that can help leaders to spot disruptive developments early and respond appropriately. Sifting through this work highlights three seminal moments in any disruptive innovation's development: Conception. 3-D printing. The Internet of Things.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Some observers suggest deeper changes to the platform: making the experience much more user friendly, developing better algorithms for surfacing interesting content, or improving search functionalities. Twitter has operated in this market since 2006, so almost everyone who wanted to try Twitter has tried it. Then there is the U.S.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Most companies—especially the 75 percent of all US companies with less than $1 million in annual revenues—will never be able to invest enough into research and development to deliver a revolutionary innovation based on technology, except through dumb luck. It comes down to respect and fairness, and many leaders fail the test.

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