Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? An evolving energy market, led by cheap natural gas and subsidized renewable generation, threatens the long-term financial viability of America’s remaining nuclear power plants. Over the past three decades, the U.S. to achieve its climate change goals.

Payback Period 50

Payback Period Power Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 50

Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2013

Tom Borders told me that they decided to hire a CEO whose experience was in retailing versus a strategic marketing expert. He focused his energies on the emerging digital books business and building a family of dedicated Nook digital devices, including color tablets. Source: The Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2013 .

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Chief Executive Officer eBook Leadership Leadership Styles 97

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

They prove that the most economically disadvantaged people on the planet create a great market for social entrepreneurs – AND provide a terrific testing ground for innovation and cost control. As of February 28, 2013, the company claims: 13,638,438 “lives empowered”. 275,817,462 saved in energy-related expenses.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Prahalad Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. North America's fracking fever has proviked experts (who once feared the world had passed Hubbert's Peak ) to predict the US will soon be a net energy exporter. Half the stocks in the market are now yielding more than fixed income.

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Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The world's second largest carbon market (after the European Union) opened in the state as part of California's ambitious program to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Policy signals from California, the world's 9th largest economy, are clearing a path for energy innovation. The market will decide that.

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Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

By year’s end, the seven biggest emerging markets were larger than the G7 , in purchasing power parity terms. Far from Silicon Valley, Shanghai, or Singapore, a German company, Rocket Internet, has been busy launching e-commerce start-ups across a wide range of emerging and frontier markets.

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Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Here’s what we’ve learned from three pioneering companies about how to identify, grow and retain leaders to meet today’s demands: Identify: Let them innovate. Both seek to create an environment where employees can pursue innovative business offerings to address problems that are personally meaningful.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

So it’s consistent with market forces. And a 2013 study by Xueming Luo, Vamsi K. After the initial rush of enthusiasm and energy, established routines and networks can smother the drive for innovation. Under her reign, on 1 November 2013, it closed at £1,498.00.

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CEO Long-term Welch Pharmaceuticals 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. The shifting energy equation, for example, sets the stage for growth. Shale gas will allow the US to be energy independent, create an export industry, and reduce energy costs. Position yourself in market segments that will grow.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 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. Fostering innovation. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths.

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Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The factory floor at Pittsburgh’s Aquion Energy doesn’t look much like the steel mills that once populated this Rust Belt city. Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. But just as U.S. economy.

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Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Most plans have fewer than six: one or two financial metrics, such as sales growth or earnings per share, and two or three nonfinancial metrics, in areas such as quality or innovation. Finally, some sustainability investments can pay for themselves through reduced energy consumption and waste over the long term.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. According to Barron's and others, China has already begun implementing its ambitious plan to increase installations.

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Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting July 1st — the beginning of the company's fiscal year 2013 — the software giant will charge all of its 100-plus global offices and datacenters a fee for every ton of carbon they produce (mostly from plugging into the electric grid, so-called "indirect" emissions). Accountability throughout the organization.

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

retailers in customer satisfaction and its market value declined by 55%, the board stepped back in, meeting with employees and learning how to restore the company’s original focus on a close, advisory relationship with customers. Are younger insurgent companies faster to launch products, to innovate, to react to customers?

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Company Bureaucracy Long-term Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Innovative products like fitness trackers and Google’s Nest thermostats are demonstrating the potential for both consumers and enterprises. Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 Australia and China.

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Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. If there are superconsumers in your midst, and if they’re encouraged to speak their minds, they will inject your culture with extra doses of energy, empathy, and creativity. Unlocking Energy. Time is a finite resource, but energy is not.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. If lawmakers don’t handle this correctly — well, consider Red Flag laws.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Superior technical innovation is at the heart of its strategy and its organizational design.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

In the World Economic Forum''s Global Risks 2013 report, the respondents named "rising greenhouse gas emissions" as the third most likely risk to the global economy (after inequity and deficits/debt). More companies are taking a proactive role in climate policy, and for good reasons. So what should companies advocate for specifically?

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Policies NGO Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions. In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space. Failure to launch the right side.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, three trends gained purchase and this year, they’ll ascend. . Kleiner Perkins analyst Mary Meeker showed in her influential 2013 D11 address that “wearable computing is coming on strong, faster than the typical 10 year cycle” of tech trends. The second trend is the historic growth in “ wearables.

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Trends Kleiner Supply Chain Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners. And the market for software talent was hot hot hot.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

A regional bank wouldn’t allow sales teams to share a new marketing campaign on their personal Twitter and Facebook pages because they couldn’t officially represent the company. Time was wasted, energy was depleted, and the mood shifted from possibility to pessimism. Here’s how. Involve legal from the beginning.

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Innovation Team Compliance Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While India remains a formidably challenging market, there are at least three reasons why global firms cannot overlook India without consequences. India plans to catalyze $200-300 billion of new investment in renewable energy infrastructure over the next decade. In two short years, Kwid gained 15% of the market.

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Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 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. They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. Digital markets are uneven.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

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. Over the past 30 years, the biggest multinational corporations have taken advantage of open borders to spread their innovations and cut their production costs and tax burdens.

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Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10