Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 The company delayed entering the robo-advisor market until it had results from two years of testing. Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For example, in 2015, Maersk and MSC, the world’s two largest liner shipping companies, established 2M, a 10-year vessel sharing agreement covering 193 vessels. A company sets up a joint venture with a partner that has complementary assets and capabilities, in order to limit up-front investments, speed up market entry, and reduce risk.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

For further evidence of this, we examined the 2015 S&P 1500 Index , a mix of small-, medium-, and large-cap stocks, and separated the index based on industry sector according to FactSet’s industry classification. In the lower left are builders, which include industries such as utilities, energy, transportation, and retail.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Business Model Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

And yet there’s room for even more industry growth, and more savings for American consumers: a recent study my team conducted found that antiquated regulations are costing the growing solar market an additional $70 billion. To understand why, we have to start by looking at the market for solar. We wanted to know how a new U.S.

Technology 8

Technology Energy System Cost 8

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. Digital players wield outsize market power.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

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.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Maybe even cleverer is the market that Leo Burnett targeted to introduce it — a group with a strong need (and a perfect opportunity) to socialize: college freshmen. And because batteries are the single most expensive component in electric vehicles, that would be a big step toward his dream of a mass-market Tesla car.

Short-term 8

Short-term Mass Marketing Long-term Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Moreover, Twitter is used by virtually all big Western companies either for marketing or to respond to customers—and sometimes both. The energy, finance, and technology sectors tend to tweet using a male-biased tone of voice. A third of the companies in our study have separate accounts for customer service and marketing.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

In 2015 real GDP per capita was $56,000 in the United States. has a more developed system of equity finance than the countries of Europe, including angel investors willing to finance startups and a very active venture capital market that helps finance the growth of those firms. In short, the U.S. Although U.S.

Decentralization 14

Decentralization GDP Finance Incentives 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Second, a new coalition representing many of the world’s largest companies launched in September under the name We Mean Business and issued its own powerful study , offering substantial evidence of the direct business value of investing in low-carbon tech and energy efficiency. Financing the clean economy. Unilever U.S.

Chemicals 11

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies. A shift toward protectionism.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Also prominent in this sector are social movements, for example the Salt March that eventually led to Indian independence, and the social initiatives that are driving so many constructive changes these days, from the Grameen Bank for the micro-financing of the poor to the Khan Academy for the extension of free education.

Cooper 8

Cooper Politics Globalization Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

However, by subsidizing the shift to green energy, richer blue states can make the eventual transition easier for fossil-fuel-dependent red states. greenhouse gas emissions peaked in 2007, and by 2015 had declined by 10%. Together, such policies would encourage energy-efficient cars and buildings and cleaner power generation.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Policies Politics 8