Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

At their training center in Louisville, they bounced ideas and product prototypes off of retail salespeople who came to learn about GE’s products. They’re now working on version 8, which they will produce in October, and version 10, with better lighting, and there is a design projected for 2015.

Ries 9

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. Similarly, in 2015 Techstars committed to doubling the representation of women and minorities in their programs within four years.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 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

JUNE 22, 2015

For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. Longer supply chains also increase inventory levels and carrying costs related to financing and warehousing. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

A central plank of the plan is to “return $8 [billion] to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its three-year target of returning $18 billion to $20 billion to them by the end of 2016.” billion in buybacks in 2015 under its current board-authorized repurchase program.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Meanwhile, even middle-class Americans are being priced out of the housing market in states like California, where average low-tier property prices went up by 10% in 2015. Compte Nickel charges a flat annual maintenance fee of just 20 Euros (compared to 180 Euros charged by retail banks).

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Instead of seeking management jobs at GM or Eastman Kodak or Westinghouse, MBAs from elite schools went into finance and consulting. Retail, fast food, and the “sharing economy” are increasingly moving to a world in which algorithms and platforms replace human management.

Management 8

Management Retail Construction Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. billion projected for FY 2015 (which ends in June), thanks largely to the building of a $1 billion new-growth business this year. billion in 2010 to $4.9

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

But comfortable reliance on this “precious” relationship has left us in a situation where the customers of many other sectors (such as retail) are often treated better from an experiential standpoint than medicine’s patients.

System 8

System Quality Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. By contrast, World Bank data suggests that the average holding period in 2015 for public company shares globally was just over seven months.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. There was no strong association between CEO background and firm performance in high-tech and fashion retail.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Even families without the up-front capital can rely on zero-money-down financing programs , like those offered by Solar City and other solar lease providers. solar in 2015. retailers with a new source of sales revenue. For comparison, there are less than 100 nuclear plants in the U.S.) –$71.7 billion in sales.

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. Today’s Digital Landscape. Innovation and change.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. Financed by VC firms. Founded in 2015 and now valued more than $18 billion, it raised $3.3 Founded in 2015 and now valued more than $18 billion, it raised $3.3

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

The energy, finance, and technology sectors tend to tweet using a male-biased tone of voice. Retail and consumer goods tend to use more female language in their social communication. Active is defined as having made at least five tweets during the sampling periods, which were randomly selected multi-hour windows in March 2015.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

They can also be industry-specific, flexible, and tailored to meet the needs of the individual users across organizations — from marketing to finance, and levels from C-suite to middle management. • Machine learning and cognitive computing.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Higher-fee, actively managed funds lost $500 billion in assets since 2015, with much of it flowing to much lower cost passive funds (e.g. Now, platforms like AngelList, WeFunder, and Republic enable ordinary retail investors to participate in this stage of a company’s growth. index funds).

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

The fraction of global manufacturing done in Asia (measured by value added) jumped from 29% in 2000 to 45% in 2015. Some retailers that are big importers could see their net profits plummet by almost 80%, while exporters of manufactured goods could see their net profits soar by 50% or more (see these exhibits ). Take the idea of a U.S.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. How has Europe dealt with the situation? Investing in innovation capacity.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Both Republicans and Democrats say the most effective board committee is audit/finance. For this analysis, we focused on responses from about 1,000 board members of companies headquartered in the United States that were submitted between October 2015 and December 2015.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8