Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

The first thing they should know is that not all technological change is “disruptive.” In a recent publication in the Journal of Product Innovation, we undertook a systematic review of 40 years (1975 to 2016) of innovation research. Or, they may create markets where no market exists and turn non-consumers into consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

Jobs in retail, transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture are highly vulnerable to technological change. It also offers a buffer against the downsides of technological unemployment for employees. In 2016 Hamdi Ulukaya, founder of Chobani, decided to give 10% of his yogurt company in stock to his 2,000 employees.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. That means that 70% of acquisitions of firms in the technology sector over the past three years have been made by organizations outside of it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

” Judging by the headlines and opening lines of recent articles and business books, digital is about to disrupt your industry and you with it – unless you act now (and buy the book). Many business models that make extensive use of digital technology have network-type properties.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Today, the list of disruptive new entrants is expanding and the primary differentiator is clear: they bring new mental models to existing industries and create new business models that customers and investors love. Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain technology is not well understood and subject to a lot of hype. However, there are many reasons to invest the time now to understand the technology and begin exploring specific marketing applications for your industry. Blockchain technology allows for near-zero transaction costs—even on microtransactions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Agile and Lean initially grew popular in the startup world, but soon were embraced by mainstream business leaders around the globe. ” Today, leading companies are embracing a new business process methodology. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. In March 2016, Thales purchased Vormetric, the growing cybersecurity firm, for $400 million, which was 5.7 The acquisition communicated to the market that Thales was shifting its financial profile to the high-growth business. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. A typical incumbent focuses only about 30% of its resources on activities outside its core business. joshua sortino/unsplash.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In this environment online merchants will have to find ways to do more with less data — whether through smarter application of analytics or because they introduce a business model that enables them to offer their services without collecting sensitive data. Of course, banks are far from perfect.

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Banking Competitive Advantage Business Model Airlines 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

Companies and analysts are scrambling to figure out how to make privacy rules clear, protect user data, and evolve the business models that made them successful in the first place. Both consumers and companies will likely have to manage different rules for different markets, and different technologies. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Similarly, Microsoft paid $26 billion for loss-making LinkedIn in 2016, and Facebook paid $19 billion for WhatsApp in 2014 when it had no revenues or profits. The current financial accounting model fails today’s companies in yet another respect. For the next four years, it continued to report losses.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

At the end of 2016, Fitch Ratings estimated that all robo-advisors managed under U.S.$100B By almost all accounts, companies at the digital frontier such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are investing vast amounts in AI—somewhere between $20 billion and $30 billion alone in 2016. . $5 trillion to U.S. $7 300 billion today.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

In an article called “Will Apple Pay Kill PayPal?” In fact, platforms are based on one of the most challenging business models there is. A smaller number of participants who actually want to do business with each other is much more important than a larger number of participants who don’t care so much.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

What I’ve learned is that it is rare for firms to succeed in transitioning from the present to an entirely different future; typically, the leader in one technology is not the leader in the next. BMW turns 100 years old in 2016; it is a firm with a deep, proud history of making gasoline engines.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” You aren’t alone; while most organizations talk the talk of sustainability — doing things like integrating environmental and societal concerns into their business models — very few walk the walk. When all employees and stakeholders use the sustainability lens to make decisions, a new business model takes root.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In a recent Goldman Sachs research report about the promise of gene therapies, analysts asked a question that gets to the heart of a growing dilemma for the healthcare sector: “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” New business models. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

Their business models are at serious risk of failure in the next three to five years. IBM established its Watson Health business unit to apply cognitive computing analyses to healthcare and in 2016 announced plans to acquire Truven Health Analytics for $2.6 And HCIT providers escape the commodity trap.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. Comparing the five years between 2012 and 2016 to the period between 2007 and 2011, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

M-PESA is now enabling other disruptive business models in sectors like energy. could harness technologies like 3D printing to build affordable houses faster and cleaner and make them accessible to most Americans. In lieu of building more McMansions — which only the wealthiest can afford — the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since the start of 2016, oil prices have swung between $27 and $42 per barrel, about a quarter of the 2008 peak crude oil price of $145. For decades, this is how the oil business has worked. These are some of the basic assumptions behind the model that has guided the oil and gas industry for decades.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels. There were more than 5,000 craft breweries in the United States alone in 2016, compared with 1,400 a decade ago, according to Statista. One way is by reducing dependence on fixed assets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016. percent of retail sales shifted from offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 2016. Brick and mortar stores seem to be going the way of the yellow pages. Looking only at that 15.2

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Leading technology companies are increasingly soliciting their users to take political action on their behalf to defend controversial business models from regulation, support new programs, and promote their moral values in active political battles. We’re being introduced to a new lever of corporate influence on democracy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. And what can Grab teach us about the future of platform businesses? To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

Uber’s China business was acquired in 2016 by Didi Chuxing (with more than 400 million users in more than 400 cities in China, the largest ride-sharing company in the world). Khosrowshahi must demonstrate how Uber’s repeatable business model generates profitable growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Might a company have the same DNA for its lifetime, but be able to innovate by expressing that DNA into new business models, organizational designs, and offerings? These questions will clearly take a lot more research than this article. But the following stories suggest further exploration is warranted.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

It is the algorithms that will create value for the business. Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. The new game is to think about the business model and strategy for not just the company but the entire ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Access to these types of technologies is critical for providers who want to succeed with medical condition-based bundles. Between 2012 and 2016 the organization saw almost a 50% reduction in PMPM costs with certain at risk populations they managed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

” But if you are the Ford Motor Company and face the prospect of investing billions in new technology while your century-old business model is overturned, you might first have a few questions. To help test drive the future, in 2016 Ford paid about $50 million to acquire Chariot, a startup mobility service.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer technology are causing us to think again about some really basic questions: what is a firm? And as computer technology simplifies and reduces transaction costs further, it is these other things that firms do uniquely well that will come more to the forefront.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2006, 26-year-old Frank Wang started up DJI in a dorm room at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. The legend goes that Frank’s father had given him an expensive remote-controlled model helicopter for doing well in school. ISAAC LAWRENCE/stringer/Getty Images.

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