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?

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Tourism Pharmaceuticals Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

With dozens of other genetically engineered therapies moving through clinical trials, the long-promised era of personalized, gene-based medicine seemed to be at hand. In 2016, the company had to pull its gene therapy for potentially fatal fat-processing deficiencies from the E.U. New business models. Insight Center.

Business Model 10

Business Model Insurance Cost Bond 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. By bringing customer development closer to the marketplace and enabling rapid learning from failure, the lean start-up movement has great potential to increase the success rate of new ventures. There are certainly many causes for concern. Managing the transition.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The new game is to think about the business model and strategy for not just the company but the entire ecosystem. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. Find the proper pace for extracting resources from the legacy business.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2016, DJI had 1,500 people in R&D , or 40% of a workforce of 4,000 – a luxury only available to a company that can tap into low-cost engineering talent. A prototype that takes two weeks to develop in Silicon Valley can be created overnight in Shenzhen. and other developed countries will find difficult to match.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Right now, Amazon’s business model is shopping-then-shipping. Most shoppers have noticed Amazon’s recommendation engine while they shop — it offers suggestions of items that their AI predicts you will want to buy. If this is a better business model, then why hasn’t Amazon done it already?

Strategy 8

Strategy First-mover Advantage Business Model Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Most companies, whether start-ups or long-time players live in a world shaped by the laws of demand where low pricing can trump quality, and where targeted marketing, carefully crafted keywords, and social media engineering can build awareness, influence opinion, and generate sales. Of course this depends on a company’s business model.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. A portfolio approach can take many forms.

Innovation 12

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. This model, where proprietary software pairs with other strengths to form competitive advantage, is only becoming more common.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Consider Internet platform companies such as Airbnb, where data is at the core of their business model. This applies to all parts of the organization from marketing and business development to HR. Corporate AI units often develop dashboards for senior executives which are used by them exclusively.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Tools Marketing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s not that the media sets out to be sensationalist; its business model leads it in that direction. But in the last two contests in which Hillary Clinton has participated, the 2008 primary and the 2016 election, she won on most of these metrics — and lost the elections. Two developments bear noting.

Media 10

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 10