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. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

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. In fact, by the end of December 2016, Thales traded at a 21.8

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

If the answer really is electric, autonomous ones, that will pose a huge challenge for an industry that has not fundamentally changed since the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford’s production line. We know that GM or Toyota cannot just close down production of gasoline engine cars and transform themselves into Tesla.

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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.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Comparing the five years between 2012 and 2016 to the period between 2007 and 2011, U.S. In Thailand, for example, 28% of health care facilities are privately owned, and there are no fewer than eight publicly traded hospital companies doing business in the country. Over the same period, pharmaceutical exports have doubled.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. New business models and value propositions are being developed by global teams using web-based tools and communication methods. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. Managing the transition.

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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. He built a team to develop Predix, a cloud-based platform that underlies all of GE’s industrial businesses. Find the proper pace for extracting resources from the legacy business.

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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. Engineers build new features and functionalities while management graduates can sell products at low cost and even create new business models and commercial innovations.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

and shifts its local focus to engineering and testing. They are not sitting idly by — in 2016, corporate venture arms spent approximately $25 billion globally on more than 1,350 startup investments (excluding direct, strategic investments), a compound annual growth rate of 25% from 2012, according to CB Insights.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

This model, where proprietary software pairs with other strengths to form competitive advantage, is only becoming more common. The business model was to write the software and then sell licenses to publishers. Its primary business model is to create content and sell ads. How Big Companies Benefit.

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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. Airbnb believes that every employee should have access to its data platform to make informed decisions. Another case is Unilever.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

Even the term “net neutrality” was coined not by an engineer but by a legal academic, in 2003. But since Democrats expected to win the White House in the 2016 election, they showed no interest in the bill, confident that an FCC chaired by someone Hillary Clinton picked would support the 2015 Order.

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