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 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

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 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

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.

Industry 8

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. In terms of management, the advent of the entrepreneurial society means above all replacing the rigidities of industrial-age mind-sets, with their command-and-control, top-down orientation. Managing the transition. There are certainly many causes for concern.

Drucker 8

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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. Even if someone does manage to see a primary care physician, it’s doubtful there’s much time for real discussion of lifestyle, wellness, or prevention: The average primary care visit in Qatar lasts less than seven minutes.

Health Care 8

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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.

Short-term 8

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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.

Innovation 8

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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.

Company 8

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

and shifts its local focus to engineering and testing. Executives of the “old economy” are certainly aware of their own vulnerability, as they witness the impact of Uber on the taxi industry, Airbnb on hospitality, and automated asset management on financial services. A portfolio approach can take many forms.

Innovation 13

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The business model was to write the software and then sell licenses to publishers. That model still exists, including in online publishing where companies like Automattic, maker of the open source content management system WordPress, sell hosting and related services to publishers. That’s not how Vox Media does it.

Software 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

There is no question that big data and AI will bring about important advances in the realm of management, especially as it relates to being able to make better-informed decisions. AI technologies can provide managers and employees with accurate data and predictions at their fingertips to support and enable the right decisions in a timely way.

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 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11