Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 4, 2018
And so Harry’s has been growing 35% year-on-year between 2014 to 2016, three times faster than the industry average , commanding 9% of all online razor sales. That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 14, 2017
Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 5, 2017
Almost 400,000 Uber drivers in California and Massachusetts reached a $100 million settlement with the company in 2016 (a settlement that was later thrown out by a federal court as insufficient in the compensation it provided the claimants). Payments for the vehicles were then deducted from pay, leaving little in compensation for the workers.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 12, 2017
Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 23, 2018
First, data cooperatives or pooling involve corporations and other entities joining together to create shared data resources. For example, MIT’s Laboratory for Social Machines’ Electome Project analyzed massive Twitter activity data sets to improve reporting around the 2016 U.S. Public service design and delivery.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 7, 2017
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. By early 2016 there were 20 HR business partners, covering almost 6,000 employees. This is a laudable response.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
Ventures should compete and cooperate with ventures, regardless of their nationalities. Nothing prevents Obama or his successor from starting a new initiative on January 1, 2016. We don't innovate in entrepreneurial finance enough in the U.S.: How about if, as nations, we win together?
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