Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruptive products and services were, by definition, cheaper, lower quality, and lower margin. If you were running a profitable business with growth opportunities from an existing customer base, it was unlikely that you’d prioritize building low-quality products for over-served customers at lower margins.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. To generate publicity that allows them to solicit broad feedback on their beta product.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Maxx and Marshalls—which compete aggressively on price. Price competition hurts. It also hurts the brands sold inside the stores, which in part explains why consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble are seeing their sales stagnate for products like Tide detergent, Gillette razors, Pampers diapers, and Crest toothpaste.

Brand 11

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. Fortunately, in December of 2017 GE’s board downsized from 18 members to 12. The Board Had No Finance Committee.

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. IT was using AI to resolve employees’ tech support problems, automate the work of putting new systems or enhancements into production, and make sure employees used technology from approved vendors. Just 6% are using AI in pricing.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. ALEXANDER JOE/Getty Images. Consumers use bitcoins to pay for imported cars , among other purchases.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

physicians in eight specialties, 100 health system finance officers, as well as 100 health system procurement officers — the people in charge of buying supplies for hospitals. A comparison of our 2015 and 2017 survey findings shows a notable slowdown in the adoption of value-based payment models.

Health Care 8

Health Care Resistance Cost Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. Any unit that contemplates acquiring a new technology that would lower the total cost of the patient’s care in the hospital must pay the full price for that technology from its departmental budget or persuade others to co-invest with it, which is not an easy task.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

After paying for a full year, the system is unlocked and the customer owns the product outright. Adding 600 new customers a day, M-KOPA intends to cross the million-unit mark by the end of 2017. Thanks for these frugal off-the-grid energy solutions, African households are leapfrogging from candlelight to solar light.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. California’s model is perhaps the most influential: It has affected prices and choice in the market by standardizing plans and aggressively negotiating insurance rates. A new consumer mindset.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

This data is both financial (revenues, profits, growth) and non-financial (customer sentiment, employee engagement, marketing effectiveness, product feedback, and partner ecosystems). Many established firms— a 2017 Deloitte survey suggested about 20% in the U.S.—are ZB by 2020.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

As the currency was crashing, he found himself facing a painful dilemma: either raise prices to recoup the losses and hit his annual target — set in U.S. But with the currency changing every day, how much of a price increase should he consider? Normally, MNCs raise prices in the emerging market, (e.g., Federal Reserve.

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Things such as administration, finance and statistics can be outsourced by a business if they do not want to complete these tasks themselves. By freeing up the time which internal employees will spend on certain time consuming tasks, they will be able to spend more time on their own work and be more productive. Mundane Tasks.

Outsourcing 68

Outsourcing Offshoring Content Engineering 68

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. For example, the cryptocurrency used for the Ethereum network, called Ether , saw its value double in just a few days in March 2017. Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011.

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Based on their stock prices on July 6, 2017 , Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook were the five most valuable companies in the world. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. that help propagate new products, ideas and business models?).

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

For example, a key source of concern for some companies is more-restrictive rules of origin, which would reduce the amount of materials allowed to be used tariff-free for products traded to and from NAFTA member countries. So, if a company manufactures products in Mexico to export to Canada and the U.S. YOY in 2017–2018.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. abandoned in January 2017, contained strong restrictions on SOE subsidies that, ironically, were largely drafted by U.S. withdrew from TPP in January 2017. In December 2017, the trade ministers of the European Union, Japan, and the U.S.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

But as Nate Berg reports, the system is on the cusp of change, with between 775 and 1,000 new cars scheduled to begin service in 2017, at a cost of up to $3.3 To be sure, some say Apple doesn''t have the same allure, and others chafe at Cook''s discipline when it comes to finances and supply chains. They haven''t really changed since.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Follow-up Consensus CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Investors in the green economy would face less risk because of the federal government’s subsidies for basic energy research and its encouragement of cleaner products. Wealthy liberal states provide demand for green innovators to engage in learning by doing , which helps products improve and become cheaper. Blue States.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Policies Politics 8