Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

For more than two years, we and others have been talking about the need to shift the prevailing view among managers, boards of directors and investors from "quarterly capitalism" to what we call "capitalism for the long term". 1) Believe in your power to make markets efficient — but abandon the efficient market dogma.

Marketing 10

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. Similarly, Japan's automobile industry has been plagued by a series of embarrassing quality problems and recalls, and has lost market share to companies from South Korea and even (gasp!)

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We focus on economic profit rather than revenue size, market share, or productivity growth because these other metrics risk including firms that are simply large and may not create economic value. (To do this, we take the firm’s returns, deduct the cost of capital, and multiply by the firm’s total invested capital.)

Industry 9

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As cloud technology improves, however, it is becoming easier for companies to create products and services within the cloud, or model new products or marketing campaigns as cloud-based software prototypes. Pearson uses Kubernetes to develop, deploy and manage new kinds of online learning systems in developing markets like India and Mexico.

Management 9

Management Software BPM Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Content Innovation. Fortunately, the organizations that took the effort to truly understand the value of their data were able to execute appropriately. How do you ensure that your execution is commensurate with the revenue opportunity? In some cases, they’re right. But then again, in a surprising number of cases, they aren’t.

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Apple’s Tim Cook spoke as well, saying “the time for inaction has passed,” and commenting that we don’t need to accept any “tradeoff between economy and environment — both are doable if you innovate and set the bar high enough.”. As it turns out, that bar doesn’t have to be so high after all. We citizen consumers need to step up, too.

IRR 8

IRR Energy Tips Commitment 8