Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Musk’s compensation plan, which will give him close to $56 billion in stock and awards if Tesla’s market cap reaches $650 billion, is designed to communicate a particular value proposition to Wall Street. Maintaining that patience requires constant focus on that north star of a half-a-trillion market value.

Planning 8

Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. For example, printing products on demand would significantly reduce the U.S. What happens, for example, if the value of a product’s underlying intellectual property overtakes its production value?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Meet regularly to review common customer issues and build fixes into your product roadmap.

Metrics 13

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

COO 11

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

When last year's massive earthquake hit Japan, the effect on electronics production was severe, and it also resulted in extended business disruptions for many in the automotive industry. When Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disc drive market, manufacturers lost millions of dollars.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

By sheer happenstance, I had just gotten a copy of Gemba Walks , a collection of essays by James Womack , a co-author of the automotive classic The Machine That Changed The World and a pioneering importer of Toyota-inspired lean production insights and methodologies to America. What does it mean for your company and industry?

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Like many of the Big Bang Disruptors we track, drones are piggybacking off the smartphone revolution, which has built efficient global markets for increasingly cheap off-the shelf cameras, processors, gyroscopes, accelerometers, and software that can be embedded in UAS. Many use smartphones and tablets as their controllers.). Both the U.K.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5 Digital capabilities come before AI.

Survey 10

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

has renewed its product lines many times. In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom. Now it is being pressed to renew its governing board as well.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. Worthy pointed out in the book, The Shaping an American Institution: Robert E.

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

According to data from Yahoo finance, company’s market cap exceeds that of Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Tesla, and Daimler combined. But the better and more challenging question is, how would the automotive industry’s incumbents respond to genuinely disruptive competition? I don’t.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Chris Brady

MARCH 3, 2010

Answer: They are the four best products I have ever purchased in my life. It was a 1996 C 220 and was the best automotive purchase I have ever made.   Third MonaVie: Skeptical at first, I quickly became a believer as I noticed significant changes in how I felt when drinking this product.  First the Kawasaki.

Travel 58

Travel Letter Productivity Products 58

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Jetta Productions/Getty Images. From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. firms have long had a simple mantra: “Invent here, manufacture there.” It’s that the U.S. based companies.

Innovation 9

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

ZF, a global automotive supplier based in Germany, was no exception. Digital startups had begun producing virtual products that ZF did not know how to compete against, and engineers in logistics, operations, and other functions were finding that their traditional approaches couldn’t handle the complex issues they faced.

Company 9

Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

The autonomous economy is where intelligent machines, robots, artificial intelligence, big data, and high-speed digital communication power production. The autonomous economy is extremely labor and capital efficient, sometimes so much so that the prices of its products decline to close to zero. There are 3.5 million jobs would vanish.

Retail 8

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

The possibility of a contentious renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has led to delayed or canceled investments in what has been one of Latin America’s most economically stable markets. So, if a company manufactures products in Mexico to export to Canada and the U.S. Renegotiating NAFTA.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Agricultural cooperatives Land O’Lakes and Ocean Spray have become major players in dairy production and fruit farming, earning hundreds of millions in annual revenue. And some companies with employee majority-owned stock programs, such as Publix Super Markets and outerwear maker W.L. Already, U.S.

ESOP 10

ESOP Company Cooper IAM 10