Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Banks with cash didn't lend it. Europeans were paralyzed by debt crises and transportation shutdowns caused by volcanic ash and disgruntled workers. Technology companies with the capabilities and courage to innovate were bright spots and signals of important trends for the future. Big companies with cash didn't spend it.

Technology 14

Technology Innovation Offshoring Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

But this isn't the first big innovation in mobile banking. These innovations are already happening in developing countries. That revolution, in turn, is causing India to leapfrog brick-and-mortar banking to wireless banking for the masses. NPCI worked with banks and co-created this product in a very short time.

Banking 13

Banking Development Wireless Chief Operating Officer 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?” Yet those very weaknesses give startups an overwhelming advantage in innovation.

Company 8

Company Hotels Business Model Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

companies from innovating their way to competitive advantage. As one bank CEO interviewed for our survey put it, "Our future competitors will not be traditional banks, but large technology companies.". Such training will likely need to be on-going, as the digital revolution plays out in continual technological innovation.

Retail 15

Retail Competitive Advantage CEO Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role. One of us, Arvind Gupta, is head of technology for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP party, and has been for the past seven years.

Banking 12

Banking Long-term Short-term System 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The beneficiaries will be small businesses that provide innovative products, services and solutions. Gone were the days where careers were routed through banks and mining companies. There is no week in big cities when a technology event is not happening. We have also observed more funding opportunities for technology companies.

Banking 14

Banking Technology Transportation Incentives 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels. New competitors are not even staying away from more traditional, low-margin industries.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Originally gaining notoriety as the data technology underneath the cryptocurrency called bitcoin, today blockchain technology is expanding its reach far beyond the confines of currency and tackling issues involving transactional social trust throughout the world. Powering the Supply Chain with Internet of Things (IoT) technology.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content Power Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

You don’t have to be a programmer in Silicon Valley or a gene splicer in biotech to unleash exciting innovations and create huge value. Instead, you can rethink what it means to be in the retail-banking business, or the industrial-distribution business, or the office-cleaning business.

CEO 8

CEO Open-book Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Uber, like all transportation services, has never and will never offer a product that’s composed purely of digital “bits,” as companies do in media (Netflix and YouTube), music (Spotify), or advertisements (Facebook and Google). Such knowledge is in fact the prerequisite to innovation.

Transportation 8

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Many workers have found, well into their careers, that their physical skills for making and transporting “things” are less relevant and valuable than the once were. New workers embarking on their careers are finding that their education is incomplete in many areas essential to our technology-driven lives today.

GDP 8

GDP Wilde Intangible Assets GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

However, as much as macroeconomic reforms are needed, the future of the Greek economy will be determined by its competitiveness, which concerns costs, but is also measured by innovation. The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system.

Planning 8

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The turnaround can’t be attributed to a bold, Da Vinci-esque initiative such as new carbon fiber aircraft, the pioneering of new markets or even low-cost innovation. The most famous of these options was checked-bag fees, but most of the recent innovations have focused on “upselling” passengers into an improved experience (e.g.,

Airlines 8

Airlines Industry Transportation Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

Artificial Intelligence, which has already had a major impact on industries such as transportation, retail, energy, and banking, is only just beginning to be applied in medicine. We are now preparing to submit the technology to the U.S. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. clem onojeghuo/unsplash.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Technology Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

I count Five Forces of Disruption at work, with the two most powerful being the rise and fall of nations and the rise and fall of generations (the other three are global urbanization, the spread of social media technology, and planetary biostress through overpopulation and warming). Let's deal with the first two.

Globalization 14

Globalization Class Consensus Outsourcing 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. To customers, the company feels as nimble and innovative as its digital competition, even though its back-end systems remain problematic. Today Dubai also boasts the world’s tallest building, artificial islands, the first hotel with a rain forest, and the largest indoor theme park on earth.

Planning 8

Planning Agility System Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Where/how are people having difficulty with technology? In 2015, consumers will begin to see SVPA technology baked into their mobile phones. Where/how are people stuck?

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Consider that other power brokers, such as Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank, echoed themes similar to those the Pope raised. A few examples: Dow put forth 2025 targets “to help redefine the role of business in society,” which aim to deliver breakthrough innovations and help build the circular economy. In the U.S.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants a preliminary framework in place by the end of this summer, with a final set of guidelines ready to go in February 2014. Critical industry sectors from energy and banking to transportation and health care answer to different government agencies or regulators.

Cooper 8

Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

At a recent meeting at the at the Multilateral Investment Fund (the investment and granting arm of the Inter-American Development Bank), Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School said the Latin America VC industry still has to go through the growing pains that Silicon Valley did 40 or 50 years ago during its embryonic days.

Industry 8

Industry Telecommunications Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

With over 500 million dedicated fans, it also happens to be one of the most innovative franchises when it comes to fan engagement. “Advances in technology have helped us reimagine fan engagement and create new business models that we never thought possible. Real Madrid: winning the hearts and minds of 500 million dedicated fans.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Brazil is apparently the place to go if you’re in the market for some banking malware. We might not see innovations and changes that affect all of us, and we not might be as good at communicating new general threats more publicly. Good technology exists and will help, if we use it.

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Cooper Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. If things look bad for goods moving across borders electronically, they look even worse for transporting content. Investing in innovation capacity. Across the rest of Europe, the state of digital evolution has been mediocre and the pace of improvement, tepid. in Latin America.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

electricity, transportation, and water networks mostly aren’t. The reasoning was that, without regulatory pressure, monopoly owners of communications networks tend to charge too-high prices that depress use of their networks and end up crimping innovation and economic growth. Internet Tech industry Technology'

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Industry GDP Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

This is not a minor problem; 4 degrees could be catastrophic , the World Bank says , with significant risk of great suffering, extreme heat waves, declining food stocks, and severe economic costs. The Paris commitments are much more aggressive, but even if countries meet their new goals, the world will likely warm 3 or 4 degrees anyway.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. That’s the good news. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8