Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Experiment and create a great product, the thinking goes, then scale, and then figure out the business model once you’ve succeeded. However, while good products and good “shopkeeping” are surely good business, they are no substitute for clear-minded strategy. Understanding LinkedIn’s Business.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Strategy Competitive Advantage Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

For companies, smart cities represent major business opportunities — and not only for tech firms selling systems to government agencies. Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

How long can a business model succeed that forces students to accumulate $200,000 or more in debt and cannot guarantee jobs — even years after graduation? Neither the pedagogical model nor the value equation of traditional higher education have changed much in the past fifty years. Emerging new education models.

Education 8

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

In fact, the relentless drive to embrace digital technologies has been ongoing for many decades. What also seems to have been forgotten are the lessons from these earlier attempts to leverage IT (remember that IT is a digital technology). Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Tools 8

Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” They are becoming costs of doing business that must be paid by all but provide distinction to none.”

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Some companies don’t have the systems and technology to segment and profile customers. Others lack the processes and operational capabilities to target them with personalized communications and experiences. To build a customer-centric culture, business leaders should take six actions: Operationalize customer empathy.

Short-term 9

Short-term Learning-by-Doing Participative Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Today, the primary business model for the consumer internet is all-you-can-eat usage. However, the model separates subscriber revenue from the cost of the network. it is cheap to operate and expensive to upgrade. Or do we need better technologies that can be more efficient at using the internet we've already got?

Fixed Costs 15

Fixed Costs Technology Efficiency Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds. This is a situation that cannot endure.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Often, the best way for B2B companies to satisfy the multitude of business customers is to focus on the needs of their customers' customers. That's exactly what Portuguese airport operator ANA Aeroportos de Portugal did in its quest to attract more major airlines and connecting routes.

B2B 14

B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

In one of our very first issues, back in 1996, we did a deep dive into a strange, offbeat, little-known grocery operation based in Austin, Texas. We respected its commitment to organic food, we chuckled at its hippie sensibilities, but we marveled at its business principles. “Whole Foods Market, Inc.

Long-term 9

Long-term Price Finance Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

million workers — but is mostly comprised of entrepreneurial, family-run businesses with fewer than 500 employees. Obviously Dirk could have simply observed this phenomenon, commiserated with his clients, and continued to run the traditional work of his business. In the United States, wholesale distribution is a $4.8

Storytelling 8

Storytelling Kaplan Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Instead, ideas, technologies, capabilities, and resources somehow organize themselves to meet the human and financial needs of new ventures. As with any type of endeavor, there's a learnable skill to starting up a brand new business. And no sector is complete without its own conference. Let's start with the human side.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Today, the primary business model for the consumer internet is all-you-can-eat usage. However, the model separates subscriber revenue from the cost of the network. it is cheap to operate and expensive to upgrade. Or do we need better technologies that can be more efficient at using the internet we've already got?

Fixed Costs 8

Fixed Costs Technology Efficiency Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

But to capture the full potential of the shipping container, we needed to change how ports operated, how union employees were compensated, how ships were designed, and the very structure of business in the logistics industry. But what happens when the technology is good enough that accidents can be avoided entirely?

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Information technology, however, is one of those industries. Today’s cloud IT vendors have both the buying power and the operational discipline to minimize the cost to the customer of a unit of data storage or computing power. Beyond the purely functional limitations of the technology, regulatory issues will persist for decades.

Industry 8

Industry Transportation Automotive Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Standing on stage on September 9, 2014 at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), Tim Cook announced, “We’ve created an entirely new payment process, and we called it Apple Pay.” In fact, platforms are based on one of the most challenging business models there is.

Retail 8

Retail Business Model Press Release Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Miles down the California coast, they parked their bikes under the eucalyptus outside a winery conference center. But it was also potentially a business model weakness — it was the impossible problem that had prompted the contentious discussion at the office and then driven VV and Reza onto their bikes.

Case Study 8

Case Study Entrepreneur Business Model Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s not that the media sets out to be sensationalist; its business model leads it in that direction. Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. An advertising-based model. The second is through name recognition.

Media 9

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The language of business is a foreign language. If he or she can't name your top 10 customers, your top five competitors, or describe the basic business model, then aligning people to the business will be impossible. Your CHRO thinks of email as modern technology. Does your CHRO use a smart phone?

Metrics 14

Metrics Human Resources Attrition CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Human annotation services have become a major business model, with numerous platforms emerging at the intersection of crowd-sourcing and the gig economy. Anchoring bias may lead to over-reliance on the first piece of information examined.

Sample 8

Sample Project Self-aware Training 8