Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Examine business contacts from the past. This is a great way to grow business because you know each other. How do you best focus the time and resources you have?

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. While it can offer valuable lessons for other industries and other problems, the model is not universally applicable. The Silicon Valley Model.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Multinationals are increasingly tasking their Asian outposts with developing regionally appropriate solutions that might "trickle up" to established markets. A focus on business models. Some of the emerging Asian giants also feature innovative business models. The shift to localization. Have you heard of Tencent?

Trends 14

Trends Innovation Govindarajan Class 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

It’s time for boards and executives to ask themselves hard questions about how the new mobility could affect their business models. As mobility changes around us, how should we approach our master plans for airports, car parking, high-speed trains, energy, ports, toll roads, and so forth? Retail and consumer business.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Finance Sustainability SASB' Don''t get us wrong.

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

In the lower left are builders, which include industries such as utilities, energy, transportation, and retail. You’ll notice that the finance industry is included in this group as well. Adopt some new beliefs about technology, value, and business models. Thus, they have low PPE but high multiples.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Business Model Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

If you were offered the opportunity to finance a high risk , low return investment, how eager would you be to write a check? It's time to bring a proven business model to the social enterprise space: the franchise. We conflate inventors with developers of social enterprises and romanticize the celebrity social entrepreneur.

Franchising 8

Franchising Business Model Supply Chain Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” You aren’t alone; while most organizations talk the talk of sustainability — doing things like integrating environmental and societal concerns into their business models — very few walk the walk. When all employees and stakeholders use the sustainability lens to make decisions, a new business model takes root.

Incubator 9

Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. Business Models: The right focus for scale equity is proven business models, not emerging technologies. The ARPA-E program is a great first step in this direction.

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Leading retailers have developed the ability to nimbly change direction, even based on beta testing.

Retail 9

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Real estate developers are integrating automation systems, sensors, and mobility options into their properties. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. But now the range of possibilities has gotten bigger, and B2C or even B2G2C business models are growing more common.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

” As I think about the leaders I’ve studied, those who are winning big in tough and demanding fields, what strikes me is that they’ve developed compelling answers to four questions that get to the heart of what lifts their spirits and heightens their performance, what rallies others to help them succeed.

Collins 8

Collins Motivation Open-book Creativity 8

HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Professional development goals are an entirely separate category of aspirations and they need to be prioritized if you aim to succeed in them. Listing your current skill sets can tell you what is currently possible for your professional development goals. However, this is not always the case.

Examples 52

Examples Goal Career Short-term 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Unlocking Energy.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

We came together over a Skoll Foundation-funded project a few years ago to explore business models for social entrepreneurs. Your business model is stable. According to our research, social entrepreneurs seem to evolve their business models over five to 15 years, and income stability may take longer.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Business Model Case Study Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

You could, Drexler and Noble write, take advantage of government subsidies to invest in affordable housing or renewable energy (something that, as they note, people have been doing for decades). Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software. Today, it is occurring at the level of ecosystems. The Internet of Things is a good example of this change. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. digital-camera sales (No.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

While activism takes many different forms, it usually begins with investors holding private conversations with company management on the need to change a process, business model, or management practice. SASB develops industry-by-industry accounting standards that identify the material ESG issues that could have financial implications.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Sue Decker, Yahoo’s former president, describes how the deal came about and what Yahoo learned from doing business in China. content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

That means churning through data to find insights that others haven’t seen and then developing the organizational capability to act on them faster and better to drive above-market growth. CMOs are also now often judged on how well they can design and run an organization that reaches across the entire business.

P&L 9

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. The number of listed firms can decline because of three developments: 1) bankruptcy, failure, or closure of listed firms, 2) delisting of firms going private or acquired, and 3) decrease in number of initial public offerings (IPOs). westend61/Getty Images.

IPO 9

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Or, what if the company needed to identify a new business model? We need to start treating innovation like other business disciplines — as a set of tools that are designed to accomplish specific objectives. When that happens, innovating your products won’t help — you have to innovate your business model.

Innovation 21

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 21

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In our view, while the proposal to ban dual-class shares raises important issues, its implementation would do more harm than good, given the challenges from the digital revolution and the growing imperative for established firms to transform their business models. While media companies, such as The New York Times Co., It declined to 7.6

Class 9

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For example, in the 1990s, leading businesses like 3M adopted concepts like eco-efficiency, focusing on saving and making money through the better management of materials, energy and waste. Today, we see growing interest in new business benchmarks and in potential breakthrough materials and forms of energy.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

trillion in wages are automatable by today’s technology, which could open the door to new ways to harness human energy as well as to displacing routine jobs and increasing social inequities. Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). To capture the energy created by the financial crisis to bring together people who don’t normally talk to one another to design a new financial system. The purpose?

System 8

System Incubator Supply Chain NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Second, a new coalition representing many of the world’s largest companies launched in September under the name We Mean Business and issued its own powerful study , offering substantial evidence of the direct business value of investing in low-carbon tech and energy efficiency. Financing the clean economy.

Chemicals 10

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

A compelling vision of a better future needs to be communicated in a way that creates energy and motivation. A recent KPMG global survey of 3,000 leading executives across 20 industries found board leaders were twice as likely to focus on short-term efficiencies as they were to prepare for major business model change.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8