Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The iPhone roared into the marketplace 10 years ago today, and overwhelmed the wireless world. Wireless is the same, but without the cat. Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result. The FCC quickly developed a “public interest” rationale for the move: sunspots.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The Norwegian telecommunication firm, Telenor, has been in the news recently as it tries to sell its Indian joint venture with property developer, Unitech Ltd. While Unitech Wireless may bid for new spectrum licenses in India this fall, Telenor might prefer to shut it down if spectrum prices are too high. Unitech Ltd.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While India remains a formidably challenging market, there are at least three reasons why global firms cannot overlook India without consequences. Similarly, when Renault entered India and introduced Kwid in 2015, Maruti and Hyundai had almost 70% of India’s large and fast-growing sub-compact car market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2011

Consider the ebook market, in which Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook , and Apple's iPad have been in a technological arms race that has been oblivious to any economic slowdown. Competition: Companies continue to learn and develop better business models, thus intensifying competition in an industry no matter the economic climate.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

.” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.” ” Zipcar , the company I co-founded, qualifies as a disruptive innovation because it created a whole new market: demand for cars rented by the hour (as well as by the day). This was not world changing. ” I agree!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Once hooked, marketers protect those investments by attempting to keep patrons happy, engaged, and most of all, loyal. Developing the Global Leader. Lost customers lead to untapped dollars.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

In fact, the costs of developing seminal software algorithms continue to rise, too. Similar dynamics seem to apply in institutional and business model innovation. Both these trends support the notion that the costs of successful business model innovation are rising over time.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Academics and practitioners have built on Christensen's work to develop robust frameworks that can help leaders to spot disruptive developments early and respond appropriately. Sifting through this work highlights three seminal moments in any disruptive innovation's development: Conception. Coming of age. Crossing over.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths. In this context, "corporate catalysts" — entrepreneurially-minded people inside corporates — are working with corporations' resources, scale, and growing agility to develop innovative solutions to global challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Project Loon is such a moonshot project, providing internet access to remote regions by equipping balloons with wireless capabilities. Many have already built maturing, multi-billion dollar core businesses, however. As parts of a business portfolio grow and develop, different approaches to strategy and execution may be needed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

One of the biggest obstacles is that traditional functional departments often can’t meet the needs of IoT business models and have to evolve. The resulting GlowCap offering provides continuous, real-time communication to users and caregivers via a wireless connection. Human resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

How a blue chip technology innovator invests well over $700 million acquiring, developing, distributing and marketing a consumer digicam without a clear path connecting it to the most popular wireless medium around escapes me. The proof is Cisco's own 2009 new product promise. I'm sure Cisco has excellent reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

The mobile phone industry is massive, with close to 2 billion devices shipped annually and total spending on wireless-related services of more than $1.6 Of perhaps even more interest is Amazon’s business model. There are obvious reasons for Amazon to be eying the category. trillion across the world.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The evolution of African markets faces significant barriers: cost, distance, and a lack of infrastructure. Many companies are taking advantage of this opportunity to steer emerging African economies toward a mobile-driven, cashless (or cash lite) future by introducing a slew of new products, services, and business models.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

In my experience with dozens of organizations implementing IoT solutions, those that achieved their expected ROI changed their traditional business approaches in one or more of the following ways: They Developed a Partner Ecosystem. ” There are several strategies that can be used to develop IoT talent. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

When one person with a wireless connection can be an agency, a media company, or even a manufacturer, traditional advertising organizations have to change their culture, processes, structure, talent policies, resources, and even their business and revenue models in order to embrace the power of open systems being fueled by digital connectivity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

It is the algorithms that will create value for the business. Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. The new game is to think about the business model and strategy for not just the company but the entire ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Consider the market for smartphones. It is from the app store on which external developers create value. Apple needed to attract both developers and users. Platform builders must pay attention to the design of incentives, reputation systems, and pricing models. Similarly, eBay needed both buyers and sellers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. The ecosystem will develop. And in just one evening, I found my solution in the form of 4G wireless connectivity.

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