Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Lead author of Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , which sold over one million copies in 37 languages. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Formerly SVP in charge of wireless communication. HR and talent development roles with General Motors Australia.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2011

Competition: Companies continue to learn and develop better business models, thus intensifying competition in an industry no matter the economic climate. For example, most cell phones have a market life cycle of less than a year , according to David Chamberlain, principal wireless analyst for In-Stat Research.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

As generations-old business models are upended by innovations in retail, financial services, bookselling, and a host of other industries, companies must continually adjust their strategic positioning to edge out rivals. To stay ahead, however, the company had to keep refining its strategy and adapting its business model.

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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 7, 2016

Without the internet and wireless communications, car rental by the hour was an impossibly expensive and tedious transaction for such a small increment of time. Founded back in 2000, Zipcar effectively modeled how technology could be applied to open up entirely new markets, as well as new ways of using existing assets.

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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

MAY 14, 2013

These programs, sponsored by elite universities such as Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, and Wesleyan, have enrolled thousands of students around the world in high-level courses developed by top-notch faculty. Business education Leadership development Technology' Disruptive transformation is always painful and challenging.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

million adults in the United States with high blood sugar levels in danger of developing type 2 diabetes. Weight loss is a clinically-accepted proxy measure for reducing the risk of developing diabetes.) Diabetes is one of the most pervasive and expensive chronic diseases: It affects an estimated 30.3 In addition there are 84.1

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

It is from the app store on which external developers create value. For example, Apple provides developers with the OS and underlying code libraries; YouTube provides hosting infrastructure to creators; Wikipedia provides writers with the tools to collaborate on an article; and JC Penney provides stores to its boutique partners.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

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. Financial services in Africa are experiencing a moment of exciting change. These trends are not limited to customers.

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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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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

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. ” The interference problem was the stated premise, but the object of regulators’ desire — and of the interests they loved (or feared) most — was control over wireless markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

billion cell phone users around the globe, and 90 percent of the world's population is covered by a commercial wireless signal. The rapid expansion of wireless networks represents a particularly exciting opportunity to reach those who are currently isolated by distance and lack of communication, using " mHealth " (mobile health) programs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

A McKinsey report estimated that reducing churn could increase earnings of a typical US wireless carrier by as much as 9.9 ” Read more from Harvard Business School Executive Education: How to Spot a Liar. Developing the Global Leader. Lost customers lead to untapped dollars. How to Brand a Next-Generation Product.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos and Renault’s CEO Carlos Ghosn are in India for the long-term, as a hub for middle-of-the–pyramid innovations that can serve all emerging and even developed markets. Second, they build strong local teams in India and shift resources and decision-making authority to India.

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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. and design and user experience.

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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 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. Then go beyond that.

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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. New healthcare business models.

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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

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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