Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2018

Take Uber: at only eight years old, it’s already upended the business model of taxis. The diversity of local accounting rules precluded perfect standardization, and the geographic dispersion of the teams made it hard for the transformation group to gather information the way they normally would — in conversation.

Process 15

Process Strategy Benchmarking Storytelling 15

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. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Much is being written about the impact that new communication technologies and channels (blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) have on traditional marketing. In theory, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and blogs should make it possible to engage their customers in new and diverse ways. Let's consider large companies first.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Innovation Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Product and business models are evolutionary by nature, but we see four things a young company must get right: The founding team. Co-founders also bring diversity of talent and high dedication, and mitigate the loneliness and stress of life at a young company. The core values. Where the company is located.

Company 16

Company Short-term Engineering PR 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. It’s not just products.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In fast-paced fields, staying up-to-date with the latest trends and skills lies at the core of their business model, and ensuring you bring relevant skills to the company can help you secure your position in the field. Global Experience For many of us, the value of experience outweighs anything that money and success can provide.

Examples 52

Examples Goal Career Short-term 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. The most successful artists in this new landscape have begun to look at new business models and new industries to strengthen their existing brands. We’ve all had to adapt.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Or, what if the company needed to identify a new business model? Or what if — as is the case today — current chip technology is nearing its theoretical limits , and a completely new architecture needs to be dreamed up? Basic research. Pathbreaking innovations never arrive fully formed.

Innovation 22

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22

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. Finance departments also had trouble dealing with the fact that the cost of services and the resulting subscription revenues can accrue in a complex manner.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The companies recognized that many of the problems in the agriculture industry — such as low productivity, resource scarcity, and market volatility — posed threats to their businesses and were likely to intensify as demand for food increased along with the global population. Governments improved key policies and infrastructure.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Decentralization Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

To be successful and cost-effective in holistically addressing children’s total wellness will require a large team of non-medical personnel with diverse training and skills to work with children and their parents. Health information and other technology. Technologies hold promise for remote monitoring and intervention.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The comparrisons you chose to use perfectly illustrate the diversity of styles/traits/characteristics representatitive of great leaders. "Be the change you want to see in the world" That in my humble opinion is leadership. link] mikemyatt Hi Dan: Thanks for sharing your insights. Thanks again for sharing Dan.

Blog 406

Blog Leadership Leadership Styles Learning-by-Doing 406

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. But no country is delivering these transformational changes. million people.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

A key point: in a world that will spend $90 trillion on infrastructure over the next 15 years anyway, the additional costs to shift that build-out to a low-carbon path, with technologies we already have, will be minimal. The utility and energy businesses are changing fundamentally (well, some of them are). Financing the clean economy.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. By parsing ROE into the DuPont Equation (very rapidly to become a business school mainstay), he provided the basis for organizations divided into functions with their own objectives.

ROE 13

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 13