Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

One epiphany from my immersion into the non-private sector is how strenuously social sector organizations resist the notion they have a "business model." Non-profits, government agencies, social enterprises, schools, and NGOs consistently proclaim that they aren't businesses, and therefore business rules don't apply.

Business Model 15

Business Model Kaplan Finance Health Care 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Few people realize the important role water plays in our daily energy use, or the energy required to heat, treat, and supply water. Meanwhile, the electricity used for water treatment can be as much as one-third of a city’s energy bill. Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

Address the nuts and bolts of business too. If you don’t understand finance and accounting, enroll in a course immediately. If your city has a weekly business journal, read that too. Read your leading-edge industry publications, Forbes , other finance journals, and popular business books. Recently the St.

Execution 62

Execution How To Finance Competitive Advantage 62

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

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

APRIL 5, 2018

“The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Lead author of Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , which sold over one million copies in 37 languages. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Facebook’s first HR hire, she has led global people programs, been an HR Business Partner, and CFO. He is a family business coach.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

A focus on business models. For example, when GE introduced a low-cost electrocardiogram machine in India, it also developed innovative ways to finance and distribute the device. For example, when GE introduced a low-cost electrocardiogram machine in India, it also developed innovative ways to finance and distribute the device.

Trends 15

Trends Innovation Govindarajan Class 15

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 should package proven social business models that motivated franchisees could copy.

Franchising 8

Franchising Business Model Supply Chain Entrepreneur 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

AUGUST 30, 2017

market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. Khosrowshahi must demonstrate how Uber’s repeatable business model generates profitable growth.

CEO 12

CEO IPO Energy COO 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Business Models: The right focus for scale equity is proven business models, not emerging technologies. Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill. The ARPA-E program is a great first step in this direction.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

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 10

Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

degrees Celsius, all countries — rich and poor — need to rapidly transition to a low-carbon economy powered by renewable energy. M-PESA is now enabling other disruptive business models in sectors like energy. Climate change is a clear and present danger to all of humanity. housing sector.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Founding CEOs realize—or fail to realize—that their maniacal energy and personal devotion can only take their enterprises so far. They lack customer insights that would help tune their business model to attract more customers. At later stages (£5M+), it can come from debt and other forms of financing.

Finance 9

Finance Franchising Business Model Analysis 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. Danita Delimont/Getty Images. Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! These functions are like a nest of hungry sparrow chicks screaming for attention, mouths gaping!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. Data — on everything from pedestrian patterns and traffic to crime, school performance, and energy use — can change the way properties are used as well as the way they are valued.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. Says Comstock, “You have to believe that energy storage has a big future.” In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

In the First Mover Fellowship Program at the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program, we have a chance to work with exceptional social intrapreneurs in businesses around the world and to study the innovations they are piloting in their companies. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

This emotional connection — between organizations and their people, between brands and their customers — creates positive energy even in negative environments. Too many companies lurch from one consulting firm to the next, from last year’s hot management fad to this year’s new business model.

Collins 8

Collins Motivation Open-book Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

It’s a lot easier to maintain high levels of energy and morale at a company when sales are booming and the stock price is soaring. Here’s hoping that you, like those great leaders, can address these five hard questions about the soft side of business.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Mission Statement Long-term Short-term 8

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

MAY 1, 2018

They were about signaling a credible commitment to Tesla’s purpose: to become a clean energy giant that helps address climate change by transforming mobility. The design of the compensation plan and its announcement were not about compensation at all. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

Planning 8

Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 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 9

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

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. Done well, it can improve a company’s sustainability in addition to its performance.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

But with a tax like the one described above, they would be forced to channel their creative energies to source locally where they can and import selectively as needed. They would leverage their scale, reach and efficiencies to explore new products, markets, geographies and business models.

Short-term 8

Short-term Budgeting Policies Incentives 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. Planning for financial security can free you to focus your energy on other tasks without distraction.

Examples 52

Examples Goal Career Short-term 52

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.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

A preview of this is the Enron email archive, containing about one-half million e-mails from 150 senior managers of Enron, which was made public by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during its investigations and subsequently cleaned and shared by researchers. Uber reported that it had 162,000 “driver-partners” in the U.S.

Management 8

Management Retail Construction Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Companies have spent enormous energy responding to the existential threat of new entrants. In fact, only eight percent of companies’ CEOs believe that their business model will remain economically viable if their industry continues to digitize at its current course and speed. And let me explain to you what I mean.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

So marketers collaborated with IT to design an iPad application that allowed salespeople to enter their book of business and receive detailed customer profiles with background on important customer decision-makers and priorities, as well as status updates and other useful information.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

All three factors have become more common over time, which we argue stems from firms’ increasing reliance on intangible and knowledge inputs in their business models. Chief finance officers increasingly question the ability of a day trader to value a digital company. retains its leadership in technological progress.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

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 22

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22