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

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. Don''t get us wrong. environmental, social, and governance — or ESG) performance.

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

” Is management research a folly? There can be little doubt that a lot of activity goes into management research: according to the Web of Knowledge, over 8,000 articles are published every year in the 170+ journals in the field of “Management,” adding more and more new rooms.

Management 8

Management Retail Construction Ethics 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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Amazon has only a handful of brick-and-mortar stores, Uber doesn’t manage a fleet of cars, and Ebay doesn’t manage a supply chain. In the lower left are builders, which include industries such as utilities, energy, transportation, and retail. Adopt some new beliefs about technology, value, and business models.

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

Franchising 8

Franchising Business Model Supply Chain Entrepreneur 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

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. By the end, one of the managers told her, “We’re actually having the conversation.

Incubator 9

Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 9

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 11

CEO IPO Energy COO 11

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. 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!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

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 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. Danita Delimont/Getty Images. Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry.

Retail 9

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

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 8

Finance Franchising Business Model Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. 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.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Other telecoms are offering solutions such as smart parking and waste management systems. 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

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 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

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. Musk knows that one of Tesla’s biggest competitive advantages is the patience and long-term thinking not only of management but also of its investors.

Planning 8

Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 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

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

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. After all, activists don’t usually have the necessary votes to compel management to respond.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 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

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. ” So those three things have not changed.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

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. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 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. Although Kodak had a slow start, it did, in fact, manage a miraculous, successful digital transformation. Diversify.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

To stitch it all together meaningfully, CMOs are increasingly expected to act as general managers with P&L or shared/shadow P&L responsibility that drive revenue growth. That helped account managers focus their pitch on the client’s business issues and build rapport. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

P&L 9

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 9

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.

IPO 9

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Council of Institutional Investors (CII), representing managers of $25 trillion assets, recently demanded limiting any company’s dual-class share structure to seven years. Firms with growth opportunities as well as the need for external equity financing often convert to dual-class shares. stock exchanges.

Class 9

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Brands are spending a great deal of time and energy investing in platforms to get likes or pluses, and not really being social at all. But other problems require more than an answer to a known question, and demand that you spend some energy figuring out if you're asking the right question in the first place.

Marketing 16

Marketing Brand Mass Marketing Metrics 16

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

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. This is simple to say but difficult to do. million people.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8