Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Since the courts are about to make a ruling that will profoundly affect its prospects, it might interest you to learn more about how its entire business is engineered to exploit existing copyright law. has no television license tax. First, this service takes full advantage of unchallenged U.S. Unlike countries such as the U.K.,

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Licensing Content Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Regulators would now decide how spectrum would be used, what technologies were permissible, and approve — or reject — the wireless services, networks, applications, and business models that might be introduced. FCC licensing rules diminished freedom in the emerging electronic press. Three bold steps were key.

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Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

To address the realities of climate change and other ways in which we are increasingly overrunning planetary boundaries, we must now shift our mindsets, technologies, and business models from left to right, and from bottom to top. A brilliant engineer and chemist with General Motors and DuPont, Midgley held over 100 patents.

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Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Most companies, whether start-ups or long-time players live in a world shaped by the laws of demand where low pricing can trump quality, and where targeted marketing, carefully crafted keywords, and social media engineering can build awareness, influence opinion, and generate sales. Of course this depends on a company’s business model.

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Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

and shifts its local focus to engineering and testing. We often observe a wide-ranging set of initiatives and investments operating independently, and in some cases, even competitively. Scotiabank is also a leader in adopting this type of new model. Unfortunately, these investments are unlikely to yield meaningful benefits.

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Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. The business model was to write the software and then sell licenses to publishers. ” It didn’t turn out that way.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Greg Koch tells the story of how plant managers around the world have absorbed their connection to the communities in which they do business, and work hard to earn the "social license" to operate. million-strong army of advocates for this principled approach to business in its "consultoras" (direct sales agents).

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Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s not that the media sets out to be sensationalist; its business model leads it in that direction. Consider the Scandinavian media firm Schibsted, which engineered an impressive digital transformation through a philosophy of connectedness. An advertising-based model. Competition Can Backfire.

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