Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter-to-quarter or even year-to year-revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile, and cloud. And services have a very different business model.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

“Death by a Thousand Cuts” Based on a comprehensive five-year study, my new research paper, published in the Academy of Management Discoveries this year, systematically identifies the reasons behind the failures of major Western digital firms in China. poor management of relations with Chinese regulators and the government.

Competitive Advantage 11

Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Our research shows that companies with platform- and network-based business models are exponentially better at creating value. Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Companies are right to be worried.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Managers often think about their careers in terms of winning and losing. With a background in both strategy and finance, Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known consumer products company. Winners ascend the corporate ladder and get the praise, recognition, bonuses, and top jobs.

Career 10

Career Examples Supply Chain CFO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

The business model of these firms was to make markets , and they were large enough essentially to monopolize the technology categories if successful. First, technology imitation occurs far more quickly today than in the past, due in part to the global base of technology competitors and the speed of reverse engineering.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

For managers, this development creates challenges both long term and urgent. And, starting now, they must create the organizations and web-based business models that can turn these ideas into reality. In the field of mechanical and plant engineering, consider the advent of predictive maintenance.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Business Model Software Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Companies seem to be using CSR efforts to counteract or distract attention from the negative toll they exert on society through poor treatment of their workers, poor stewardship of the earth’s resources, poor management of investors’ dollars, or, even simply, poor customer service. Consumers aren’t falling for the trick.

Brand 12

Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

At a medical device company, a brand manager was examining a chart of daily traffic to his website. For someone responsible for a website’s traffic, the scale and swiftness of the drop should have made him gasp, but the manager nodded knowingly. Marketing managers pay close attention to the “referrer.”

CPM 8

CPM Advertising Marketing Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

In a post yesterday, I mentioned Aereo TV , a new Barry Diller-backed business launched last year, calling it an example of a start-up that is "barely legal by design." The individual antennas and the software to manage them are there solely to satisfy the legal requirement that the individual consumer make and access her own personal copy.

Licensing 8

Licensing Content Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The greening of the supply chain. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. Water rising — both literally and as a serious issue for business: Honda's supply chain gets slammed, Levi's gets creative. business continuity").

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

But this single-minded focus can be a major problem when it comes to tackling slow-building, systemic challenges, like global warming, that could take down not just supply chains but, over time, entire economies. 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

Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

While business leaders say they want higher employee engagement, the traditional models have stumbled. With more than one way to organize a business, why don’t we see other models used more? Other business models exist. Let’s review a snapshot of some of these organizational and business models.

Organization 62

Organization ESOP Cooper Reis 62

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The business model was to write the software and then sell licenses to publishers. That model still exists, including in online publishing where companies like Automattic, maker of the open source content management system WordPress, sell hosting and related services to publishers. That’s not how Vox Media does it.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8