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. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives. Marketing plays a catalyst role, providing growth funding.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

As a city dweller, the need to transport our dog is starting to feel like the only thing preventing me from ditching our station wagon. If the answer really is electric, autonomous ones, that will pose a huge challenge for an industry that has not fundamentally changed since the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford’s production line.

Industry 8

Industry Engineering Transportation Technology 8

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.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

Specifically, Schulz is out to prove the power of a different kind of business model — one that, in his words, "balances profit with social responsibility.". Over the next two years, as the company expanded at a blinding rate, its business went into something of a freefall. In 2000, he stepped down as CEO of Starbucks.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

They realize that the old ways of doing business will no longer work. They seek to better themselves as professionals and to rethink the business models. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Janitor | custodian | sanitation engineer. Business is a livelihood for some.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Every business is, willingly or unwillingly, a competitor on a software playing field, no matter which sector it’s in. You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

In the years ahead, Alphabet could dramatically influence business models in many industries. This new entity could bring together human talent, technology scale, and long-horizon venture and investment approaches to construct business models that could pose a formidable challenge to those designed and perfected in the industrial age.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. In this model, the relational approach was one of positional authority and hierarchy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Then one of the engineering executives, a fracking enthusiast and unconventional extraction technologies champion, spoke up. State satisfaction mattered more than market disruption. With apologies to Ted Levitt , a new “Marketing Myopia 2.0” Instead of rethinking “ What Business Are We In?

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Disruptive Innovation Levitt Tourism Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven. Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. But if IoT partners focus on the business challenge, they will capture new levels of ROI. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

And in pharma or tech, CEOs should have also had a relevant formal education such as in medicine or science for pharma, and in math, engineering, or computer science for tech. And these often have to be significantly better than what’s on the market (in other words, breakthroughs) due to the high cost of R&D.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

What I see is the opposite – incredible innovation in products, services, processes and business models. That’s what makes the annual BIF conference so important: 30 plus stories of amazing, cool, disruptive, transformative innovation models. It’s just not in the mainstream media. BIF-7 Story & Video ).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. What’s Driving Industry Concentration. IT Does Matter.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The failure last month of green-tech start-up Better Place, which promised to free drivers and nations from oil dependence and revolutionize transportation, has generated both attention and derision. Note to Tesla owners: you are not the mass market). A small number, but these are also small markets.

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Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2018

For example, the invention of more efficient train engines allowed for cheaper transportation that catalyzed the industrial revolution. The wide availability of networked computers has allowed new community-driven and open-source business models to emerge. The good news is that there are alternatives.

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