Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Earlier this week, the space-transport start-up SpaceX had its most successful launch test yet with Grasshopper, the first fully and rapidly reusable rocket. It was fundamentally different from the mindset of low-cost frequent and standardized transport that SpaceX embraces today. SpaceX has learned.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Those systems can now transmit real-time data about the performance of industrial machines as well as the components of energy and transportation systems. The race toward new industrial business models. This is analogous to the shift to outcome-based business models taking place in other industries such as healthcare.

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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

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. Says Comstock, “You have to believe that energy storage has a big future.”

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 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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Conference Business Model CEO Transportation 15

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

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

One that is exemplified by efforts like GE’s Ecomagination project, which involves developing alternative-fuel engines and other products that address today’s environmental crisis and drive economic growth. But a different development is emerging in the area traditionally known as CSR. And its self-serve stores save labor costs.

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Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Appliances and engines now send alerts when they need to be serviced. The Internet of Things is already expected to transform customer service , business models , and advertising. A Department of Transportation study demonstrates how cars of the future will talk to each other. Computers were just the beginning.

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Productivity Products Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

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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Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 69

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Outsourcing leads to business model risk — you open the door to outsourcing your profits (in fact, a 2001 Boeing paper that is incredibly prescient and worth the time to read identified exactly this problem). But Boeing is no stranger to subcontracting.

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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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Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

In this new commodity landscape, incumbents and attackers will race to develop viable business models, and not everyone will win. For instance, the automation of repetitive technical decisions will free up engineers to focus on more-difficult analyses. Related Video. Smart, Connected Mining. <span>How

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Technology Resources Industry Energy 8

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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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Then one of the engineering executives, a fracking enthusiast and unconventional extraction technologies champion, spoke up. Making Money with Digital Business Models. Which customer had the biggest impact on new value creation? What customer would matter most in five years? The answer, he declared, was now obvious.

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Disruptive Innovation Levitt Tourism Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

Companies deploying IoT successfully in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and transportation are seeking multiple agile partners with open IP architectures to co-create solutions. Sponsored by DXC Technology. How the best companies get up to speed.

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Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

This category includes three types infrastructure: access infrastructure (communications sophistication and coverage, as well as security); transaction infrastructure (access to financial institutions and electronic payment options); and fulfillment infrastructure (quality and performance of logistics and transportation infrastructure).

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

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. In the pharma industry, the patent-based business model makes breakthrough innovation critical for achieving high returns.

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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.

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Blanchard Video Venture Funding Innovation 124

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. Innovation Strategy Transportation' But a blanket dismissal of its effort is a mistake. It declared bankruptcy on May 26.

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Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

By now, the core functions of IT—data storage, data processing, and data transport—have become available and affordable to all. This model, where proprietary software pairs with other strengths to form competitive advantage, is only becoming more common. Its primary business model is to create content and sell ads.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 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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Technology Cooper Efficiency Globalization 8