Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Innovation, customization, speed, and location are also among the opportunities it offers. What would be the cost/benefit of flattening your supply chain and moving production closer to your markets?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs today who practice digital bricolage can construct amazing companies and organizations from existing pieces, many of which offer capabilities once available only to large businesses. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. What does the availability of re-usable infrastructure do for digital innovators?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The market panicked. The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology. Those declines reflect changes in strategies and the basic business model of investment banks, post-crisis.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Bottom-up Compliance 8

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 22, 2015

New Coke lasted 79 days before the original formula returned to the market. More importantly, change should not consume every aspect of a business at the same rate or to the same degree. Leaders ought to be wary about bringing change to vibrant cultures, the positioning of brands, and effective business models.

Brand 100

Brand Core Competence Retail Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

For them, sustainability is a thing to tackle, a functional area; it's a what , like marketing or product development. But sustainability needs to be viewed as much more of a how concept, like quality or innovation. There's no "ideal" structure for sustainability efforts, just as no two companies would tackle innovation the same way.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Business Model Trends Quality 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

And, starting now, they must create the organizations and web-based business models that can turn these ideas into reality. But embedding them into a services-based business model is much more fundamentally challenging. And given the dynamism of the net , the innovations will have to come more quickly.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Business Model Software Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Mateschitz spent considerable time overseas as a marketing salesman prior to founding Red Bull. Additionally, discrimination against immigrants in labor markets may exert pressure on them to seek self-employment. Apart from their success as entrepreneurs, they all share one distinct characteristic: extensive cross-cultural experience.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. The new business model has yet to solidify, and the leaders have yet to emerge. Life science company executives need to be thinking about what business they want to be in. Or lenders’ enhanced abilities to gauge credit risk.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Meanwhile, Zenefits modernizes human resources workflows with slick software to replace outdated paper. In April’s Harvard Business Review , we offer a menu of options for concerned incumbents. Uber reliably provides cheaper and more convenient rides. Who could resist?

Hotels 8

Hotels Price Tactics Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

P&L 9

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. Pure content providers , which capture new or novel data, or data that simply had not been captured before, and build a business around it.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). Capital raising strategies.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

Human Resources" have changed when most of the people who create value for your organization are neither hired nor paid by you. Yet our business models have not changed to keep pace with these shifts. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. Everything. Disrupting How We Work.

Christensen 15

Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

One of the biggest obstacles is that traditional functional departments often can’t meet the needs of IoT business models and have to evolve. In IoT businesses, sales departments often struggle to determine how to best take a combined product and service to market. Human resources.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 10, 2015

Culture, strategy, leadership, branding, innovation, customer orientation and employee centricity must co-exist. Business Models Change. Strategy does not curtail change because business models need not be static. The truth is that one success factor needs other success factors to be effective. So Must Strategy.

Strategy 100

Strategy Critical Success Factor McKinsey Retail 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Conversely, why market cigarettes? We think there's more to business success — and that something as straightforward as a simple equation could put capitalism on a better path. When ROE holds sway, a more or less certain return on a cost-reduction investment nearly always trumps a speculative bet on a new business model.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12