Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Danita Delimont/Getty Images. Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry.

Retail 9

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

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. How could digital printing improve your innovation, product development, and speed to market? Threat analysis.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

But sustainability needs to be viewed as much more of a how concept, like quality or innovation. It's a way of operating that creates the most value when it's embedded throughout the organization. And these issues require a full-court press from all aspects of operations.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Business Model Trends Quality 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The CEO’s principal aim therefore is not necessarily to judiciously allocate financial capital but to allocate precious scientific and human resources to the most promising projects and to pull back and redeploy those resources in a timely manner when the prospects of specific projects dim.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 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Meanwhile, Zenefits modernizes human resources workflows with slick software to replace outdated paper.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. So how might a hotel operator respond to the rise of Airbnb? Uber reliably provides cheaper and more convenient rides.

Hotels 8

Hotels Price Tactics Operations 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

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

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. The New Face of Investment Banks.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Bottom-up Compliance 8

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

CEOs who invest their time advancing their company’s business model or seeking a new one are adding value to their organizations. Advancing the model’ is just another way of saying improving or fortifying the company’s competitive advantage. Innovation starts with insight and progresses through disruptive hypotheses.

CEO 207

CEO Chief Executive Officer Business Model Competitive Advantage 207

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done. Even simple-seeming tasks, such as browsing or buying, often involve several steps, each touching a different part of the business. “If

P&L 9

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Organizations have always depended on data — to manage operations, to communicate with customers, to pay employees and suppliers, to plan their futures, and so forth. “Building a better data mousetrap” — or data-driven innovation — is the third way to pursue competitive advantage through data.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

If the person(s) responsible for managing are able to look at the eighteen points above and determine they are more or less in place, they are operating at the most fundamental or beginner’s level of management. Business planning (analysis, forecasting, budgeting…). Human Resource Management. Risk assessment.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

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. Operations. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase. 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. We used to call this mode of operation, “doing business by the seat of the pants.” Business Models Change. Strategy does not curtail change because business models need not be static.

Strategy 100

Strategy Critical Success Factor McKinsey Retail 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal.

Organization 13

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

First, fixating on ROE fails to maximize the benefit of business to society because it measures value in terms of returns to only one stakeholder; second, it allocates human resources as if maximizing the efficiency of financial capital were critical to growth of social welfare. The number of people affected by an innovation.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12