Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Netflix’s global growth is a big factor in the company’s success. In the second quarter of 2018, its international streaming revenues exceeded domestic streaming revenues for the first time. This is a remarkable achievement for a company that was only in the U.S. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Netflix’s global growth is a big factor in the company’s success. In the second quarter of 2018, its international streaming revenues exceeded domestic streaming revenues for the first time. This is a remarkable achievement for a company that was only in the U.S. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. For the moment, this is good news for those companies still experimenting or piloting AI (41%).

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

All three companies nurture and energize talent, carving out the necessary resources to invest in recruiting, selecting and growing the people who will become their future leaders. So it's no surprise that GE, P&G and IBM occupy the top three spots in Hay Group's seventh annual Best Companies for Leadership (BCL) ranking.

Innovation 15

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

Companies tend to repeat what has worked for them in the past. In our research on the telecom industry, for example, we found that the great majority of the executives we surveyed preferred internal development to external sourcing when they needed to develop differentiated products and services.

Strategy 14

Strategy First-mover Advantage Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

In a world of such diverse political forms — democracies, monarchies, authoritarian states — we will increasingly differentiate societies on the basis not of their regime type or income, but of their capacity to harness technology. Consider IBM, perhaps the leading example of how firms themselves can upgrade their Technik.

First-mover Advantage 9

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9