Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

Last year Facebook became the second largest e-commerce company in Africa after Jumia, the industry leader. Online, geography does not protect a company from competition. That is the paralysis we are seeing in telecommunications, in e-commerce, and across the broad ICT sector. Ralf Pollack / EyeEm/Getty Images.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources. Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries. Similarly, companies and cities can make better use of otherwise wasted water and energy.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

One was an “ indigenization ” program requiring companies such as Nestle, British American Tobacco, Anglo American Platininum, and Barclays, to hand majority stakes to black Zimbabweans. Amid worsening food and foreign exchange shortages, Mugabe ramped up populist policies to please his supporters.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

He advises some of the world’s biggest companies on environmental strategy. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." Follow him on Twitter at @GreenAdvantage. In the U.S. Its another thing to see the green focus up close.

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

But on the other hand, in order to safeguard the company’s future competitiveness, CEOs may have no other choice than to invest now. To escape this quandary, a number of companies are considering alternative asset ownership and operation models, whose objective is to reduce capital outlays, investment risk, or both.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Two well-known companies have also made auctions famous, and economists have played central roles in the success of each. This has all changed.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I also argued in my last post that the CEO has a critical and unique role to play in process improvement, enabling a companys activities to be redesigned across functions and divisions. But if board members conclude that their companys vitality depends on process improvement, what kind of CEO should they choose?

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In business, volatility used to be more limited to the realms of finance and high tech. Many large, successful companies are creating offices in California’s Silicon Valley to spot big new trends and learn how they can transform their organization in ways they couldn’t otherwise imagine. Idea Scouting.

Innovation 8

Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Now consider the joint judgment involved in a process of co-creation , whereby companies collaborate with customers or other partners to bring new offerings to market. If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. After the recession, for instance, one large lender made a practice of looking for “rehab” customers whose credit suffered in the downturn but who had since managed to achieve more stable incomes.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017.

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

What most companies (and economies) dont do is to stop doing — and thats a self-defeating problem. The catch is that most companies dont know how to reflect. When many companies reflect, they choose to use third-, fourth-, or fifth-hand data. Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Advertising will take a backseat to promotional offers as retailers and brand managers alike collectively decide that branding a promotion matters just as much as promoting a brand. But the companies that succeed in gameifying their products, services, and brands will enjoy a certain Zynga in their step. I haven't a clue.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Similarly, there are evident challenges in terms of market sophistication, with the country ranking 123rd in terms of ease of getting credit and general access to finance. For instance, the Global Innovation Index ranks the country just 117th in terms of ICT usage, with the general infrastructure ranked even worse.

Succession 82

Succession Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 82

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

large, venture-backed companies — Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Google, Medtronic — are major parts of the economic landscape. jobs were created by VC-backed companies. VC fund managers in Mexico are still learning how to achieve trust with our investors, the limited partners (LPs). In the U.S., Fundraising side.

Industry 9

Industry Telecommunications Incentives Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

And this will only happen if we align the interests of workers and investors such that companies focus on worker well-being to deliver better financial results. Companies have a role to play in addressing this challenge, and doing so needn’t come at the expense of performance. America needs to become a great place to work again.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Organizations have a strong sense of their own value and an unswerving commitment to high quality care but little appreciation of others’ worth in their local, regional, or national systems. But the best one I have worked with is the Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania, which provides complete care for more than 2.6 million people.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Our companies have created it, expanded it, perfected it in ways that they can’t compete,” referring to the Europeans. tech companies. Telecommunications, marketplace platforms, payment services, and postal and logistics systems are balkanized. How has Europe dealt with the situation?

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

That’s one of the questions we asked ourselves as we conducted a survey of directors of public and private companies headquartered in the United States. The disparities in the perceived importance of these issues could affect how directors prioritize and choose to address risks to the company. We also found that industry matters.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8