Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies?

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

While larger companies may be able to hedge the costs associated with key inputs and smooth out any cyclical costs, smaller businesses may struggle to achieve this. Price increases ripple through the supply chain – It’s almost inevitable that consumers will push back and demand will fall at some point.

Supply Chain 93

Supply Chain Charan Short-term Long-term 93

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

9, armed with about 1% of Apple’s outstanding stock, the hedge-fund activist published an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, urging him to accelerate the company’s stock repurchases by making a tender offer. Apple is a company with phenomenal products and profits. Carl Icahn is at it again. corporate taxation.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs.

Business Model 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

He blamed the industry’s notorious low profitability on the “kamikaze pricing tactics of certain carriers” and vowed to not invest in this “death trap” sector again. ” Some of that profit is the result of innovative pricing models. But times have changed. What’s the significance?

Airlines 8

Airlines Price Hedge Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Companies are not squarely to blame for the anger and frustration that have so warped this presidential primary season. companies, but their wrongdoing affected millions of U.S. based companies using questionable corporate practices that are entirely legal. Nor are they entirely innocent. These are not U.S.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Consider “Chainsaw Al” Dunlap, infamous for his profit-at-any-price approach to corporate turnarounds. He left a trail of failed companies behind him, including the iconic Sunbeam. Companies should be managed much more holistically. We saved the company from being wound up — barely.

Metrics 8

Metrics Long-term Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Innovators more intent on inventing the future than predicting it should look hard at how cutting-edge scientists now computationally massage their big data. AH, not AI, will increasingly inspire tomorrow’s breakthrough innovation. The breakthrough innovator’s hypothesis doesn’t have to come from a human.

Engineering 8

Engineering Core Competence Information Technology Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

Sales of iPhones, however, were a little lower than predicted , and the company’s revenue forecasts struck some observers as underwhelming. In after-hours trading, the company’s share price fell 9% — representing $44 billion in lost market value.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

The topic — part of a series on innovation sponsored by Singapore's Economic Development Board and coordinated by Harvard Business Review — was "What's the Right Entry Point for Emerging Markets: Target Customers at the Bottom or the Middle of the Pyramid?". billion by 2030. IKEA is a great example of this.

Marketing 13

Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

First, making significant amounts of your own power at zero variable cost is more than nice; it’s a hedge against volatility and smooths out expenses, which makes business planning easier. They create direct (and indirect) value for the company aside from the shared benefit of a stable climate.

CEO 8

CEO ROI Environment Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

To better understand how design leads to returns, my company, Motiv Strategies, and the Design Management Institute worked together to produce a new tool that tracks the results of design-centric companies against those that are not. In our version, we sought to identify only companies that are design leaders.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Why, then, do company boards and shareholders of most firms approve those packages? Except that the performance that they’re rewarding is industry performance, not company performance. public companies. market capitalization ) and 500 additional public companies. This effect is even more pronounced for CEOs alone.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs.

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Chances are you've also shifted your allegiance away from a company that made you wait like that. So why do companies spend millions on big data and big-data-based market research while continuing to ignore the simple things that make customers happy? Negative interactions with companies are as common as ever. We all have.

CAPEX 15

CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In March 2000, Barron's reported that 51 Internet companies were burning cash so fast that they'd be broke by the end of the end of the year. The Burn Rate 51 was made up mostly of now-forgotten companies like drkoop.com and CDNow. But it also included a certain Internet bookseller from Seattle. In Morten T. How has Bezos done this?

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

In fact, in its IT-crazed home country of South Korea, the critics came out in full force and Samsung's stock price dropped nearly 3%. How then can a new front-runner better manage market expectations and also strive to be more innovative? Samsung is now the undisputed leading vendor of mobile handsets and smartphones.

Brand 8

Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

As prominent hedge fund manager Bill Ackman told me, “When I graduated from business school I thought business was about making money and philanthropy was about doing good. Sir Richard Branson, for example, has pushed for Virgin and other companies to take a stand on issues that align with their values.

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve Hedge CEO Education 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

To gain more insights into a specific firm, investors have shown more interest in intangibles like strategy, brand, innovation, systems integration, collaboration, and so on. Another challenge is that this financial information has become widely known and shared, meaning that the investor insights it affords are hardly unique.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Hedge Funds will love our data — they will practically buy any set of data that might give them a potential edge”. Content Innovation. The innovation consulting firm Innosight often refers to “$50 million in 5 years” as a reasonable target for a brand new business. “We have a treasure trove of data, it’s highly valuable”. “If

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Meanwhile, the retirement fund for pensioners of DEO, the state electricity company, continues to receive an annual state subsidy to the tune of €600 million—at a time when most pensions are being slashed. But the 2012 haircut only covered debt held by private creditors (including banks, insurance companies, and pension funds).

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

When stock markets gyrate and growth prospects darken, it's tempting to rein in innovation programs and hoard cash. the prospects for company growth looked barren, which is what will happen after firms have locked their cash away. The company has invested in this brand's innovation in many ways.

Innovation 15

Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

The UK will exit the European Union on March 29, 2019, and many companies are struggling to prepare for how it will change doing business there. There’s no template for how companies should change in response to Brexit. But that doesn’t mean companies shouldn’t start the work required to come up with a plan.

Planning 8

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. Innovation in Cities. Social impact bonds could be one of the most innovative and effective. Insight Center. Corporations might even get involved.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

The prizes were awarded “for their empirical analysis of asset prices,” but what the three had been doing looked from the outside less like a common endeavor than a not-all-that-coherent argument. So I wanted to see if Campbell could make sense of the prizes and the current state of academic knowledge about asset prices.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. While the price of Ether has been rising , Bitcoin has dropped 20% to $1,000 dollars from a record $1,290 on March 3, 2017. Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Council of Institutional Investors (CII), representing managers of $25 trillion assets, recently demanded limiting any company’s dual-class share structure to seven years. Some of the largest companies of recent times by market capitalization, such as Facebook, Alphabet, and Alibaba, carry dual class-shares.

Class 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

In school, being disruptive might get you sent to the principal's office, but in business, disruption is a proven path to success , describing innovations that take root at the low end of the market, or create a new market, and then eventually upend an industry. Her field of study was in international relations, not business.

Career 9

Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Class 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

But that will not in any way deter hedge-fund activists from demanding that companies do stock buybacks so that they can time their stock sales to take advantage of short-term, buyback-induced, stock-price boosts. Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity.

Proposal 8

Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8