The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

“The stakeholders promoting smart-city development will benefit from the crisis and use their experience from the temporary shutdown to accelerate digital transformation in their cities,” he writes. Indeed, the University of Dortmund’s Klaus Kunzmann argues that the pandemic has been a boon for the smart city movement.

GDP 128

GDP Technology Policies Engineering 128

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2023

Extreme weather events, infrastructure and technology failures, and transportation accidents are on the rise globally. These physical threats often have cascading effects that reach all areas of a business. Organizational resilience, or the ability to anticipate, absorb, and recover from hazardous events, is now table stakes.

ROI 17

ROI Transportation Bottom-up Globalization 17

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

By the way, I totally understand about public transportation (I use it too) — but this post focuses solely on car commuting. A business I am loosely involved with hires homeworkers globally as its sales force, its web site builders, its advertising managers. Why not work from home? Not every day. Tim Trent 11.30.10 Unported License.

Brainstorming 248

Brainstorming Licensing Download Ethics 248

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 23, 2020

As one looks at the refugee crisis globally, it’s clear that it’s not going away any time soon and that we need research-based policies to navigate through it,” they say. “Our Indeed, the researchers believe it increases their chances of finding a job by up to 70%. “As

Project 91

Project Policies Skills Transportation 91

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

. “Expect delays” has become the recurring theme of our transportation system. With growing congestion a global megatrend, companies have a choice. A looming crisis. First, it’s important to understand the magnitude of the coming congestion crisis and its underlying drivers. The impact on supply chains.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

The threat to public health is the top concern, of course, but the situation also has widespread business implications: it's disrupting everything from rail transportation to manufacturing activities, including the auto industry. For managers, these are especially important questions.

Crisis 8

Crisis Power Management Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Globalization marches on. But the pace isn’t all that fast, and the overall level of global connectedness still hasn’t gotten back to its all-time peak of 2007. Ghemawat, a frequent HBR contributor, began arguing in 2007, with the book Redefining Global Strategy , that the world isn’t nearly as flat as Tom Friedman said it was.

Altman 8

Altman Globalization Transportation Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

We need a plan that will lead to energy independence so that we can stop moving from one energy crisis to another. Second, fix the transportation infrastructure. We need a more strategic approach to planning and funding our nation's transportation infrastructure for the future. By lowering and simplifying the tax code, the U.S.

Transportation 12

Transportation Energy Globalization Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Globalization marches on. But the pace isn’t all that fast, and the overall level of global connectedness still hasn’t gotten back to its all-time peak of 2007. Ghemawat, a frequent HBR contributor, began arguing in 2007, with the book Redefining Global Strategy , that the world isn’t nearly as flat as Tom Friedman said it was.

Altman 8

Altman Globalization Transportation Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

businesses leading the global economy to recovery? at a severe global disadvantage — the great mismatch between skilled jobs and the talent needed to fill them. Retailers, long viewed as mostly domestic players, are stretching their reach globally by becoming "omni-channel" retailers. Why aren't U.S.

Retail 16

Retail Competitive Advantage CEO Banking 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Toward that end, we recommend that insurers, transportation and manufacturing companies, and local governments form a coalition to coordinate efforts to improve the resilience and responsiveness of supply chains. During a crisis, it is essential that there is one version of the truth. Government incentives are necessary.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Transportation Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

This was Sasha’s summary: Department Administrator – Efficiency Expert – Staff Manager - Crisis Handler. Throughout four-day visit, arrived early and left late to ensure that everything ran smoothly, including meetings, housing, transportation, and meals. into multiple global markets. Expand from U.S.

COO 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

Technology-oriented firms face further obstacles, which have inhibited the country’s potential innovators since long before the current crisis, often forcing researchers to retract into fundamental research or academia instead of becoming entrepreneurs. Global business Innovation' Systems Sunlight produces complex battery systems.

Planning 9

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and disrupt supply chains worldwide. Japan often shows itself at its best in times of crisis, setting aside internal differences and responding with inspiring levels of efficiency and self-sacrifice.

GDP 14

GDP Aggregate Demand Supply Chain Crisis 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. ” As a global sustainability manager of one of our case organizations argued, “We’re eliminating the false choice between great economics and the environment. Wallace Garrison/Getty Images.

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The sharp recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis and the uncertainty created by the 2011 debt crisis have fundamentally reset the world. If a patient requires surgery, Aravind provides transportation to the hospital and back. All of this is happening in spite of, indeed in the face of, global austerity.

Company 12

Company Succession Constraint Sharpe 12

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Just as we gain wisdom from the business failures and corporate scandals, we can learn equally valuable lessons from crisis situations that were successfully handled. It’s not enough just to handle a crisis effectively. The follow-through and crisis preparedness planning process helps to divert other crises from transpiring.

Crisis 58

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 58

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

They also worry that if Congress passes a bill when prompted by a crisis, there are almost always additional consequences: usually giving the government more power than we would like. Probably more important than our internet-of-everything gadgets are the power, water, sewage, manufacturing and transportation networks.

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Cooper Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

We want education, healthcare, and transportation that works — but we're reluctant to pay the costs of these public goods. Local, personal choices are colliding with their global, social consequences — and the result is futility, frustration, and fury. So what's the way out?

Abell 15

Abell Hammer Construction Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. Uber is currently valued at $18.2 billion relative to Hertz at $12.5 billion and Avis at $5.2 chain restaurant industry.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

While there has been progress made in many countries by smart, passionate people in global health, the United Nations acknowledges that its Millennium Development Goal to dramatically reduce maternal mortality by 2015 is at great risk for failure. Maternal mortality is an enormously complicated problem.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Competition has become more complex too, with companies increasingly sourcing or manufacturing globally, facing technology-based rivals trying to disrupt incumbents, and taking on emerging giants with unexpected sources of competitive advantage.

Cooper 16

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Competition has become more complex too, with companies increasingly sourcing or manufacturing globally, facing technology-based rivals trying to disrupt incumbents, and taking on emerging giants with unexpected sources of competitive advantage.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

These are all places where Johnnie Walker whiskey has been poured — and, according to Afshin Molavi, the Scotch whisky's global reach is only expanding. " Today, five of Johnnie Walker’s seven top global markets are emerging markets, and ads from Mexico to Africa exhort the emerging global middle class to “keep walking” or “step up.”

Class 8

Class Health Care Supply Chain Globalization 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

In 1888, Emile Berliner invented the phonograph record, for the purpose of transporting music to consumers. Stimulating the global record industry. Couch planning as the only way to avert a crisis. It was the earliest Dictaphone, whereby messages would be recorded by a needle on a rolling tube.

Download 54

Download Industry Trends Technology 54

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

We consulted with Stuart Hart , the best-selling author of Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World and an advocate of immersion in unfamiliar circumstances, and with CDC Development Solutions in order to gain insight into how we could make the projects a success.

Govindarajan 14

Govindarajan Six Sigma Energy Transportation 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

A deep economic crisis like those seen in Greece and Spain has not happened. In some ways, the Turkish economy relies on regional and global uncertainties, by offering a comparatively better place to do business. Simply put, the world has come to rely on Turkey as a hub of transportation and commerce.

Tourism 9

Tourism Politics Uncertainty Price 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

So would there be a separate English government, which voted on education, social services, transport, and of course their fiscal consequences, while the UK government just thought about defense and foreign policy? Many Scots also don’t like the global role of the UK (and the defense costs that go with that role).

Politics 8

Politics Policies Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

You may have heard that Europe is in a state of crisis. The crisis we speak of has even more severe consequences for Europe’s global competitiveness. If things look bad for goods moving across borders electronically, they look even worse for transporting content. Transparency and governance issues abound.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

After an engineered agent is released, we would likely have a window of only several weeks to prevent it from causing a global catastrophe. Similarly, laboratory testing capacity was overrun during the Zika crisis when, even in Florida, many pregnant women could not get tested.

Engineering 8

Engineering Decentralization Agility Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Egypt's youth unemployment crisis — which many seemed to think on Twitter was merely an Arab problem (oh, those Arabs!) is, in point of fact, a global one. What we're watching is a massive malfunctioning of the global economy. The problem of dumb, empty "growth" is global. At the root of the problem: dumb growth.

Globalization 16

Globalization Sharpe Transportation Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

There is not an infrastructure spending crisis. There is plenty of capital in the global financial system. There is plenty of capital in the global financial system. There is no spending crisis? Further, we should be talking about purposeful investing in infrastructure, not just opening a spending tap.

Banking 8

Banking Objective Finance Proposal 8