Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

If you believe this is a problem confined to the developing world, consider this: The rate of maternal mortality in the United States has doubled in the past 20+ years. This is essential to developing services she will use and, longer term, putting into place solutions that will have a lasting impact. The private health sector ?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Myriad potential public policy-related risks and opportunities for companies arise across a broad spectrum of political and economic systems — from the state capitalism of former Communist states to the “ mixed economies ” in traditional “liberal” democracies, from developed to developing markets.

Policies 8

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Skip Prichard

JULY 29, 2019

How did you develop the list? . And to be honest, it wasn’t hard to get people talking, and certain themes took shape very quickly: speed of service, restriction of access, rigidity of policies, complexity of technology, easy of process. ” “A satisfied customers is the best business strategy of all.”

Competitive Advantage 82

Competitive Advantage Short-term Policies Open-book 82

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

The work of this one man is said to have touched 40% of eye care patients in the developing world to date. You can make CSR the strategy or even the end goal for your business growth. In McDonald's, he saw that throughout the world McDonald's franchises had similar quality meals for low prices. "If

Self-aware 15

Self-aware Franchising Quality Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Long before "think global, act local" was the conventional wisdom for how corporations should operate in the international interconnected marketplace, we at Children's Television Workshop (CTW), as it was known then, pioneered the development of a flexible global brand. Embracing New And Multiple Means Of Distribution. Taking The Long View.

Globalization 8

Globalization Power Workshop Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

If you want to see how mobile technology can disrupt the very basics of business models and habits established over hundreds if not thousands of years, look at what’s happening in India. In order to create value in India in the coming decade, companies must have a mobile-first strategy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Banking Venture Capitalist Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. That is 6 million lives – 100 football stadiums of children – that could be saved each year.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That sort of money should allow you to open 10 new centers next year, not through franchising as you'd planned, but under your direct ownership and control. The director wasn't expecting her, but Gloria liked popping into the franchises unannounced to get an unvarnished view. Three million euros.". Hours were flexible.

Case Study 13

Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

.” But if you are the Ford Motor Company and face the prospect of investing billions in new technology while your century-old business model is overturned, you might first have a few questions. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Full disclosure: my company, Innosight, has advised Ford on strategy ). What do they really want?

Business Model 8

Business Model Transportation ROI Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

The answer isn't as simple as we might wish: their leaders have pursued a variety of strategies, and there is no single "best practice" formula for scaling a social venture. A given venture's "scaling strategy," however, can be thought of as the particular emphasis it puts on each of these capabilities relative to the others.

How To 15

How To Franchising ROI Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

New applications and new industries emerged, including virtual reality and the Internet of Things, proving the viability of an “if you build it, they will come” strategy for gigabit services. In 2009, Congress charged the Federal Communications Commission with the development of a National Broadband Plan (NBP).

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We’ve hit a point of acceleration in video and wearable technologies that provide us with information that we’ve never had in the past about how to optimize player performance. We talk about things like yield management, demand curves, and perishable inventory — factors that dictate our pricing strategies.

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Real Madrid is one of the most recognized soccer franchises in the world. With over 500 million dedicated fans, it also happens to be one of the most innovative franchises when it comes to fan engagement. “FOX Sports has always been about fans first,” says Tom Zentmeyer, Vice President, Technology and Games at FOX Sports.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In 2008, he gathered four other Israelis living in San Francisco to be his cofounders and they hired a coder in Ukraine through Craigslist and paid him to develop an ordering app. For Eat24, that meant small, local, family restaurants — not the big chains and franchises. To a large franchise, they wouldn’t.

Marketing 8

Marketing Franchising Competitive Intelligence Advertising 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right? Here is my bottom line take. Thanks for stopping by John.

Blog 385

Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

But that policy came at the cost of badly degraded incentives for providers to invest in new technologies, leaving the EU with minimal cable Internet, fiber-optic networks, or high-speed mobile broadband. regime are just as determined to make sure the EU instead doubles down on a strategy widely acknowledged to have failed utterly.

Price 8

Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Fostering entrepreneurship has become a core component of economic development in cities and countries around the world. The predominant metaphor for fostering entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy is the “entrepreneurship ecosystem.” For entrepreneurs and investors, wealth creation may be the benefit.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Two developments bear noting. Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. ” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

One might add that at the time of the Founders, America had approximately 2 million people, and many fewer had the franchise than today. mid-term elections staring us right in the face, I thought it would be an interesting time to examine the difference between statesman and politician. M [link] James Strock Great points, Mike.

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