Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

For example, I manage the finances for a team that travels very often, and I’ve been grateful for the intelligent guesswork that my expenses software extracts from receipts using machine learning: the merchant’s name, the dollar amount spent, taxes, and likely expense categorization. Insight Center. Adopting AI.

Learning-by-Doing 10

Learning-by-Doing Software Technology Travel 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

We design and manufacture personal-scale energy appliances that enable our users to cook, charge, and light their lives off the grid. We serve two markets that are very different but united by the common need for reliable, safe access to energy: outdoor recreationalists and low-income households in emerging markets.

Marketing 8

Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

IBM identified a set of “Grand Challenges” facing the continent that could be addressed through superior data analytics, including water and sanitation, energy management, financial services, transportation, public safety, healthcare, and agriculture. Last month, IBM launched a dialogue with the government of Nigeria. It’s neither.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Unlocking Energy. It’s not for everyone.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap. Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

I still spend much of my time traveling from conference to conference in the West to meet people who can help my work succeed (I'm writing this on a train bound for Davos). I am required to do all this on a shoestring budget and a super-lean staff.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

In other words, who you are affects how you behave and how you interact with other people, so team members’ personalities operate like the different functions of a single organism. travel to Mars, perhaps working for Elon Musk or one of the government space agencies. Consider the crew that will one day (soon?)

Skills 8

Skills Team Cooper Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

and Cuba could implement over the next two years will be critical for helping business executives determine the level of urgency around developing their Cuba operation. Understanding the policies that leaders in the U.S. A limited business opportunity. How to know where the economy is heading.

Policies 8

Policies Short-term Long-term GDP 8