Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The concept is fairly straightforward: The parties define the result up front, agree on a baseline, work out how confident the organization is in delivering the result, and then specify the expectation and payment in the contract. Consider these examples: Education. Making PbR Work. Flexible internal organizational structures.

Incentives 8

Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Skype , for example, competes with fixed-line carriers by offering free mobile Skype calls. For example, AT&T had to spend almost $18 billion in a single year to upgrade its wireless networks to handle the onslaught of new traffic. Several portal companies compete with carriers as they have acquired "voice-over-internet" capabilities.

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

It became easier and easier for small enterprises to gain customer reach and awareness (along with working capital). Consider, for example, the way many credit cards are marketed. Large companies found themselves competing against a much larger group of rivals, and a more global group, than ever before.

IAM 11

IAM Productivity Products Company 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Our overburdened air-traffic-control system struggles to deal with increasingly crowded skies. “Expect delays” has become the recurring theme of our transportation system. Railway systems are near capacity. The highway systems in North America and Western Europe are also feeling the strain.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

In Britain, for example, fewer than 10% of the tens of thousands of social enterprises generate more than £1 million in revenue. They need new executive talent, infusions of capital, and systems capable of supporting an expanding organization. Why is that? Others include The Private Equity Foundation and The Acumen Fund.

Finance 8

Finance Franchising Business Model Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2016

Better predictive ability from rich customer data has another important benefit: Amazon does not keep most of its products in inventory for very long, significantly reducing its working capital requirement. In fact, its cash conversion cycle is 14 days, much smaller than the nearly 30 days for most retailers.

Advertising 8

Advertising Retail Content Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Interviews conducted in 2000 by the Social Investment Task Force in the United Kingdom , revealed what most nonprofit leaders already know: Almost all social sector organizations are small and perennially underfunded, with barely three months' worth of working capital at their disposal. Compare that to the world of venture capital.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Bond Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. Construction equipment and disk-drive manufacturing required heavy machinery, distribution facilities, and immense amounts of working capital.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Let's look at two examples from our study (some of their names and details have been changed). Roberta leads a business that seeks to improve the healthcare system in her Latin American country by providing better IT infrastructure and processes in order to reduce medical costs and improve the quality of patient care. What We Learned.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Business Model Long-term Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

The AIIB has working capital of $50 billion with potential to go as high as $100 billion – so it is, as yet, smaller than the U.S.-led billion of subscribed capital) or the Asian Development Bank ($162.8 billion of subscribed capital). -led billion of subscribed capital) or the Asian Development Bank ($162.8

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Instead of simply raising charity cash to import finished pads, Scharpf and her organization are inventing a whole new system of community-based education, business training, manufacture and distribution from locally-sourced banana fiber — that is, solving this serious problem and creating a sustainable regional business.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

We know from FCLT surveys , for example, that 61% of executives and directors say that they would cut discretionary spending to avoid risking an earnings miss, and a further 47% would delay starting a new project in such a situation, even if doing so led to a potential sacrifice in value.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8