Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In past years, we heard mostly from startup founders and academics — people who pay attention to early, far-reaching trends in technology. This year we’ve heard more from Fortune 500 executives with questions about machine intelligence than from startup founders. These executives are asking themselves what to do.

Software 8

Software Transportation Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The failure last month of green-tech start-up Better Place, which promised to free drivers and nations from oil dependence and revolutionize transportation, has generated both attention and derision. EV advocates are quick to note that technology improvements in batteries will one day eliminate the range problem.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

They believe big companies are weighed down by their own success, too invested in the past to create and execute new ideas. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. ” I disagree.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

If, by contrast, Tesla’s target was merely a $100 billion market capitalization — frankly, a great target for most companies, as it projects a 7% return annually for the next 10 years — then investors might quickly lose their appetite to continue financing the company. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

Planning 8

Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Most modern health care improvements seem to involve expensive technology and an uncomfortable amount of change management. And we mean everyone — not only the inpatient and outpatient teams but even people in HR and Finance. Kelly Sillaste/Getty Images. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Stress Morale Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives. Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets. The hard part is executing the idea to build a business, which takes a process that actually works.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. But no country is delivering these transformational changes. million people.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Senior executives should not lose perspective on the enormous opportunities in Iran, but they must be prepared to navigate some serious challenges. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Senior executives should be ready to trace the origins of and combat grey market trade and counterfeits of their products in Iran.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

We need to think big and deploy disruptive technologies and financing mechanisms to house 100 million people by the end of the decade.". Refer to the "whole village" model as described by Bob Freling, executive director of the Solar Electric Light Fund. Think Global: This isn't just an India project.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Transportation Cooper Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

I've had the fortune to work with miners, mining community members, and senior mining executives around the world for 12 years. The response mechanism I've observed in most companies is isolation: Create a channel of isolation through which the company can extract, process, and transport the commodity.

Industry 8

Industry Politics Operations Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Transport on the line was so unreliable that crops in the areas it served were routinely left to rot in the fields during the harvest season. This helped ALL's executives do four things: achieve alignment, adapt to local circumstances, foster coordination across units, and make better decisions. Fostering coordination.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” At most Fortune 1000 firms, executives who’d “walk out the door and come back in” fully recognize their status quo is both inadequate and unsustainable. ” or my “Who do you want your customers to become?”

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

The problem with the effort, of course, was that building both the necessary African infrastructure and the logistics network needed to transport the non-indigenous crops was going to be a very expensive proposition indeed. Namely, George stresses the importance of: An executive mandate; A creative structure; and. Patient capital.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. We also interviewed over two dozen Israeli entrepreneurs and the investors from these companies — the leading thinkers in the region — to determine the playbook that these startups are executing in order to scale.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Think of it like this: you can have a very good business plan in the transportation industry, but if there are no roads or you can't get access to the existing roads, you have no business. To solve the bottleneck, Mexico needs more money to flow to funds, and more fund managers with business track records who can guarantee execution.

Industry 8

Industry Telecommunications Incentives Banking 8