Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. Firms in these industries and their customers who thereby benefit from lower prices (admittedly through processes they never see) benefit greatly. Economists and finance. Economists and big data.

Strategy 10

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Consider the type of business and industry. Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances. A sound model doesn''t mean you can''t deviate from the model and innovate when it is the right call. Are you selling a lower margin product that will take time to gain traction?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The venture capital industry is beginning to take a good, hard look at a new financial instrument coming out of the bitcoin community — Initial Coin Offerings , or ICOs. And like any industry, the ICO arena has had its fair share of outright scams, pump and dumps, and blatant Ponzi schemes. Distributed Database.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries. In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose. So throw Frederick W.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

For years, the creative side of the company was the top priority, leaving things like finance, IT, and HR to suffer (yes, they tried to run their operations on spreadsheets). Holding roles ranging from chairman to chief innovation and branding officer, he "tended to zoom in and out, creating confusion about who was in charge."

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Innovation and its discontents are nothing new, of course, going back at least to the 18 th century, when Luddites physically attacked industrial looms. Tech companies, like any other enterprise, are already subject to a complex tangle of laws, varying based on industry and local authority.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Proposal Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

company takes on the legal identity of foreign subsidiary, usually in order to reduce its taxes — has become about as controversial as corporate finance topics get. We have some of our largest and most innovative companies doing this. The corporate inversion — when a U.S. President Obama has called such transactions “unpatriotic.”

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8