Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

One of the most important of those issues is, of course, globalization. As Egon Zehnder’s just-released 2014 Global Board Index found, 37% of the revenue generated by companies in the S&P 500 now comes from international sources, an increase of 5.5% But are the boards of these companies similarly “globalized”?

Globalization 14

Globalization Committee Telecommunications Consensus 14

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

All I had to do was look at the path of technological innovation and make a reasonable guess. I don’t know much about telecommunications – it just seemed obvious. Within the next 20 years there will be millions of brilliant, highly educated knowledge workers flooding the global job market.

Telecommunications 98

Telecommunications Education Politics Quality 98

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach. The rise in the influence of the knowledge worker. . Life is good. Marshall@MarshallGoldsmith.com. www.MarshallGoldsmithLibrary.com.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Nokia's recent burning platform travails serve as an object lesson to companies trying to navigate a rapidly-changing global economy. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

Globalization 13

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 13

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 25, 2011

Getting China and India Right: Strategies for Leveraging the World’s Fastest Growing Economies for Global Advantage Anil K.

Govindarajan 97

Govindarajan Review Books Globalization 97

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Lone rangers and sole-source providers simply cannot succeed in competitive environments and global economies. Hardware, software and component producers revolutionizing the next generation of technology. Telecommunications industry service providers. Scientists, per research program.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Businesses are more profitable and productive when they act ethically, treat their staff well, and communicate better with their customers, according to the latest Lady Geek Global Empathy Index. The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

But as global technology brands penetrate African economies, it is becoming evident that most local startups are experiencing new levels of competition, which could potentially disrupt their operations. Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. aerospace & defense, industrial conglomerates, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g.,

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Nokia, today’s telecommunications networking company, has made corporate transformation into an art form. In 1992, new CEO Jorma Ollila and his team made a decision that is iconic in the world of corporate reinvention, going all-in on the emerging telecommunications markets. Of course, we know what happened next.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Crisis Committee Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

and Germany the richest and most technologically advanced nations in the world? and Germany, for instance, have well over 300 Nobel Prize winners in science and technology whereas India and China have a combined total of less than 10. Today, rich countries and poor countries account for roughly equal shares of the global economy.

Innovation 15

Innovation Telecommunications Globalization GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

This post is part of the HBR Insight Center, The Next Generation of Global Leaders. Given the personal challenges of picking up and moving halfway around the world, such programs may need to draw on new technologies and models that allow more flexibility in cross-cultural collaboration. The world is getting smaller.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

Globalization 10

Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

A 2014 global survey by SafeNet found that nearly two-thirds of consumers said they would stop or avoid using a company that had experienced a data breach. technology companies as much as $35 billion in potential business. technology companies as much as $35 billion in potential business.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The technology community has become accustomed to Musk pushing the boundaries. On one side is the frontier economy, populated by highly skilled engineers pushing the boundaries of technology, and investors making highly risky bets on which new fields will take off. There are exceptions, of course, like mobile technology.

Marketing 8

Marketing Transportation Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

Technology-oriented firms face further obstacles, which have inhibited the country’s potential innovators since long before the current crisis, often forcing researchers to retract into fundamental research or academia instead of becoming entrepreneurs. And Tropical SA is focused on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

Planning 9

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

CEO 13

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally. To compete, global corporations must be just as nimble innovating abroad as they are at home. Therefore, they focused on winning market share by adapting global offerings to meet local needs.

Glocalization 11

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries. Looking ahead, the global population growing from 7 billion to 9 billion over the next 25 years will make the challenge of meeting demands for both water and energy more acute.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

But some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. Examples of enterprise social-technology use are cropping up all the time: TD bank relies on a social network for employee communication, and at Unisys, social communities provide specialized expertise to resolve technical problems.

Media 9

Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

New technologies, industry standards, and approaches to tagging and labeling are enhancing the ability of consumers to trace the origin of goods. In telecommunications and information technology, experts are waking up to the need for full "chains of custody" for components because of the threat of malicious " hardware Trojan horses."

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Ethics Telecommunications Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Its successes command global respect; its failures deserve serious scrutiny. The sad but simple truth was that Cisco — arguably the world's premier internet network technology company — didn't deliver a Wi-Fi-enabled device. The company knew digital devices were all becoming telecommunications tools.

Wireless 12

Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Too few businesses have sought to make a systemic approach to public policy an important dimension of their global posture. telecommunications or food safety or healthcare or aerospace or energy/environment). They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g.,

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is a founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology.

Books 14

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Here’s what we know: The $290 billion global television market is being disrupted by six billion mobile devices and a new generation of consumers that demand their programing when, how, and where they want it. Consumption of OTT original programming skews heavily male and matches the profile of the typical early adopter of technology.

Video 8

Video Telecommunications Early Adopters Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. For example, from telecommunication companies to fintech entrepreneurs, African banking fees and commissions are under tremendous presure. Across Africa, banking is being redesigned. Data consolidation.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

It started life as an ironworks company, pursued vertical integration by entering coal, eventually moved into pressed steel wheels before diversifying into front wheel drive technology and beyond. Or take Harris Corporation, an American telecommunications company founded in 1895. That makes him sound like Google.

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Airlines Telecommunications Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Yet when it comes to the international nonmarket rules for business, American firms have disengaged just at the time when these emerging markets are asserting themselves in global dealmaking. business to rethink what it wants on major global talks on trade (and climate change, for that matter). It is time for U.S. Leading U.S.

Strategy 9

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Not long ago, the chief executive of a global telecommunications firm shared with me his frustration that "even in a meeting with the CEO, most institutional investors seek only granular data points to plug into their models. Globally, these asset owners manage significant sums, exceeding $50 trillion at the end of 2009.

Long-term 12

Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

Given this context, it comes as little surprise that businesses — like Facebook, Google, and telecommunications companies — have the motivation to improve internet awareness and access. Meanwhile, China’s e-commerce market is 80 times as large. according to a WSJ/VentureSource analysis.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Marketing Wireless McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Technology : Providers of mobile banking and cash transfer solutions are doing particularly well in the economy due to the country’s multi-currency exchange regime and low availability of U.S. Technology solutions that help accelerate improvements of Zimbabwe’s decaying infrastructure will also be in high demand.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. food processor General Mills, noting that his company was quickly expanding internationally, said, “One of our challenges was how to develop a truly globally mobile culture. We were not a global company yet.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

Western generational models cannot be applied broadly to a global workforce. Educational opportunities were a key differentiator for this generation globally. Each country's unique social, political, and economic events shape specific views and attitudes among today's adults.

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. This is the virtual network operator (VNO) model used by the telecommunications sector. Model 6: Cofunding of a third-party asset.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Fourteen years ago, Darren Entwistle arrived as a young CEO (he is now Executive Chair) and immediately began transforming the regional telecommunications player into a global entity. But Darren never saw the change required as only a matter of capitalizing on new technologies and developing new products. billion to $11.7

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8