Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Most cities fall well short of that ideal. In order to achieve these goals, new, non-traditional metrics were needed to track the project’s community impacts while making sure that investors and capital partners were still accomplishing their financial objectives. In turn, the comfort and amenities keep them coming back.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

Facing intense competition from online retailers who can gather extensive data about user behavior, traditional retailers have also started tracking customers’ in-store activities. But in addition to the concerns retail tracking raises for consumers , these technologies have serious implications for workers.

Retail 8

Retail Software Long-term Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Pharmaceutical manufacturers, insurers, and retailers invest millions in risk avoidance. But in the era of Big Data and decision-making at the desktop, it's vexing to think that any company with significant technology investments would allow the all-too-human traits of ownership debates and subjective opinion to override robust data analysis.

Merchandising 11

Merchandising Risk Management Supply Chain Retail 11

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

At the peak, Alibaba’s technology platforms processed 325,000 orders and 256,000 payments every second. Singles Day is a technological marvel. The technology and business model Ming Zeng, the chairman of the Academic Council of the Alibaba Group, describes in Smart Business: What Alibaba’s Success Reveals About the Future of Strategy.

Business Model 235

Business Model Technology Retail Short-term 235

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While systemic complexity won’t be eliminated in the short term, health plans can approach service differently to make navigating the health care system feel simpler and easier. Amazon and other digital retailers have done just that. Harness digital channels to improve user experience. Incentivize progress.

System 10

System Planning Health Care Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Twenty years ago, Louis Gerstner transformed IBM by emphasizing consulting and technology services — not just technology — to solve customer problems. How technology is changing the way we work. To address medium-term opportunities, IBM formed partnerships with hospitals (e.g., Can the elephant dance again?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

While the middle class has been eroded by currency depreciation and recession, the Russian consumer remains technologically savvy, interested in quality Western brands, and able to spend. This worked, because both crises were short-lived (lasting approximately 1-1.5 years) and were followed by rapid recoveries.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

” So, in short, put away your devices while you’re on vacation, until you take them out again multiple times a day so that you can work, and apparently vacation activities will need to be scheduled around work check-ins! This may be an acceptable short-term situation, but it’s not sustainable long term.

Short-term 8

Short-term Creativity Long-term Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Technology has put pressure on management fees, and this will only continue. Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals). Companies and global governing bodies set visionary global goals. Goals matter. To start, the UN, in a parallel with the climate negotiations, released in September the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. In the U.S., Wall Street wakes up.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Technologies will change, distribution channels for content will change, usage environments will change. This is often the reason why thoughtful quantitative analysis that incorporates macro-economic trends, market share, competitive strategies, retail analysis and technological assessments so often misses the mark.

Benchmarking 14

Benchmarking Maslow Analysis Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Procter & Gamble did this when it recently set a goal that, by 2050, zero per cent of its packaging would wind up in landfills. Short of “owning” the problem, this still acknowledges that others associate the problem with you, and you are in a position to make a difference. Take Action. Take an Interest.

Golden Parachute 11

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2018

But it’s poised to transform all sectors, from retail, telecommunications, and agriculture to health, trucking, and the penal system. Yet the terms “data science” and “data scientist” aren’t always easily understood, and are used to describe a wide range of data-related work.

Ethics 8

Ethics Learning-by-Doing Industry Telecommunications 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Push paper, systems, technology. Base-Level Sellers (door-to-door, telephone, clerks and checkers, retail sales). Mid-Level Sellers (consumer services, multi-level marketing, retailers, vendors). Science-Technology Provider. Look forward in the short-term to the next paid vacation, in the long-term toward retirement.

Business Development 50

Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Ask anyone in technology. On a short-term basis, the only thing they can expect in return for focusing on data is the headaches that follow from explaining, justifying, and evaluating their operations to colleagues and investors. Sometime soon, the world around us will be smart.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Many retailers and proximity marketers have deployed beacons inside stores that have resulted in up to a 15% lift in retail foot traffic and a 73% increase in the likelihood of purchase among shoppers. This can help increase short-term sales as well as build long-term brand loyalty.

Short-term 8

Short-term Brand Long-term Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Each of these middlemen takes a cut of the revenues and passes along the rest, with the leftovers typically reaching the artists themselves months later, per the terms of their contracts. How technology is transforming transactions. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Insight Center.

Creativity 11

Creativity Film Decentralization Reputation 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

And the technology now exists for marketers to test with high confidence when to communicate and in what order — and to do so in near real time. Knowing this, the company worked with Google and WebMD to reach consumers whose search terms suggested they had common cold symptoms in that narrow period.

Marketing 8

Marketing Content Brand Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

If you haven’t heard of OTT , short for “over the top,” you will soon. Doing this, in turn, will help them build more purposefully direct, longer term relationships with consumers and create more sustainable value. Metrics cannot be focused on campaign-specific goals such as reach and conversion. ” Data.

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

But today, as a multinational construction materials company, our goals are somewhat broader: How can we help provide housing for people all over the world who need it? However, for such a technology to spread widely, a company like Saint-Gobain is needed to manufacture various materials on an industrial scale.

Industry 8

Industry Construction Energy Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

The outcomes will only work in the long term if both sides combine their expertise into a rich body of shared experience and understanding. You should understand the solution''s cultural impact, its technological and operational feasibility, and its viability in your business. Hopefully, you''ve already done some of this work up front.

Govindarajan 8

Govindarajan Long-term Short-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice). China, China, and China. Watch this space.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

Our goal in this article is to offer specific, real-world case studies to show how big data has provided value for companies that have worked with Microsoft’s analytics teams. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Price Airlines Advertising 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

First, identify a handful of promising markets (that is, no more than five) where some change in technology or consumer behavior now makes it possible to bring to bear a unique corporate capability to address some previously unaddressed need. Instead, give your innovators general financial goals. That sounds challenging, and it is.

Innovation 8

Innovation Constraint Team Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

At the same time, technologies like selfie sticks, Fitbits, and wearable video cameras are making people comfortable monitoring their own calorie consumption, sleep patterns, heart rate, friends, family, and daily experiences. In both cases, the assignment was clear, the duration short but intense.

Document 8

Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Renewables have been trouncing fossil fuels for a few years as the costs of the newer technologies have dropped remarkably fast. New capital is still flowing to the clean tech — Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and some other business leaders just announced a $1 billion fund to invest in “next generation energy technologies.”

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8