Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Those analyses rely on publicly available data sources, but software providers have accumulated growing amounts of private data on almost every aspect of their customers’ technology, operations, people, and strategies. It is even possible to hold up the data mirror to individual technology users.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Software B2B GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system. Each of these organizations looked to the small, exciting platforms startups in its industry to help broaden its products, capabilities, and customers. Build it yourself.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

What will be the administration’s take on science and technology? Likewise, we know that whatever our historical assumptions have been, many are likely to change as technology advances. And the impacts of policies will be highly specific in nature, degree, and speed for each industry and company. Modularity.

Strategy 8

Strategy Uncertainty Long-term Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Seems like strategic management 101, but oftentimes companies are unable to ask this question due to turf battles or leadership blind spots. One professional service firm told us how a senior partner sold only technology implementation services &38212; an area he was personally passionate about — to his clients in South America.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

But such expectations are unrealistic in many industries. The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust. Moreover, firms are often investing in venture capital-type organizations with the hope of striking it lucky with a new technology or offer. Such investors are not too concerned with stable earnings.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

And because the traditional supermarket industry is highly concentrated (for example, in the UK, the top seven food retailers account for 87% of the grocery market), retailers have considerable market power to make change. Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology. Technology is an important enabler here too.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Jim,” as he is known to all, not only did pioneering work in mathematics; he also founded Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that relied on scientists to make predictions and trade in global markets. But imagine if you had to plan the demise of a whole country.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Brand Simon 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Well, maybe not quite as a cause : Drexler, the organization’s head of investors industries, takes pains to note that “we’re not trying to be the industry association for impact investors.” So here’s the money management industry. Private equity or hedge funds through the ‘80s and the ‘90s, exactly the same story.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8