Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Why boards succeed or fail and how to make them better are critical questions for corporate governance. Domain experts know the ins and outs of an industry and are highly skilled at assessing risks and opportunities. But the full spectrum of these relationships is far from fully understood.

Telecommunications 10

Telecommunications Banking Uncertainty Sample 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

No one can say for sure how to get on a corporate board, but many people point to two routes: the first is to break into the "right" network and the second is to seek a progression of board seats that begins with, for example, a seat on a not-for-profit or community board and eventually results in appointment to a corporate board.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Going after future opportunities at the micromarket level can seem risky, but basing strategy on old views of markets and their past performance is riskier still. During the annual sales-planning process, managers determine how to invest resources to capture anticipated demand. Align sales coverage with opportunity.

B2B 14

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities. Economists and market design. Many economists since have been hired by the U.S. Economics and logistics.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

There is a growing sense that so-called lean start-up techniques — developing a minimal viable product, learning in the marketplace, and pivoting based on market feedback — can help to unleash this potential. Studying the book market then led Bezos to locate his company near some of the major book distributors.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Bell Labs used to do this in the United States for telecommunications, but Fraunhofer now does this on a much larger scale across Germany’s entire industrial sector. We need to think about skills training as a lifelong endeavor, with workers across the spectrum of education being taught how to use new technologies to increase productivity.

Innovation 15

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

According to Selling Power magazine, the largest companies in America selling products such as computer and office equipment, consumable goods, insurance, telecommunications, and financial services, each employ tens of thousands of salespeople. By our estimates, the amount invested in U.S. sales forces exceeds $800 billion a year.

Short-term 8

Short-term Telecommunications Advertising Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Consider the ongoing debates — which are now entering litigation — about the BP oil spill and the three "partners" who had to work together to drill and cap the well (BP, TransOcean, Halliburton); how should the decision have been made among them on whether to push on in the last phase of drilling?

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR. If you want to conduct an employee survey, ask business stakeholders about its relevance and how to do it. But it must be HR that decides how things are done, based on the professional knowledge and insights only HR people will have.

CIO 15

CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In my own work , I found that this might be particularly prevalent for utilities (gas, electricity and telecommunications). His work has shown how firms can use "frames" (the way in which prices are presented) to soften competition. Ran Spiegler (with co-authors) has studied such strategies.

Retail 14

Retail Price Comparison Nalebuff 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

AT&T, for example, had to switch its focus from traditional telecom services to wireless services, and this shift required employees with different skill sets. 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.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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Guidelines 14

Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Apple is the poster child for how to make a disruption strategy successful over time. In disruption we call this type of inroad into an industry, in this case the health industry, a New Market disruption. Apple is getting plenty of competition at the low end of the market. And it is this functionality that makes them valuable.

Industry 8

Industry Supply Chain Innovation Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Assess yourself not only as a sector expert but also as an executive with special competences and map those attributes against the market’s needs. What are your special skills — digital marketing know-how you learned in fast-moving consumer goods? Ask their advice on how to improve your profile.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence CEO Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The most disruptive, unforeseen, and just plain awesome breakthroughs, that reimagine, reinvent, and reconceive a product, a company, a market, an industry, or perhaps even an entire economy rarely come from the single-minded pursuit of the busier and busier busywork of "business." The catch is that most companies dont know how to reflect.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

VC fund managers in Mexico are still learning how to achieve trust with our investors, the limited partners (LPs). However, it has also been investing directly in companies — making the government a competitor of VC funds and disrupting the sector's market dynamics. Fundraising side. Investment side.

Industry 9

Industry Telecommunications Incentives Banking 9