Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It’s the thing that happens to get the product to market” Mitch Joel @mitchjoel / Author and marketing guru / In a nutshell: It’s time for Leadership 3.0… Before building community you need to build engagement.” “If your product or service sucks; social media, marketing or management won’t save you.”

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Management Simon COO Blog 48

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Simon McGill/Getty Images. Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. In theory, investor incentives align with what is good for the firm. In practice, we find important differences.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Marketing Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. Not surprisingly, they advocate bringing marketing and monetizing concerns much further forward in the R&D process.

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Price Productivity Products Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

They are low-powered radio transmitters that can send signals to smartphones that enter their immediate vicinity, via Bluetooth Low Energy technology. For marketers in particular, beacons are important because they allow more precise targeting of customers in a locale. Simon Malls. Communication Marketing Technology'

Retail 9

Retail Fraser Taylorism Taylor 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.”. Customers Decision making Information & technology'

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Higher carbon taxes would have a direct effect on encouraging households and firms to consume less fossil fuels and would accelerate directed research in green technologies such as electric vehicles, solar panels, and other forms of renewable power. The small market size would lead the company to not invest in baldness medication.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Aggregate Demand Incentives Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2011

My crystal ball devoted to the intersection of business and digital technology brought forth six predictions for 2012. There will be at least one instance of a science fiction technology becoming reality. The two forces of trade and technology are combining to create a tough labor market for lots of workers in the U.S.,

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Simon Sharpe Technology eBook 15

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them. Right now, only 6% of U.S.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

First, in a world in which labor markets are fluid, leaders must inspire and impart purpose. And at Red Hat , where one of us is CEO, the organization’s mission is a powerful catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners for creating technology the open source way. This requires intensive, one-on-one work.

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Simon Diversity Agility Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It's a powerfully proven fact based on the study of the human brain, which Simon Sinek explains here. Traditional advertising and marketing leads with the what, such as, "We make desirable cars with great gas mileage." This isn't my opinion. Then it moves to the how, such as "We do this with great engineers and the best materials."

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Media Advertising Simon Engineering 22

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

This diagram presents examples of a number of problems ordered by their predictability given the current state-of-the-art in machine learning and AI technology. Of course, the location of a particular problem on this two-dimensional representation also changes as a function of technological and societal changes.

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Uncertainty Simon Cost Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It's a powerfully proven fact based on the study of the human brain, which Simon Sinek explains here. Traditional advertising and marketing leads with the what, such as, "We make desirable cars with great gas mileage." This isn't my opinion. Then it moves to the how, such as "We do this with great engineers and the best materials."

Media 16

Media Advertising Simon Engineering 16

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 308

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

” In his book, Start with Why , Simon Sinek says that purpose should provide direction when deciding a company’s future: “Instead of asking, ‘WHAT should we do to compete?’ There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Simons—after all, he’s been around for decades, earning and donating vast amounts of money, generally enjoying life (despite the accidental deaths of two of his five adult children), and giving Dos Equis’s “ most interesting man in the world ” a serious run for his money.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Brand Simon 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Leading technology companies are increasingly soliciting their users to take political action on their behalf to defend controversial business models from regulation, support new programs, and promote their moral values in active political battles. We’re being introduced to a new lever of corporate influence on democracy.

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Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

There are countless other examples of family firms that have brought innovations to market. They need to gather as much information on technology developments and customer demands as possible. However, many family-owned businesses are among the most innovative in their industries.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Long-term CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer technology are causing us to think again about some really basic questions: what is a firm? What can firms do better than markets? The incumbent therefore needs to invest in the invasive technology before it is definitively needed. Tintan/Getty Images.

Company 10

Company Long-term Short-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade. The business and civilian adoption of military technology is nothing new; we had mass adoption of the wristwatch after World War I when soldiers began attaching their pocket watches to their wrists for more practical purposes.

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Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Moreover, Twitter is used by virtually all big Western companies either for marketing or to respond to customers—and sometimes both. The energy, finance, and technology sectors tend to tweet using a male-biased tone of voice. A third of the companies in our study have separate accounts for customer service and marketing.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Forbes I have truly had my fill of let’s-use-technology-to-fix-U.S.-health-care United Therapeutics, which was founded after her daughter was diagnosed with a rare disease, aims to do nothing less than use “blue-sky technology to extend life.” It’s not the high performer, but the senior executive who oversees the ranking system."

Performance Review 10

Performance Review Review Quinn Health Care 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

For instance, in October 2010, Biocon struck a $350-million marketing alliance with Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, to commercialize four of Biocon's insulin biosimilar products in non-overlapping markets globally. Invention is a novel idea or new technology that can be patented or copyrighted as intellectual property (IP).

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Shaw Globalization Innovation Entrepreneur 13

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The more we use technology and outsourced thinking, we diminish our ability to think for ourselves. As Harvard lecturer and global trend watcher Vikram Mansharamani shows in this eye-opening and perspective-shifting book, our complex, data-flooded world has made us ever more reliant on experts, protocols, and technology. Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership Simon Learning-by-Doing 449

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

New workplace technology makes possible an unprecedented degree of control over working (and sometimes private) life – the New York Times’s account of tough working conditions in Amazon’s offices is a recent example. More and more of human lives are marketized and commodified on technology platforms.

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Film Drucker Technology Kahneman 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. In malleable environments, such as in newly created or disrupted markets, they will need to envision and realize new possibilities.

Strategy 10

Strategy Uncertainty Long-term Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

But they can be usefully divided into three groups: technological progress, globalization, and economic policy. Technological progress by favoring highly skilled labor to the detriment of the low-skilled, might have led to the increase in the wage premium (for the highly educated) and to widening inequalities.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Policies Education 8