Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Instead of a monolithic one-way interaction, business is now being conducted through constant and meaningful two-way conversations between organizations and constituents – at every stage of organizational development. And remember that technology connects people in faster and more transparent ways than ever! Still skeptical?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 23, 2017

He said: “Today, mankind produces more information, data and ideas than from the stone age until the year 2003 together.“ Back then, not only did I have to deal with tough competition, changing markets and the upcoming phenomena of online shopping but also with a huge crisis within the company itself. Everything changes. Permanently.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

This is both because the resulting knowledge might walk out the door, as employees join other firms or start their own, and because you can acquire firms who have the needed technology. Although the setting was law firms, rather than technology firms, all the assets in those firms reside in human capital.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percentage points in 2003-2012. Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). In fact, China is already experiencing a labor shortage: Wages are rising and it is losing its labor-cost advantage to other developing countries.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Industry players have realized the marketing and cost-saving potential, too: automaker BMW powers the plant where it manufactures the i3 and i8 electric vehicles with a 10 MW wind park, and discount retailer Aldi Süd has installed photovoltaic panels on 1,000 supermarkets. Thus markets entering “Energiewende 3.0”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. ” Similarly, without sufficient monitoring by owners of the firms or the stock market, managers might be tempted to enjoy the quiet life instead of making hard decisions or taking on difficult tasks. .” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Indian engineers cost less, for sure.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In a previous post , I outlined the key capabilities I've found to be present in the social ventures that are able to reach sizeable impact (which can be remembered with the acronym SCALERS—they are Staffing, Communicating, Alliance-Building, Lobbying, Earnings-Generation, Replicating, and Stimulating Market Forces).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

A new restaurant or dry cleaner probably won’t end up hiring thousands of employees or commercializing new technology. To determine which new firms are likely to grow, Guzman and Stern developed an algorithm that predicts the chances of a startup going public or being acquired for a significant sum.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Without a doubt, providing members of linguistic minority groups with access to technology in their native tongues is very important. Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Yet the determinants of its successful development are far from established or well understood. per annum during 1978-2003, but slowed to 2.8% What about spillover gains tied to foreign direct investment, joint ventures, and other ties to developed countries? There was also a slowdown in TFP after the mid 1990s.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Marketing professionals have learned the hard way that no matter what they do or do not plan to do with consumer information, privacy matters. In part, that''s because marketing has always been something of a black art. New laws aimed at specific technologies, however, are the worst possible outcome. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

By 2003, there were 800,000. Their market value is $9.5 It’s a question that conjures Čapek’s robot uprising, and has prompted many essays invoking Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , among other texts of monsters and unintended technological consequences. Technology' Today, more than 1.3

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

This practice leads highly cautious consumers to lump low-risk products in with mass-marketed products that actually merit such a warning and encourages many others to simply ignore warnings. A 2003 U.S. First, here’s what not to do: Stamp any and every product bearing even modest risk as dangerous or hazardous.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.&# - General Colin Powell “Develop success from failures. I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. Market focus. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

When Robert Greifeld was asked to take the helm of Nasdaq in 2003 to execute a turnaround, he came with a new story. As he relates in Market Mover , the story had five parts: 1. Overhaul Technology 5. To address the technology gap at Nasdaq, Greifeld went outside to buy winners—smart acquisitions. Reduce Bureaucracy 3.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Consider its decision to pursue the market for pharmaceutical distribution, or the recent announcement that it will be teaming up with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to create joint solutions for reducing the health care spending of more than 1 million employees and their families. .” So where is the link to health care?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

” The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial processes such as recruiting, hiring, and training and development. Founded in 2003 with $40 million in venture capital funding, Splunk was among the first companies to target the “big data” space.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

” The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial processes such as recruiting, hiring, and training and development. Founded in 2003 with $40 million in venture capital funding, Splunk was among the first companies to target the “big data” space.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. At this point, the commercial viability of a market-based approach to providing good quality housing in urban areas at prices affordable to low income customers is beyond question. The Use of Available Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one. Positional advantage is sustainable in a classical environment: the environment is predictable and develops gradually without major disruptions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

And I believe developing more resource-efficient business models will be the largest single financial opportunity of the twenty-first century. And current recycling technology is limited. automaking industry currently employs 786,500 people , down from 1,136,500 in 2003. The market has huge profit potential.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. Most industries in the U.S. IT Does Matter.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

In 2003 a doctor with SARS unknowingly infected several guests while staying at a Hong Kong hotel, and overnight the virus reached across the globe. With the advent of genome-editing technologies, bioterrorists could artificially engineer new plagues, a threat that Ashton Carter, the former U.S. Faster Vaccine Development.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. Entrepreneurs have long been able to tap into a range of grants and related programs to help with early development activities. ” Sure, I would respond.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

Leaving aside the hype of 3-D technologies, the big question about Amazon as it enters into this seemingly crowded arena will be whether its offering makes it easier or more affordable for people to do something they’ve historically cared about. Of perhaps even more interest is Amazon’s business model.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. Greenspan was never a hardline believer in the rationality of financial markets. It’s true of all commodity markets. Almost everybody is bullish, expects the market to go up, and is fully committed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

Since the birth of e-commerce, marketing experts have disagreed about the future role of brands. Some have predicted that digital technologies will hasten the demise of brands because customers will have ready access to information they need to make purchase decisions, and “brand” will therefore become less relevant.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The end of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, relaxation of ownership constraints in 1996, and technological developments that reduced the use of radio as a medium for music also helped fuel the popularity of conservative talk radio. Fox News was introduced in 1996 and by 2000 was broadcast in geographic markets that housed 50% of U.S.

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