Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! These and many other companies are all beginning to understand the power of creating friends, fans, and followers to build their businesses.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Resist the lure of strategies that depend on a single source of power. The merger was mostly about one thing: becoming big by gaining entire control of Lipitor, a Warner product that had been shared in a marketing alliance with Pfizer. Acquisitions should fund innovation, not replace it.

Price 15

Price Innovation Industry Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. For employees to do that, they need to feel a powerful sense of purpose, reinforced by a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning.

Company 8

Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Remember the scene in the first Austin Powers film where Powers, attempting to escape in a steamroller, warns one of Dr. Evil''s henchman to move out of its path? The result: Oracle became one of the most successful companies in back office database products and tools and has now moved onto advancing in the next market, the cloud.

Industry 8

Industry Pharmaceuticals Disruptive Innovation Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Before addressing that question directly, let’s start with some basic premises: Consumers need an ample choice of innovative, well-priced insurance products. The pitch goes something like this: “Synergies will reduce overhead by eliminating duplicative management positions and spreading IT and marketing costs across more members.”

Insurance 8

Insurance Company Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

One of the basic principles behind Clayton Christensen’s famous conception of disruptive innovation is that the fundamental things people try to do in their lives actually change relatively slowly. Floor-standing radios were relatively expensive and consumed a lot of power. Innovation Strategy'

Business Model 8

Business Model Wireless Disruptive Innovation Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

These days, most firms’ most powerful shareholders tend to benefit more from the performance of the entire industry than the performance of an individual firm. Magnifying their already large individual power, large asset managers also appear to coordinate many corporate governance activities, including those regarding compensation.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. After all, even modest 6% growth at this point equates to more than $10 billion in new revenue.

Industry 8

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

The telecom industry has changed, and the industry dynamics will continue to shift under the pressure from social media and the power of the consumer. Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity.

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

It’s easy to assume Apple Pay is one in a long line of disruptive innovations from the master of serial disruption. The introduction of iTunes in 2003 was disruptive relative to the big four music-recording labels Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, EMI Group, and Warner Music Group. But this time that’s not the case.

Company 8

Company Disruptive Innovation Retail Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

These information services, the thinking went, were better left free to innovate and compete largely exempt from FCC regulation. Google has about the same revenue and profits as Comcast, and more than twice the market capitalization. An open Internet does seem like a good thing.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Kahn, 38 years old, graduated from MIT in 1998 and Harvard Business School in 2003. A relatively new instrument called a social impact bond is a powerful example of how this might be done.

Bond 11

Bond Education Finance Video 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

They alert us to the risks of eating unhealthy foods, smoking cigarettes, taking prescription drugs, driving cars, using power tools, and performing many other activities. A 2003 U.S. A few innovations impose major risks, or even worse. Warning labels are everywhere.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

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. One way or the other, marketing executives should keep a close eye on how the Google Glass story plays out.

Morale 8

Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Air Products, for example, tripled corporate productivity (hard profit-and-loss benefits) from 2003 to 2006, and boosted operating return on net assets from 9.5% How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?) If employees don't want to change, they have power. And they succeeded wildly.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

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 technology to power these developments is also now available on a global basis. Achieving Global, Low-Cost, Class-A Construction.

Suri 14

Suri Construction Class EBITDA 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

It’s not that we lack powerful ways to approach strategy; it’s that we lack a robust way to select the right ones for the right circumstances. The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. They wanted power and handling near to what they would get in a sports car. When the Cayenne came to market in 2003, it was an instant hit.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Development Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Competing for scarce labor in a tight market, they will have trouble continuing to shift medical bills onto employees as they have for several decades. To address these challenges, they will have to band together in purchasing coalitions that give them the local market power to force health systems to reform.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Insurance Price 8

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. .”

Health Care 10

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

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. A Concentration of Wealth, Value, and Power. Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. “How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” Walmart went from a 3% share of the general merchandise retail market in 1982 to over 50% today. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

For those who believe in the promise of open innovation, the 2009 startup Quirky was an exceptionally exciting company. As proponents of open innovation, we have examined Quirky’s initial failure in great detail (the company relaunched earlier this year). Marrion Barraud for HBR. Yet, in September 2015, Quirky went bankrupt.

Case Study 8

Case Study Innovation Core Competence Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

Even the term “net neutrality” was coined not by an engineer but by a legal academic, in 2003. To be clear, I agree with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who recently acknowledged that net neutrality principles have been and will continue to be strictly enforced not by regulation but by powerful market forces. Not exactly.

Objective 8

Objective Engineering Content Open-book 8