Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Founded by entrepreneur Ben Kaufman, Quirky developed a platform that connected the company with outside inventors and project contributors. Since Henry Chesbrough coined the term open innovation in 2003, the most widely used form of open innovation has been innovation contests. Quirky’s open approach undermined quality control.

Case Study 8

Case Study Innovation Core Competence Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

But a new study on Hollywood producers in the Strategic Management Journal reminds us that it’s not that simple. The researchers behind this new study point out that recent work on RBV has focused on managers as the ones generating the revenue from the company’s resources. Sounds logical, right?

RBV 8

RBV Mass Marketing Budgeting Brand 8

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”

Energy 10

Energy Decentralization Industry Power 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

To start off the project, I asked senior managers to see some data and to speak to the employees getting the work done. Templates needed to be completed, customer and competitor profiling refreshed, current performance figures confirmed, markets segmented, etc. No response. The numbers need to be checked (and rechecked).

Innovation 12

Innovation Budgeting Market Segmentation Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The pitch goes something like this: “Synergies will reduce overhead by eliminating duplicative management positions and spreading IT and marketing costs across more members.” ” For 25 years, the jury has been out on whether disease-management programs from national payers can improve quality and achieve real savings.

Insurance 8

Insurance Company Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

It's been obvious since 2003, when LinkedIn was launched, that social networking could help job candidates and employers interact. Lots of recruiters, hiring managers and industry networkers are hanging out on Twitter, swapping job leads and industry updates. Collecting business cards at conferences and mixers is arduous.

Media 16

Media Meyer Software Follow-up 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

In our project, we examined 4,600 randomly selected employees across 800 workplaces. Most of the statistical sources used by management researchers and labor economists do not record “asking” behavior, and do not record people’s motivations for refraining from asking. ” Older workers do so more often.

Peer Review 8

Peer Review Sample Survey Education 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

As a direct marketer we have been good at customer intimacy. But in 2003 ThedaCare leaders decided to focus on designing processes that consistently work better, reduce waste, and enable staff to better meet the needs of patients. There are typically five of these projects running every week. We know a lot about our customers.

Customer Intimacy 8

Customer Intimacy Operations Supply Chain Retail 8

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. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Even after more than 20 years of implementations, a study by Panorama shows that 53% of ERP projects still run over budget, 61% take longer to complete than anticipated, and more than 27% fail to produce the positive ROI expected. IT management' The senior leadership needs to become literate in technology. Accountability.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 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. Legal solutions are by their nature blunt instruments for managing uncertainty. In the U.S.,

Morale 8

Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

They’ve also characterized the San Francisco Bay area’s real estate market over a far longer period. It already has a higher market capitalization (although of course some think that’s a bubble ). Its stock price, meanwhile, fell from $80 in March 2000 to $9 in October 2003; it’s currently trading in the low 20s.

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

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. It has been successfully used in over 20 projects throughout Northern California including two residential projects currently under development.

Suri 14

Suri Construction Class EBITDA 14