The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The research examined data from the National Science Foundation on over 28,000 scientists and engineers to assess any changes in their employment status and their work outcomes between 2003 and 2010. It’s a form of work the authors argue is five times more prevalent than gig work.

Short-term 63

Short-term Incubator Engineering Trends 63

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Hear this: “The sad truth is that less than 30 percent of businesses last more than 10 years, and most failures occur in the first few years of operations,” said McBean. McBean is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, and Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta.

Automotive 71

Automotive Succession Open-book Retail 71

Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2017

To quickly set the scene, I was the SVP of Operations for a 1,100 employee cable television company based in 4 states in the Rocky Mountain west. We had acquired the properties in 2003 from a large company that had largely ignored and neglected them for a number of years. A Breakthrough Lands In My Mailbox.

Succession 253

Succession Leadership Commitment Travel 253

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 16, 2014

Hear this: “The sad truth is that less than 30 percent of businesses last more than 10 years, and most failures occur in the first few years of operations,” said McBean. McBean is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, and Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta.

Automotive 56

Automotive Open-book Retail Long-term 56

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 29, 2013

Hear this: “The sad truth is that less than 30 percent of businesses last more than 10 years, and most failures occur in the first few years of operations,” said McBean. McBean is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, and Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta.

Books 65

Books Automotive Review Open-book 65

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

What is more important to company success, a strong external focus on customer experiences or an internal focus on effective and efficient operations? But while such customized services used to be enough to compete effectively, these retailers are now finding they need to improve their operational reliability too.

Customer Intimacy 8

Customer Intimacy Operations Supply Chain Retail 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2014

CEO Jason Levesque, a US Army veteran and entrepreneur, founded Argo Marketing in 2003, and has become a widely respected Maine business owner. Jason has created numerous job opportunities and he remains committed to further developing and supporting his local community. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

Development 60

Development Team Loyalty Due Diligence 60

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.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 10

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

What really occurred was a financial commodities bubble caused by a complicated set of games-playing in the commodities markets by banks operating with secret and unfair federal exemptions to bring investment money into a place it was never supposed to be. 

Banking 110

Banking Price Politics Letter 110

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

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The realities of globalization, with increasing emphasis on emerging markets, present corporate leaders with enormous challenges in developing the leaders required to run global organizations. They hire technical specialists, local experts, and country managers from emerging markets but rarely promote them to corporate positions.

Globalization 15

Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 15

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

DECEMBER 7, 2010

But it's this set of beliefs that explains why Western companies fail to succeed in emerging markets where middle class consumers demand good quality at low prices, and why these companies struggle to develop value-for-money products for their home markets during slow growth times like these. Operating such restaurants is expensive.

Quality 13

Quality Working Capital Price Open-book 13

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).

Library 14

Library Entrepreneur Operations Health Care 14

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. Constraints need not be limiting.

Innovation 9

Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In 2003, after two years in Texas, Moe Ghashim moved back to his hometown of Aleppo, Syria. Operating in this environment requires persistence, flexibility, and a deep-rooted desire to change the status quo. In emerging markets like the Middle East, often only the most resilient can stay afloat.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Power Politics Human Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

However, operating income was $178 million (thus, a measly 0.2% operating margin) which resulted in a $241 million net loss. Quite simply, Prime has saturated the Whale Buyer market and is now hunting for smaller volume customers to fuel growth. Consider Red Lobster’s 2003 Endless Crab promotion.

Retail 8

Retail Price Forrester Discount 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. To align and motivate employees to work together, we eliminated all four centers and created one new streamlined operation in New Jersey.

Company 9

Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. A cautionary tale from the past: After acquiring EachNet.com, eBay controlled 80% of the Chinese e-commerce market in 2003.

Network Economy 8

Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. In 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be. When the U.S.

Globalization 16

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. 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).

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

A further overrepresentation of the actual market size is determined by methodological inconsistencies. Between 2003 and 2007, the Cuban government enacted a series of methodological changes that produced a jump in GDP of approximately 15%. This effectively means that these wages are overvalued by as much as 2400%.

GDP 8

GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 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. An especially instructive example involves Greg Meyer, who has helped run customer-service operations for nearly a dozen companies. People may go online to banter. No matter; before long, they talk shop.

Media 16

Media Meyer Software Follow-up 16

Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

The term “mindset” conjures the image of a single setting, like a TV channel or a prearranged machine operation. Some data-driven insights will understand customer preferences, identify market trends, and optimize internal processes. However, human cognition is far more complex. G., & Bersoff, D. Jossey-Bass.

Open-book 78

Open-book Shaw Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 78

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. There seems to be variety in customers’ requirements, meaning that software vendors would not be able to tap into the whole market without a perpetual license offering.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

By 1973, there were 3,000 industrial robots in operation. By 2003, there were 800,000. Their market value is $9.5 It was precise, but not necessarily elegant. Today, more than 1.3 A more complete history can be found here.).

Definition 8

Definition Ethics Industry Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

In a 2003 study of past Fed chairmen Christina Romer and David Romer of the University of California, Berkeley, reckon that a candidate who subscribes to a "sound" framework of basic monetary principles is most likely to do well. Summers nets some 12.5 million results. The Economist observed : The low tone of the debate is disappointing.

How To 8

How To GDP Finance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Small companies have to swing for the fences to attract market share from large companies, and home runs attract attention. In a 2003 survey of Inc 500 companies , only 21% were based on ideas the founders researched on their own. What these founders brought with them was a deep understanding of how the industry operates.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation.

Industry 9

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

For many years, we will be measuring how loss of corporate credibility has tainted all facets of business, in terms of remediation, replacement, litigation, make-good, rework, damage control, recovery process, settlements to victims, decreased stock market value and sagging retail sales. Rebuilding the community image.

Crisis 60

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 60

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. It made me sit down and think… Just yesterday I attended the opening of the second Columba 1400 Leadership Centre here in Scotland. The bottom line for C1400 is to help young people from “tough realities&# to reflect on their personal leadership.

Definition 313

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 313

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

And second, we are able to link it to firms’ productivity and several measures of labor market policies. In the afterword to his 2003 book, Wage Dispersion , Nobel Prize winner Dale Mortensen argued that productivity differences could cause wage dispersion: “Why are similar workers paid differently?

Productivity 12

Productivity Products Policies Bottom-up 12

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

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. forecast accuracy, messages to relevant market segments, and other categories.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. forecast accuracy, messages to relevant market segments, and other categories.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Indeed, a 2003 Lancet study reported that 63% of child deaths in the 42 countries that account for 90% of global child mortality could be prevented each year through more effective primary care. Market focus. There are considerable hurdles to scaling any health service in resource-constrained settings.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8