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 65

Short-term Incubator Engineering Trends 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

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

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. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

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. Every individual on every team in a company can strive, together, to deliver beyond what is deemed possible. This also means valuing integrity.

Company 8

Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 8

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 8

Entrepreneur Power Politics Human Resources 8

Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

The term “mindset” conjures the image of a single setting, like a TV channel or a prearranged machine operation. By embracing the fluidity of subjective understanding, organizations can tap into the collective intelligence of teams and foster innovation. However, human cognition is far more complex.

Open-book 78

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

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 15

Media Meyer Software Follow-up 15

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. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

link] anna smith I just read an interview with Kent Williams, a team leader for Thomson Reuters. I showed this to my team, and they got a great laugh out of it.” I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003.

Definition 370

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

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

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. Build a Re-Founding Team. The company was in free fall.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 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 9

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. In response, the management team made a counterintuitive move: It outsourced network installation, maintenance, and service to Ericsson, Nokia, and Siemens, and chose IBM to build and manage its IT systems. In the U.S., The trend is spreading.

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

At the peak of the North Texas housing market in 2003, my company Grand Homes sold more than a thousand homes. We launched a Culture Committee to help address the specific, emergency needs of our team. Grand Homes is a privately held local homebuilder operating exclusively in the Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX housing market.

Airlines 14

Airlines Chief Executive Officer Attrition Incentives 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

A former campaign manager, Strasma started his company in 2003 to find a better way to predict who the true persuadables are in a campaign, and to find smart ways to target messaging towards them. In this election, the campaign has a very large in-house data team dealing with all kinds of targeting analytics and also the online operations.

Survey 8

Survey Politics Information Discount 8