Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. — National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress, Technology and the American Economy, Volume 1, February 1966, pg. in 2005 to 15.8% Humans have always shifted away from work suitable for machines and to other jobs. Insight Center.

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Department of Agriculture reported that food prices rose 31% from 2005 to 2014. Often the markets they supply shrink in size. Online retailers, like Amazon, employ about one-third the number of employees per dollar sold as conventional retailers do. Property managers forecasted an 8% increase in rents in 2016.

Retail 9

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Google''s 2005 purchase of YouTube fits into this category. Although Geek Squad appears to be operating within Best Buy''s retail shops, it remains a service business, managed separately from the retail operation. CEO Marissa Mayer acknowledged the long odds of making the $1.1 Mergers & Acquisitions Social media RBM LBM'

Advertising 8

Advertising Business Model Audience Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

When it comes to technological development for safer guns, it is a task assigned to the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security — not to the U.S. Remington sells to both federally licensed wholesalers and directly to some federally licensed retailers (Walmart being its largest retail account).

Licensing 8

Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 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. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. Dell''s fortunes have not reversed over the past six years, owing in part to the recession, but more fundamentally to the decline of the PC market. For more background on the potential deal, click here.)

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. Technology makes reviewing, refining, redesigning and revising both jobs and job descriptions as dynamic as a commodities trading desk. Amazon has its below-the-radar " Mechanical Turk " workplace market.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. inch vs. 3.5-inch

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Or that little book retailing site that opened its online door in 1995 and became the world’s largest online retailer. Historically, corporate Goliaths have taken one of two approaches to this kind of upstart competition—try to muscle them out of the market or bring them into the fold through acquisition.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Nokia is still struggling to find a future beyond going head to head with the Android and iPhone platforms in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. The book retail platform was not yet burning. It's only this year, for the first time, that services revenue surpassed technology revenue. Those kinds of payoffs require time.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. They had the epiphany that they could use cheap retail space – the carts that sit in the middle of shopping malls – to sell mobile phone accessories, mostly cases.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. That capability could be the backbone of very valuable business intelligence services such as retail “heat mapping,” showing sophisticated analysis of in-store traffic.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

In 2005, average income was $407. She is a 58 year-0ld farmer who has seen a dramatic increase in household income as a result of the factory job her son has and the retail earnings of her daughter in law. But the rural markets have pockets of rising wealth. On the other hand, incomes are on the rise. Approximately $6.2

Health Care 8

Health Care Policies Information Technology Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

“This is not happening just in retail, or in IT-producing sectors,” said Chiara Criscuolo, an OECD economist and coauthor of the report. The competition story revolves around digital technology. The firm with the best processes will win in most or all markets. “It’s happening a bit across the board.”

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

A 2005 survey of more than 500 freight interests from the public and private sectors carried out by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) revealed deep divisions on freight traffic congestion causes and solutions, and an alarming lack of communication between the two sides.

Planning 8

Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

They like technology, they have an Xbox, they have children, and they have an annual household income of more than $100,000. And going into 2017, just two years from now, the momentum they will have generated will force executives at your company to sidestep drones, self-driving cars, and robots to focus on this technology.

Forrester 8

Forrester Technology Execution Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. These businesses include Bloomberg and Morningstar, which provide data about financial markets. That’s changing. Uber is another example.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 The EC’s pronouncements signal the beginnings of a “Digital Maastricht Treaty.”

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8