Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Many such “Rocket” companies are poised to become the Alibabas and Amazons for the rest of the world: Jumia, which operates in nine countries across Africa; Namshi in the Middle East; Lazada and Zalora in ASEAN; Jabong in India; and Kaymu in 33 markets across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.)

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Companies are both operators and investors. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

If lucky, a start-up grows and develops a success formula. having sacrificed customer intimacy for increased operational excellence gains through widespread cost cutting, are well documented. Organizations worry about fine-tuning their operations to handle the typical situations. Operations Risk management Strategy'

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

On March 15, 2013, World Consumer Rights Day, CCTV aired a special report criticizing Apple’s i-Phone customer service policy in China for providing only a one-year warranty when Chinese law mandates two. In October 2013, an incident involving Starbucks unfolded, when CCTV aired a segment “exposing” its relatively higher prices in China.

Media 8

Media Report Brand Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Despite the fact that Niantic, the American software development company that developed Pokémon Go, has failed to maintain high levels of engagement on the game (its current user base is now 30 million users), the phenomenon demonstrated AR’s potential to be adopted by mainstream culture.

Tourism 9

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

Futren Corporation is a private-club management and operations company with around 200 employees, based in Marietta, Ga. Despite industry challenges and the 2008 recession, Futren has continued to prosper and expand. The country club lies in the heart of Indian Hills subdivision, a massive development with more than 1,600 single homes.

Strategy 133

Strategy White Paper Human Resources Case Study 133

Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

Futren Corporation is a private-club management and operations company with around 200 employees, based in Marietta, Ga. Despite industry challenges and the 2008 recession, Futren has continued to prosper and expand. The country club lies in the heart of Indian Hills subdivision, a massive development with more than 1,600 single homes.

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White Paper Case Study Class Newsletter 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. Codify best practices.

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Company IPO Price Loyalty 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Positional advantage is sustainable in a classical environment: the environment is predictable and develops gradually without major disruptions. Tata Consultancy Services, the India-based information technology (IT) services and solutions company, operates in an environment it can neither predict nor change.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Case closed (until engineers develop an algorithm that does the job better). That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The HITECH Act, which was part of the federal stimulus program enacted in response to the financial crisis of 2008, tasked the Obama administration and its Department of Health and Human Services with creating a nationwide, interoperable, private, and secure electronic-health-information system. Two personal stories illustrate these points.

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

According to a recent JPMorgan/GIIN report , impact investors invested nearly $11 billion across 4,900 deals in 2013, up 250% from 2011. In the 2013 class of Echoing Green Fellows , five of the 12 nonprofits earn revenue, and five of the seven for-profit companies have received donations. social entrepreneurs now have more options.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Apparel Transportation Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Some observers suggest deeper changes to the platform: making the experience much more user friendly, developing better algorithms for surfacing interesting content, or improving search functionalities. Twitter has operated in this market since 2006, so almost everyone who wanted to try Twitter has tried it. Then there is the U.S.

Advertising 8

Advertising Strategy Marketing Globalization 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Most companies—especially the 75 percent of all US companies with less than $1 million in annual revenues—will never be able to invest enough into research and development to deliver a revolutionary innovation based on technology, except through dumb luck. It comes down to respect and fairness, and many leaders fail the test.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Two developments bear noting.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11