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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed.

Magazine 52

Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Serious marketers, innovators and quants can't find a better — or more controversial — case study in the problems and pathologies of predictive analytics than America's down-to-the-wire presidential campaign. Or a 30% level from the 2010 congressional election? Do they reflect probabilistic "best practice"?

Politics 15

Politics Sample Survey Benchmarking 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. In several industries, such as consumer goods, financial services, industrial products, and logistics, COOs usually had backgrounds in either managing operations or information technology departments.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. Two fundamentals, however, haven't changed.

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Committee Project Audience Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A new business model will only emerge through continuous discovery and experimentation and will be defined by market demands, start-ups, a Silicon Valley mindset, and young technology experts. There is a significant opportunity to help reduce the lecture portion of expenses using technology innovations. So what is happening now?

Education 8

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

multinationals, while increasingly harassed by Beijing , have many leading market share positions in China, especially in high-tech and sophisticated capital goods such as U.S.-made Low-wage economies like Mexico’s and China’s absorb American technology and build industrial capability more easily today than ever.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. Many of the most interesting advances are in new production processes and new information technologies.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Elite media companies confirm their firewalls have been breached by successful Chinese cyberattacks. Remember the May 2010 "flash crash" where the stock market plunged nearly 1000 points in a matter of moments? American banks reportedly come under hostile cyberattack from Iran.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

In 2002 the Commission switched course again and ruled that broadband access provided by cable TV companies was an information service — the reasoning being, in part, that cable broadband had ended the DSL monopoly and created a competitive market once again. Comcast sued, and the D.C.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 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.”

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8