Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

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). This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. That growth was driven largely by the increased use of information technology in customer analysis and supply chain optimization.

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 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. All over the world, automakers are mastering new drive train technologies. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. Pathway two is what we’re doing now, and it sounds so tranquil and market-based. Getting to 1.5 Pathway two also likely takes us beyond the 2.0°C

Efficiency 13

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. So is inequality, when it is directly created by entrepreneurs, good or bad?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

There doesn’t appear to be any supply chain or heavy machinery to worry about. based Hotel Tonight , a last-minute online-booking service founded in 2010. She identified her home country of Spain as a great market to port the model to. Minguela had observed the rapid success of the U.S.-based Insight Center.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. In October 2010, when its founders launched their website to the world, 25,000 web viewers overwhelmed the site. As a result, most are singularly unprepared to deal with them.

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

And, through linkages including supply chains (in 2009 multinationals purchased about $7 trillion in intermediate inputs from companies in America), multinationals enhance the performance of companies throughout the U.S. competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S. The average compensation that year of their 27.3

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Here's my attempt to capture what I see as the most important stories affecting the greening of business in 2010. The drought in Russia destroyed 40% of its wheat crop, so Putin pulled wheat — 1/6 of the global trade in the crop — off the global market, driving up wheat prices. The market for renewables is growing fast.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. Devices of all kinds have gone from advertising, branding, and marketing media to promotional platforms. Think of them as part of the global supply chain. That's right. Contestification.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

market share of more than 80%, with Schick a distant second. But that is not the story in developing markets, where these top-of-the-line products don't fare nearly as well. So how is it that Gillette has over 50% market share in India — the world's largest shaving blade market by volume?

Innovation 13

Innovation Glocalization Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

If your company uses digital networks to manage supply chains, customer relationships, internal communications, financials and/or sensitive information that might interest Chinese or Iranian cyberwarriors, then a risk assessment re-think is paramount. Business — both global and entrepreneurial — is the hard target here.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 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

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The cost to build and produce solar and wind power, for example, has dropped 60%–80% since 2010 , making it cheaper than grid electricity in most states. In essence, companies that don’t continue the sustainability journey are going to fall behind and become uncompetitive in global markets. The economics are too good.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. newspapers, the share of foreign stories has declined from 27% in 1987 to 11% in 2010. At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. distributors, retailers, and so on. Furthermore, U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8