Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Led by its Steve Jobs-inspired CEO Lei Jun, the company has experienced breakneck speed since its first smartphone launch in October 2011. With a business model of at-cost hardware and software up-selling, it recently raised its 2013 sales targets from 15 million smartphones to 20 million, and is now gazing abroad.

Marketing 8

Marketing B2B Levitt Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Alternatively, the company can operate in stealth mode by targeting customer segments that have been poorly served or ignored by traditional distributors. Starting in 2011, Mercedes chose to develop direct distribution capabilities for electric bicycle sales under its Smart brand. market for personal computers. Minimize Pain.

Strategy 9

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. In the guitar business , too.

Pharmaceuticals 9

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. and spends it in international markets. Aldi UK sales grew from $6.3

Retail 9

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment. The stock price declined 0.3%

Price 8

Price Long-term Banking Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. And more are joining every day.

Industry 9

Industry Retail Banking Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Let’s consider first the example of Blink Booking , which Rebeca Minguela started in 2011 after graduating from HBS. She identified her home country of Spain as a great market to port the model to. Furthermore, Blink Booking had to make the app available in multiple languages to draw in a European market. Insight Center.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In 2011, the company partnered with mobile carrier Docomo to offer customers a series of innovative insurance products under the banner One-Time Insurance. GE is moving to an outcome-based economic model, bringing the company closer to its customers’ operations. These products were available through a specialized mobile app.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

In a previous piece I discussed why some AR apps are destined to be forgotten as gimmicks, and what mistakes marketers should avoid when trying to deploy them. The application was one of the first marketing campaigns that allowed interaction with a digital model in real time. Aside from complex technological advances (e.g.,

Tourism 8

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. He’s not a Steve Cohen , pushing at the edges of legality to get an information edge.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

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, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

’ the questions must be asked, ‘WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?’” In 1921, two brothers started the company to serve the ham radio market.

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player. He will always know how he performs.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Like a shopper in a flea market, it is quite easy for a CEO at a midsized company to get distracted by sexy deals. After a first deal fell through in late 2010, EORM acquired a Southern California firm in 2011. 2013 revenue of about $450 million), knows this well. It has since doubled revenue to $26 million.

Company 8

Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

The commission ratios vary from development to marketing to finance, administration, sales and customer support, and in the various areas are based on the metrics the individuals are most able to directly control. Everyone knows what the monthly operational "nut" is. Here are some specific examples to illustrate our structure.

Motivation 8

Motivation Planning Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. In contrast, loans to larger firms have risen every year since hitting bottom in 2011, and are now up about 4% since that low point. Yet small business lending has declined steadily since the recession.

Technology 8

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

In the 2011-2012 Market Research Report for BIPAC , performed by Moore Information, Inc., We expect to see more communication from employers to employees in the future ( our 2012 National Pollis set to release in early 2013). And employees trust what their employers tell them. And I don't see a problem in that.

Politics 8

Politics Policies Survey Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Wireless Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. As of March 2017, the market capitalization of the ether token was more than $4 billion.). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

As a marketer, I work to engage women online with brands and causes. of emails to my all-female marketing database are opened on iPhones, likely because many on my mailing list are busy moms who often aren''t in front of a computer. And these messages use strong market segmentation. How do women in that market get information?

Strategy 8

Strategy Marketing Market Segmentation Learning-by-Doing 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. and for-profits can accept donations.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Apparel Transportation Fashion 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Bringing a new prescription drug to market, for example, now costs nearly $2.6 Even a simpler product like the SpinBrush, which entered the market priced at $5 each, required an upfront investment of $1.5 As a result, Fitbit held 68 percent market share through 2013 versus 19 percent for Jawbone and just 10 percent for Nike.

How To 77

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 77

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

On one hand, there are wars, terror, market crashes, bailouts, budget crises, cliffs, and sequesters. This is part of the reason that the stock market, which used to move a fraction of a percent each day, now shifts in record swings with increasing volume. The actual response: nothing. Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Long-term Dunning Stress 8