Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. Model 1: Virtual operator.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste. states with deregulated power markets) and technologies (e.g., As a technology advisor, the CUO would understand the benefits of different energy innovations and be able to make smart purchasing decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

Transportation 8

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percentage points in 2003-2012.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license. In Washington, business as usual.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? Yet huge opportunities exist in using digital technology to evolve your business model by rethinking your existing products, economic models, and digital assets. The business media have had no shortage of these.

Business Model 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

Contrast this with 56 percent in 2012.) It was 77 percent in 2012.). This is a 16-point jump over 2012. When we asked why marketing and IT should collaborate more, the most cited reason was a simple one: Marketing is more about digital now, which requires more technology..

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As mobile devices and borderless technology networks like Facebook, Google, and Tencent increasingly connect billions of people around the world, everything about the pace, profile, and application of modern media is changing. It’s the operating system, applications, and, of course, the access to data.

Advertising 8

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? A 2012 survey of board practices reported that almost none of the large-cap companies had a director under the age of 40. Can we use the possibilities of these new digital technologies to drive innovation? Not likely.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1% In retail, for instance, productivity could increase by another one-third in developed economies and double in emerging economies between 2012 and 2025. In the near term, improving operations and procurement is the most promising lever for higher productivity. over the next 50 years.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. from 2012 through 2014. And SunPower, the second largest U.S.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. ” Hiring for Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Cook had been running Compaq's supply chain with cutting-edge efficiency when Apple's supply chain was in a shambles. To this day, Cook continues as one of the best when it comes to operational excellence. It's fascinating to watch where Cook has spent his time at work so far in 2012.

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Supply Chain Retail PR Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

While today’s basic technology is not necessarily revolutionary, the algorithms it uses and the results they can produce are. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS. Assessing and mitigating internal risks. It will not be easy.

Banking 8

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

On December 9th, 2012 his piece, " Robots and Robber Barons ," states: "there's no question that in some high-profile industries, technology is displacing workers of all, or almost all, kinds. Double Robotics integrates robotic technology to make human beings more effective and more connected.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. We attracted many new doctors when we opened a replacement hospital in 2012, ultimately doubling the size of our medical staff.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Legislating ahead of emerging technologies, history has made amply clear, is always a recipe for unintended negative consequences. And regulating the design and use of drones according to fifty different sets of state preferences, not to mention counties and cities, can''t possibly be efficient or effective. and usually shrinking.

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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. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5 These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

” In a 2012 article for Harvard Business Review, Maxwell Wessel argued that scale, “one of the last bastions from the competitive storm,” is no longer profitable or safe. For a long time, technology gave big players a competitive advantage because no one else could afford to be big. At that rate, the number of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

The central battle pits Apple against everyone and everything involved with Android, Google’s open source operating system. Here’s where the problem has become especially acute for information technology inventions such as smartphones and tablets. Innovation Tech industry Technology' And so Apple has.

Outsourcing 8

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

In the ensuing years, the technology ecosystem enabling the new ad medium would steadily unfold, while digital devices proliferated and network connectivity became ubiquitous. Yes, industry pioneers like Doubleclick were building technology systems to manage online ad serving, but the change was a matter of degree, not of kind.

Advertising 8

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A McKinsey study released in May 2011 stated that, by using Big Data to the fullest, retailers stood to increase their operating margins by up to 60% — this, in an industry where net profit margins are often less than 2%. Wholesalers do not have shopper data, and do not have sophisticated technologies or expertise in mining the data.

Retail 15

Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

They rely on these and other subscription services for a personalized combination of professionally produced and user-generated programming, created with new, low-cost production and distribution technologies. New forms of content, new distribution technologies, and new business models are emerging at a dizzying pace.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

Indeed, the creation of human tasks in the wake of technological advancement has been a part of automation’s history since the invention of the machine lathe. Remember that classic moment in the 2012 presidential campaign when Mitt Romney uttered the phrase “ binders full of women ”?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In fact, 2012 is likely to be the hottest year since accurate record-keeping began in the late 19th century. The good news is that we have the technology to detect and reduce leakage — and no one should be against common sense measures to prevent the waste of this precious natural resource. Fortunately, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Coase had observed first-hand the efficiencies to be gained by internalizing market transactions. Chapter Two of Killer App argued that Coase was the father of the new economy, where technology in the market was reducing transaction costs more quickly than technology inside firms, which couldn''t adapt as quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

In our opinion, which of the two is the more successful depends on the context in which the business operates. Subsequently they become more knowledge-based, as you share technologies, brands and customer intelligence. By 2012 as the firm became more focused, this split had evolved to 85% coatings and 7% glass.

Social Capital 8

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Wise leadership does not fit the strict patterns of smart analysis, but instead taps into an intuitive part of who you are at the core, unearthing counterintuitive principles: Compassion doesn't have to come at the cost of efficiency — it can actually drive systems and operational excellence.

Self-aware 15

Self-aware Franchising Quality Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

In a 2012 poll of 1,600 sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) experts, 81% saw activists as central to further progress in the environmental agenda. "Biology must move from the design table to the Board table," we were told by Janine Benyus, co-founder of consultancy Biomimicry 3.8. Breakthrough Activism.

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EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

While the rest of the stock market world was still operating in terms of minutes and seconds, the HFTers (led by two Chicago-based firms, hedge-fund giant Citadel and upstart GETCO, now called KCG ) found a whole new world of profit in the milliseconds and microseconds between when orders were placed and filled. Ethics Finance Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

Maybe the passage of time has dulled my memory of what it was really like, or maybe the wonderfulness of the phone rep led me to believe that this was a different sort of operation. If that''s right, the cable operators will only get more aggressive about this as the years go by. Customers Strategy Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

From the moment I stepped off the bus at the rowing venue, I felt reassured that the London Olympic Games were operating like a well-oiled machine. At the entrance to the venue the military personnel, while serving as a stark reminder that not everything has gone to plan , kept the baggage screening lines moving efficiently.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

According to a 2012 survey by Jobsite, 54% of recruiters use Twitter, 66% Facebook, and a whopping 97% LinkedIn, as recruitment tools. Third, web analytics can help recruiters become more efficient. Most recruiters are already using social media to identify talented employees outside their usual networks.

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Reputation Hotels Media Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

To take the Obama campaign as an example, look at their move from having two databases in 2008 to one in 2012. But to my eyes, what big data can do is help them be more efficient, by allowing them not to knock on every door on that street. I guarantee you that was not easy. That's not the hard part. And then you can do that at scale.

Organization 15

Organization Health Care Supply Chain Magazine 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Ask anyone in technology. Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability. Some companies will expand into new industries using the information they naturally collect from their traditional business operations as a foundation. The challenge?

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Indeed, since the chaos erupted, the prime minister has tweeted : “Time has come for everyone, particularly my young friends, to embrace e-banking, mobile banking & more such technology.” billion annually in currency operations costs. Reserve Bank of India, India’s central bank, and the banking institutions.

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

There is a sense that company operations are out of control. Branch 2: Environmental, safety, IT systems design and computer software, training for computers and technology, architecture, engineering and legal. Expected Results of an Institutional Review: Your service is efficient and excellent, by your standards and by the publics.

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