Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

What are the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013? More organizations will study their top salespeople in 2013 to understand how they formulate their winning account strategies based upon customer politics, evaluator psychology, and the human nature of executive decision makers that are unique to winning every account.

Trends 17

Trends Analysis Politics Technology 17

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The researchers focused their attention on tweets surrounding the 2013 bombing at the Boston Marathon, before then expanding the work to examine a range of other stories that had been identified as true or false over a four year period to 2017. Whereas if it were just bots, we would need a technological solution.”.

Politics 69

Politics Sample Proposal Analysis 69

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. Google, for example, uses human capital analytics to encourage a coaching style among managers – because the analysis reveals this to be the most effective leadership style. Ultimately, technology has to serve us, not the other way around.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2016

With the pace of business change today, driven by technology and globalization, long-term plans last about as long as an ice storm in the desert. In August 2013, for example, Amazon acquired The Washington Post. He was right. As military experts put it, plans rarely survive contact with the enemy.

Long-term 50

Long-term Planning Chief Executive Officer Letter 50

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. The manipulation, followed by careful observation and analysis, yields insight into the relationships between cause and effect, which ideally can be applied and tested in other settings. -Daniel Kahneman.

Power 94

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. An analysis of full-time workers 10 years out of college, for instance, found a 12 percent difference in earnings that was entirely unexplained by choice of profession.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Automation anxiety reached new heights in 2013, when Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Although the jury is still out about robots stealing jobs , the pace at which AI and deep learning technologies have been advancing isn’t ebbing concerns over a future of disappearing work.

Technology 8

Technology Skills Deming Osborne 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. This bold strategic leap was, we found, in part facilitated by Nokia’s newly appointed board who actively attended to top managers’ emotions in 2012-2013.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

Survey 12

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

Executives who consider and discuss all four types of competition will uncover important insights, and such an analysis can help move your strategy forward. ” Technological developments are often interesting to discuss in relation to relevance. In other words, the technology can make brokers and bankers irrelevant.

Stress 10

Stress Insourcing Uncertainty Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the UK alone, a 2014 report from the chief medical officer for England estimates, the number of sick days lost to “stress, depression, and anxiety” increased by 24% from 2009 to 2013. There’s even text-analysis software that will alert users to angry-sounding emails. Arianna Huffington counsels more sleep.

Stress 9

Stress Self-aware Software Emotional Intelligence 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Similarly, trust erosion triggered by Edward Snowden’s revelations of government surveillance in mid-2013 are estimated to have cost U.S. technology companies as much as $35 billion in potential business. At the same time, several technology platforms that do not collect or share personal data have emerged since mid-2013.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2016

The first DMN to hit mainstream awareness was Silk Road, the black market for illegal drugs that was shut down by the FBI as part of a multiagency effort in 2013. Our lives have become permeated with personalized services and technology, allowing strangers to see intimate details of our lives through social media and search engines.

Software 8

Software Engineering Technology Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

A 2013 Harvard study also revealed that when researchers told participants that the physiological signs of stress prepared them to cope better they became less anxious and more confident in stressful situations, viewing their stress response as helpful. Analysis alone isn’t enough.

Stress 15

Stress Root Cause Analysis Learning-by-Doing Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

In my research, I use eye-tracking technology, facial-expression analysis, and lab experiments to better understand why people choose to view online videos, what narrative techniques keep them watching, and what features prompt them to share videos with friends. Golden Grahams/Mekanism. Together the videos got more than 2.5

Advertising 8

Advertising Video Film Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2018

In many industries, especially in technology, you may feel “old” at 35 — even though you might continue to work full-time until you hit 75. In early 2013 I returned to the workforce in my mid-fifties as a senior exec with tech startup Airbnb. They fear becoming increasingly invisible, or even being cast aside.

Diversity 12

Diversity Emotional Intelligence Class CEO 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, Management Research Group (MRG) completed a large scale global study addressing this question. Each participant was assessed with the Leadership Effectiveness Analysis (LEA), a 360-degree assessment tool measuring 22 leadership practices and more than 20 measures of effectiveness. A strategic approach takes time.

Organization 15

Organization Development Tactics Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Spurred by an aging population, increases in chronic disease, and technological breakthroughs, the electronic medical device market is poised to reach an estimated $398 billion in 2017. For example, in 2013, the average age of an MRI scanner in the U.S. Safeguarding your company in a complex world. Stay alert and informed.

System 8

System CIO Health Care Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. But more data in itself does not lead to better analysis, as amply demonstrated with Flu Trends.

Trends 8

Trends Short-term Analysis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

From our analysis of a number of core shifts and conversations with the CEOs who have undertaken them, we have drawn five keys to success: 1. vehicles decreasing from 40% of total in 2000 to 17% in 2013), by destination (e.g., from 80% in 2000 to 50% in 2013), and by exposure to the economic cycle. Allow time and persevere.

Company 11

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. As a group, the largest U.S. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

There was similar, though less dramatic, variation across sectors as well: financial services, health care, utilities, and telecommunications were relatively welcoming to female leadership, while fewer women were found at the top in basic materials, technology, energy, and industrial sectors.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Diversity Policies Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

Flipkart was ranked third among the world’s most valuable privately held startup companies, alongside stars such as Palantir Technologies and Snapchat Inc., according to a WSJ/VentureSource analysis. Only 19.2% In the first half of 2014, 26% of all online purchases in China were made on a mobile phone.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Marketing Wireless McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Companies can disclose these items in the Management discussion and analysis section of their annual report. For the next four years, it continued to report losses.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

But our analysis revealed other interesting patterns. But when we consider the momentum – i.e., the five-year rate of change from 2008 to 2013 – the two countries are far apart. Perhaps not surprisingly, developing countries in Asia and Latin America are leading in momentum, reflecting their overall economic gains.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

Orica used the data to build pre-blast modeling and post-blast measurement and analysis, packaged in a user-friendly online system called Blast IQ. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google. The science of storytelling and brand performance.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

A recent analysis by my firm, Weber Shandwick, found that 80% of the chief executive officers of the world’s largest 50 companies are engaged online and on social media. For example, even in 2013, Scottish fashion brand Lyle & Scott put out a call for a new CEO on Twitter. Companies don’t want to be left behind.

Media 8

Media CEO Video Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. Since many of these businesses come out of Silicon Valley it is easy to think the largest risk is the underlying technology or competition.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It found that 6 out of 10 teachers went directly into teaching after earning their undergraduate or graduate degree.

Education 8

Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

The existence of this parallel economy is a substantial drag on the Indian economy: According to recently released data , only about 1% of Indians paid taxes on their earnings in 2013. Putting aside the policy missteps, these moves are a shot in the arm to the ecosystem around digital payments and consumer-and-context-friendly technology.

Banking 10

Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. Better analysis of those insights can improve marketing return on investment (MROI) by 10-20 percent and drive average profit growth of 14 percent.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

From just a few thousand queries a month in 2013, ABIe now handles 100,000 — from all of the company’s employees, and not just from agents. The effort must involve careful analysis and preparation, which takes into account each department but keeps the focus on the full enterprise.

Company 8

Company Insurance Call Center Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. Change is in the air and moving fast.

Management 9

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

” In 2013, she and Robin Smith — a former colleague from Artus Labs — began exploring ideas. They “carved out time on nights and weekends” to do research and market analysis. “I knew I wanted to be free to make these big decisions.” “It’s an exciting time,” she says.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

But it is worth brushing up on the basics of quantitative analysis, so as to understand and improve the use of data in your business. For more on what analytics can be used for, read Thomas Davenport’s 2013 HBR article Analytics 3.0. What assumptions are behind your analysis? Decision making Information & technology'

Management 16

Management Metrics Information Technology Analysis 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector. They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. He has a nice analysis of how Disney does this.

Sull 10

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10